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ing-room, and the director’s meeting-room. The library serves 
properly for a reading club, like our literary society at Ghent. 
On the 10th, I dined in company with Admiral Saumarez and 
Sir John Phillimore, with the officer’s mess of the twenty-fourth 
regiment of infantry, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Flem¬ 
ing. 
On the ensuing day, the admiral accompanied us to Mount Edge- 
cumbe Park; this is a truly noble situation, yet, in time of war, 
as this position is indispensable to the defence of the dock-yard, 
it is necessary to convert it into a fortification. The ground is 
very advantageously employed in the disposition and embellish¬ 
ment of the park: it is not encumbered with buildings; the green 
and bath-house are the principal, and in the construction of these 
the marble of the vicinity has been very happily used. The 
trees are chiefly beech, some of them apparently very old, sickly, 
and injured by the sea-air. There are also three great cedars of 
Lebanon, which do not thrive well in an English park. The 
Castle of Mount Edgecumbe is ancient, and externally resembles 
a state prison; we did not examine it internally. We saw the 
monument of Lady Mount Edgecumbe, who died in 1806, to 
whom the park is indebted for most of its improvements. It is 
told of her that she was twice buried; the first time she remain¬ 
ed three days in a vault, lying in her coffin, and was aroused by 
a thief cutting off her finger to steal a ring: she left the grave, 
took refuge in a neighbouring house, made herself known, 
and was reconveyed to her castle, where she subsequently lived 
several years and gave birth to children. Relcita refero . On the 
sea-shore, near the bridge that we passed two days since, Lord 
Mount Edgecumbe has erected a battery of twenty-one iron six 
pounders, which he fires upon all festival occasions. We em¬ 
barked at this battery to visit the rock lying in front of Stone- 
house, called Devil’s Point, which is to be partly levelled to make 
room for a new victualling office. The work is scarcely begun. 
A cellar was dug out of the rock and a wall built in the sea to 
support the foundation. This was effected by means of a diving- 
bell. The bell containing the workmen, remained while we were 
present, nearly four hours under water. Government intends to 
construct a new water-reservoir at this place, which will proba¬ 
bly render that of Bovisand unnecessary. Drinking water is 
brought to Plymouth in iron pipes from Dartmouth, which is 
eighteen miles distant, so that in time of war the supply might 
readily be cut off. 
Next day I went by land to visit the Castle of Saltrounj si¬ 
tuated six English miles from Plymouth at the end of Catwater, 
and belonging to Lord Morlay, who resides in London. The 
road passes through a delightful valley; on the right is Catwater, 
