328 Notice of Sketches of Naval Life. 
are so effectual on other occasions. o can decide, that 
a war ship, on whose colors was inscribed, no grog, but more 
comfort and better pay, would not enlist a crew of contented 
sober men, who. in battle would be sustained by cool moral 
courage, and who, on coming into port, would not disgrace 
their country’s flag, by immoralities which our author, else- 
where, so feelingly laments, and:so justly attributes to strong 
drink. 
In accordance with the spirit of this work, we may be al- 
lowed to add, with respect to the physical effects of stimulus ; 
at it creates no power, it only acts on power already exist- 
ing, and excites to effort ; a wasting effort of course, if often 
repeated, under the influence of stimulus. The spur quickens 
the generous courser to leap the ditch, or to scale the fence 5 
but, both the stimulus and the effort tend to impair the ani- 
mal energy, which canbe renewed only by repose and food. 
It would, perhaps, be hard to say, that there is no possible 
contingency, in which it may be proper to prompt buman ef- 
that such cases are few, and far between. The continued 
use of the stimulus of ardent spirits creates local disease in 
the organs; and ultimately in the system; and as in its pure 
state, it is decidedly and powerfully a poison, operating with 
pid and fatal energy ; so in its more diluted forms, it works 
the same way, and produces a sure although a more tardy 
catastrophe. 
Mr. Jones’s travels contain a number of notices of natural, 
or other objects connected with science. In the harbor of 
Mahon, where the squadron passed so much time, he found 
many interesting things, He says, 
‘¢ As I sauntered along its shores, my attention was drawn to @ 
beautiful flower, at the bottom, where th was near a 
e wate 
fathom in depth. It grew on a stalk about three eighths of an 
inch in diameter, and about ten inches in Jength; was, in shape, 
