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“‘ At the house of the English consul, I had the pleasure of seeing Lady 
Georgiana Wolfe, whose interesting projects enhanced the gratification of 
meeting with a countrywoman in that distant land. Her ladyship meditated 
the establishment of a school at Jerusalem, for the superintendence of which 
she was qualifying herself by the assiduous study of Arabic. On the feasibi- 
lity and utility of this plan opinions may differ ; but nobody, I think, can wit- 
ness its author’s self-devotion, without wishing that it may be rewarded with 
SUCCESS. : 
<* Our stay at Alexandria was limited to four days; on the last of which di- 
vine service was performed at the consulate, and a very long but not a very bad 
sermon preached in English, by a Swiss missionary, attired in a Turkish dress, 
forming a heterogeneous compound for a pulpit.” —P. 187. | 
On the 10th of February they embarked on board the Columbia, 
an English merchantman of 500 tons, laden with the pasha’s cot- 
ton, and consigned to Liverpool, and after suffering from very bois- 
terous weather, were towed into the quarantine harbour of Malta. 
The period of residence in the lazaretto for passengers from the 
eastward, is generally twenty-five days ; under the most favourable 
circumstances it is not less than twenty-two, the day of entrance 
and departure being included. 
We shall not detain our readers by noticing any of Mrs. L.’s re- 
marks on Malta. Sutflice it that she left this singular and beauti- 
ful island, with its knightly memorials, its strong and well fortified 
harbour, its churches with monuments of the grand masters, and its 
tombs of some of our bravest commanders, to be conveyed by the 
Dartmouth frigate to Syracuse. 
And now that we have brought our narrator to the beaten ground 
of Sicily, our privilege of analysis may be further curtailed, and we 
may leave our traveller to visit, without incurring our displeasure, 
Dionysius’ ear, Messina, Pompeii, Naples, Rome, Florence, Leg- 
horn, Nice, to cross the Simplon and gain Geneva, visit several 
parts of Switzerland, and, passing through Lyons, stay.a short pe- 
riod at Paris, and finally reach Dover on the 6th September 1823. 
It will be perceived in this journey, at least in that part of it in- 
teresting to the general reader as a novel route, that many of the 
accommodations were entirely accidental, and among these we may 
particularly mention the steam-boat to Bombay, and the frigate to 
Syracuse ; and how much, in the absence of these, we can depend 
upon the constancy of trading vessels, our author does not tell, us ; 
and delays at Alexandria might also be equally inconvenient with 
delays at Malta. In the appendix there is some advice to travellers 
leaving Bengal for Egypt ; and although the work contains little ad- 
ditional information on the countries visited, yet if so many persons 
publish continental tours, which, from their sale, must have their ad- 
mirers, how many more must feel themselves inclined to navigate 
the Red Sea, cross the desert from Cosseir to the Nile, and wander 
down its date-covered, classical banks, with so interesting and cou- 
rageous a female as Mrs. Lushington has proved herself to be ° 
