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collections of every branch of his 
family. 
There are some moral defects 
very difficult to be avoided by those 
persons, who from a_ situation 
comparatively obscure, rise to sud- 
den distinction- and _ celebrity.— 
From these failings Park was hap- 
pily exempt. He was a stranger 
to all vanity and affectation; and 
notwithstanding his great popula- 
rity and success, appears to have 
lost no portion of the genuine 
simplicity of his character and 
manners. This simplicity perhaps 
originated fa a considerable de- 
gree from a certain coldness and 
reserve, which rendered him very 
indifferent, and perhaps somewhat 
averse, to mixed or general so- 
ciety. It was probably owing to 
the same cause, that his conversa- 
tion, for a man who had seen so 
much, had nothing remarkable, 
and was rarely striking or animated. 
Hence, although his appearance 
was interesting and prepossessing, 
he was apt to disappoint the 
expectations of strangers: and 
those persons who estimated his 
general talents from his powers 
of conversation, formed an erro- 
neous and inadequate opinion of 
his merits. 
In his person he was tall, being 
about six feet high, and perfectly 
well-proportioned. His counte- 
nance and whole appearance were 
highly interesting; and his frame 
active and robust, fitted for great 
exertions, and the endurance of 
great hardships. His constitution 
had suffered considerably from the 
effects of his first journey into 
Africa, but seems afterwards to 
have been restored to its original 
vigour, of which his last expe- 
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dition afforded the most ample 
proofs. 
Account of Ali Pasha, Vizier of 
Albania; from Travels in the 
Tonian Isles, Albania, &c. by 
Henry Holland, M. D. F. R. S. 
&c. 
The morning of the first of No- 
vember was made interesting to us, 
by our introduction to this ex- 
traordinary man. At ten o’clock, 
Colovo again called, to say that 
the Vizier was prepared to give us 
audience ;_ and shortly afterwards, 
two white horses, of beautiful fi- 
gure, and superbly caparisoned 
in the Turkish manner, were 
brought to us from the Seraglio; 
conducted by two Albanese sol- 
diers, likewise richly attired and 
armed. Mounting these horses, 
and a Turkish officer of the palace 
preceding us, with an ornamental 
staff in his hand, we proceeded 
slowly, and with much state, 
through the city, to the great 
Seraglio. 
Passing through the almost sa- 
vage pomp of this outer area of 
the Seraglio, we entered an inner 
court, and dismounted at the foot 
of a dark stone-staircase. On 
the first landing-place stood one 
of the Vizier’s carriages ; an old 
and awkward vehicle, of German 
manufacture, and such as might 
have been supposed to have tra- 
velled a dozen times from Ham- 
burgh to Trieste. At the top of 
the staircase, we entered into a 
wide gallery or hall, the windows 
of which command a noble view 
of the lake of Ioannina, and the 
mountains of Pindus; the walls 
are 
