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tank or fish-pond, and a solitary peach-tree ; 

 which last was at this time covered with its de- 

 licate blossoms, as if in mockery of the sur- 

 rounding desolation. 



The " new-house/' erected for Napoleon, but 

 which he did not live to occupy, is a large and 

 handsome building, placed but a short distance 

 from the old residence, and so sunk in a vale, as 

 to leave little more than its roof visible from 

 the approaches. It was, until recently, the go- 

 vernor's country residence ; but is now occupied 

 by a chaplain, and partly employed as a church. 



Although the situation of Longwood is bleak, 

 and exposed to melancholy mists or profuse 

 rains, the temperate, and even cold climate 

 which belongs to its elevation of nearly 2000 

 feet above the sea, will not permit its inter- 

 tropical position to be included in the charges 

 brought against its salubrity. The mountain- 

 soil it occupies is highly fertile, well covered with 

 timber, (chiefly indigenous trees,) and is now 

 converted into a valuable farm, abounding with 

 pasture-lands, vegetable gardens, and fields of 

 oats. 



About a mile and a half from Longwood, 

 as we return to James' Town, the high road 

 overlooks the tomb of Napoleon, placed con- 

 spicuously in the bosom of Sane Valley, or, as it 



