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land, and, in mariners and appearance, tin vrai 

 Batave* On the paffage he was a dull, heavy, 

 flow, and plodding Dutchman— frigid, and 

 inanimate as the molt icy boor of his aquatic 

 nation. His movements were a pretty accu- 

 rate reprefentation of the crawling floth, and 

 the unvaried fedatenefs of his vifage no lefs 

 emblematical of his native home. 



Having particularly noticed him through- 

 out the voyage, we feel fome furprize in now 

 witneffing, as it were, a complete revolution 

 of his nature and habits. The rays of a 

 tropical fun feem to have given play to his 

 mufcles, fet free all the circulating juices of his 

 frame, and unfrozen the icy coldnefs of his 

 foul. The change we obferve in him is indeed 

 greater than you can imagine: roufed from 

 the torpor of unheeding famenefs, by the all- 

 vivifying power of tropical warmth, the cold 

 cloud of indifference is diffipated from his 

 brow — and the Batavian gluten of his frame 

 fublimed into volatile fpirits. He is grown 

 cheerful and gay ; wears a fmile of mirth upon 

 his countenance, and moves with an agility 

 and alertnefs, beyond all that could have been 

 hoped in a Dutchman. He now fkips merrily 



