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visitors to the place are struck with astonishment. Of course the 
idea of the Government in allowing these things so to be, is that of 
economy, but it rs highly questionable economy, and there can be 
httle doubt that Koffee Kalkalli, King of Ash^tee, again t Thom 
England lately went forth to war, has, to some extent, taken his 
measure of British greatness from the ruined and deserted batteries 
of St He ena, and the apparent inability of England to place and 
maintain them m proper order.* 1 uu 
only k^owfedg^of Engt f "d a ha S been hT'^"* tWrty years at St - Helena, whose 
bility to spend more than a few thousand nound^ there ’ a ’ ld her a PP arent ina- 
tkein native country, Africa, and doubtless tin 
