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and taste to adorn the first walks of literature, gave up the greatest 

 fame to do the greatest good, by forming the minds of the young, 

 and leading them to proper objects of pursuit. I am proud to belong 

 to the sex and nation, which will furnish names to engage the rever- 

 ence and affection of our fellow-creatures as long as virtue and liter- 

 ature continue to be cultivated. As long as there are parents to 

 teach and children to be taught, no father, no mother will hear with 

 indifference the names of Barbauld, Trimmer, or Edgeworth. Even 

 here, in this distant clime, they will be revered. The first stone is 

 laid ; schools are established, and their works are preparing to form 

 and enlighten the children of another language and another hemi- 

 sphere. 



Friday, May 31st.— To-day I indulged myself with a walk which 

 I had been wishing to take for some days, to an obscure portion of the 

 Almendral, called the Rincona, or nook, I suppose because it is in a 

 little corner formed by two projecting hills. My object in going thi- 

 ther was to seethe manufactory of coarse pottery, which I supposed 

 to be established there, because I was told that the ollas, or jars, for 

 cooking and carrying water, the earthen lamps, and the earthen 

 brassiers, were all made there. On quitting the straight street of the 

 Almendral, a little beyond the rivulet that divides it from my hill, I 

 turned into a lane, the middle of which is channelled by a little 

 stream which falls from the hills behind the Rincona, and after being 

 subdivided and led through many a garden and field, finds its way 

 much diminished to the sand of the Almendral where it is lost. 

 Following the direction, though not adhering to the course of the 

 rill, I found the Rincona beyond some ruined but thick walls, which 

 stretch from the foot of the hills to the sea, and which were once 

 intended as a defence to the port on that side : they are nothing now. 

 I looked round in vain for any thing large enough either to be a manu- 

 factory, or even to contain the necessary furnaces for baking the pot- 

 tery ; nevertheless I passed many huts, at the doors of which I saw 

 jars and dishes set out for sale, and concluded that these were the huts 



