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ientiy discharged duty presents none of those points 

 of inciting interest, which occur in the lives of men 

 of more precarious and more stirring fortunes. 

 During nearly the whole of the above-named 

 period, Mr Carrington was employed, in his labori- 

 ous duties as a public teacher, from seven in the 

 morning in the summer till half-past seven in the 

 evening: in the winter his labours commenced at 

 nine in the morning, and continued till eight at 

 night. It was after this hour that he found his 

 only opportunities of cultivating the taste for 

 literature with which he had been gifted by nature. 

 The first edition of his poem, entitled " Banks 

 of Tamar," appeared in 1820. He had, previously 

 to the printing of this work, published many little 

 fugitive poems of great beauty, and which attracted 

 much attention, particularly in Devonshire, where 

 the author was best known. He next published 

 "Dartmoor, a descriptive poem," the first edition 

 of which appeared in 1826. This poem was writ- 

 ten for the purpose of being submitted for the pre- 

 mium offered about two years before, for the best 

 poem on that subject, by the Royal Society of 

 Literature. By some accident, the premium was 

 awarded three or four months before Mr Carring- 

 ton was aware that the time of presentation had 

 arrived. It is needless to say, that his poem was 

 not forwarded to the Society; the author threw it 

 by, without entertaining the slightest intention of 

 ever publishing an effusion on what he imagined 

 the bulk of the reading public would think a most 

 unpromising subject. By some chance, however, 

 the poem came under the notice of W. Burt, Esq., 

 secretary of the Plymouth chamber of commerce, 

 who persuaded Mr Carrington to publish it; and it 

 accordingly appeared, with explanatory notes by 

 that gentleman. " Dartmoor " met with far greater 

 success than the author had ever dared to antici- 

 pate. It was received with much delight by the 

 public; it was very highly spoken of by the peri- 

 odical press; and the consequence was, that a 

 second edition was called for not more than two 

 months after the appearance of the first. Two or 

 three years before the publication of " Dartmoor," 

 the town of Devonport was seized with an unac- 

 countable mania for subscription schools ; by the 

 establishment of the first of these academies, Mr 

 Carrington's prosperity, in common with that of 

 several other public teachers residing in the town, 

 was materially injured. He still, however, strug- 

 gled on ; though the circumstances of his having a 

 large family dependent on his exertions rendered 

 the decrease of income, caused by the subscrip- 

 tion schools, to be very severely felt by him. 

 Towards the close of 1827 he was attacked by in- 

 cipient consumption ; and in a few months it was 

 apparent that the disease would inevitably be fatal. 

 He still, however, attended unceasingly to his 

 school ; and although reduced to a mere skeleton, 

 and weak as an infant, he continued to discharge 

 his scholastic duties till March, 1830, a period of 

 nearly three years, when he became so completely 

 worn out, by the inroads of the deadly complaint 

 with which he was afflicted, that he was obliged to 

 cease all further efforts. It was during his illness, 



ithat Mr Carrington wrote and prepared for the 

 press his last publication "My Native Village; 

 and other poems." In "My Native Village," he 

 frequently alludes, in affecting terms, to the pain- 

 ful nature of his situation. In July, 1830, he re- 

 moved with his family to Bath, in order to reside 

 with his sen, who about that time had become pro- 



prietor of the Bath Chronicle. By this time he 

 was in the most advanced stage of consumption ; 

 he daily grew weaker and weaker ; and on the 

 evening of the 2d of September, 1830, he expired, 

 apparently of mere weakness and exhaustion. As 

 he always expressed the utmost horror of being 

 buried in any of the " great charnel-houses of Bath" 

 (as he used to term the burial grounds of that 

 populous city), he was interred at Combhay, a 

 lonely and beautiful little village about four miles 

 from Bath. 



CARTLAND CRAGS, a rugged and bushy 

 ravine in the immediate neighbourhood of Lanark, 

 Scotland, formed by the course of a little stream 

 called the Mouse water, and in the recesses of 

 which Sir William Wallace more than once took 

 refuge while making reprisals on the English in- 

 vaders under Edward. A particular cave is still 

 shown, half-way up one of the banks, as a hiding- 

 place of this illustrious personage. At the lower 

 part, near the confluence of the Mouse with the 

 Clyde, the road from Lanark to Glasgow passes 

 over the profound chasm by a modern bridge. This 

 bridge, which was designed by the late Thomas 

 Telford, was commenced in 1822, and finished in 

 little more than a year. It consists of two piers, 

 of the height of 130 feet, forming three arches, 

 with a perfectly level road on the top, spanning a 

 defile of at least 150 feet in width. 



CASHEL; a town of Ireland, in the county of 

 Tipperary, situated on the road from Dublin to 

 Cork, twelve miles from Clonmel, and seventy- 

 five from Dublin. It consists of one principal 

 street, from which several others diverge irregu- 

 larly. The principal trade of the place consists in 

 the sale of the produce of the surrounding country. 

 Cashel is the seat of an archbishopric and diocese, 

 and hence may lay claim to the title of city. The 

 ruins of ecclesiastical establishments in different 

 parts of the town, and on the Rock of Cashel, are 

 highly interesting. Population of town, 6971; 

 within the corporate lands, 12,582. 



CASHEW. The Cashew or Firework Nut is 

 about the size and nearly the shape of a Windsor 

 bean, and is occasionally imported into this coun- 

 try from the West Indies, where it forms an econ- 

 omical source of amusement to the native children, 

 who put it on the end of a long wire, or sharp 

 stick, and then set it on fire, by holding it for half 

 a minute over a flame. The nut contains a quan- 

 tity of oil, and gives out a succession of vivid min- 

 ute streams of fire and smoke, until the husk of 

 the nut is burnt to a cinder. It is then easily 

 opened, the kernel is found properly roasted, and 

 it is eaten like an almond, to which, by many, it is 

 thought superior in flavour. 



CASSAS, Louis FRANCOIS; an eminent archi- 

 tectural artist, was born June 3, 1756, at Azay-le- 

 Feron ; and after sedulously employing his youth 

 in studying and delineating the antiquities of Sicily, 

 Istria, and Dalmatia, accompanied to Constantino- 

 ple, Choiseul Gouffier, by whom he wr.s selected 

 to make drawings for the continuation of his Voy- 

 age dans la Grece. Shortly after he visited the 

 opposite shores with M. Lechwallier, the author 

 of the classical Voyage de la Troade. As soon as 

 he had finished examining the region immortalised 

 by Homer, he proceeded to Balbec and Palmyra, 

 whose superb remains were then known to Eu- 

 rope only by Wood's publication. About the com- 

 mencement of the Revolution he returned to 

 France, laden with the interesting stores he had 



