1799:] Travels in South America. Bs 
fentence of premature application! In Whitchurch—fhady lanes, luxuriant hedges 
eloth-manufactories, I am told, they pro- and fertile fields—the magnificent park, 
ceed gradually from one branch to another, elegant manfion, and traphied gateway of 
fo that there is permanent employment Lord Portfmouth, and the pleafant little 
for all: but I cannot find that the pro- thatched village of Down Hufband, all 
prietors of filk and cotton mills can give pafied like fo many meteors, and afforded 
as good an account of the youth brought not the leaft gleam of intelligence. 
up in their feminaries ; and, I fear’, there 
is too much reafon to believe that the an- 
{wer I once received, is not without foun- 
dation—that the young women turn pro- 
ftitutes, and tie men foldiers and failors. 
While the other paflengers were at din- 
ner at Andover, we took a view of the 
town, and fauntered round the church 
yard. But either the roaft lamb and four 
ale at Whitchurch had clouded our facul- 
From Overton to Whitchurch, the road_ ties, or Andover (at leaft on a Sunday) is 
is wathed by a beautiful trout-ftream (the a very uninterefting place: for we found 
river To?) ; on the banks of which is nothing worthy of a note. 
fittiated the pleafant villase of Privic, con- At three o’clock the coach ftarted again ; 
fitting of fmall but comfortable cottages, and the country becoming every minute 
in lictle rows or neighbourhoods of four or lefs and lefs interefting, we were glad to 
five, and moftly fupplied with a piece of ‘be flying fo quickly over it. The fhug 
garden ground, that contributes at once to ,thatches and white cottages of the village 
ornament and fubfiftence: It isimpoffible of Little Ane, indeed, arrefted our atten- 
to compare the decency and florid cheerful- tion; and, while the coachman ftopped to 
nefs exhibited in thefe little firaggling take up another paflenger,we were furprifed 
neighbourhoods with the filth and fqualid to obferve at the door of one of thefe 
wretchednefs that crowd the habitations of cottages two young girls very fafhionably 
poverty in large commercial and manu- drefled, with fhort waifts and every ap- 
facturing towns, without reflecting how pendage of modern tafte. Their manners 
much it would contribute to health, morals and deportment correfponded with their 
and happinefs,' if its whale population appearance ; and there was'a delicacy and 
were thus fcattered over the furface of a refinement in their fpeech and air, that ill 
country. | accorded with the rufticity of the fcene ; - 
The approach to Whitchurch is very yet they {poke and looked as if they were 
pleafing. The road lies along the ridge at home. But there was no time to un- 
of a hill, with another ftill higher hill to ravel the myftery. The lath refounded, 
the right, and on the left, an abrupt de- and away we flew, over dreary hills par- 
{cent ; between which and the river Teft tially cultivated, to the fordid-looking 
is a fmall fertile valley, with a few neat village of Wallop: about two miles from 
little white-wafhed houfes and pleafant which we bid farewell to Hampfhire, and 
garden-plots. Some hay-fields beyond the enter the county of Wilts: after which 
river befpoke the richnefs of the foil, The the only objects that relieve the drearinefs 
town itfelf forms a pleafant object, not the of the way, are a-folitary inn, by the road 
Jefs fo on account of the irregular manner fide, and the lofty {pire of Salifbury Ca- 
in which the hither end is built: forthe thedral, of which you have the firft view 
' thatched and white-svafhed cottages, with at a diftance of near fix miles from the 
their little gardens around, and their city. 
bowers of elder (then in full bloom) rife, 
one above the other, almott perpendicular- 
ly, to the very top of the hill, at the foot es 
ot which the Hepa part of the town is For the Monthly Magazine. | 
fituated. The principal ftreets are meanly ACCOUNT OF TRAVELS ‘THROUGH 
built with brick, and covered with an or- PERU, FROM BUENOS-AYRES ON 
dinary fort of tiling. ‘\ THE GREAT RIVER LA PLATA, BY 
At the King’s Arms in this town we POTOSI, TO LIMA, THE CAPITAL 
arrived at one o'clock, and, for the firft OF THE KINGDOM OF PERU 5 
time during our ramble, ventured upon a By ANTHONY ZACHARIAS HELMS. 
hearty dinner of animal food ; which, to- 
INTRODUCTION. 
gether with the warmth of the day, fo far [ikebtapravem’nt twhichaile Mer Bola oF 
indifpofed us for further exertion, that we a introduced dnneeallarey. 
-agreed to'take the outfide of the coach for yeans of his new method of esilgheieton, 
Salifbury. : y in a particular manner attracted the atten- 
And now farewell to inquiry and obfer- tion of the Court of Spain, in whofe 
vation. The beautiful country beyond = American Provinces they had long before, 
from 
be continued. \ 
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