OF THE LATE JOHN CLERK, ESQ. OF ELDXN. 137 



of the Nation to the author, would have been very creditable 

 to the Minister under whose patronage it was erected ; and an 

 acknowledgment from the Navy, that this discovery was the 

 work of a Landsman, would have been highly becoming in a 

 profession, of which intrepidity and valour are not more cha- 

 racteristic than frankness and generosity. 



VOL. IX. p. I. 



IX. 



