_ 80 small a resistance to the element in which it moved. 
CAMBRIBGE’S WORKS. 
‘Seeking the banish'd, chaste sobriety, 
Ev’nin the jolting coach ! And then the Vicar, 
In sloping belly, with fat tythe-pig lin’d ; 
With grizzled wig, and silken scarf-form’d 
vest, p 
Strew'd with rappee: his elbows lifted high, 
‘Tis so he digs your ribs!—ihe sixth niche 
shews 
A meagre, mortified, warm-wrapp'd old maids 
With morning cap snug drawa, and muff up- 
» held, 
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Her curving nose and chin, seeking approach, 
The sole good points she shows, and her shrill 
voice 
Pour'd forth against the boldness of the age, 
Full oft’ repeats the theme ! Last plac’d ofall, 
Which ends this * worshipful society,’ 
Sits a young nymph, in ev’ry thing reverse, 
Sans sleeves, sans coats, sans cap, sans every 
? 
thing! 
Mr. Roberdeau is evidently a man of 
considerable talents. 
Aat. XL, Works of Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq. with an Account of his Life and 
Character. By his Son, Geonce Owen CamerinGe, M.A. Prebendary of Ely, 
- Ato. pp. 480. 
WE have perused, with singular plea- 
sure, the uneventful bit extraordinary 
life of Mr. Cambridge; extraordinary 
because we recollect no individual, an- 
cient or modern, whose life was so uni- 
formly happy. ‘l’oo opulent to need a 
profession, too wise to chuse one, he 
passed his days in the enjcyment of a 
literary leisure, and of a literary fame 
equal to his deserts and wishes ; till the 
age of eighty-three, he lived without dis- 
ease or infirmity, and then declining 
without pain for two years, he enjoyed, 
at length, the last blessing which can be 
bestowed upon man, that wSavzem, for 
which it has been well observed by. 
Beddoes, the moderns have unhappily 
no name, that peaceful and placid death 
which may truly be called falling asleep. 
. ‘ Epoy UTrvov 
Komarai’ Svnoxesy unrcye res ayxSes. 
and thus he departed, a man of fourscore 
and five, leaving his wife and all his chil- 
dren living, having never suffered sick- 
hess, sorrow, or any of the calamities 
which flesh is heir to. 
Of the versatile talents of this gentle- 
man, some interesting and uncommon 
facts are recorded in these memoirs. 
Lord Anson, having admired the strue- 
ture and success of these boats, as used by the 
inhabitants of the Ladrone islands, a particé- 
lar description of which is given in his voyage, 
was preparingto make trial of one in England, 
when my father ventured to suggest his doubts 
whether a baat, whose safety depended upon 
the most exact equilibrium, would succeed 
in this uncertain climate, however well it 
might answer on the smooth sea, and under 
the steady breezes of the Pacific Ocean 3 pro- 
posing, at the same time, to construct a boat 
upon a plan somewhat similar, that might 
obviate those objections. The experiment, 
in both cases, was creditable to his know- 
ledge of the subject, The flying prow was . 
twice tried between Portsmouth and the Isles 
of Wight, and each time (as I have been in- 
formed) it was overset ; after which it was 
hung up in the boat-house of the royal yard 
at Deptford, where it has ever since remain- 
ed, and may now be seen; but the double 
boat answered every purpose required, being 
so swift that no other boat could overtake it, 
and so safe that it was scarcely possible for it 
to be overset.”* 
_* * * * 
“« For the ordinary diversions of the field, 
to which country gentlemen usually devote 
so much of their time and talents, my father 
had no relish; but instead of the gun, he 
took up the exercise of shooting with the bow 
“and arrow, in which he acquired such a de- 
gree of dexterity, as with a little further prac- 
tice might have enabled him to enter the 
lists with William Tell, or the man recorded 
in the Scribleriad, who deprived Philip of the 
sight of one of his eyes with an arrow, which 
was addressed ‘ To Philip’s right eye.’ The 
head of a duck, swimming in the river, wasa 
favourite mark, which he se!dom missed ; 
he likewise shot many small birds perching 
on trees, and some of the larger sort he has 
brought down when upon the wing; until 
happening to see one of his arrows, that had 
accidentally dropped into a post, he was 
struck with the hazard he ran of injuring 
* The double boat consisted of two distinct boats, fifty feet inlength, and only eighteen 
inches wide, 
laced parallel to each other at the distance of twelve feet, and secured together 
by transverse beams, over which a slight platform or deck was placed. Thus constructed, 
it was enabled to spread a much larger portion of canvas than any other boat that presented 
It is remarkable that Captain Cook 
Should, many years afterwards, find the ingenious inhabitants of the Sandwich Tulaade mak~ 
ing use of boats upon a similar plan, and which experience had shewn them was preferable 
to the flying prow, or any other form that could be devised by a people unacquainted with, 
the use of iron. a 
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