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tal, weighing two hundred and twelve pounds, found in a Mexi¬ 
can silver mine. An Indian mummy is likewise very interesting; 
this was found in the year 1814, near Glasgow, state of Ken¬ 
tucky, nine feet under ground, in a nitre cavern, two thousand 
yards distant from the entrance; it is in a sitting posture, and 
was enveloped with deer-skins and Indian cloth. In addition to 
various miscellaneous articles, there was a number of miserable 
wax figures and paintings. 
The battery, to which I walked, is at the southern extremity of 
the city and island of New York; there was formerly a Dutch fort 
here, but it has been pulled down, and the place altered into a pub¬ 
lic garden, which gives a fine perspective of the entrance of the bay, 
and of Long Island. West of the battery, in the Hudson river, is a 
fort, called Castle Clinton, communicating with the battery by 
a wooden bridge, ninety paces long. This fort forms a semicircle; 
on the diameter are the former barracks, and behind the walls, 
which form the semicircle, a battery of twenty-four guns, under 
casemates. North of this fort, on the same shore, in front of 
the city, are two other forts of the same description, called North 
Battery and Fort Gansevoort; being of no use they are aban¬ 
doned. Castle Clinton is now a public pleasure house. In the 
barrack is a coffee-house; boxes for parties are arranged within 
the battery, and on the platform are amphitheatrical seats, because 
the yard of the fort is used for fire-works, and other exhibitions. 
From the battery I walked to Brooklyn ferry, and was delighted 
with the large number of vessels, and the great life and bustle. 
Brooklyn is situated on Long Island, opposite to New York. 
The straight, called East river, at Brooklyn, requires about seven 
minutes and a half to cross it; there are two steam-boats and two 
team-boats continually crossing. Brooklyn appears to be a flou¬ 
rishing little town, judging by the quantity of stores which are 
established there. I passed to the left, and after having walked 
upwards of a mile, spent some hours at the navy-yard, and re¬ 
turned to the city exceedingly fatigued, on account of the great 
distance. 
I went on board of the Fallas with Mr. Hone, president of the 
Canal Bank of this city, a rich and respectable man, and with 
Mr. Derviter, a merchant of this city, and ci native of Grammont, 
in Flanders. The Pallas rode at anchor in the Hudson, between 
New York and Jersey City, a little village in the state of New 
Jersey, opposite New York, on the right side of the river. Soon 
after our arrival, boats likewise arrived with some ladies, 
who had wished to see the Pallas. As the cabin was but small 
and narrow, the ladies were served, by Captain Ryk, with an 
elegant luncheon on deck, under an awning; they were some of 
the most amiable and fashionable ladies of the city, and remained 
