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ed’ himself of opportunities, in which he was liberally indul- 
ed, of visiting many places in several of the interesting 
countries that surround the Mediterranean. 
In observing these regions, the cradle of man; famous 
alike in song and story, in arts, in commerce and in war; the 
seats of empire, risen, fallen and gone; the birth place of true 
and false religion; the theatre of noble struggles for liberty, 
both ancient and modern, he was not an idle observer, and 
men and: things were alike embraced in his surve 
But his leading object seems to have been, to unfold the 
interior of the American navy, so that this national institu- 
traveller, 
We have obtained permission of the author, to insert the 
following sketch of a night squall. 
U.S. frigate Constitution, Monday, Sept. 4, 1826. 
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had already been lashed up and stowed ; it was lighted up, 
and the lamps shewed it flooded in its whole extent. re as- 
Vor. XVI.—No. 1. 
