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capes her, lips. In intellect she is 
mature in every way; and those per- 
sons who are most intimate with the 
family in private life, speak of little 
Clara with more rapture off the boards, 
han they who only see her on them. 
—_—— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
LETTER from Port St. Peter 
and Paul, Kamtschatka, dated 
Nov. 30, 1821, among other details, 
contains the following information :— 
“* We have beenvisited here by aves- 
sel from the Sandwich islands, named 
* Kaiderno, which signifies Long- 
neeked. . On the 16th of September the 
commandant, by express order of his 
sovereign, gave a treat to our gover- 
nor and his staff-offlicers. On its de- 
parture, on the 18th, this vessel fired a 
salute of all its guns, which were well 
served by natives of the Sandwich 
islands. His excellency has sent to the 
king two reindeer, male and female, 
with a young bear, and has given to 
the captain one of the finest cows of the 
country. The oflicers and sailors were 
all natives of the Sandwich Archipe- 
lago, and soon formed acquaintance 
with the Kamtschatdales, who testified 
“ particular regard for them. They 
were ever cheerful and gay: singing 
was heard amongst them, night and 
day. They attended our church on 
the Sunday, and were very attentive. 
From thence they repaired to the 
governor’s quarters. In accosting, or 
taking leave of any one, they pro- 
nounced aloud the word ‘ Arocha.’ 
Their dress embraced fashions of 
every descriptions ; one had on a 
sailor’s waistcoat, another a cloth frock, 
a third a silk coat, &c. Some had 
shoes without stockings; but, in gene- 
ral, they were barefooted.” 
To the above may be added, thouch 
preceding it in point of time :—“On 
the 8th of September arrived here, the 
corvettos ‘ Otkrilia, meaning ‘ Dis- 
covery,’ and the ‘ Blagonamerennic, 
or ‘ Good Intention,’ both under the 
orders of Captain Wassiliew, of the 
Imperial Marine. In the second 
fortnight of the same month, the San 
Pedro, a merchant ship, and two trans- 
ports, the Michael and the Dionis, 
entered our harbour successively.” 
“On the 6th of Oct., the anniversary 
of the promulgation of the Maritime 
Code, granted by Peter the Great in 
1722, solemnities and rejoicings were 
witnessed here. In the middle of the 
yoad, a ship covered with flags, was 
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stationed ; to this repaired, in long 
boats, on one side, the Governor of- 
Kamtschatka, Captain Wassiliew, and 
the principal officers ; on the other, the 
clergy, with the banners and images of 
the saints, patrons of our church. The 
whole of this cortége being assembled, 
his excellency presented to the dean of 
the ecclesiastics a copy of the Mari- 
time Code of Peter the Great, and in- 
vited him to chant the thanksgiving 
hymn of Te Deum. This hymn was 
followed with a salute of artillery from 
the two corvettes. 
““ Having landed, the governor gave 
agrand dinner. Next day a subscrip- 
tion was opened, which quickly 
amounted to 1500 roubles, to raise, in 
Kamtschatka, a marble monument to 
the memory of Vitus Behring, the 
navigator.” Z. 
—— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
BOUT four miles from Malvern, to 
the south, is ahill of singular inter- 
est, now known by the name of the Here+ 
fordshire Beacon, occurring at that 
point where the turnpike-road from 
Hereford, through Ledbury to Wor- 
cester, intersects this line of hills. 
Coming out of the county of Hereford, 
into that of Worcester, the line of de- 
markation runs along the tops of 
those hills; the right-hand hill is the 
one to which allusion has been 
made; on the top of which hill, is an 
ancient British* encampment, fortified 
by several broad and deep circumvyal- 
lations, encircling a camp of very large 
dimensions,+ which crowns the apex of 
the major part of this mountain. 
From the highest point of the road, 
a great extent of the beautiful vale of 
Evesham, and also of the Severn, may 
be discovered; as, doubtless, numbers 
of your readers may have experienced. 
From the hill, on either side, a still 
larger extent of prospect may be 
descried, as fine and extensive an in- 
* That it is actually British, I have the 
authority of that celebrated British anti- 
quary, and eminent Cymbrian scholar, Mr. 
William Owen Pughe, whom I consulted 
upon the occasion. ‘ 
t The entire length of this encampment, 
as measured, is 1115 yards; the length of 
the west section of the first circumvallation, 
1405 yards; the breadth of the north 
extreme, at its centre, is 100 yards; the 
breadth of the south extreme, at its centre, 
is 100 yards: and, the extreme height of 
the regal, or general’s, station, answering to 
the Roman Pretorium, in the centre, is ~ 
about 1395 feet above the level of the sea. 
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