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both were good eating. On quitting the 
shore, Clark presented us with a fine female 
goat (not, however, one that had belonged 
to Robinson Crusoe, as it was quite young); 
we left him standing on a large stone on 
the beach, expecting to see us again the 
next morning, but hardly had we reached 
the ship, when a strong easterly wind set 
in, and we were speedily carried far from 
that enchanting spot, and from my new and 
interesting acquaintance, Clark. No pen, 
indeed, can correctly describe the charm- 
ing and rural appearance of this island ;! 
t 
Mrs. Maria Graham (now Mrs. Callcott) gives a 
no less charming account of Juan F 
small m 
Panke "es as well 
and other aqu natic plants. The little valley ud. the 
town is, or rather was, is full of fruit-tree es, and flow- 
$ ets, and sweet herbs, now grown wild ; 
arshes, wher re f 
k; and on ims is found numbers of Euro- 
pean shrubs and her 
TP Where once the garden smiled, 
And still where many a garden-flower grows wild :’ 
andi in the odiis E eet inr Pago the boun- 
r fields, l 
as dry sl 
ewe ‘ks walk rather ign 
to sit ete, under a — 
cted. I was 
quite med to x our station i in the por nad ciel 
to the la P 
1o The n xt morning,” she remarks, « I bids iuis 
a lonely ears where no trac 
end d boim I had been some hours this 
; wilderness ; vr enim eris at first I might 
ps with. Siaka toc 
DOUGLAS’ SKETCH OF A JOURNEY TO THE 
the numerous rills descending throug 
valleys, overshadowed by luxuriant 
rocky dells, where wave the feathery fro 
of Lomatia, Aspidia, and Polypodia, 
veral species of which are new and of tr 
princely form and growth. On the 
grow several kinds of Escallonia, Ber 
Lobelia, Hordeum, and Avena. D 
my short stay I gathered seventy dist 
and highly interesting plants. The spe 
of Birds were few, and not beautif 
Christmas-day in lat. 37 o, S. long. T 
by feasting on the goat which Clark. 
given us, and drinking the health of 
friends in England. The heat is 
along the East side of Chatham 
which is mountainous, and apparentl 
vel of the sea. Their verdure is 
compared with most tropical co 
owing, apparently, to the parched 
** I am monarch of all I survey 
My right there is none to dispute," 
yet I very soon felt that utter loneliness is as d *: 
able as unnatural ; and Cowper's exquisite lines 
served me— 
** Oh, solitude! where are the charms 
That sages have seen in thy face? 
Better dwell in the midst of alarms, 
Than reign in this horrible place." 
And I repeated over and over the whole of 
till I saw two of my companions of the mor 
ing down the hill, when I hurried to meet 
had been a really « * out of humanity’s re: 
