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imports and exports do not prevent him from being well 1836.
pleased to go ashore at Tenos, “to amuse ourselves for a
day with leaping, throwing, and jumping.” As the Serious
interests of hig journey—the coramercial and political oir
cumstances of Egypt, Greece, and Tarkey—are no longer In
the same case, it can hardly be worth while to transcribe
his account of them. }
The following extracts from his letters to his sisters will
serve to show his route :—
Gibraltar, 11 Nov., 1836.— Before us arose the towering
and impregnable fortress i on every side land was distinctly
visible; my first inquiry was, Where is the coast of Africa?
It was a natural cariosity. A quarter of the globe where
white men’s feet have but partially trod, whose sandy plains
and mountains are unknown, and where imagination may
revel in unreal creations of the terrible, was for the first
time presented to my view. Can you doubt that the thought
which arose in my mind for a time absorbed all other reflections?
 Yet all [ could see was the dark sable outline of the
coast of Barbary, a congenial shroud for the gloomy scene
of pagan woes and Christian crimes that have been enacted
i the regions beyond !
“The two particulars,” he continued, “which strike
most strongly the oye of the visitor who has passed
from Spain ang Portugal to this place, are the bustling
activity of Gibraltar, 438 contrasted with the deserted condibion
 of Lishon and Cadiz, and the variety of the costumes
and characters which suddenly offer themselves to his notice.
To see both to advantage, it is necessary to visit the open
Square opposite to the Exchange, where the auctions and
other businesg draw a concourse of all the inhabitants and
sojourners in thig rocky Babel,
# Fortunately our hotel opens immediately upon this lively
scene, and I have spent hourg in surveying from above the

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