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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 viftue 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 see the 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 
