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flourish out, like them, in praise of nature's great Planter ; and 

 the sportive kids to teach gladness in the sunshine of life's bless- 

 ings; and the fire-flies at nightfall to light me towards Him that 

 is invisible. But the home of Beauty is not in these solitary 

 scenes. 



Having cleared the boca, you have on your right the open 

 coast, in a line towards the south-west, as far as Fridreckstadt. 

 Here is seen a coral reef, there a quicksand : in one of these, on 

 this island, a missionary and his horse were ingulphed some years 

 since. Then will succeed a line of mangroves almost level with 

 the water, and within them the smooth lagoon that presents its 

 mirror to the rugged features of Nature about. J ust after opening 

 the eastern fort, a sunken ledge shews itself at intervals in the 

 wash of the sea ; it is called — from one of those vessels having 

 been lost on it — the Packet Rock. In shore the cliff* rises pre- 

 cipitously in masses of dusky sand-stone, with a detached column 

 standing out, in one place, like a colossal sentry before the rest. 

 The swell lashes, and foams against this vast obstruction, suggest- 

 ing the wild imagery of Goethe — 



" The giant-shouted craggs, Ho, ho ! 

 How they snort, and how they blow." 



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A REVIEW of my performance will determine whether I shall 

 proceed in the task which I have undertaken under the above title. 

 If I continue it, the present communication must be considered 

 as prefatory only to what may follow; but should inclination 

 check continuation, an endeavour shall be made to render it a 

 ii;Ao/e of itself, and as unexceptionable as poor skill can effiect, 

 for its ready introduction into polite literary company. 



" Ut si quid promittere de me 

 Possum aliud, vere promitto. — Hor." 



The pleasure of memory, of all pleasures, is perhaps the 

 greatest, for its exercise affords more real delight, even in the 

 smallest trifles, than the actual luxury of enjoyment of full a 

 hundred per cent, oi graver matters. When the mind is, as the 

 mind always should be, charitable, there is indeed a rich treat 

 in recollecting the early scenes of vacant mirth or pinching need 

 — greater indeed than can be afforded by many circumstances of 

 passing affluence or trimmed competency. In proof, how often 



