. A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. To which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation. y an inani-mate object, is not, I trust, eitheruncommon or unnatural. There is not, says Pope, when describing his sensations onrevisiting the place of his birth, an old post by the road- side which does not awaken the recollection of some pleas- ing scene in my childish days ; and it gives me pain to see even one of these old remembrancers destroyed. Few, Ibelieve, will envy that mans feeUngs, who can see wit
. A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. To which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation. y an inani-mate object, is not, I trust, eitheruncommon or unnatural. There is not, says Pope, when describing his sensations onrevisiting the place of his birth, an old post by the road- side which does not awaken the recollection of some pleas- ing scene in my childish days ; and it gives me pain to see even one of these old remembrancers destroyed. Few, Ibelieve, will envy that mans feeUngs, who can see withoutemotion the house in Avhich he Avas born, and in which hespent his happiest years, either Avholly demolished or degradedto some unworthy purpose. The Resohifion was the house ofour immortal Cooke and, out of respect to his memory, Iwould have laid her up in a dock, till she had wasted awayplank by plank. It was tluis that Queen Elizabeth shewedher veneration for the object that earned her favourite Drakeround the world. His ship was preserved with great care, formany years, in the dock-yard of Deptford ; and when timehad gradually reduced her to such a state of decay that she. ST. J AGO. 6s could no longer be held together, a chair was constructedfrom some of the soundest parts and presented to tlie Univer-sity of Oxford, as a relic that was still worthy of further pre-servation. There is nothing inviting in the aspect of the island of , Avhen seen from Praya bay, as will readily be perceivedfrom the annexed view; and it requires only to set foot onshore to be convinced that poverty, and sickness, and piningwant, are the constant companions of the greater part of itswretched inhabitants. On an elevated plain at the~ head ofthe bay, which is accessible only by a winding path madeamong the rocks near the left angle, is situated the town, asit is unworthily called, of Praya. It consists of two rows ofmean straggling cottages, one on each side of the plain, in-terspersed
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