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** Alihoucb this destitute (the writer^ during: his lifetime has met 

 face to face many chiefs the like of Sir John Malcolm he has never 

 seen." 



Quatrain. 

 Genfral Malcolm is the benefactor of the age 



His <2:ood name is as the sun to the world ; 

 O God ! continually increase his life and prosperity 

 " So lon^ as the moon, the earth and heavens revolve.** 



have much pleasure, at the request of a Subscriber, in giving 

 insertion to the foliowing interesting letter extracted from the Cape 

 of Good Hope Literary Gazette. — Ed. 



IV. — MARINE BAROMETER, THEORY OF STORMS, ETC. 



To the Editor of the Literary Gazette, 



Newlands, ISth June, 1833. 

 Sir, — 1 should on no account have acceded to your request of 

 me to sanction the re-publication of a letter which appeared in the 

 South African Chronicle nearly nine years ago, for I have not the 

 vanity to think that any production of my pen can be worth a se- 

 cond perusal, had I not been influenced by the following considera- 

 tions which you have so particularly brought under my notice ; — 

 first, that there are many gentlemen from India now in this colony 

 for whose character and acquirements I have a high respect, who 

 have expressed a desire to this effect, — secondly, that some of the 

 arguments and facts it contains have been deemed of sufficient im- 

 portance to require a more extended promulgation. Under these 

 circumstances, I have the pleasure to send the letter referred to, 

 revisedy and very much at your service. 



Without, therefore, any further preface, I shall proceed to my 

 remarks on the Marine Barometer. 



I am, myself, apt to set so high a value on this instrument, from 

 its affording an infallible indication of those dreadful hurricanes, 

 which are so prevalent in the West Indies, the China Seas, the Bay 

 of Bengal, and other parts of the Indian ocean, especially in that 

 part comprised within the islands of Java, Sumatra, and the Isle of 

 France, that I think, any information tending to elucidate its advan- 

 tay:es, cannot be too widely promulgated. 



Every one at all acquainted with the mechanism of a Barometer, b 



