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No. 542.</title> + + <style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%;} + p {text-align: justify;} + blockquote {text-align: justify;} + h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {text-align: center;} + pre {font-size: 0.7em;} + + hr {text-align: center; width: 50%;} + html>body hr {margin-right: 25%; margin-left: 25%; width: 50%;} + hr.full {width: 100%;} + html>body hr.full {margin-right: 0%; margin-left: 0%; width: 100%;} + hr.short {text-align: center; width: 20%;} + html>body hr.short {margin-right: 40%; margin-left: 40%; width: 20%;} + + .note, .footnote + {margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; font-size: 0.9em;} + + span.pagenum + {position: absolute; left: 1%; right: 91%; font-size: 8pt;} + + .poem + {margin-left:10%; margin-right:10%; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: left;} + .poem .stanza {margin: 1em 0em 1em 0em;} + .poem p {margin: 0; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;} + .poem p.i2 {margin-left: 1em;} + .poem p.i4 {margin-left: 2em;} + .poem p.i6 {margin-left: 3em;} + .poem p.i8 {margin-left: 4em;} + .poem p.i10 {margin-left: 5em;} + .poem p.i14 {margin-left: 9em;} + + .figure + {padding: 1em; margin: 0; text-align: center; font-size: 0.8em; margin: auto;} + .figure img + {border: none;} + .figure p + + .side { float:right; + font-size: 75%; + width: 25%; + padding-left:10px; + border-left: dashed thin; + margin-left: 10px; + text-align: left; + text-indent: 0; + font-weight: bold; + font-style: italic;} + --> + </style> +</head> +<body> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 12552 ***</div> + + <hr class="full" /> + +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page225" + name="page225"> + </a>[pg 225] +</span> + + <h1>THE MIRROR<br /> + OF<br /> + LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1> + <hr class="full" /> + + <table width="100%" summary="Volume, Number, and Date"> + <tr> + <td align="left"><b>Vol. XIX. No. 542.]</b></td> + <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1832.</b></td> + <td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td> + </tr> + </table> + <hr class="full" /> + +<h2>THE BEULAH SALINE SPA, NORWOOD.</h2> + +<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"><a href="images/542-001.png"> +<img width = "100%" src="images/542-001.png" alt="ENTRANCE LODGE." /></a></div> + +<p> +Our attention has been invited to the Beulah Spa by a <i>brochure</i> lately +published, from the very competent pen of Dr. George Hume Weatherhead; the +details of which will be read with interest by all who are in quest of +"healing founts." "The Spa," observes Dr. Weatherhead, "has long been +resorted to by the country people of the neighbourhood, who, from +experiencing its beneficial effects in a variety of diseases, have +sustained its sanative character, and kept it from sinking into total +neglect." We trust, however, that its virtues may soon enjoy more +extensive celebrity, especially as the attractions of the scenery amidst +which the spring is situate are of no common-place character, and the +distance from the metropolis both easy and inviting. The Spa has already +acquired some popularity; for, we learned on our visit a few days since, +that, although it was only opened to the public towards the close of the +month of August, in the past year, it was visited during the autumn by +several hundred persons weekly. +</p> +<p> +Dr. Weatherhead has described the local scenery with accuracy. Beulah, the +estate upon which the spring is situate, is within the village of Norwood, +seven miles south of London, upon one of those elevations known as the +Norwood hills. "From trigonometrical observation," observes Dr. +Weatherhead, "it has been computed that the height of these hills is about +390 feet above the level of the sea at low water. +<a id="footnotetag1" + name="footnotetag1"></a> +<sup><a href="#footnote1">1</a></sup> + Thus placed above the +fogs of the plain, and removed from the smoky and contaminated atmosphere +of the metropolis, the air has long been celebrated for its pure and +invigorating qualities." Norwood was in the memory of several of the +inhabitants still living, an entire forest of oaks, and the well-known +resort of tribes of gipsies. +<a id="footnotetag2" + name="footnotetag2"></a> +<sup><a href="#footnote2">2</a></sup> + The country from Camberwell thence is, +therefore, in +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page226" + name="page226"> + </a>[pg 226] +</span> +great part a newly-peopled district. Its outline is very +uneven, perhaps more so than any other portion of the environs of the +metropolis. The road runs over or through many little crests or hills, and +sinks into sheltered valleys, where you see newly-built habitations +nestling together, and almost reminding one of the aboriginal contrivances +for warmth and comfort in less civilized countries. The road-side is set +with "suburban villas" which would make the spleen of Cowper blaze into +madness; though few of them exhibit any pretensions to elegance or +snugness. Neither would two newly-built churches in the prospect allay the +anti-urban poet; their starved proportions contrasting but coldly with the +primitive simplicity of a village church. The <i>country</i> itself is +nevertheless picturesque; the prospect is of enchanting beauty, and as +you approach Beulah, you obtain occasional glimpses of the subjacent +valley which you enjoy more at leisure and at a <i>coup d'oeil</i> in the Spa +grounds. +</p> +<p> +The Spring lies embowered in a wood of oaks, open to the south-west whose +dense foliage shelters and protects it. It is now the sole vestige of the +gipsy haunts, and comprises a space of more than twenty-five acres; the +gentle inclination of the ground keeping the foot-paths always dry. +</p> +<p> +We entered the grounds at an elegant rustic lodge (<i>see the Cut</i>,) where +commences a new carriage-road +<a id="footnotetag3" + name="footnotetag3"></a> +<sup><a href="#footnote3">3</a></sup> + to Croydon; which winds round the flank +of the hill, and is protected by hanging woods. The lodge is in the best +taste of ornate rusticity, with the characteristic varieties of gable, +dripstone, portico, bay-window, and embellished chimney: of the latter +there are some specimens in the best style of our olden architects. This +building, as well as the other rural edifices in the grounds, and the +whole disposal of the latter, have been planned by Mr. Decimus Burton, the +originator of the architectural embellishments of the Zoological Gardens +in the Regent's Park. +</p> +<p> +Passing the lodge, we descended by a winding path through the wood to a +small lawn or glade, at the highest point of which is a circular rustic +building, used as a confectionery and reading-room; near which is the Spa, +within a thatched apartment. The spring rises about 14 feet, within a +circular rockwork enclosure; the water is drawn by a contrivance, at once +ingenious and novel; a glass urn-shaped pail, terminating with a cock of +the same material, and having a stout rim and cross-handle of silver, is +attached to a thick worsted rope, and let down into the spring by a pulley, +when the vessel being taken up full, the water is drawn off by the cock. +We quote Dr. Weatherhead's analytical description of the water: +</p> +<p> +"The water drawn fresh from the well is beautifully transparent and +sparkling. Innumerable bubbles of fixed air are seen rising to the surface, +when allowed to stand. Its taste is distinctly bitter, without being at +all disagreeable, leaving on the palate +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page227" + name="page227"> + </a>[pg 227] +</span> +the peculiar flavour of its +predominant saline ingredient, the sulphate of magnesia. The temperature +of the water, at the bottom of the well, is 52 deg. of Fahrenheit; its +specific gravity 1011; and, by an analysis of its composition by those +distinguished scientific chemists, Messrs. Faraday and Hume, the following +are the solid contents of a quart of the water:— +</p> +<pre> + BEULAH SALINE. + Sulphate of magnesia ............ 123 + Sulphate of soda and magnesia .... 32 + Muriate of soda .................. 19 + Muriate of magnesia .............. 18-1/2 + Carbonate of lime ................ 15 + Carbonate of soda ................. 3 + --- + Grains 210-1/2 + + CHELTENHAM PURE SALINE. + Sulphate of magnesia ............. 22 + Sulphate of soda ................. 30 + Muriate of soda ..................100 + Sulphate of lime .................. 9 + --- + Grains 161 +</pre> +<p> +"As a mean of comparison, the saline contents of a quart of the Cheltenham +pure saline, as analyzed by Mr. Brande, the predecessor of Mr. Faraday in +the professorship at the Royal Institution, is placed opposite to the +Beulah Spring, to enable the reader to judge how much superior, as an +aperient water, the latter is to that of Cheltenham. And, first, it may be +observed, that the gross amount of the several salts, in the same quantity +of the waters, is much greater in the Beulah than in the Cheltenham spring, +the difference being forty-nine grains and a half of solid saline matter +in a quart—that is, the impregnation is nearly one-third stronger; and, +secondly, the nature of the saline ingredients also merits observation. +One hundred grains out of one hundred and sixty-one, consist, as we see, +in the Cheltenham, of muriate of soda, or common table-salt. Now, this +substance, when perfectly freed from other salts adhering to it, possesses +comparatively very feeble aperient properties; whereas the mass of the +ingredients in the Beulah Spa is composed of two powerful saline +substances, the sulphate of magnesia, and that peculiar double salt, the +sulphate of soda and magnesia, constituting three-fourths of the whole +saline impregnation." +<a id="footnotetag4" + name="footnotetag4"></a> +<sup><a href="#footnote4">4</a></sup> +</p> +<p> +The lawn is tastefully varied with parterres of plants; owing to the +lateness of the season, we saw but few near flowering, save +</p> +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i6">Daffodils,</p> + <p>That come before the swallow dares, and take</p> + <p>The winds of March with beauty, violets dim,</p> + <p>But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes,</p> + <p>Or Cytherea's breath.</p> + </div> +</div> +<p> +A few yards from the lawn a rustic orchestra is in course of erection: +whence "the dulcet and harmonious sounds" of music may attune with the +joyful inspiration of the natural beauties of the scene. Our guide, (of a +more intelligent and communicative character than guides usually are,) +directed us by a descending path through the wood, across a rude bridge, +past a maze, by a flight of roughly-formed steps, to a terrace, whence we +enjoyed a picturesque prospect of great range and indescribable beauty. +The woods were as yet leafless, but primroses enlivened the pathside: how +touchingly is their solitude told by our poets. Shakspeare calls them +</p> +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i6">Pale primroses</p> + <p>That die unmarried ere they can behold</p> + <p>Bright Phoebus in his strength.</p> + </div> +</div> +<p> +Milton describes them as dying forsaken: +</p> +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies:</p> + </div> +</div> +<p> +and Mayne calls this flower +</p> +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Lorn tenant of the peaceful glade,</p> + <p>Emblem of virtue in the shade.</p> + </div> +</div> +<p> +Dr. Weatherhead describes the prospect from this terrace with more +minuteness than the hazy state of the atmosphere enabled us to trace its +several beauties. The ancient archiepiscopal town of Croydon lies at your +feet; more remote, Banstead Downs spread a carpet of blooming verdure to +the sight; in the extreme distance Windsor Castle peers its majestic +towers above the mist; while elsewhere the utmost verge of the horizon is +bounded by the bold range of the Surrey and Hampshire hills. Turning to +the left you enjoy a view of Addiscombe Place, the seminary for cadets of +the East India Company; of Shirley, the sporting seat of John Maberly, Esq. +M.P.; of the Addington hills clothed with heaths; and of the park, the +seat of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury; when the prospect, +deepening in extent, stretches as far as Knockholt Beeches, near Seven +Oaks, and, winding round, comprehends the tall spire of Beckenham Church, +piercing through the dense woods which surround it; Shooter's Hill, +Blackheath, and the villages that intervene. +</p> +<p> +Immediately beneath you are the grounds of the Spa, every portion of which +can be distinctly traced from this spot: the lodge, lawn, refreshment-room, +spring, and orchestra, as we have described them, and the paths winding +among the woods till they disappear as it were in trackless solitude. +</p> +<p> +Dr. Weatherhead's pamphlet treats copiously, but in a popular style, of +the medicinal properties of the Spa. The terms for drinking the waters are +furnished at the lodge, where the visiter may smile at the remedy being +<i>set to music</i>, in the melodies of the Beulah Spring Quadrilles. It may +prevent some disappointment by stating that the Grounds are not opened to +the public on Sundays. +</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>ANCIENT LAWS.</h3> + +<p> +The following quaint observations possess peculiar interest at the present +moment: +</p> +<p> +"Among the ancient Druids," says Mr. Owen Feltham, "it was absolutely +forbidden to register their laws in writing. And Caesar, in his Gallique +Wars, gives us two reasons for it. One, that their mysteries might not +come to be profaned and encommoned by the vulgar: another, that not being +written, they might be more careful ever to carry them in their thoughts +and memory. Though doubtless it was as well to preserve their own +authority, to keep the people to a recourse to them, and to a reverence +and esteem of their judgments. Besides, it oft falls out that what is +written, though it were a good law when made, yet by the emergency of +affairs, and the condition of men and times, it happens to be bad and +alterable. And we find it to be evidently true, that, as where there are +many physicians, there are many diseases; so where there are many laws, +there are likewise many enormities. That nation that swarms with law and +lawyers, certainly abounds with vice and corruption. Where you find much +fowl resort, you +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page228" + name="page228"> + </a>[pg 228] +</span> +may be sure there is no want of either water, mud, or +weeds. +</p> +<p> +"In the beginning of thriving states, when they are more industrious and +innocent, they have then the fewest laws. Rome itself had at first but +twelve tables. But after, how infinitely did their number of laws increase! +Old states, like old bodies will be sure to contract diseases. And where +the law-makers are many, the laws will never be few. That nation is in +best estate that hath the fewest laws, and those good. Variety does but +multiply snares. If every bush be limed, there is no bird can escape with +all his feathers free. And many times when the law did not intend it, men +are made guilty by the pleader's oratory; either to express his eloquence, +to advance his practice, or out of mastery to carry his cause: like a +garment pounced with dust, the business is so smeared and tangled that +without a Galilaeus his glass, you can never come to discern the spots of +this changeable moon. Sometimes to gratify a powerful party, justice is +made blind through corruption, as well as out of impartiality. That indeed, +by reason of the non-integrity of men. To go to law, is, for two to +contrive the kindling of a fire at their own cost, to warm others, and +singe themselves to cinders. Because they cannot agree to what is truth +and equity, they will both agree to plume themselves, that others may be +stuck with their feathers." +</p> +<p> +W.G.C. +</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>OLD WEATHER RHYMES.</h3> +<p> +Rhymes which refer to the weather were probably written by the monks. +</p> +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>If St. Paul be fine and clear,</p> + <p>We shall have a happy year.</p> + <p>If St. Paul be thick with rain,</p> + <p>Then dear will be the price of grain.</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>After St. Bartholomew</p> + <p>Come long evenings and cold dew.</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>February fill dyke,</p> + <p>Be it black or be it white,</p> + <p>But if it is white,</p> + <p>It is better to like.</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>March winds and April showers,</p> + <p>Bring forth May flowers.</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>He who views his wheat on a weeping May,</p> + <p>Will himself so weeping away;</p> + <p>But he who views it on a weeping June,</p> + <p>Will go away in another tune.</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>When the sand doth feed the clay,</p> + <p>England woe and well-a-day:</p> + <p>But when the clay doth feed the sand,</p> + <p>Then it is well with Angle Land.</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>A swarm of bees in May</p> + <p>Is worth a load of hay,</p> + <p>A swarm of bees in June</p> + <p>Is worth a silver spoon.</p> + <p>A swarm of bees in July</p> + <p>Is not worth a fly.</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Under a broomstalk silver and gold,</p> + <p>Under a gorsestalk hunger and cold.</p> + <p>When hempe's spun,</p> + <p>England's done.</p> + </div> +</div> +<p> +The latter referred to the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward IV., Mary and +Philip, and Queen Elizabeth, but proved false prophecy. +</p> +<p> +W. +</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>CROWLAND ABBEY.</h3> + +<p> +In the days of Monks and Friars, the following lines in bad Latin, were +composed on Crowland, Lincolnshire, or the adjoining Abbey: +</p> +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>In Hollandia stat Crowland;</p> + <p>Ibi vinium talequale,</p> + <p>Ibi foenum gladiale</p> + <p>Ibi lecti lapidale,</p> + <p>Ibi viri boreali,</p> + <p>Ibi vale sine vale.</p> + </div> +</div> +<p> +They are thus translated in the <i>Beauties of England and Wales</i> (1767):— +</p> +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"In Holland stands Crowland</p> + <p>Built on dirty low land.</p> + <p>Where you'll find, if you go,</p> + <p>The wine's but so so;</p> + <p>The blades of the hay</p> + <p>Are like swords one may say,</p> + <p>The beds are like stones,</p> + <p>And break a man's bones;</p> + <p>The men rough and sturdy,</p> + <p>Compliments will afford me</p> + <p>But bid you good b'w'y,</p> + <p>When both hungry and dry."</p> + </div> +</div> +<p> +W.H. +</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>THE HOBBY HORSE.</h3> + +<p> +Bromley Pagets was remarkable for a very singular sport on New Year's Day +and Twelfth Day, called the Hobby Horse Dance: a person rode upon the +image of a horse, with a bow and arrow in his hands, with which he made a +snapping noise, keeping time with the music, whilst six others danced the +hay and other country dances, with as many rein-deer's heads on their +shoulders. To this hobby-horse belonged a pot, which the Reeves of the +town kept and filled with cakes and ale, towards which the spectators +contributed a penny, and with the remainder maintained their poor and +repaired the church.—W.H. +</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>HOLY LAND.</h3> + +<p> +Ramsey Island, near St. David's Head, is said to have been inhabited by so +many saints, that no less than twenty thousand are stated in ancient +histories to lie interred there. Near this place are the rocks styled the +Bishop and his Clerks, which, says an ancient author "preache deadly +doctrine to their winter audience, such poor sea-faring men as are forcyd +thether by tempest, onelie in one thing they are to be commended, +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page229" + name="page229"> + </a>[pg 229] +</span> + they +keepe residence better than the rest of the canons of that see (St. +David's) are wont to do." +</p> +<p> +W.H. +</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>ANCIENT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.</h3> + +<p> +After the Britons retired into Wales, it was enacted that no man should +guide a plough that could not make one; and that the driver should make +the ropes of twisted willows, with which it was drawn. It was usual for +six or eight persons to form themselves into a society for fitting out one +of these ploughs, providing it with oxen, and every thing necessary for +ploughing; and many curious laws were made for the regulation of such +societies. If any person laid dung on the field with the consent of the +proprietor, he was by law allowed the use of that land for one year. If +the dung was carried out in a cart in great abundance, he was to have the +use of the land for three years. Whoever cut down a wood, and converted +the ground into arable, with the consent of the owner, was to have the use +of it for five years. If any one folded his cattle for one year, upon a +piece of ground belonging to another, with the owner's consent, he was +allowed the use of the ground for four years. Thus, though the Britons had +in a great measure lost the knowledge of agriculture, they appear to have +been very assiduous in giving encouragement to such as would attempt the +revival of it. +</p> +<p> +T. GILL. +</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>LANDERS' DISCOVERY OF THE TERMINATION OF THE NIGER.</h3> + +<p> +We continue our extracts from this very entertaining work, the following +being from the second volume. +</p> +<p> +At Boossà, the travellers receive a visit from "the noted widow Zuma." She +must be an Amazonian lady, for, having quarrelled with her prince, the +ruler of Wowow, she was obliged to fly, and actually to climb over the +city wall in the night, and travel on foot to Boossà. Female politicians +in Africa are not so safe as in the <i>coteries</i> of civilized Europe: they +have to fight their own battles, and we conclude, to raise their own +supplies: "the widow complained sadly of poverty and the hardness of the +times; she had fought with the Yarribeans against Alòrie; but instead of +receiving a recompense for her bravery, she had lost half her slaves in an +engagement, which so disgusted her with the military profession, that she +immediately abandoned it and returned home. Yet, in spite of all her +losses and misfortunes, she has gained so much in corpulency, that it was +with the utmost difficulty, she could squeeze herself into the doorway of +our hut, although it is by no means small. The widow Zuma is a very +good-looking, elderly person of matronly appearance. Her skin is of a +light copper colour." Should this meet the eye of any soldier of fortune, +&c. +</p> +<p> +At Boossà, they hear some tidings of +</p> + + <h4><i>Mungo Park</i>.</h4> + +<p> +"Our visiters remained with us a considerable time, and in the course of +conversation, one of them observed that they had in their possession a +tobe, which belonged to a white man who came from the north many years ago, +and from whom it had been purchased by the king's father. We expressed +great curiosity to see this tobe, and it was sent us as a present a short +time after their departure. Contrary to our expectations, we found it to +be made of rich crimson damask, and very heavy from the immense quantity +of gold embroidery with which it was covered. As the time when the late +king was said to have purchased this tobe corresponds very nearly to the +supposed period of Mr. Park's death, and as we never heard of any other +white man having come from the north so far south as Boossà, we are +inclined to believe it to be part of the spoil obtained from the canoe of +that ill-fated traveller. Whether Mr. Park wore the tobe himself, which is +scarcely probable on account of its weight, or whether he intended it as a +present to a native chief, we are at a loss to determine. At all events, +the article is a curiosity in itself; and if we should live to return to +England, we shall easily learn whether it was made there or not. The chief +himself has never worn the tobe, nor did his predecessor, from a +superstitious feeling; 'besides,' observed the king, 'it might excite the +cupidity of the neighbouring powers.' +</p> +<p> +"<i>Sunday, June 20th</i>.—The king sent a messenger this morning, to inform +us that he was a tailor, and that he would thank us for some thread and a +few needles for his own private use. By this man he likewise sent a musket +for +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page230" + name="page230"> + </a>[pg 230] +</span> + us to repair; but as it is Sunday, we have declined doing it till +to-morrow. Eager as we are to obtain even the slightest information +relative to the unhappy fate of Mr. Park and his companions, as well as to +ascertain if any of their books or papers are now in existence at this +place, we had almost made up our minds to refrain from asking any +questions on the subject, because we were apprehensive that it might be +displeasing to the king, and involve us in many perplexities. Familiarity, +however, having in some measure worn off this impression, and the king +being an affable, obliging, and good-natured person, we were emboldened to +send Paskoe to him this morning, with a message expressive of the interest +we felt on the subject, in common with all our countrymen; and saying that, +if any books or papers which belonged to Mr. Park were yet in his +possession, he would do us a great service, by delivering them into our +hands, or at least by granting us permission to see them. To this the king +returned for answer, that when Mr. Park was lost in the Niger, he was a +very little boy, and that he knew not what had become of his effects; that +the deplorable event had occurred in the reign of the late king's +predecessor, who died shortly after; and that all traces of the white man +had been lost with him. This answer disappointed our hopes, for to us it +appeared final and decisive. But in the evening they were again raised by +a hint from our host, who is the king's drummer, and one of the principal +men in the country: he assured us, that there was certainly one book at +least saved from Mr. Park's canoe, which is now in the possession of a +very poor man in the service of his master, to whom it had been entrusted +by the late king during his last illness. He said moreover, that if but +one application were made to the king, on any subject whatever, very +little was thought of it; but if a second were made, the matter would be +considered of sufficient importance to demand his whole attention,—such +being the custom of the country. The drummer therefore recommended us to +persevere in our inquiries, for he had no doubt that something to our +satisfaction would be elicited. At his own request, we sent him to the +king immediately, desiring him to repeat our former statement, and to +assure the king, that should he be successful in recovering the book we +wanted, our monarch would reward him handsomely. He desired the drummer to +inform us, that he would use every exertion, and examine the man who was +reported to have the white man's book in his possession, at an early hour +to-morrow. Here the matter at present rests. +</p> + +<hr /> + +<p> +"In the afternoon, the king came to see us, followed by a man with a book +under his arm, which was said to have been picked up in the Niger after +the loss of our countryman. It was enveloped in a large cotton cloth, and +our hearts beat high with expectation as the man was slowly unfolding it, +for by its size we guessed it to be Mr. Park's journal; but our +disappointment and chagrin were great, when, on opening the book, we +discovered it to be an old nautical publication of the last century. The +title-page was missing, but its contents were chiefly tables of logarithms. +It was a thick royal quarto, which led us to conjecture that it was a +journal; between the leaves we found a few loose papers of very little +consequence indeed; one of them contained two or three observations on the +height of the water in the Gambia; one was a tailor's bill on a Mr. +Anderson; and another was addressed to Mr. Mungo Park, and contained an +invitation to dinner,—the following is a copy of it:— +</p> +<pre> + 'Mr. and Mrs. Watson would be happy to + have the pleasure of Mr. Park's company at + dinner on Tuesday next, at half-past five + o'clock. + + 'An answer is requested. + + '<i>Strand, 9th Nov. 1804</i>.' +</pre> +<p> +"The king, as well as the owner of the book, looked as greatly mortified +as ourselves, when they were told that the one produced was not that of +which we were in quest, because the reward promised would not of course be +obtained. As soon as our curiosity had been fully satisfied, the papers +were carefully collected and placed again between the leaves, and the book +as carefully folded in its envelope as before, and taken away by its owner, +who values it as much as a household god. Thus all our hopes of obtaining +Mr. Park's journal or papers, in this city, are entirely defeated. The +inquiry, on our part, has not been prosecuted without much trouble and +anxiety, and some little personal sacrifices likewise, which, had they +been ten times as great, we would gladly have made whilst a single hope +remained of their being effectual." +</p> +<p> +After much ado at Boossà, owing to the canoe not being ready—the "King of +the Canoe," a sort of Lord of the Admiralty, informing the travellers with +the utmost unconcern that it was out of repair—they +</p> +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page231" + name="page231"> + </a>[pg 231] +</span> + <h4><i>Embark on the Niger</i>.</h4> + +<p> +"About mid-day the workmen having finished our canoe, the luggage was +presently put into it, and between twelve and one we embarked with our +people, and were launched out into the river. The direction of this branch +was nearly east and west; and we proceeded some distance down the stream +for the purpose of getting into the main branch of the Niger, where there +is deeper water. This object was soon attained, and we found it flowing +from north to south, through a rich and charming country, which seemed to +improve in appearance the further we advanced. We were propelled at a good +rate up a channel, which, from half a mile in breadth, gradually widened +to rather better than a mile. Beautiful, spreading, and spiry trees +adorned the country on each side of the river, like a park; corn, nearly +ripe, waved over the water's edge; large, open villages appeared every +half-hour; and herds of spotted cattle were observed grazing and enjoying +the cool of the shade. The appearance of the river, for several miles, was +no less enchanting than its borders; it was as smooth as a lake; canoes +laden with sheep and goats, were paddled by women down its almost +imperceptible current; swallows, and a variety of aquatic birds, were +sporting over its glassy surface, which was ornamented by a number of +pretty little islands. +</p> +<p> +"<i>Friday, June 25th</i>.—The most remarkable object which we saw on rising +this morning, was a rugged and romantic range of hills, appearing to the +eastward of our encampment; it is called <i>Engarskie</i>, from a country of +the same name in which the hills are situated, and which was formerly an +independent kingdom, but is now become a province of Yàoorie. At a little +before seven, A.M., our canoe was pushed off the sandy beach on which it +had been secured last evening, and propelled down a very narrow channel, +between a large sand-bank and the shore. This conducted us into the main +branch of the Niger, and we again admired its delightful and magnificent +appearance. +</p> +<p> +"We had proceeded only a few hundred yards when the river gradually +widened to two miles, and continued so as far as the eye could reach. It +looked very much like an artificial canal; the banks having the appearance +of a dwarf wall, with vegetation beyond. In most places the water was +extremely shallow, but in others it was deep enough to float a frigate. +During the first two hours of the day, the scenery was as interesting and +picturesque as can be imagined. The banks were literally covered with +hamlets and villages; fine trees, bending under the weight of their dark +and impenetrable foliage, everywhere relieved the eye from the glare of +the sun's rays, and, contrasted with the lively verdure of the little +hills and plains, produced the most pleasing effect. Afterwards, however, +there was a decided change; the banks, which before consisted of dark +earth, clay, or sand, were now composed of black rugged rocks; large +sand-banks and islands were scattered in the river, which diverted it into +a variety of little channels, and effectually destroyed its appearance. +</p> +<p> +"We had heard so unfavourable an account of the state of the river at one +particular place which we should have to pass, that our people were +compelled to disembark and walk along the banks a considerable way till we +had passed it, when we took them in again. We found the description to be +in no wise exaggerated; it presented a most forbidding appearance, and +yields only to the state of the Niger near Boossà in difficulty and danger. +On our arrival at this formidable place, we discovered a range of black +rocks running directly across the stream, and the water, finding only one +narrow passage, rushed through it with great impetuosity, over-turning and +carrying away everything in its course. Our boatmen, with the assistance +of a number of the natives, who planted themselves on the rocks on each +side of the only channel, and in the stream at the stern of the canoe, +lifted it by main force into smoother and safer water. The last difficulty +with respect to rocks and sand-banks was now overcome, and in a very +little time we came to the termination of all the islands, after which, it +is said, there is not a single dangerous place up the Niger. The river +here presented its noblest appearance; not a single rock nor sand-bank was +anywhere perceptible; its borders resumed their beauty, and a strong, +refreshing breeze, which had blown during the whole of the morning, now +gave it the motion of a slightly-agitated sea. In the course of the +morning we passed two lovely little islands, clothed in verdure, which at +a short distance looked as charming as the fabled gardens of Hesperia; +indeed no spot on earth can excel them in beauty of appearance. These +islands are inhabited by a few individuals." +</p> +<p> +Upon leaving Yàoorie, a venerable Arab chief pretended great regard for +the travellers, though he used them +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page232" + name="page232"> + </a>[pg 232] +</span> + deceitfully; they had, however, +"enjoyed an innocent kind of revenge, in administering to him a powerful +dose of medicine, which though harmless in its effects, had yet been very +troublesome to him. Indeed, it was not till we had 'jalaped' the sultan, +his sister, and all the royal family, that we were permitted to take our +farewell of Yàoorie." +</p> +<p> +The incident of physicking the royal family at Yàoorie by way of +leave-taking, is only equalled by the following oddity:—"The captain of +the palm oil brig, Elizabeth, now in the Calabar river, actually +white-washed his crew from head to foot, while they were sick with fever +and unable to protect themselves; his cook suffered so much in the +operation, that the lime totally deprived him of the sight of one of his +eyes, and rendered the other of little service to him." +</p> +<p> +The account of the Travellers' visit to Fernando Po, in the third volume, +will be read with interest, as indeed will every page of the whole +narrative; and to this commendation of the Messrs. Landers' Journal of +their past adventures we cheerfully add our best wishes for the success of +their future enterprize. +</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>SONGS OF THE GIPSIES.</h3> + +<p> +Among the musical novelties of the day, we notice with much pleasure, a +pretty volume of Lyrics, written by Mr. Moncrieff, the music by Mr. S. +Nelson. The poetry is throughout sparkling and characteristic, and "an +Historical Introduction on the origin and customs of Gipsies," prefixed to +the Songs, is so attractive as to be likely to share the popularity of the +piano-forte accompaniments. It is written with considerable care and +neatness, and the peculiar tact requisite to produce an interesting paper +on a dry subject. +</p> +<p> +We are only enabled to quote from the lyrics, an opening carol, as +</p> +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Liberty, liberty!</p> + <p class="i4">Search the world round,</p> + <p>'Tis with the Gipsy</p> + <p class="i4">Alone thou art found.</p> + <p>Then in the gay greenwood</p> + <p class="i4">We worship thee now,</p> + <p>The free, oh the free!</p> + <p class="i4">Still live under the bough.</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Trarah! Trarah!</p> + <p class="i4">Hark, the deep dingles ring,</p> + <p>Free hearts, with the bird</p> + <p class="i4">And the deer are on wing;</p> + <p>Joy claims in the greenwood</p> + <p class="i4">The Gipsy's glad vow,</p> + <p>The blithe, oh the blithe!</p> + <p class="i4">Still live under the bough.</p> + </div> +</div> +<p> +And the first song entire. +</p> + +<h3>THE GIPSY QUEEN.</h3> +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Oh! 'tis I am the Gipsy Queen!</p> + <p class="i2">And where is there queen like me,</p> + <p>That can revel upon the green,</p> + <p class="i2">In boundless liberty?</p> + <p>What though my cheek be brown,</p> + <p class="i2">And wild my raven hair,</p> + <p>A red cloth hood my crown,</p> + <p class="i2">And my sceptre the wand I bear!</p> + <p>Yet, 'tis I am the Gipsy Queen!</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>With my kingdom I'm well content,</p> + <p class="i2">Though my realm's but the hawthorn glade;</p> + <p>And my palace a tatter'd tent</p> + <p class="i2">Beneath the willow's shade:</p> + <p>Though my banquet I'm forc'd to make</p> + <p class="i2">On haws and berries store,</p> + <p>And the game that by chance we take</p> + <p class="i2">From some neighbouring hind's barn door!</p> + <p>Yet, 'tis I am the Gipsy Queen!</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>'Tis true I must ply my art,</p> + <p class="i2">And share in my subjects' toils;</p> + <p>But of all their gains I've part,</p> + <p class="i2">I've the choice of all their spoils;</p> + <p>And, by love and duty led,</p> + <p class="i2">Ere from my jet black eye</p> + <p>One sad tear should be shed,</p> + <p class="i2">A thousand hearts would die!</p> + <p>For, 'tis I am the Gipsy Queen!</p> + </div> +</div> + +<hr /> + +<h3>A SONG OF PITCAIRN'S ISLAND.</h3> +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Come, take our boy, and we will go</p> + <p class="i2">Before our cabin door;</p> + <p>The winds shall bring us, as they blow,</p> + <p class="i2">The murmurs of the shore;</p> + <p>And we will kiss his young blue eyes,</p> + <p>And I will sing him as he lies,</p> + <p class="i2">Songs that were made of yore:</p> + <p>I'll sing, in his delighted ear,</p> + <p>The island-lays thou lov'st to hear.</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>And thou, while stammering I repeat,</p> + <p class="i2">Thy country's tongue shalt teach;</p> + <p>'Tis not so soft, but far more sweet</p> + <p class="i2">Than my own native speech;</p> + <p>For thou no other tongue didst know,</p> + <p>When, scarcely twenty moons ago,</p> + <p class="i2">Upon Tahité's beach,</p> + <p>Thou cam'st to woo me to be thine,</p> + <p>With many a speaking look and sign.</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>I knew thy meaning—thou didst praise</p> + <p class="i2">My eyes, my locks of jet;</p> + <p>Ah! well for me they won thy gaze—</p> + <p class="i2">But thine were fairer yet!</p> + <p>I'm glad to see my infant wear</p> + <p>Thy soft blue eyes and sunny hair,</p> + <p class="i2">And when my sight is met</p> + <p>By his white brow and blooming cheek,</p> + <p>I feel a joy I cannot speak.</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Come talk of Europe's maids with me,</p> + <p class="i2">Whose necks and cheeks, they tell,</p> + <p>Outshine the beauty of the sea,</p> + <p class="i2">White foam and crimson shell.</p> + <p>I'll shape like theirs my simple dress,</p> + <p>And bind like them each jetty tress,</p> + <p class="i2">A sight to please thee well;</p> + <p>And for my dusky brow will braid</p> + <p>A bonnet like an English maid.</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Come, for the soft, low sunlight calls—</p> + <p class="i2">We lose the pleasant hours;</p> + <p>'Tis lovelier than these cottage walls—</p> + <p class="i2">That seat among the flowers.</p> + <p>And I will learn of thee a prayer</p> + <p>To Him who gave a home so fair,</p> + <p class="i2">A lot so blest as ours—</p> + <p>The God who made for thee and me</p> + <p>This sweet lone isle amid the sea.</p> + </div> +</div> +<p> +<i>From a volume of American Poetry, William Cullen Bryant.</i> +</p> + +<hr /> +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page233" + name="page233"> + </a>[pg 233] +</span> +<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"><a href="images/542-002.png"> +<img width = "100%" src="images/542-002.png" alt="TOMB OF THE POET, WALLER." /></a></div> + +<p> +In the churchyard of Beaconsfield, Bucks, stands the above handsome +tribute to the memory of the celebrated poet and politician, EDMUND WALLER. +The monument is of marble, with a pyramid rising from the centre, and a +votive urn at each corner. On the east side is a Latin inscription, +stating that Waller was born March 30, 1605, at Coleshill, in +Hertfordshire; his father being Robert Waller, Esq. (of Agmondelsham in +Buckingham, whose family was originally a branch of the Kentish +Wallers, +<a id="footnotetag5" + name="footnotetag5"></a> +<sup><a href="#footnote5">5</a></sup> +) and his mother of the Hampden family; that he was a student +at Cambridge; "his first wife was Anne, only daughter and heiress to +Edward Banks, twice made a father by his first wife, and thirteen times by +his second, whom he survived eight years; he died October 21, 1687." The +original inscription is by Rymer, and is to be seen in most editions of +the poet's works. The monument was erected by the poet's son's executors, +in 1700, and stands on the east side of the churchyard, near the family +vault. The above engraving is from a sketch, obligingly furnished by our +Correspondent, W.H. of Wycombe. +</p> +<p> +Waller was proprietor of the manor of Beaconsfield, and that of Hall Barn, +in the vicinity, at which latter place he resided. +</p> +<p> +It is remarkable, that this great man, toward the decline of life bought a +small house, with a little land, on his natal spot; observing, "that he +should be glad to die like the stag, where he was roused." This, however, +did not happen. "When he was at Beaconsfield," says Johnson, "he found his +legs grow tumid: he went to Windsor, where Sir Charles Scarborough then +attended the king, and requested him, as both a friend and physician, to +tell him what that swelling meant. 'Sir,' answered Scarborough, 'your +blood will run no longer.' Waller repeated some lines of Virgil, and went +home to die. As the disease increased upon him, he composed himself for +his departure; and calling upon Dr. Birch to give him the holy sacrament, +he desired his children to take it with him, and made an earnest +declaration of his faith in Christianity. It now appeared what part of his +conversation with the great could be remembered with delight. He related, +that being present when the Duke of Buckingham talked profanely before +King Charles, he said to him, 'My lord, I am a great deal older than your +Grace, and have, I believe, heard more arguments for atheism than ever +your Grace did; but I have lived long enough to see there is nothing in +them, and so I hope your Grace will." +</p> + + +<hr class="full" /> +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page234" + name="page234"> + </a>[pg 234] +</span> +<h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>TROUT TICKLING IN IRELAND.</h3> + +<p> +What will our <i>ticklish</i> correspondent, W.H.H. say to this? +</p> +<p> +"Kniveing trouts" (they call it tickling in England) is good sport. You go +to a stony shallow at night, a companion bearing a torch; then stripping +to the thighs and shoulders, wade in; grope with your hands under the +stones, sods, and other harbourage, till you find your game, then grip him +in your "knieve," and toss him ashore. +</p> +<p> +I remember, when a boy, carrying the splits for a servant of the family, +called Sam Wham. Now Sam was an able young fellow, well-boned and willing; +a hard headed cudgel player, and a marvellous tough wrestler, for he had a +backbone like a sea-serpent; this gained him the name of the Twister and +Twiner. He had got into the river, with his back to me, was stooping over +a broad stone, when something bolted from under the bank on which I stood, +right through his legs. Sam fell with a great splash upon his face, but in +falling, jammed whatever it was against the stone. "Let go, Twister," +shouted I, "'tis an otter, he will nip a finger off you."—"Whisht," +sputtered he, as he slid his hand under the water; "May I never read a +text again, if he isna a sawmont wi' a shouther like a hog!"—"Grip him by +the gills, Twister," cried I.—"Saul will I!" cried the Twiner; but just +then there was a heave, a roll, a splash, a slap like a pistol-shot; down +went Sam, and up went the salmon, spun like a shilling at pitch and toss, +six feet into the air. I leaped in just as he came to the water; but my +foot caught between two stones, and the more I pulled the firmer it stuck. +The fish fell in a spot shallower than that from which he had leaped. Sam +saw the chance, and tackled to again: while I, sitting down in the stream +as best I might, held up my torch, and cried fair play, as shoulder to +shoulder, throughout and about, up and down, roll and tumble, to it they +went, Sam and the salmon. The Twister was never so twined before. Yet +through crossbuttocks and capsizes innumerable, he still held on; now +haled through a pool; now haling up a bank; now heels over head; now head +over heels; now head and heels together; doubled up in a corner; but at +last stretched fairly on his back, and foaming for rage and disappointment; +while the victorious salmon, slapping the stones with his tail, and +whirling the spray from his shoulders at every roll, came boring and +snoring up the ford. I tugged and strained to no purpose; he flashed by me +with a snort, and slid into the deep water. Sam now staggered forward with +battered bones and peeled elbows, blowing like a grampus, and cursing like +nothing but himself. He extricated me, and we limped home. Neither rose +for a week; for I had a dislocated ankle, and the Twister was troubled +with a broken rib. Poor Sam! he had his brains discovered at last by a +poker in a row, and was worm's meat within three months; yet, ere he died, +he had the satisfaction of feasting on his old antagonist, who was man's +meat next morning. They caught him in a net. Sam knew him by the twist in +his tail.—<i>Blackwood's Magazine</i>. +</p> + + +<hr /> + +<h4>DIAMONDS IN BRAZIL.</h4> + +<p> +The operation of working for these precious jems is a very simple one. The +alluvial soil (the cascalhao) is dug up from the bed of the river, and +removed to a convenient spot on the banks for working. The process is as +follows:—a rancho is erected about a hundred feet long, and half that +distance in width; down the middle of the area is conveyed a canal, +covered with earth; on the other side of the area is a flooring of planks, +about sixteen feet in length, extending the whole length of the shed, and +to which an inclined direction is given; this flooring is divided into +troughs, into which is thrown a portion of the cascalhao; the water is +then let in, and the earth raked until the water becomes clear; the earthy +particles having been washed away, the gravel is raked up to the end of +the trough; the largest stones are thrown out, and afterwards the smaller +ones, the whole is then examined with great care for diamonds. When a +negro finds one, he claps his hands, stands in an erect posture, holding +the diamond between his fore-finger and thumb; it is received by one of +the overseers posted on lofty seats, at equal distances, along the line of +the work. On the conclusion of the work, the diamonds found during the day +are weighed, and registered by the overseer <i>en chef</i>. If a negro has the +good fortune to find a stone weighing upwards of seventeen carats, he is +immediately manumitted, and for smaller stones proportionate premiums are +given. There are, besides, several other works on this river, and on other +streams, but the supply of +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page235" + name="page235"> + </a>[pg 235] +</span> + diamonds falls now considerably short of former +periods, and their produce scarcely defrays the expenses. +</p> +<p> +The Diamond District of the Serro do Frio is about twenty leagues in +length, and nine in breadth; the soil is barren, but intersected by +numerous streams. It was first discovered by some miners, shortly after +the establishment of the Villa do Principe. In working for gold in the +rivulets of Milho Verde and St. Goncalzes, they discovered some pebbles of +geometric form, and of a peculiar hue and lustre. For some years these +pebbles were given as pretty baubles to children, or used as counters for +marking the points of their favourite game of voltarete. At last an +officer, who had been some years at Goa, in the East Indies, arrived in +the Commarca: he was struck with the peculiar form of these pebbles, and +from several experiments he made, it struck him that they were diamonds. +He immediately collected a few, and sent them to Holland, where, to the +astonishment of the lapidaries, they were found to be brilliants of the +finest water. It will easily be imagined, that on the arrival of this +intelligence in Brazil, the hitherto despised counters suddenly became the +objects of universal research, and almost immediately disappeared. +</p> +<p> +The government of Portugal now issued a decree, declaring all diamonds a +monopoly of the crown. For a length of time it was considered that +diamonds were confined solely to the district of Serro Frio. But this is +an error; they are found in almost every part of the empire, particularly +in the remote provinces of Goyazes and Matto Grosso, where there exist +several districtos diamantescos. These gems have been even found on the +tops of the highest mountains; indeed, it is the opinion of the Brazilian +mineralogists that the original diamond formations are in the mountains, +and that they will one day or other be discovered in such quantities, as +to render them objects of comparatively small value. +</p> +<p> +The largest diamond in the world was found in the river Abaite; about +ninety-two leagues to N.W. of Serro do Frio. The history of its discovery +is romantic:—three Brazilians, Ant. de Souza, Jose Felix Gomes, and +Thomas de Souza, were sentenced, for some supposed misdemeanour, to +perpetual banishment in the wildest part of the interior. Their sentence +was a cruel one; but the region of their exile was the richest in the +world; every river rolled over a bed of gold, every valley contained +inexhaustible mines of diamonds. A suspicion of this kind enabled these +unfortunate men to support the horrors of their fate; they were constantly +sustained by the golden hope of discovering some rich mine, that would +produce a reversion of their hard sentence. Thus they wandered about for +nearly six years, in quest of mines; but fortune was at last propitious. +An excessive draught had laid dry the bed of the river Abaite, and here, +while working for gold, they discovered a diamond of nearly an ounce in +weight. Overwhelmed with joy at this providential discovery, they resolved +to proceed, at all hazards, to Villa Rica, and trust to the mercy of the +crown. The governor, on beholding the magnitude and lustre of the gem, +could scarcely credit the evidence of his senses. He immediately appointed +a commission of the officers of the Diamond District to report on its +nature; and on their pronouncing it a real diamond, it was immediately +dispatched to Lisbon. It is needless to add that the sentence of the three +"condemnados" was immediately reversed. +</p> +<p> +This celebrated diamond has been estimated by Romé de l'Isle at the +enormous sum of three hundred millions sterling. It is uncut, but the late +King of Portugal, who had a passion for precious stones, had a hole bored +through it, in order to wear it suspended about his neck on gala days. No +sovereign possessed so fine a collection of diamonds as this +prince.—<i>Monthly Mag</i>. +</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>NOTES OF A READER.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>AMERICAN LIFE.</h3> + +<p> +Mrs. Trollope's amusing book has furnished us with still another page or +two of scenes and sketches: +</p> +<p> +<i>Crocodiles on the Mississippi</i>. +</p> +<p> +"It is said that at some points of this dismal river, crocodiles are so +abundant as to add the terror of their attacks to the other sufferings of +a dwelling there. We were told a story of a squatter, who having 'located' +himself close to the river's edge, proceeded to build his cabin. This +operation is soon performed, for social feeling and the love of whiskey +bring all the scanty neighbourhood round a new comer, to aid him in +cutting down trees, and in rolling up the logs, till the mansion is +complete. This was done; the wife and five young children were put in +possession of their new home, and slept soundly after a long march. +Towards day-break the husband and father was awakened by a faint cry, and +looking up, beheld relics +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page236" + name="page236"> + </a>[pg 236] +</span> + of three of his children scattered over the +floor, and an enormous crocodile, with several young-ones around her, +occupied in devouring the remnants of their horrid meal. He looked around +for a weapon, but finding none, and aware that unarmed he could do nothing, +he raised himself gently on his bed, and contrived to crawl from thence +through a window, hoping that his wife, whom he left sleeping, might with +the remaining children rest undiscovered till his return. He flew to his +nearest neighbour and besought his aid; in less than half an hour two men +returned with him, all three well armed; but alas! they were too late! the +wife and her two babes lay mangled on their bloody bed. The gorged +reptiles fell an easy prey to their assailants, who, upon examining the +place, found the hut had been constructed close to the mouth of a large +hole, almost a cavern, where the monster had hatched her hateful brood." +</p> +<p> +<i>Pig Scavengers</i>. +</p> +<p> +"We were soon settled in our new dwelling, which looked neat and +comfortable enough, but we speedily found that it was devoid of nearly all +the accommodation that Europeans conceive necessary to decency and comfort. +No pump, no cistern, no drain of any kind, no dustman's cart, or any other +visible means of getting rid of the rubbish, which vanishes with such +celerity in London, that one has no time to think of its existence; but +which accumulated so rapidly at Cincinnati, that I sent for my landlord to +know in what manner refuse of all kinds was to be disposed of. +</p> +<p> +"Your Help will just have to fix them all into the middle of the street, +but you must mind, old woman, that it is the middle. I expect you don't +know as we have got a law what forbids throwing such things at the sides +of the streets; they must just all be cast right into the middle, and the +pigs soon takes them off.'" +</p> +<p> +<i>American English</i>. +</p> +<p> +"I very seldom during my whole stay in the country heard a sentence +elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American. +There is always something either in the expression or the accent that jars +the feelings and shocks the taste." +</p> +<p> +<i>Mr. Bullock</i>. +</p> +<p> +"About two miles below Cincinnati, on the Kentucky side of the river, Mr. +Bullock, the well known proprietor of the Egyptian Hall, has bought a +large estate, with a noble house upon it. He and his amiable wife were +devoting themselves to the embellishment of the house and grounds; and +certainly there is more taste and art lavished on one of their beautiful +saloons, than all Western America can show elsewhere. It is impossible to +help feeling that Mr. Bullock is rather out of his element in this remote +spot, and the gems of art he has brought with him, show as strangely there, +as would a bower of roses in Siberia, or a Cincinnati fashionable at +Almack's. The exquisite beauty of the spot, commanding one of the finest +reaches of the Ohio, the extensive gardens, and the large and handsome +mansion, have tempted Mr. Bullock to spend a large sum in the purchase of +this place, and if any one who has passed his life in London could endure +such a change, the active mind and sanguine spirit of Mr. Bullock might +enable him to do it; but his frank, and truly English hospitality, and his +enlightened and inquiring mind, seemed sadly wasted there. I have since +heard with pleasure that Mr. Bullock has parted with this beautiful, but +secluded mansion. +</p> +<p> +"Mr. Bullock was showing to some gentlemen of the first standing, the very +<i>élite</i> of Cincinnati, his beautiful collection of engravings, when one +among them exclaimed, 'Have you really done all these since you came here? +How hard you must have worked!'" +</p> +<p> +<i>Cows</i>. +</p> +<p> +"These animals are fed morning and evening at the door of the house, with +a good mess of Indian corn, boiled with water; while they eat, they are +milked, and when the operation is completed the milk-pail and the meal-tub +retreat into the dwelling, leaving the republican cow to walk away, to +take her pleasure on the hills, or in the gutters, as may suit her fancy +best. They generally return very regularly to give and take the morning +and evening meal; though it more than once happened to us, before we were +supplied by a regular milk cart, to have our jug sent home empty, with the +sad news that 'the cow was not come home, and it was too late to look for +her to breakfast now.' Once, I remember, the good woman told us that she +had overslept herself, and that the cow had come and gone again, 'not +liking, I expect, to hanker about by herself for nothing, poor thing.'" +</p> +<p> +<i>Health of Cincinnati</i>. +</p> +<p> +"A gentleman told us, that when a medical man intended settling in a new +situation, he always, if he knew his +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page237" + name="page237"> + </a>[pg 237] +</span> + business, walked through the streets +at night, before he decided. If he saw the dismal twinkle of the +watch-light from many windows he might be sure that disease was busy, and +that the 'location' might suit him well." +</p> +<p> +<i>Marketing</i>. +</p> +<p> +"It is the custom for the gentlemen to go to market at Cincinnati; the +smartest men in the place, and those of the 'highest standing' do not +scruple to leave their beds with the sun, six days in the week, and, +prepared with a mighty basket, to sally forth in search of meat, butter, +eggs, and vegetables. I have continually seen them returning, with their +weighty basket on one arm and an enormous ham depending from the other." +</p> +<p> +<i>Moving Houses</i>. +</p> +<p> +"One of the sights to stare at in America is that of houses moving from +place to place. We were often amused by watching this exhibition of +mechanical skill in the streets. They make no difficulty of moving +dwellings from one part of the town to another. Those I saw travelling +were all of them frame-houses, that is, built wholly of wood, except the +chimneys; but it is said that brick buildings are sometimes treated in the +same manner. The largest dwelling that I saw in motion was one containing +two stories of four rooms each; forty oxen were yoked to it. The first few +yards brought down the two stacks of chimneys, but it afterwards went on +well. The great difficulties were the first getting it in motion and the +stopping exactly in the right place. This locomotive power was extremely +convenient at Cincinnati, as the constant improvements going on there made +it often desirable to change a wooden dwelling for one of brick; and +whenever this happened, we were sure to see the ex No. 100 of Main-street +or the ex No. 55 of Second-street creeping quietly out of town, to take +possession of a humble suburban station on the common above it." +</p> +<p> +<i>Social distinctions</i>. +</p> +<p> +"My general appellation amongst my neighbours was 'the English old woman,' +but in mentioning each other they constantly employed the term 'lady;' and +they evidently had a pleasure in using it, for I repeatedly observed, that +in speaking of a neighbour, instead of saying Mrs. Such-a-one, they +described her as 'the lady over the way what takes in washing,' or as +'that there lady, out by the Gulley, what is making dip-candles.' Mr. +Trollope was as constantly called 'the old man,' while dray-men, butchers' +boys, and the labourers on the canal were invariably denominated 'them +gentlemen;' nay, we once saw one of the most gentlemanlike men in +Cincinnati introduce a fellow in dirty shirt sleeves, and all sorts of +detestable et cetera, to one of his friends, with this formula, 'D—— let +me introduce this gentleman to you.'" +</p> +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>THE COSMOPOLITE.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>SUPERSTITIONS, FABLES, &c. RELATIVE TO ANIMALS.</h3> + +<h4><i>(Concluded from page 213.)</i></h4> + +<p> +The oriental fable of the <i>Roc</i> has its probable origin in the condor, +which is undoubtedly the largest and strongest bird of the vulture tribe +in existence, and extremely ravenous. Minerva's bird, the <i>Owl</i>, is well +known as one of ill omen; besides the superstitious idea that the +screech-owl foretells death by its cry, it was formerly believed to suck +the blood of children. The Mongol and Calmuc Tartars have held the <i>White +Owl</i> sacred since the days of Genghis Khan, when a bird of this species +having settled on a bush in which that prince had hidden himself from his +enemies, those who pursued him past it, not believing that a bird would +perch on a bush wherein a man was concealed. The <i>Raven</i> has ever been +considered by the vulgar as a bird of evil omen, the indicator of +misfortunes and death; and, indeed, the superstition is but consonant with +a bird of such funereal note and hue, and exhibiting such goule-like +propensities. The Swedes, however, regard it as sacred, and no one offers +to molest it. In the north of England, one <i>Magpie</i> flying alone, is +deemed an ill omen; two together, a fortunate one; three forebode a +funeral, and four a wedding; or, when on a journey, to meet two magpies +portends a wedding; three, a successful journey; four, unexpected good +news; and five, that the person will soon be in company with the great. To +kill a magpie, indicates or brings down some terrible misfortune. The +<i>Sparrow Hawk</i> was sacred with the Egyptians, and the symbol of Osiris. +The <i>Yellow Hammer</i> is superstitiously considered an agent <i>diablerie</i>. +The <i>Wheat-Ear</i> is, in the Highlands, a detested bird, and fancied one of +evil omen, on account of its frequenting old churchyards, where it nestles +amongst the stones, and finds plenty of insects for food. The <i>Woodcock</i> +is, we believe, the bird imagined to drop, in its proper season, from the +moon. It is a vulgar +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page238" + name="page238"> + </a>[pg 238] +</span> + error, that the song of the <i>Nightingale</i> is +melancholy, and that it only sings by night; but to hear the Cuckoo before +the Nightingale has been long deemed an unsuccessful omen in love: the +saliva of the cuckoo has been thought to preserve all it falls upon. +</p> +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"The <i>Robin</i> and the <i>Wren</i></p> + <p>Are God Almighty's cock and hen,"</p> + </div> +</div> +<p> +says the old distich, and whilst it is reckoned wicked to kill either of +these (not but that there is an ancient custom of "hunting the wren" still +kept up, we believe, in some parts of this country,) it is considered +unlucky to kill a <i>Swallow</i>, or <i>House-Martin</i>. The <i>King-fisher</i> is the +Halcyon of the ancients, who imagined that during the process of +incubation by the female the sea remained unvexed by storms; hence +"halcyon days." The feathers of this bird are employed by the Tartars for +many superstitious purposes; they consider them amulets of priceless value, +enabling them to inspire women with love. In more civilized countries it +was once believed, that if the body of a kingfisher were suspended by a +thread, some magnetic influence would turn its breast to the north: others +thought it a preserver of woollen cloths from moths. The <i>Albatross</i> (by +some considered the kingfisher or halcyon,) is fabled to sleep in the air, +never to touch the earth; and to kill one is reckoned supremely unlucky. +There is an Indian bird, the name of which has unfortunately escaped us, +that is feigned to live only on the rain-drops which it can draw with its +bill from the clouds; in a dry season, therefore, this bird perishes. Of +the <i>Bird of Paradise</i> the following wonders were once credited: viz. that +the egg was laid in the air by the female, and there hatched by the male +in an orifice of his body; that it had no legs (these however are long, +and a disfigurement to the body, which the Indians know, and fearful of +their depreciating the value of the bird, upon capturing it, cut them off); +that it hung itself by the two long feathers of its tail on a tree when +sleeping; that it never touched the ground during any period of its +existence, and fed wholly on dew. The Indians also believe that the leader, +or king of the birds of paradise is black, with red spots, and that he +soars far away from the rest of the flock, which, however, never quit him, +but settle where he does. The <i>Gigantic Crane</i> is believed by the Indians +to be invulnerable, and animated by the souls of deceased Brahmins; the +Africans hold it in equal veneration. Whence arises the classical fable +that swans sing their own dirge just previous to death, and expire singing +it? The wild swan certainly may be said to whistle, but the tame has no +other note than a hiss, and this only when provoked. The Kamschatdales and +Kuriles wear round their necks the bills of <i>Puffins</i>, as an amulet which +ensures good fortune. Who was <i>Mother Carey</i>?—The wife, perhaps, of +"<i>Davy</i>," and keeper of his "locker;" Mother Carey's chickens is the +well-known appellation, in <i>tarrish</i> tongue, of <i>Stormy Petrels</i>, not +superstitiously supposed to forebode tempests, since they seem their very +element; but it is probable that to Mother Carey herself (we crave her +pardon—<i>Mistress</i>) some astounding "yarn" is attached. The <i>Stork</i>, the +<i>Crane</i>, and the <i>Pelican</i>, are each the subject of idle stories; the +latter has been asserted to feed her young with her own bosom's blood, and +to fill her pouch with water in order to supply them in the desert. A +notion is entertained by the ignorant that the <i>Bittern</i> thrusts its bill +into a reed, which serves as a pipe to increase the volume of its natural +note, and swell it above pitch; and in some places a tradition prevails +that it thrusts its head into water and then blows with all its might. It +is erroneous that the <i>Ostrich</i> lays her eggs in the sand, depending +solely on the sun's rays to hatch them; the truth is that, as from the +heat of her native climate, it is not always necessary for her to sit upon +them, she simply does what numerous birds in colder latitudes are well +known to do; viz. cover them, that they may not, during her absence, lose +their heat. +</p> +<p> +The popular opinion that the <i>Turtle Dove</i>, of either sex, should it +happen to lose its mate, remains ever after in a state of disconsolate +celibacy, is, we believe, disproved by the fact, at least as respects +these birds in a wild state; but we may remark, that the loss of a +companion to more than one kind of <i>domesticated</i> bird, if it has been +brought up with one, even though not in the same cage, is sometimes so +severely deplored by the survivor, as to occasion its death, if the loss +be not speedily supplied. The old story of <i>Swallows</i> passing the winter +in a state of torpidity at the bottom of rivers, lakes, and ponds, has +been frequently agitated, asserted to be a fact by one party, and totally +disproved by the other. The reader may be amused to learn, that very +recently we were assured by one, who <i>knew it for an absolute fact</i>, that +ducks and even chickens (!!!) had been found in a certain farmer's pond, +laid up in winter quarters, which were revived by the +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page239" + name="page239"> + </a>[pg 239] +</span> + warmth of the sun +and upper air, upon being fished out of it!! "Regarding <i>Birds' Eggs</i>," +says the Naturalist in his interesting Journal, "we have a very foolish +superstition here (Gloucestershire:) the boys may take them unrestrained, +but their mothers so dislike their being kept in the house, that they +usually break them; their presence may be tolerated for a few days, but by +the ensuing Sunday they are frequently destroyed, under the idea that they +bring bad luck, or prevent the coming of good fortune, as if in some way +offensive to the domestic deity of the hearth." + +Here, then, we pause; some abler hand may, perhaps, be tempted to take up +the subject as we leave it, for there are yet gleanings, in the field, of +"Superstitions and Fables connected with animals," over which our leisure +has allowed us but lightly to pass; gleanings sufficient to reward the +industrious and the curious; or, it may even be, that we shall return, +some day, to this topic ourselves, time and materials permitting. +</p> +<p> +<i>Great Marlow, Bucks</i>. M.L.B. +</p> +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>THE GATHERER.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<p> +<i>Congreve Rockets</i>.—When the Congreve rockets were first introduced into +the navy, the admiral on the Brazil station proposed to exhibit to the +king, Don Juan VI., the effect of these formidable projectiles. His +majesty consented, and the whole court were accordingly assembled in the +balconies of the palace, at the Rio, for the purpose of witnessing the +spectacle. By some mishap, of very frequent occurrence in the early +history of these missiles, at the moment of firing the tube veered round, +and the rocket, instead of flying over to Praia Grande, took the opposite +direction, and fell and exploded in the great square, almost beneath the +windows of the palace. The consternation of the king was only equalled by +the mortification of the admiral, who immediately despatched an officer on +shore to explain the cause of the <i>contretemps</i> to his majesty; and +offering to let off another, but the terrified monarch would not hear of +it. "I have a great respect," said he, "for my good allies, the English, +but after dinner they are absolutely fit for nothing;" an observation +which clearly indicated to what cause his majesty attributed the +unfortunate result of the exhibition.—<i>Monthly Magazine</i>. +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +<i>Prosperity of America</i>.—The United States of N. America posses an almost +undefinable extent of fertile uncultivated land—a highly industrious and +intelligent population of 13,000,000—the national debt will be paid this +year—and they have a large surplus revenue. That of 1831 was 27,700,000 +Spanish dollars; the expenditure for all government purposes 14,700,000. +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +<i>War.</i>—Were the disputes between great and rival nations to be settled by +single combat, by those, through whose ambition, pride, or other cause, +they were occasioned, millions of lives might have been saved. +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +<i>Curious Custom.</i>—There is held in Italy, a kind of feast, or ceremony, +in the courts of certain princes, on St. Nicholas's Day, in which people +hide presents in the shoes or slippers of those they would do honour to; +in such a manner as to surprise them on the morrow, when they come to +dress. It is done in imitation of the practice of St. Nicholas; who used, +in the night time, to throw purses of money in at the windows, for +portions to poor maidens on their marriage. P.T.W. +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +<i>Experience.</i>—It often happens that the more we see into a man, the less +we admire him.—<i>Pliny.</i> +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +The Romans were so anxious to encourage marriage, that they punished +unmarried persons by rendering them incapable of receiving any legacy, or +inheritance by will, except from near relatives. And those who were +married, and had not any children, could take no more than half the estate. +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +<i>Etruscan Vases.</i>—The art of making earthenware was transported from +Etruria into Greece. The Romans also borrowed this invention from the +Etruscans, to whom also Greece was indebted for many of its ceremonies and +religious institutions, as well as for its mechanics and artificers. +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +It is customary in the canton Wallis, Switzerland, for those who have +found anything lost, even money, to affix it to a large crucifix in the +churchyard, and there is not an example on record, of any object being +taken away except by the rightful owner. W.G.C. +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +<i>Cumberland Titles.</i>—The honorary titles arising from the different +degrees of allowed consequence or property in Cumberland, appear (says +Britton) singular when compared with their usual acceptation in society. +The mistress of the house is a <i>Dame</i>; every owner of a little landed +property is a <i>'Statesman</i>; his eldest son is the <i>Laird</i>; and where there +is no son, the eldest daughter is +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page240" + name="page240"> + </a>[pg 240] +</span> + born to the title of <i>Leady</i>. Thus we +may see a '<i>Statesman</i> driving the plough, a <i>Lord</i> attending the market +with vegetables, and a <i>Leady</i> labouring at the churn. P.T.W. +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +<i>A string of echo puns</i> surpassing all others, may be seen in a scarce +work, published in the reign of James I. A specimen—a divine, willing to +play more with words, than to be serious in the expounding of his text, +spoke thus in one part of the sermon:—"This dyall shewes we must <i>die +all</i>; yet, notwithstanding, all howses are turned into <i>ale-houses</i>; our +cares are turned into <i>cates</i>; our paradise, into, <i>a pair of dice</i>; our +marriage, into a <i>merry age</i>; our matrimony, into a <i>matter of money</i>; our +divines, into <i>dry vines</i>. It was not so in the days of Noah, +<i>Ah no</i>!"—T.G. +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +<i>Advertisement Extraordinary, from a Newspaper of 1796</i>.—"Whereas the +right hon. William Pitt, Chancellor of his Majesty's Exchequer, did on the +night of Monday last, and on or about the hour of six o'clock, utter in +his place in the House of Commons, certain sentences or phrases, +containing several assurances, denials, promises, retractions, persuasions, +explanations, hints, insinuations, and intimations, and expressing much +hope, fear, joy, sorrow, confidence, and doubt, upon the subject of peace, +then and there recommended by Charles Grey, esq., member of the aforesaid +House of Commons, for the county of Northumberland; and whereas the entire +effectual and certain meaning of the whole of the said sentences, phrases, +denials, promises, retractions, persuasions, explanations, hints, +insinuations, and intimations, has escaped and fled, so that what remains +is to plain understandings incomprehensible, and to many good men is +matter of painful contemplation: now this is to promise to any person who +shall restore the said lost meaning, or shall illustrate, simplify, and +explain the said meaning, the sum of five thousand pounds, to be paid on +the first day of April next, at the office of John Bull, esq., Pay-All and +Fight-All, to the several high contracting powers, engaged in the present +<i>just</i> and <i>necessary</i> war! +</p> +<p> +"Done at the office of Mr. John Bull's Chief Decypherer, <i>Turnagain</i> Lane, +<i>Circumbendibus</i> Street, <i>Obscurity</i> Square, Feb. 18, 1796." +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +<i>Cheap Soup</i>.—Take ten quarts of water, and stir it with a rush-light +till it boils; season it to your liking, and it is ready for use. N.B. The +wick may be bolted.—<i>Monthly Mag</i>. +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +<i>Epitaph on the death of Miss Eliza More, aged</i> 14. +</p> +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Here lies who never lied before,</p> + <p>And one who will never lie <i>More</i>,</p> + <p>To which there need no <i>more</i> be said</p> + <p>Than <i>More</i> the pity she is dead,</p> + <p>For when alive she charmed us <i>More</i></p> + <p>Than all the <i>Mores</i> just gone before. + <a id="footnotetag6" + name="footnotetag6"></a> +<sup><a href="#footnote6">6</a></sup> +</p> + </div> +</div> + +<hr /> +<p> +<i>On Anne Green, a Quakeress</i>. +</p> +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Here lies a piece of Christ, a star in dust,</p> + <p>A wedge of gold, a china dish that must</p> + <p>Be used in heaven, when Christ doth feed the just.</p> + </div> +</div> + +<hr /> +<p> +<i>Inscribed on the back door of a Tavern</i>, which opened into the Parish +Church of St. Michael's, Cambridge, kept by Mr. Burrell, 1639: which door +is now taken down, the tavern having been pulled down, and a new street +built on its site. +</p> +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Go on by leave, no way here lies:</p> + <p class="i2">But way and leave to those</p> + <p>That hast to taste good wine and fine,</p> + <p class="i2">And fear not Burrell's foes.</p> + </div> +</div> + +<hr /> +<p> +<i>Copied from the Churchwarden's Book</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>The Mother Tongue</i>.—In Mr. Combe's <i>Illustrations of Phrenology</i>, a case +is related of a Welsh milkman, in London, who happening to fall down two +pair of stairs, received a severe contusion on the head, and was carried +to St. George's Hospital, where he lay senseless for several days, and +unable to speak. At length he became something better, and began to talk +to the nurses, but in such terms that no one could understand him, till it +was discovered that he had forgotten his English, and was talking Welsh; a +language he had not spoken for eighteen years. Mr. Combe conceives that +the blow having hit the store-house in his head, where the Welsh language +was garnered, his youthful acquisitions were poured out, whilst the +English language, which he had learned much later, was overpowered and +obliterated by the force of his mother tongue. W.G.C. +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +<i>Warning to Betrayers</i>.—St. Bennet's Abbey, in Norfolk, was so well +fortified, that William the Conqueror, in vain besieged it, till a monk, +upon condition of being made abbot, betrayed the place. The king performed +the condition, but hanged the new <i>abbot</i> as a <i>traitor</i>. P.T.W. +</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"> + </a><b>Footnote 1</b>: + <a href="#footnotetag1"> + (return) + </a> + <p> + By accurate observation the height of the fog, relatively with the + higher edifices, whose elevation is known, it has been ascertained that + the fogs of London never rise more than from two hundred to two hundred + and forty feet above the same level. + </p> +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"> + </a><b>Footnote 2</b>: + <a href="#footnotetag2"> + (return) + </a> + <p> + Who does not remember the traditionary notoriety of Margaret Finch? + </p> +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote3" name="footnote3"> + </a><b>Footnote 3</b>: + <a href="#footnotetag3"> + (return) + </a> + <p> + The private property of the estate, and attached to the Spa. + </p> +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote4" name="footnote4"> + </a><b>Footnote 4</b>: + <a href="#footnotetag4"> + (return) + </a> + <p> + We drank a half-pint tumbler of the water, which, as Dr. Weatherhead + observes, is bitter without being disagreeable. Its flavour is that of + Sulphate of Magnesia, or <i>Epsom Salts;</i> and we should say that our + <i>modicum</i> might be imitated by dissolving a dram of the above + ingredient in half-a-pint of pure water. + </p> +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote5" name="footnote5"> + </a><b>Footnote 5</b>: + <a href="#footnotetag5"> + (return) + </a> + <p> + Johnson's Life of Waller, wherein the poet is stated to have been born + March 3. + </p> +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote6" name="footnote6"> + </a><b>Footnote 6</b>: + <a href="#footnotetag6"> + (return) + </a> + <p> + Her two sisters dying some months before. + </p> +</blockquote> + +<hr class="full" /> +<p> +<i>Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset House,) +London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic; G.G. BENNIS, +55, Rue Neuve, St. Augustin, Paris; and by all Newsmen and Booksellers.</i> +</p> +<hr class="full" /> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 12552 ***</div> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/12552-h/images/542-001.png b/12552-h/images/542-001.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..be1fe33 --- /dev/null +++ b/12552-h/images/542-001.png diff --git a/12552-h/images/542-002.png b/12552-h/images/542-002.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..75a6f34 --- /dev/null +++ b/12552-h/images/542-002.png |
