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walls, the pretty fish-ponds, all overgrown with 
weeds and filled up with rubbish, ‘the remains of 
gardens, ruinous as the houses, without ing 
most sincerely that war, and all its iste cala- 
mities, might long be kept from bar gn peaceful, 
happy home, and soon be unneces 
part of the world. According to all accounts, 
the less respectable part of the natives had done 
more to make the houses of this island have a 
ruinous appearance, than our troops during the 
war, by pulling down every thing that they could 
possibly carry away and dispose of. 
Some immense blocks of stone (granite) are here 
supported naturally on the tops of the hills in the 
strangest manner, and are objects of great interest to 
the traveller. One, in particular, appears as if 
some giant arm had raised it to its present position, 
and left it there solely to astonish the beholder in 
after-ages, and leave him to wonder not only how it 
came there, but how it could remain in its present 
position, and, most assuredly, a very small quantity 
of gunpowder exploded below it would hurl it 
from the hill into the plain beneath. Another 
huge rock stands near the entrance of the harbour: 
this, however, seems to have been on the point of 
giving way, for it is now supported by a mass 
of stone-work on one side. The natives have a 
tradition concerning this rock, and say that as 
long as it stands, the town of Amoy will never 
fall before a foreign enemy. Unfortunately for the 
prophecy, Amoy, like the rest of the places attacked 
