Part 2 (1/2)
In Marazion we stopped at the Star Inn, and immediately took a boat to reach the mountain, which is a short distance from the shore The rock, which at loater joins the shore, consists of granite, is a mile in circuh At its foot there is a se of about thirty houses, with a harbour formed by t piers By means of very inconvenient steps which are cut out of the rock, we reached an old castle, standing at the highest point, and belonging to the family St Aubyn This is the same family, whose chief, Sir John St Aubyn, owns alround of the dock-yard In former times, St Michael's Mount was a cloister Adapted by its isolated situation for a fortress, art has contributed but little to its strength, and added merely a pair of bastions, and platfor to the owner of the es in former times We were conducted to a Gothic chapel with ancient, painted -glasses, after which we exa remarkable, except the old refectory of the cloister, called the _chevy-chace-roo scenes In this hall are very old pieces of furniture; one chair is said to be three hundred, another five hundred years old
The s of the castle command a very fine prospect towards Mountbay and its shores, in which Marazion and Penzance, which are three e Not far froretted extreallant friend, Sir John Phillimore A steeple rises above the church of the castle, which I, however, did not ascend, being fatigued, and the steps in a neglected state We rode back to Marazion, which was formerly called Marketzew, and has eleven hundred inhabitants, and passing by Helstone, we arrived about one o'clock at night, ued, at Falmouth Penryn, to which I ant houses, with handsoardens and a catholic church The beautiful terrace on which the new houses stand with their gardens, is called the Green Bank, and is a very agreeable proe from Falmouth to Boston_
[The Pallas sailed from Falmouth Bay on the 18th of June, and arrived on the 26th of July During the voyage a midshi+pman was lost overboard, and the American shi+p Schuylkill, in distress for water and provisions, was spoken and relieved The other incidents of the voyage are not sufficiently interesting to need a particular description
The following is the duke's account of his landing at Boston:--
It was ten o'clock, on theof the 26th of July, when I first placed ranite! It is impossible to describe what I felt at that instant Heretofore, but two htful ree, I received the Cross of the Legion of Honour, after the battle of Wagra in America, that country which, from my early youth, had been the object of hout life, re recollection!]
CHAPTER IV
_Boston_
On our arrival in Boston we took lodgings at the Exchange Coffee-house, where I received a visit froland two years ago I was hteen hter of Mr Otis, formerly a senator of the United States and leader of the federal party; both these gentlehly estee to the custom of the place; my seat was at the head of the table, by the side of the host, Mr Hamilton He had served in the last war as a volunteer colonel, and still retained his title He exhibited much politeness, and indeed I cannot sufficiently praise the politeness of the guests, with ood, and even had this not been the case I should still have enjoyed the been without fresh provisions; this was the case with the fruit, which though sreeable On account of the excessive heat, which had been greater than at any tieneral had matured too early Wine was served up in coolers with ice, and into every glass of beer, a piece of ice was thrown
Adjoining the large dining rooers who have nothing to do pass the day At a sideboard, wine, leht newspapers were lying on a large table, all of which had the forlish papers, and were chiefly filled with mercantile and other advertiselish inn
The servants of both colours were civil and attentive At four o'clock, Mr Ritchie with his father-in-law, and the son of the latter, lately returned from a tour in Europe, caant stores in Cornhill, one of the principal streets
We saw a new building, intended as a branch of the United States Bank, the front of which is plain, with two Doric coluhteen feet high, and almost five feet in diameter The first popular assemblies at the commencement of the Ae hall, in which the alderth portrait of WAshi+NGTON, by Stuart, and also a bust of ADAMS, father of the present president
The bust is encircled by a wreath of stars The nareat services during the revolution, are engraved on four coluetable markets are under the court-house; but as this place was justly considered unsuitable for such a purpose, a new an to fill up a ditch, and erect upon it a long building, the foundation of which is granite, and the three stories of brick, which was sold to the merchants as a warehouse This sale was made on such favourable terms, that from the profits a new ranite It is five hundred and twenty-five feet long, fifty feet wide, and one story high
On the other side of this market, and parallel with it, a nearehouses, sih several wide and elegant streets to his house, one of the largest in Boston, and situated on Beacon-hill, a public promenade Many frame houses are still to be observed; no new houses can be built of wood Most of theranite, which is found in abundance about twenty miles from Boston, is used frequently for foundations, particularly for those of stores The _ly planted with trees, and extending down the hill to the water On the highest part of the hill stands the state-house or capitol, with a large do is of brick, decorated with a facade of ten columns These are of wood, and impart to the whole an air of weakness Mr Ritchie's house is furnished with s which he obtained during his travels A these I remarked a very successful copy of Madonna _della sedia_ of Raphael, another Madonna of Sassoferrato, and a scene fro with Mr Ritchie, and became acquainted with his lady, and also with theof General Huton, and formerly ambassador of the United States to Lisbon and Madrid Mrs Hulish family, was born in Lisbon, and must have been very handsome in her youth Mr Otis and his son were also present When we departed at nine o'clock, it was still very war coal in the heated at, and cast anchor near Long-wharf In passing she saluted Fort Independence with seventeen guns, and was answered by eighteen
I had iined that no one would take the least notice of reeably disappointed Theafter my arrival I received an invitation to dine the next day with Mr Otis, and was visited at the saentle others, called upon me; the latter introduced entlee and handsohters I was eeneral are larger and better adapted for convenience and ease than the English
In company with Mr Ritchie I paid a visit to Mrs Humphreys, whose house is really splendidly furnished In the evening I visited Mr De Wallenstein, attached to the Russian e the sureeable and reflecting man Afterwards I visited Mr Edward Everett, professor of the Greek language in Harvard University Mr Everett had previously written me a German letter, and offered me his services in an extremely friendlytwo of which he studied at Goettingen, and also visited Weimar He remembered this with much pleasure, and was particularly pleased with the acquaintance of St M v Goethe Having been elected a ned his professorshi+p
Mr Everett called for e, three miles distant froh the heat was extree which connects both towns, and is three thousand four hundred feet long
Cae extent of ground The houses are generally fraranite; they are however painted with bright colours and are very pleasing to the eye Every house has a garden Many land, are enclosed with three rails, lying one above the other; Indian corn is cultivated in the fields; the grass was dry and withered
Harvard University, one of the oldest colleges in the United States, was founded in 1638, by a clergyht hundred pounds sterling By means of bequests e income The state of Massachusetts supplies the deficiencies without however ht buildings, chiefly of brick, and only one of granite The Unitarian chapel is in the latter, in which, besides the usual services on Sunday,prayers are held, which all the students e space, surrounded with trees, where the students may amuse themselves
The students are about three hundred and fifty in nus of the university; a number, however, who cannot find room, or are recommended to families, live in private houses They are in other respects, as in the universities of England, subjected to a very rigid discipline The library, which occupies two halls, contains about eighteen thousand voluypt; a Polyglot bible from the collection of Lord Clarendon; a splendid edition of the Lusiad, by Cans of Gerard, edited by the Marquis de Souza, and printed by Didot at Paris
Only two hundred and fifty copies of this edition were printed, and this copy was given to the university by the Marquis himself Of manuscripts I saw but few, and these were Greek, which Mr Everett bought at Constantinople during his travels, and another containing the aphorislish schoolmaster copied with so much skill, that it appears to have been printed[I-4] In the mathematical lecture room I did not observe a very complete apparatus They have also but few astronomical instruments, and in one observatory there are none A new electrical land The ations to Mr
Ritchie forhis travels at Dresden, and presented to the university A piece of basalt found under ground in this neighbourhood, bears some similarity to the profile of a human face It is not knohether it be a lusus naturae or the work of hu to the remains of an earlier race of men which has vanished from the earth, but which has, not without reason, been supposed by many to have once existed? The other natural collections were of slight importance; there are no collections of insects and butterflies I saw there also the antlers of two stags, which had beco, that they could not be separated, and in this state they were killed The chely rese a chapel The anatoe to Boston In the former lecture room, however, there are still several handso which are two fine full length figures, nant woman, and is separable Near the chapel is the assembly room of the acades
I was surprised to find as the defence of Gibraltar, by Elliot, and one which represented Adave the attendant who conducted us two dollars, and he seeenerosity, that ere in the chapel he whispered to the organist, who i,” at which I was arden by Professor Nuttall, an Englishman, who has made several scientific journeys in the western parts of the United States
Areen-house plants I observed a strelitzia, which had been raised fro and handsoreen-house and the garden are both small; in the latter I remarked no extraordinary shrubs or flowers, on the contrary, however, I saw ht colours, and extremely beautiful butterflies A son of President Adams is one of the students of the university, and also Mr
Jero of Westphalia, by his e, as is well knoas dissolved by the E man, who is about twenty years old, bears an excellent character
[Footnote I-4: [This manuscript is perhaps one of the raphy extant Without the aid of a microscope it is almost impossible to discover that it is not a printed work, so extremely uniforinally prepared for the celebrated Dr Richard Meade of London]--TRANS]