do you not go thither?' was my question. We like to sleep altogether,' was their answer. 'But why not bring the branches here, and make your own hut larger? see, I will show you the way.' They started up immediately in great apparent delight; every man brought a bough, and the work was done in five minutes-being only interrupted every now and then by exclamations of Good, good, poor man's provider!'" ticularly sepoys, are, when put a little out of their and occurrences; the price of passage in the boat usual way. On going to the place where my es- was only a few cowries; but a number of country cort was hutted, I found that there was not room for folk were assembled, who could not, or would not, them all under its shelter, and that four were pre-pay, and were now sitting patiently by the brink, paring to sleep on the open field. Within a hun-waiting till the torrent should subside, or, what was dred yards stood another similar hut unoccupied, a far less likely to happen, till the boatmen should little out of repair, but tolerably tenantable. Why take compassion on them. Many of these poor people came up to beg me to make the boatmen take them over, one woman pleading that her 'malik our bucher,' (literally master, or lord, and young one) had run away from her, and she wanted to overtake them; another that she and her two grandchildren were following her son, who was a Havildar in the regiment which we had passed just before; and some others, that they had been intercepted the previous day by this torrent, and had "A little before five in the morning, the servants neither money nor food till they had reached their came to me for directions, and to say that the good homes. Four anas purchased a passage for the careful old Soubahdar was very ill, and unable to whole crowd, of perhaps thirty people, and they leave his tent. I immediately put on my clothes were really very thankful. I bestowed two anas and went down to the camp, in my way to which more on the poor deserted woman, and a whimsical they told me, that he had been taken unwell at scene ensued. She at first took the money with night, and that Dr. Smith had given him medicine. eagerness, then, as if she recollected herself, she He opened a vein, and with much humane patience, blushed very deeply, and seemed much confused, continued to try different remedies while any chance then bowed herself to my feet, and kissed my hands, remained; but no blood flowed, and no sign of life and at last said, in a very modest tone, it was not could be detected from the time of his coming up, fit for so great a man as I was, to give her two anas, except a feeble flutter at the heart, which soon and she hoped that I and the 'chota Sahib,' (little ceased. He was at an advanced age, at least for lord) would give her a rupee each!' She was an an Indian, though apparently hale and robust. I extremely pretty little woman, but we were inexorfelt it a comfort that I had not urged him to any ex-able; partly, I believe, in my own case at least, ertion, and that in fact I had endeavoured to persuade him to lie still till he was quite well. But I was necessarily much shocked by the sudden end of one who had travelled with me so far, and whose conduct had, in every instance, given me satisfaction. Nor, while writing this, can I recollect without a real pang, his calm countenance and grey hairs, as he sate in his tent door, telling his beads in an afternoon, or walked with me, as he seldom failed to do, through the villages on an evening, with his own silver-hilted sabre under his arm, his loose cotton mantle folded round him, and his golden necklace and Rajpoot string just visible above it. because we had only just rupees enough to take us to Cawnpoor, and to pay for our men's provisions; however, I gave her two more anas, my sole remaining stock of small change." These few traits will do, we believe; but we must add a few more, to let the reader fully into the noble humanity and genuine softness of this man's heart. "In the course of this evening a fellow, who said he was a gao-wala brought me two poor little leverets, which he said he had just found in a field. "The death of the poor Soubahdar led to the They were quite unfit to eat, and bringing them question, whether there would be still time to send was an act of cruelty of which there are few inon the baggage. All the Mussulmans pressed our stances among the Hindoos, who are generally immediate departure; while the Hindoos begged humane to wild animals. In this case, on my scoldthat they might be allowed to stay, at least, tilling the man for bringing such poor little things from sunset. I determined on remaining, as, in my opinion, more decent and respectful to the memory of a good and aged officer." "In the way, at Futtehgunge, I passed the tents pitched for the large party which were to return towards Cawnpoor next day, and I was much pleased and gratified by the Soubahdar and the greater number of the sepoys of my old escort running into the middle of the road to bid me another farewell, and again express their regret that they were not going on with me to the world's end.' They who talk of the ingratitude of the Indian character, should, I think, pay a little more attention to cases of this sort. These men neither got nor expected any thing by this little expression of good-will. If I had offered them money, they would have been bound, by the rules of the service, and their own dignity, not to take it. Sufficient civility and respect would have been paid if any of them who happened to be near the road had touched their caps, and I really can suppose them actuated by no motive but good-will. It had not been excited, so far as I know, by any particular desert on my part: but I had always spoken to them civilly, had paid some attention to their comforts in securing them tents, firewood, and camels for their knapsacks, and had ordered them a dinner, after their own fashion, on their arrival at Lucknow, at the expense of, I believe, not more than four rupees! Surely if good-will is to be bought by these sort of attentions, it is a pity that any body should neglect them." "In crossing a nuddee, which from a ford had Decome a ferry, we saw some characteristic groups their mother, all the crowd of camel-drivers and camp-followers, of whom no inconsiderable number were around us, expressed great satisfaction and an entire concurrence in my censure. It ended in the man promising to take them back to the very spot (which he described) where he had picked them up, and in my promising him an ana if he did so. To see him keep his word two stout waggoner's boys immediately volunteered their services, and I have no doubt kept him to his contract. "The same adviser wanted me to take off a joint of Câbul's tail, under the hair, so as not to injure his appearance. It was known,' he said, that by how much the tail was made shorter, so much the taller the horse grew.' I said I could not believe that God gave any animal a limb too much, or one which tended to its disadvantage, and that as He had made my horse, so he should remain.' This speech, such as it was, seemed to chime in wonder. fully with the feelings of most of my hearers; and one old man said, that during all the twenty-two years that the English held the country, he had not heard so grave and godly a saying from any of them before. I thought of Sancho Panza and his wise apophthegms! "Our elephants were receiving their drink at a well, and I gave the largest some bread, which, before my illness, I had often been in the habit of doing. He is glad to see you again,' observed the goomashta, and I certainly was much struck by the calm, clear, attentive, intelligent eye which he fixed on me, both while he was eating, and afterwards while I was patting his trunk and talking about him. · He was, he said, a fine-tempered beast, but the two others were great rascals.' One of them had once almost killed his keeper. I have got these poor beasts' allowance increased, in consideration of their long march; and that they may not be wronged, have ordered the mohout to give them all their gram in presence of a sentry. The gram is made up in cakes, about as large as the top of a hat-box, and baked on an earthen pot. Each contains a seer, and sixteen of them are considered as sufficient for one day's food for an elephant on a march. The suwarree elephant had only twelve, but I ordered him the full allowance, as well as an increase to the others. If they knew this, they would indeed be glad to see me.". castes, and to inculcate a signal toleration We can now afford, however, to give little more than the introductory narrative. "About eleven o'clock I had the expected visit from Swaamee Narain, to my interview with whom I had looked forward with an anxiety and eagerness which, if he had known it, would perhaps have flattered him. He came in a somewhat different style from what I expected; having with him nearly two hundred horsemen, mostly well-armed with matchlocks and swords, and several of them with coats of mail and spears. Besides them he had a large rabble on foot, with bows and arrows; and when I considered that I had myself more than fifty "The morning was positively cold, and the whole horse, and fifty muskets and bayonets, I could not scene, with the exercise of the march, the pictur- help smiling, though my sensations were in some esque groups of men and animals round me,-the degree painful and humiliating, at the idea of two bracing air, the singing of birds, the light mist hang-religious teachers meeting at the head of little ing on the trees, and the glistening dew, had some- armies! and filling the city, which was the scene thing at once so Oriental and so English, I have of their interview, with the rattling of quivers, the seldom found any thing better adapted to raise a clash of shields, and the tramp of the war-horse. man's animal spirits, and put him in good temper Had our troops been opposed to each other, mine, with himself and all the world. How I wish those though less numerous, would have been doubtless I love were with me! How much my wife would far more effective, from the superiority of arms and enjoy this sort of life,-its exercise, its cleanliness, discipline. But, in moral grandeur, what a differand purity; its constant occupation, and at the same ence was there between his troop and mine! Mine time its comparative freedom from form, care, and neither knew me nor cared for me. They escorted vexation! At the same time a man who is curious me faithfully, and would have defended me bravely, in his eating had better not come here. Lamb and because they were ordered by their superiors to do kid (and we get no other flesh) most people would so; and as they would have done for any other soon tire of. The only fowls which are attainable stranger of sufficient worldly rank to make such are as tough and lean as can be desired; and the attendance usual. The guards of Swaamee Narain milk and butter are generally seasoned with the were his own disciples and enthusiastic admirers; never-failing condiments of Hindostan-smoke and men who had voluntarily repaired to hear his lessoot. These, however, are matters to which it is sons, who now took a pride in doing him honour, not difficult to become reconciled; and all the more and who would cheerfully fight to the last drop of serious points of warmth, shade, cleanliness, air, blood rather than suffer a fringe of his garment to and water, are at this season nowhere enjoyed better be handled roughly. In the parish of Hodnet there than in the spacious and well-contrived tents, the were once perhaps a few honest countrymen who ample means of transport, the fine climate, and felt something like this for me; but how long a time fertile regions of Northern Hindostan. Another must elapse before any Christian teacher in India time, by God's blessing, I will not be alone in this can hope to be thus loved and honoured! Eden; yet I confess that there are few people whom I greatly wish to have as associates in such a journey. It is only a wife, or a friend so intimate as to be quite another self, whom one is really anxious to be with one while travelling through a new country." Instead of wishing, as we should have expected a Bishop to do, to move in the dignified and conspicuous circle at the seat of Government, it is interesting to find this exemplary person actually languishing for a more retired and obscure situation. "Do you know, dearest, that I sometimes think we should be more useful, and happier, if Cawnpoor or Benares, not Calcutta, were our home?My visitations would be made with far more convenience, the expense of house rent would be less to the Company, and our own expenses of living would be reduced very considerably. The air, even of Cawnpoor, is, I apprehend, better than that of Bengal, and that of Benares decidedly so. The greater part of my business with government may be done as well by letters as personal interviews; and, if the Archdeacon of Calcutta were resident there, it seems more natural that the Bishop of India should remain in the centre of his diocese. The only objection is the great number of Christians in Calcutta, and the consequent probability that my preaching is more useful there than it would be any where else. We may talk these points over when we meet. One of the most characteristic passages in the book, is the account of his interview with a learned and very liberal Brahmin in Guzerât, whom he understood to teach a far purer morality than is usually enjoined by his brethren, and also to discountenance the distinction of "After the usual mutual compliments, I said that I had heard much good of him, and the good doc. trine which he preached among the poor people of Guzerât, and that I greatly desired his acquaintimperfectly, but that I should be very glad, so far ance; that I regretted that I knew Hindostanee so as my knowledge of the language allowed, and by the interpretation of friends, to learn what he be lieved on religious matters, and to tell him what I myself believed; and that if he would come and see me at Kairah, where we should have more leisure, I would have a tent pitched for him and treat him like a brother. I said this, because I was very earnestly desirous of getting him a copy of the Scriptures, of which I had none with me, in the Nagree character, and persuading him to read them; and because I had some further hopes of inducing him to go with me to Bombay, where I hoped that, by conciliatory treatment, and the conversations to which I might introduce him with the Church Missionary Society established in that neighbourhood, I might do him more good than I could otherwise hope. "I saw that both he, and, still more, his disciples, were highly pleased by the invitation which I gave him; but he said, in reply, that his life was one of very little leisure; that he had five thousand disciples now attending on his preaching in the neighbouring villages, and nearly fifty thousand in different parts of Guzerât; that a great number of these were to assemble together in the course of next week, on occasion of his brother's son coming of age to receive the Brahminical string; but that if I staid long enough in the neighbourhood to allow him to get this engagement over, he would gladly come again to see me. In the meantime,' I said, 'have you any objection to communicate some part of came to do; and his disciples very visibly exuited your doctrine now? It was evidently what he in the opportunity of his perhaps converting me.' The conference is too long to extract, but it is very curious; though the result fell something short of what the worthy Bishop, in the zeal of his benevolence, had anticipated.We should now leave the subject of the author's personal character; but it shines out so strongly in the account of the sudden death of one of his English friends and fellow-travellers, that we cannot refrain from gratifying our readers and ourselves with one other extract. Mr. Stowe, the individual alluded to, died after a short illness at Dacca. The day after his burial, the Bishop writes to his wife as follows: "Sincerely as I have mourned, and do mourn him continually, the moment perhaps at which I felt his loss most keenly was on my return to this house. I had always after airings, or other short absences, been accustomed to run up immediately to his room to ask about his medicines and his nourishment, to find if he had wanted any thing during my absence, and to tell him what I had seen and heard. And now, as I went up stairs, I felt most painfully that the object of my solicitude was gone, and that there was nobody now to derive comfort or help from my coming, or whose eyes would faintly sparkle as I opened the door. am only anxious to serve. In my dear Emily you will already have had a most affectionate and sen sible counsellor." We dare not venture on any part, either of the descriptions of scenery and antiquities, or of the persons and presentations at the several native courts. But we have no hesitation in recommending them as by far the best and most interesting, in both sorts, that we have ever met with. The account of his journeyings and adventures in the mountain region at the foot of the Himalaya is peculiarly striking, from the affecting resemblance the author is continually tracing to the scenery of his be his most beloved Hodnet! Of the natives, loved England, his more beloved Wales, or in all their orders, he is a most indulgent and liberal judge, as well as a very exact observer. He estimates their civilisation higher, we think, than any other traveller who has given an account of them, and is very much struck with the magnificence of their architecturethough very sceptical as to the high antiquity to which some of its finest specimens pretend. We cannot afford to give any of the splendid and luminous descriptions in which the work abounds. In a private letter he says,— "It will be long before I forget the guilelessness of his nature, the interest which he felt and expressed in all the beautiful and sequestered scenery "I had heard much of the airy and gaudy style which we passed through; his anxiety to be useful of Oriental architecture; a notion, I apprehend, to me in any way which I could point out to him, taken from that of China only, since solidity, solem(he was indeed very useful,) and above all, the un-nity, and a richness of ornament, so well managed affected pleasure which he took in discussing religious subjects; his diligence in studying the Bible, and the fearless humanity with which he examined the case, and administered to the wants, of nine poor Hindoos, the crew of a salt-barge, whom, as I mentioned in my Journal, we found lying sick together of a jungle fever, unable to leave the place where they lay, and unaided by the neighbouring villagers. I then little thought how soon he in his turn would require the aid he gave so cheerfully." On the day after, he writes in these terms to Miss Stowe, the sister of his departed friend : : as not to interfere with solemnity, are the charac teristics of all the ancient buildings which I have met with in this country. I recollect no corresponding parts of Windsor at all equal to the entrance of the castle of Delhi and its marble hall of audience; and even Delhi falls very short of Agra in situation, in majesty of outline, in size, and the costliness and beauty of its apartments." The following is a summary of his opinion of the people, which follows in the same letter "Of the people, so far as their natural character is concerned, I have been led to form, on the whole, a very favourable opinion. They have, unhappily, "With a heavy heart, my dear Miss Stowe, I many of the vices arising from slavery, from an unsend you the enclosed keys. How to offer you settled state of society, and immoral and erroneous consolation in your present grief, I know not; for systems of religion. But they are men of high and by my own deep sense of the loss of an excellent gallant courage, courteous, intelligent, and most friend, I know how much heavier must be your eager after knowledge and improvement, with a reburden. Separation of one kind or another is, in-markable aptitude for the abstract sciences, geomedeed, one of the most frequent trials to which affectionate hearts are exposed. And if you can only regard your brother as removed for his own advantage to a distant country, you will find, perhaps, some of that misery alleviated under which you are now suffering. Had you remained in England when he came out hither, you would have been, for a time, divided no less effectually than you are now. The difference of hearing from him is almost all; and though you now have not that comfort, yet even without hearing from him may be well persuaded (which there you could not always have been) that he is well and happy; and, above all, you may be persuaded, as your dear brother was most fully in his time of severest suffering, that God never smites his children in vain, or out of cruelty. you "So long as you choose to remain with us, we will be, to our power, a sister and a brother to you. And it may be worth your consideration whether, in your present state of health and spirits, a journey, in my wife's society, will not be better for you than a dreary voyage home. But this is a point on which you must decide for yourself; I would scarcely venture to advise, far less dictate, where I try, astronomy, &c., and for the imitative arts, painting and sculpture. They are sober, industrious, dutiful to their parents, and affectionate to their children, of tempers almost uniformly gentle and patient, and more easily affected by kindness and attention to their wants and feelings than almost any men whom I have met with. Their faults seem to arise from the hateful superstitions to which they are subject, and the unfavourable state of society in which they are placed. More has been done, and more successfully, to obviate these evils in the Presidency of Bombay, than in any part of India which I have yet visited, through the wise and liberal policy of Mr. Elphin stone; to whom this side of the Peninsula is also indebted for some very important and efficient im provements in the administration of justice, and who, both in amiable temper and manners, extensive and various information, acute good sense, energy, and application to business, is one of the most extraordinary men, as he is quite the most popular governor, that I have fallen in with." The following is also very important; and gives more new and valuable information than many pretending volumes, by men who have been half their lives in the countries to which they relate :— We may add the following direct testimony on a point of some little curiosity, which has been alternately denied and exaggerated :— "At Broach is one of those remarkable institu tions which have made a good deal of noise in Europe, as instances of Hindoo benevolence to inferior animals. the Brahmins who manage it. They have really animals of several different kinds there, not only those which are accounted sacred by the Hindoos, as monkeys, peacocks, &c., but horses, dogs, and cats; and they have also, in little boxes, an assortment of lice and fleas! It is not true, however, that they feed those pensioners on the flesh of beggars hired for the purpose. The Brahmins say that these insects, as well as the other inmates of their infirmary, are fed with vegetables only, such as rice, &c. How the insects thrive, I did not hear; but the old horses and dogs, nay the peacocks and said to be in any tolerable plight are some mich apes, are allowed to starve; and the only creatures cows, which may be kept from other motives than charity." sent to the pictures of depravity and general worth. lessness which some have drawn of the Hindoos They are decidedly, by nature, a mild, pleasing, and intelligent race; sober, parsimonious, and, "Of the people of this country, and the manner where an object is held out to them, most indusin which they are governed, I have, as yet, hardly trious and persevering. But the magistrates and seen enough to form an opinion. I have seen lawyers all agree that in no country are lying and enough, however, to find that the customs, the perjury so common, and so little regarded; and habits, and prejudices of the former are much mis- notwithstanding the apparent mildness of their manunderstood in England. We have all heard, for ners, the criminal calendar is generally as full as in instance, of the humanity of the Hindoos towards Ireland, with gang-robberies, setting fire to buildbrute creatures, their horror of animal food, &c.;ings, stacks, &c.; and the number of children who and you may be, perhaps, as much surprised as I are decoyed aside and murdered, for the sake of was, to find that those who can afford it are hardly their ornaments, Lord Amherst assures me, is less carnivorous than ourselves; that even the dreadful." purest Brahmins are allowed to eat mutton and venison; that fish is permitted to many castes, and pork to many others; and that, though they consider it a grievous crime to kill a cow or bullock for the purpose of eating, yet they treat their draft oxen, no less than their horses, with a degree of barbarous severity which would turn an English hackney coachman sick. Nor have their religious prejudices, and the unchangeableness of their habits, I mean hospitals for sick and infirm been less exaggerated. Some of the best informed beasts, birds, and insects. I was not able to visit of their nation, with whom I have conversed, assure it; but Mr. Corsellis described it as a very dirty me that half their most remarkable customs of civil and neglected place, which, though it has considerand domestic life are borrowed from their Mahomable endowments in land, only serves to enrich medan conquerors; and at present there is an obvious and increasing disposition to imitate the Engush in every thing, which has already led to very remarkable changes, and will, probably, to still more important. The wealthy natives now all alect to have their houses decorated with Corinthian pillars, and filled with English furniture. They drive the best horses and the most dashing carriages in Calcutta. Many of them speak English fluently, and are tolerably read in English literature; and the children of one of our friends I saw one day dressed in jackets and trousers, with round hats, shoes and stockings. In the Bengalee newspapers, of which there are two or three, politics are canvassed, with a bias, as I am told, inclining to Whiggism; and one of their leading men gave a great dinner not long since in honour of the Spanish Revolution. Among the lower orders the same feeling shows itself more beneficially, in a growing neg- "I have not been led to believe that our Governlect of caste-in not merely a willingness, but an ment is generally popular, or advancing towards anxiety, to send their children to our schools, and popularity. It is, perhaps, impossible that we should a desire to learn and speak English, which, if be so in any great degree; yet I really think there properly encouraged, might, I verily believe, in are some causes of discontent which it is in our fifty years' time, make our language what the own power, and which it is our duty to remove or Oordoo, or court and camp language of the country diminish. One of these is the distance and haugh(the Hindostanee), is at present. And though in- tiness with which a very large proportion of the stances of actual conversion to Christianity are, as civil and military servants of the Company treat yet, very uncommon, yet the number of children, the upper and middling class of natives. Against both male and female, who are now receiving a sort their mixing much with us in society, there are cerof Christian education, reading the New Testa- tainly many hindrances; though even their objec ment, repeating the Lord's Prayer and Command- tion to eating with us might, so far as the Mussul ments, and all with the consent, or at least without mans are concerned, I think, be conquered by any the censure, of their parents or spiritual guides, popular man in the upper provinces, who made the have increased, during the last two years, to an attempt in a right way. But there are some of our amount which astonishes the old European resi- amusements, such as private theatrical entertain dents, who were used to tremble at the name of a ments and the sports of the field, in which they Missionary, and shrink from the common duties of would be delighted to share, and invitations to which Christianity, lest they should give offence to their would be regarded by them as extremely flattering, heathen neighbours. So far from that being a con- if they were not, perhaps with some reason, voted sequence of the zeal which has been lately shown, bores, and treated accordingly. The French, under many of the Brahmins themselves express admira- Perron and Des Boignes, who in more serious mat tion of the morality of the Gospel, and profess to ters left a very bad name behind them, had, in this entertain a better opinion of the English since they particular, a great advantage over us; and the easy have found that they too have a religion and a Shas- and friendly intercourse in which they lived with ter. All that seems necessary for the best effects natives of rank, is still often regretted in Agra and to follow is, to let things take their course; to make the Dooab. This is not all, however. The foolish the Missionaries discreet; to keep the government pride of the English absolutely leads them to set at as it now is, strictly neuter; and to place our confi-nought the injunctions of their own Government, dence in a general diffusion of knowledge, and in making ourselves really useful to the temporal as well as spiritual interests of the people among whom we live. He adds afterwards,— The Tussildars, for instance, or principal active officers of revenue, ought, by an order of council, to have chairs always offered them in the presence of their European superiors; and the same, by the "In all these points there is, indeed, great room standing orders of the army, should be done to the for improvement: But I do not by any means as-Soubahdars. Yet there are hardly six collectors in India who observe the former etiquette: and the latter, which was fifteen years ago never omitted in the army, is now completely in disuse. At the same time, the regulations of which I speak are known to every Tussildar and Soubahdar in India, and they feel themselves aggrieved every time these civilities are neglected. Of the state of the Schools, and of Education in general, he speaks rather favourably; and is very desirous that, without any direct attempt at conversion, the youth should be generally exposed to the humanising influence of the New Testament morality, by the general introduction of that holy book, as a lesson book in the schools; a matter to which he states positively that the natives, and even their Brahminical pastors, have no sort of objection. Talking of a female school, lately established at Calcutta, under the charge of a very pious and discreet lady, he observes, that "Rhadacant Deb, one of the wealthiest natives in Calcutta, and regarded as the most austere and orthodox of the worshippers of the Ganges, bade, some time since, her pupils go on and prosper; and added, that if they practised the Sermon on the Mount as well as they repeated it, he would choose all the handmaids for his daughters, and his wives, from the English school.'""' tion of Justice; especially in the local or dis- And here we are afraid we must take leave He is far less satisfied with the administra-or adulation. (October, 1824.) 1. Sketches of India. Written by an OFFICER, for Fire-Side Travellers at Home. Second Recollections of the Peninsula. 8vo. pp. 452. London: 1824. THESE are very amiable books:-and, be- them, will be more generally agreeable than sides the good sentiments they contain, they a digest of the information they might have are very pleasing specimens of a sort of travel-acquired. We would by no means undervalue writing, to which we have often regretted the researches of more learned and laborious that so few of those who roam loose about the world will now condescend-we mean a brief and simple notice of what a person of ordinary information and common sensibility may see and feel in passing through a new country, which he visits without any learned preparation, and traverses without any particular object. There are individuals, no doubt, who travel to better purpose, and collect more weighty information-exploring, and recording as they go, according to their several habits and measures of learning, the mineralogy antiquities, or statistics of the different regions they survey. But the greater part, even of intelligent wanderers, are neither so ambitious in their designs, nor so industrious in their execution;-and, as most of those who travel for pleasure, and find pleasure in travelling, are found to decline those tasks, which might enrol them among the contributors to science, while they turned all their movements into occasions of laborious study, it seems reasonable to think that a lively and succinct account of what actually delighted persons, especially in countries rarely visited: |