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Longwood has a rocky, convulsed appearance. 

 Heavy clouds or mists, floating beneath, and 

 casting their shadows on the face of gloomy 

 mountains, together with a profound silence, 

 but occasionally interrupted by startling gusts of 

 eddying wind, rushing through the chasms of the 

 hills, give a peculiar character to the scene, too 

 well in keeping, to be unassociated, with the 

 memory of the Master- Spirit of his age, whose 

 fate is so closely identified with the spot. 



Longwood estate is situated on an extensive 

 and level range of mountain land, which although 

 lofty, is not so elevated but that it is commanded 

 by other, and more distant heights. A broad 

 and excellent carriage-road conducts to a lodge, 

 or entrance to the grounds, from whence a long 

 and level drive through a verdant lawn, planted 

 with an avenue of aged gum-wood trees, is con- 

 tinued to the dwelling last occupied by Napo- 

 leon. 



The house in which the chosen Emperor of 

 the French lived and breathed his last, is now in 

 the possession of a St. Helena farmer, who treats 

 the building with respect, in an inverse propor- 

 tion to the extent of his agricultural improve- 

 ments. When I visited this venerated edifice in 

 the early part of the year 1833, it bore the 

 appearance of a respectable cottage. A small 



