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us. To Americans, there is a voice in every thing from other 
nations, and such books are the medium through which it 
e As the bee extracts the sweets of every flower and 
brings them to the common hive, so the traveller accumu- 
lates and deposits, for common use, the stores of knowledge 
which he has obtained. A traveller should be vigilant, in- 
quisitive, industrious, candid and honest. He should, have 
enlarged and comprehensive views of men and things; he 
should be both a scholar and a man of the world; he should 
unite keen perception and a cool judgment; and he should 
be actuated by pure and elevated moral feeling, quickened 
by a healthful sensibility, and a chastened taste, which will 
make him equally accessible, to the beauties of nature and 
the productions of art. He should attend not only to what is 
‘awfully vast” but that which is “elegantly little ;” he 
should be bold and firm, yet modest and unpresuming, for 
only such men will succeed well in a strange land. e 
‘all, as an American, (for such we suppose him to be,) he 
should give all his observations a practical character ; he 
should bring every thing to bear on his own country, and 
blend the warm patriot, with the man of information and 
feeling. With all this he should have a ready pen; he 
should be able to describe well; to seize on our feelings and: 
make us sharers in the pleasures of the journey, while he ex- 
cuses us from its fatigues; seizing the striking points of 
view, whether of men or of nature, he should place before 
us, a graphic representation of events and things; and ina 
word should make us see as he saw, and feel as he felt. 
It is giving our opinion of the volumes of Mr. Jones, when 
we say, in a word, that if this beau ideal of a traveller is 
rarely seen, he has come nearer to it, than most of those 
who publish their observations in the form of travels. _In 
our last number, page 168, we gave an extract from the MS 
of Mr. Jones’? work, and many have since, not only throug 
our own pages, but though those of our newspapers, enjoy 
the pleasure, which we experienced from seeing the ship, her 
spars tipped with fire balls, and her canvass emblazoned by 
lightning, reeling in the night squall, while we contemplated 
the uproar, from the snug harbor of our own safe tenement, 
on land. 
~ We have already mentioned, that the author’s prominent 
Object is to display the police and characier of our navy, es- 
pecially as they struck a landsman ;—a civilian, as he chooses 
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