adorned with all the charms of graphic art, dedicated to his glorious naine, ages beyond that sad period, when his compeers in mental blindness were darker than his once beauteous orbs! Or Shakspeare's + hallowed spirit have beheld the gorgeous splendor of the stage; the rich costume, the magic scene, such as De Loutherbourg could paint; with all the powers that wondrous Garrick, majestic Kemble, Siddons of tragic dignity, and the soul-touching, virtuous O'Neil could give, to wrap in wonder this more enlightened age, thus adding all the graces of their art to his never dying fame! heart is the mainspring, the stomach the re- Turkey rhubarb, finely pulverized, two ton's sacred shade view the noble volumes gulator, and what we put into it, the key drachms; syrup, (by weight) one drachm: by which the machine is wound up; accord-oil of carraway, ten drops (minims;) made ing to the quantity, quality, and proper di- into pills, each of which will contain three gestion of what we eat and drink, will be grains of rhubarb.” The Doctor states the pace of the pulse, and the action of the that these are delightful to the palate; so system in general: when we observe a due fine indeed, that children will take them for proportion between the quantum of exercise gingerbread ! and that of excitement, all goes well. If the machine be disordered, the same expedients are employed for its re-adjustment, as are used by the watch-maker; it must be carefully cleaned, and then judiciously oiled." Here then is the grand secret; the bowels must be cleaned and oiled, like a watch, when they get out of repair: heaven knows how the Doctor winds up as for the cleaning and oiling, the peristaltic persuaders are the things to perform those duties, even though you have swallowed "a baron of beef, a pail of port wine, and a tubful of tea!" And it is judiciously added, “The most favourable opportunity to introduce an aperient to the stomach, is early in the morning, when it is most unoccupied, and has no particular business of concoction, &c. to attend to; i. e. at least half an hour before breakfast." We are very sorry that our limits forbid our making a larger extract from the medicaments of this treatise; but we can only say, that the Doctor describes his "tonics when the stomach is in a state of shabby debility," and his gruel (thick or thin,) for soothing stomachick irritation. Above all things, he insists on the process of mastication being performed patiently, forcibly, diligently, sufficiently. It is this which makes the meats we like best agree best with us; for as we relish them on the palate, we are apt to keep them in our mouths, and give them, before they are dispatched below," down the red lane," (45,) the munches (from thirty to forty in number) prescribed by the Doctor. And well may he in triumph exclaim-" Here is a sufficient answer to the folios which have sprung from the pens of cynical and senseless scribblers, on whom nature not having bestowed a palate, they have damned those pleasures they had not sense to taste, not comprehending the wise purposes for which they were given to us." Indeed The sagacious Gourmand is ever mindful of his motto 66 'Masticate, denticate, chump, grind, and The four first acts, he knows he must per- However, as this publication is full of A field is open yet for some learned wight, one well skilled in ancient lore, to trace the rise and progress, and mark the scenic improvements, of the British Stage. Time was, when the old drama, in mimic pride, was displayed in theatres little superior to a barn, in decoration or in space. Even the Globe, Shakspeare's famed play-house, in his own day, could scarcely vie with a modern stroller's corps, in wardrobe or in scenes. What then was the property of old Blackfriars theatre, or that of its rival neighbour, at White-friars' Thespian boards, or that yclep'd Phonix (old Drury-Lane)? What were the stages at the Swan, the Rose, or Paris Gardens, or the Hope? Or those of yore, where Richard fought or Desdemona died, in Gracious-street, or Bishops-gate, or at Old Ludgate or St. Paul's, beside the once more famed Red Bull, the Fortune, and the Curtain in Shore-ditch? But in happy Britain, every age improves ! our grandfathers saw a Lincoln's Inn, a Covent Garden grander still; another Drury ||, another, and another, Phenix like, the last more rare than the preceding three, that had expired on the same Shakspearian spot. It was in Scotland, the scenic department first obtained consideration. The royal house his congenial pencil on the supernatural imagery of such a poet. The Shakspeare Gallery will be remembered to the honor of old John Boydell, when the British School shall have attained to that rank which it is fast approaching—to a rivalry with the most renowned schools of old. And really there is great need of intelligence, when we can most effectually combat with the enemy; for "if the bowels are unfaithful to the stomach, and, instead of playing fair, let go their hold of the Pabulum Vitæ,' before the absorbents have properly performed the process which that grand organ has prepared for them-nutrition will be deficient; and flatulence, &c. &c. giddiness, spasms, head-ache, and back-ache, and what are called bilious and nervous disorders, and all the diseases incident to debility, will attack you on the slightest cause.' A cure for this "trick" of the bowels is inserted at page 27; and it is especially good for public singers, whose flats and sharps depend quite as much on their stomachs as on their throats, whatever they may imagine to the contrary (see page 29 passim, and also 31, where the latter is properly designated as a mere" Concerto on the Larynx," unless the bowels are in order for the accompaniment). We trust Miss Stephens, Miss Wilson, Miss Hallande, &c. &c, will look to this fact, and physic their soup if necessary. A half hour's repose in a horizontal posture in the afternoon is also strenuously recommended; and going further, the Doctor says-" When performers feel nervous, and fear the circulation is below par, and too languid to afford the due excitement, half an hour before they sing, they will do wisely to take a little "Balsamum Vita"-see TINCTURE OF CINNAMON (No. 416,)-or tune their throats to the pitch of healthy vibration with a small glass of Johnson's "Witte Curaçao," or a glass of wine, or other stimulus. To" wet your whistle," is sometimes as indispensably necessary, as "to rosin the bow of a violin." See "Observations on Vocal Music," pre• Mr. Richard Westall's elegant designs in fixed to the opera of IVANHOE, by Dr. water colours, from the Paradise Lost, to illus-beef Nosey." This theatre was pulled down, trate the magnificent folio copy of that immor- together with the old Rose Tavern, with its piShould all these fail, we tal work, may be numbered among the most lastered front, in 1794. The fine theatre that have the felicity of recording for their beautiful labours of the British School. What was re-erected on the spot was consumed; and benefit and that of the public, the re- a field would the works of this bard have opened the present magnificent structure displays the cipe for peristaltic persuaders, namely to the talent of Fuseli, had a body of publishers genius of the elder son of the great James "To make forty peristaltic persuaders, take, invited that extraordinary painter to exert Wyatt. KITCHINER," merry, if not medical. Mine and Walnuts. By a Cockney Grey Beard. CHAP. XXII. Sketch of the History of Scene Painting. What voluntary offering can be more becoming than that of placing a tribute of respect at the shrines of those, who have exercised their own talent to do honor to the memory of departed genius? Could Mil Covent Garden Theatre was built in 1733, when the dramatic corps, under the management of Rich, removed from Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, to take possession of this superior house, erected to rival that of Drury Lane. The Phoenix (old Drury) is seen on the gi gantic plan of London, published in the reign of Queen Anne. This theatre was erected in 1662, and destroyed by fire ten years after, and rebuilt in 1674. It was much improved by Garrick, when the divisions of the boxes were faced with stained glass. The orchestra was very spacious; and there I have seen Sir Joshua Reynolds at the representation of a new play, sitting near old Cervetto, with his silver trumpet at his ear. Cervetto, who played the double bass, was then famed by the galleries as "Roast of Stuart added these illusive and picturesque aids to dramatic exhibitions. Jameson, (the Scottish Vandyke) designed the scenery for the private theatricals at Holy-rood house, for his patron King James VI. This sport and pastime-loving monarch, when called to the English throne, selected Inigo Jones, his renowned architect, to design the scenery for his theatre at the Palace of Whitehall. His successor, the enlightened Charles I, and the tasteful Henrietta his queen, during their happier days, gave a new character to the stage; all was elegance at their youthful court. There Ben Johnson contrived the interludes and masques; and Inigo Jones was still retained as scene painter and machinist Charles spared no expence in the decorations for those romantic pieces, in which himself and his queen, and the young lords and ladies of the court, danced and played in their respective parts. The skill and ingenious contrivance recorded of this stage, seems almost to vie in description with the art exhibited in the present day. Streater, a landscape painter,designed the scenes for Dorset Gardens theatre, and the Phoenix. When this house fell under the management of Fleetwood, he employed his gay friend Frank Hayman, as principal scene painter for his stage. The great improvements in the scenic department, however unwittingly, grew out of the bad taste that prevailed the beginning of the last century; when Rich, who was manager of the play-house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, (denominated the new theatre, set up in rivalry of Drury Lane,) collected a posse of harlequins, scaramouches, rope dancers, tumblers and jugglers, from abroad, and designed a species of burlesque entertainments that drew the audience from the old house, although it retained, under the management of Wilks, Booth, and Cibber, one of the best dramatic corps that had ever trod the stage. Italy had long been famed for its scenepainterst, and its superior tact for the machinery of pantomimic representation. Some of these foreign artists were employed; and it was then the English first beheld the delightful effect of the picturesque, as viewed tl rough a splendid proscenium, on a lengthened stage. The managers of Drury, in self-defence, were reduced to attempt the same species of entertainment, when they pressed into their service a celebrated scene painter, Monsieur Devoto, and a ballet-master, Monsieur Ther Streater, a topographic painter, made many views of old buildings for his royal patron; among others,a faithful representation of Boscobel House, with portraits, not two inches in height, of well known characters of the time. Streater lived in Covent Garden, and was afflicted with the stone. Charles II, sent to France to procure an eminent surgeon to attend him; and this benevolent act was entirely at his majesty's expence. + Canaletti, the splendid topographical painter of Venice, designed the scenery for the Venetian stage. The caricature of this scene-painter and his employers, is entitled, "A just view of the British Stage; or three heads better than one; scene Newgate, by M. De V-to, ridiculing mond, who projected a pantomime, wherein a profligate inhabitant of Newgate was the hero. This set the wits of the town upon the managers, who, with the scene-painter, were dragged to the satiric whipping post. On these pantomimic pieces they were lavish of expence, as the scenery and machinery were the principal attractions. This Devoto also painted the scenes for the new theatre in Goodman's-fields, erected more than eighty years ago, when Hayman and old Oram, (who assisted in decorating the stair-case of Buckingham-house,) designed the allegories for the proscenium of the stage. designed the scenes for Lincoln's Inn stage; the eurious scene cloth, representing the siege of Troy, in Hogarth's Southwark Fair, is from the design of this John Laguerre. Hogarth painted a scene for the private theatre of his patron, the Chancellor Hoadley, at his country seat; the subject, a suttling booth, the sign of the Duke of Cumberland's head. When Rich removed his dramatic corps from Lincoln's Inn Fields to the newly erected Michael Angelo Rooker, whimsically Itatheatre in Covent Garden, Hogartli, in a fit lianized Signor Rookerini, by himself, (the inof humour, caricatured the whole house, ingenious Jack of all trades! being painter, harprocession across the market-place, in front lequin, scaramouch and engraver,) was prinof the arcade; not forgetting to have a hit at cipal scene-painter at the elder Colman's his friend George Lambert, whose scenes he theatre in the Haymarket. His abilities were piled in a waggon, wherein the thunder and long displayed on the stage of that favourite lightning were made conspicuous. little seat of the dramatic muse. Rooker was one of the founders of the correct style of topographical art; his views of the colleges of Oxford, engraved by his own hand as frontispieces to the celebrated almanac of the University, will remain a lasting memorial of his original talent for the pittoresque. Old John Richards, the rosy, greyWhen Rich removed to Covent Garden headed secretary of the Royal Academy, we theatre, George Lambert, who had been all recollect: he painted many years for the joint scene-painter at Lincoln's Inn, was ap- stage; and his rural scenery for the Maid of pointed principal in that department at the the Mill, is perpetuated in two line engravnew house. It was in the scene-room here ings, which are in the port-folios of all our that he founded the beef-steak club; he had old fashioned collectors of English prints. an assistant, Harvey, a landscape-painter. Greenwood and Carver, his colleagues, are Amiconi, who painted the fine groups on the scarcely less known. The merits of the upper part of the stair-case at Buckingham-living labourers in the same inventive departhouse, executed the plafond of this theatre, ment of art, are they not often acknowledged an allegory of Shakespeare, Apollo, and the at Covent-garden, and at Drury, and elseMuses. where, by the plaudits of the public? [We have not room for the insertion of the account of the Eidophusikon.] John Laguerre, son of Louis Laguerre, the historical-painter, who assisted Verrio in the decorations at Windsor Castle, occasionally the rehearsal of two new entertainments, Dr. Faustus, and Harlequin Shepherd. To which will be added, Scaramouch Jack Hall, the chimney-sweeper's escape from Newgate through the cloaca, with the comical humours of Ben Johnson's Ghost." The cieling of old Drury was painted with a group of the muses. In allusion to this, and in satirist makes the laureat Cibber, with Harlederision of this prostitution of the stage, the quin at his elbow, invoking the sacred nine. Wilks dangles a puppet of Punch, and Booth is letting a puppet,representing the chimney sweep, into the forica. The figures of tragedy and comedy which stood in the front on each side of the proscenium, are hoodwinked, with the placards of the pantomime. Could now dumb Faustus, to reform the age, of hold Monsters and masquerades, where moral plays O Congreve, lay thy pen aside; ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. LORD BYRON'S PLAGIARISMS. We will now turn to Lord Byron's PLA GIARISMS from SIR WALTER SCOTT. Notwithstanding the unmerited abuse poured Bards," we find no retractatory sentence of upon this splendid genius in the "English approbation in any of his Lordship's later productions. Why is this? His imitations of the author of the "Lady of the Lake,” are proof sufficient of the estimation in which he holds his talents. Some superficial critics have contended, that Walter Scott is not an original poet: this we deny. That the style of metrical romance, for which he is so justly celebrated, is not new, we will readily admit. But so far from recurring to the works of Byron has done, in order to furnish out his brother poets or predecessors, as Lord his own pages, he has been scrupulously exact in referring all his obligations, however unimportant, to their proper source. But the truth is, he seldom borrows. We have analyzed his writings with as much attention as we have devoted to those of his noble contemporary; and the result of this investigation is a conviction, that the bills he has had occasion to draw upon his imagination, have been always honoured without the adjuvancy of any other poetical firm whatever, Nor is originality confined to Sir Walter Scott alone:-WORDSWORTH,that high-priest Yet seemed in that low hollow groan, the woeful maid, Walter Scott.-The stern and desperate strife, Lady of the Lake, c. vi. * Upon the pinions of the wind But pressing forward like the wind, Lady of the Lake, c. iii. C. H. c. iii. All was not well, they deemed; but where the of nature's mysteries, is less indebted to his predecessors or contemporaries than any poet with whom we are acquainted; and although his writings abound with instances of what Quintilian has somewhere defined as the criterion of fine writing, namely, delineations of the feelings of humanity so natural, that it is not without some consideration we can recognise them as unborrowed; he is, beyond comparison, the most original of all our modern poets. We will mention another writer, as opposite to WORDSWORTH in the nature and character of his genius as can well be conceived, who has infused all the vividness and energy peculiar to the poetry of Lord Byron into his compositions, without being reduced to the necessity of inlaying them with other people's diction and ideas: we mean, the author of Paris,' and the Angel of the World,' Mr. CROLY. There are poets of the day, little less entitled to cominendation on the same score; but we have selected these three gentlemen, because they differ materially from each other in STYLE, and yet agree in affording evidence, that poets may write a great deal without borrowing (to any material extent) from those who have gone before them. Should there be persons simple vivors are described as creeping to a neigh-excites in the breasts of his servants, suspienough to assume that coincidences extra-bouring stream for the purpose of quenching ordinary as those pointed out in the present their thirst, when they discovered that the exposition, are more or less peculiar to all rivulet was coloured with blood. voluminous poets, we will beg to be informed in whose writings they are to be met with. For ourselves, we will engage to mention, at a moment's notice, twenty celebrated poets, and undertake for every plagiarism (imitation, or whatever politeness may refine the term to) instanced from their productions, to cite fifty from the pages of Lord Byron. O for one hour of blind old Dandolo. After the battle, in Lara, some of the sur Byron. They reach the stream, and bend to taste; slake, &c. So Clara, in seeking water, to slake the She stooped her by the runnel's side, But to return to Scott; the imitatious from Where raged the war, a dark red tide his various poems are as follows : Byron. A moment checked his wheeling steed, Giaour, 208. Was curdling in the streamlet blue. Byron. Cool was the silent sky, tho' calm. On the first tidings of the approach of the Perchance some knew, but 'twere a tale too &c. cions to which, as in the case of Lara, they His train but deemed the favorite page In sable torrent wildly streaming; In azure column proudly gleaming, That shines and shakes beneath their roar ; This is, after all, nothing more than a wordy elaboration of the following passages from Ossian.-Who comes like the strength of rivers when their crowded waters glitter in the C. H. iii. 25.moon.-Comala. The wild dog howls o'er the fountain's brim,&c. | As that within the blessed sphere Giaour, 298. Ossian.-The walls of Balclutha were desolated. The voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Chetha was removed from its place, by the full of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head. The fox looked out from the windows: the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina.-Carthon. Byron. The fair-haired daughter of the isles.-C. H. iv. The daughter of many isles.- Oina Morul. Byron. Know'st thou the land of the cypress and myrtle, &c. Know'st thou the land of the cedar and vine, Where the flowers ever blossom-the beams ever shine, &c. Epistles and Odes, v. i. p. 135. She was his life The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Unnatural Combat. A. iii. Giaour. See the first twenty lines of the Bride of Abydos, which are almost literally trans-titium cadavera repertus est: paululum etiam lated from the German of LESSING. Madame de Stael alludes to the verses que tout le monde sait par cœur en Allemagne." We have not the volume to refer to; but the following is almost word for word a version of the first four lines: "Knowest thou the land of the citron and golden orange? Where soft winds are breathed from the blue heavens, and where the myrtle and laurel flourish? "Tis, &c. Byron. in vultu retinens.-Mors Catalina. Away; we know that tears are vain, &c. * * Will this unteach us to complain, SOUTHERN AFRICA. One of our late Numbers contained some interesting particulars respecting the interior of this portion of the globe. We had not then seen a notice on the same subject, (Mr. Burchell's Travels,) which appeared in No. III. of the Quarterly Journal of Science, and, we believe, the only place in which there has been any mention of this remarkable expedition. After describing the progress of the party across the Orange River, and through the Bushmens' country to Klaarwater, the narrative proceeds to state, that in advancing farther towards the interior "The productions of this part of the country, both in zoology and botany, were very different from what are found within the colony such were the manis, a new species of rhinoceros; several of the dog genus and of the feline tribe; a lynx; many of the genus viverra; a hedgehog, several of the mulopes, one of the horse genus, &c. Of rine kind; the camelopardalis; five antebirds, a great number were found peculiar to the northern side of the Orange river, amongst which an otis and a mycteria were most remarkable for size. Several new lacertæ and testudines were found; and a great variety of serpents. Of new fishes, only a silurus and two cyprini, were observed in the rivers. Many curious insects were collected. In botany, the face of the country had no resemblance to that of the more southern regions. The surface of this part of Africa was more flat than mountainous; and when mountains occurred, their strata were, in the greater number of instances, horizontal. In some places granite was observed. The plains often appeared to be of boundless extent, of an uninterrupted level, and frequently destitute of water. The soil was geGarth, in allusion to the literary obliga-nerally a red sand, clothed chiefly with tall tions of Dryden to his predecessors, used to grass (the verdure of which was of but short say that he stole like those persons who kid- duration), relieved by clumps of acacia, tarnap beggars' children-only to clothe them chonanthus, &c. In one part of these plains Pleas. of Hope. better. This seems to have been frequently is an immense forest, the extent of which is the case with Lord Byron: witness such unknown to the Bachapins, who are that tribe of Bichuánas inhabiting Litáakoon. It passages as the following. is composed chiefly of Acacias of various sorts, with sometimes Zizyphus, Royena, Tarchonanthus, Terminalia, and some others; is inhabited by elephants and giraffes in great numbers, two species of rhinoceros, and a kind of buffalo, and many other large animals. Aye let the loud winds whistle o'er the deck, Et dominam tenero continuisse sinu. Byron. The sky Spreads like an ocean hung on high, M.Lewis.-"Prythee weep no more! you know 'tis sinful to murmur at the dispensations of Providence." " And should not that reflection check your own? why are your cheeks wet? fie fie, my child."-Romantic Tales. v. 1. p. 53. Byron. Survey our empire and behold our home. Corsair, 4. home.-Windsor Forest. All green and wildly fresh without, but worn and both geographical and astronomical, from grey beneath. Mrs. Opie. And oft we see gay ivy's wreath The tree with brilliant bloom o'erspread, We find the hidden tree is dead. Poems, 2, p. 144. which a correct map of his track may be expected above five hundred sketches and drawings, the subjects of which are landscapes, portraits, natural history, &c.: very large collections in natural history, compris ing a hundred and twenty skins of quadru : up peds, amongst which are a male and female | lalande spent a considerable time in making | ately hastened to the coast to take possession camelopardalis, and many animals hitherto researches, at the distance of 800 miles of this important booty Sometimes the undescribed five hundred and forty birds from the capital of the colony. He had peof two hundred and sixty-five different spe-netrated so far to the west at a time when cies: above seventy amphibia: about two the Caffres were in a state of hostility, and thousand five hundred insects, the number of greatly embittered against the Europeans, distinct species of which is not yet ascertain without being deterred by this very dangered: an herbarium in particularly fine pre-ous circumstance from prosecuting the observation, amounting to above forty thou-ject of his mission. It was only in these sand specimens, including the duplicates, the remote parts, that he could hope to meet number of species contained in which is not with an enormous quadruped, which he had at present known geological aud mineralo- been expressly desired to bring with him, gical specimens, &c.: together with various namely, the rhinoceros with a double horn. implements and dresses belonging to the He persisted in remaining in this inhospitanatives." ble country till he had found and killed the enormous beast, twelve feet long, the want of which, especially of the skeleton, was sensibly felt in our collections and works on natural history.* Such an account as that from which we have made these extracts having appeared in an English Philosophical Journal, so long ago as 1817, it was not without some surprize that we read the following translation from a French work of last month, to which, in order that those who deserve the palm may wear it, we take the liberty of appending notes. Delalande's Travels in the Cape of Good Hope. A whale fishery has been several years established at the Cape, and many of those which Town, where they are generally cut are caught are brought to the shore at Cape close to boiling houses on the beach; and it is not an uncommon sight to see the bones of whales lie scattered along. Mr. Delalande deserves however full credit for his labour in preserving a complete skeleton of this, and of other animals; and has rendered a service to science by his exertions, which entitles him to sufficient praise, without rendering it necessary for him or his patrons to adopt so unfair a proceeding as that of claiming, at the expense of others, far more than was ever his due. In the short outline of Mr. B.'s travels in the Journal of Science and the Arts, the number of botanical specimens was stated, (to avoid every It was to the west of the Cape that M. De-chance of exaggeration,) at only 40,000, but lalande had this successful chace; he soon has since been ascertained much to exceed after set out towards the east, to fulfil ano- that number. One botanical specimen takes as ther commission. The skeleton of another much time and trouble to preserve as ten insects. very colossal animal had been pointed Mr. B. killed 289 quadrupeds, (mammalia,) out to him as equally necessary to science. of which he preserved and brought to England He pursued at Birg river a family of Hippo- 120 skins, consisting of 80 different species, beThe Cape of Good Hope having been so potami; it was long before he could over-sides descriptions of others and it is therefore have been sufficiently explored; but the and was so fortunate as to kill the largest the honour of doing more than all his predeceslong occupied by the Europeans, seemed to take them; but he at length surprised them, exceedingly incorrect to have claimed for Delalande, who has brought home only 59 species, collections which M. Delalande has brought and most formidable of them.† sors, or of discovering the complete zoology of with him, give here a very different idea of A law of the colony prohibited any one from the Cape! Mr. B. is the only person who ever -it. By his care we may now flatter our-hunting and killing the Hippopotamus; but the brought home both a male and female cameloselves with being acquainted with the coun- governor could remit the penalty of 1000 rix pard. He killed 6 of these animals, and pretries that form the southern extremity of dollars, to which he who breaks this law is li- served 3. Africa, if not the soil itself, at least its or- able. Thanks to the enlightened protection of ganic productions, animal and vegetable. Lord Charles Somerset, the governor of the This success of M. Delalande, in a career Cape, and of Colonel Christopher Bird, the where he had been preceded by the efforts colonial secretary, he received on all occaand labours of so many travellers, proves sions, the most flattering encouragement, the that he has shewn much greater activity than greatest facilities, and was not put to any his predecessors. This traveller had al- inconvenience for breaking through the law. ready given proofs of his zeal and capacity, In the interval of his distant expeditions, the in three voyages which he had made for sea, agitated by violent storms, sometimes the government to Lisbon, to the Sea of threw whales upon the beach, and left them Provence, and to Brazil. stranded. Our intrepid traveller immeditentots, and had not the great advantage of an European assistant, which M. Delalande en-dividual labour, between 63 and 64 thousand objoyed. Accompanied by a nephew twelve years of age, who shared in his fatigues and his labours, M. Delalande left Paris on the 2d of April, 1818, and landed at the Cape on the 3d of August following. After some excursions in the environs of Cape Town, he entered the country of the Hottentots+ on the 11th of November, 1818. On his return he set out for the province of Birg river, on the 5th of July 1819, and on the 2d of November following departed for Caffraria. Assisted only by his nephew, and by some ignorant Hottentots and Negroes,§ Mr. De This attempt at underrating the labours of "his predecessors," in order to give a colour of superiority to his own, is an unfair and illiberal piece of boasting, which the following Notes will show to be very far from the truth. It appears that Mr. Delalande was never beyond the colonial boundary. Mr. B. penetrated more than six hundred miles beyond the colonial boundary, and into countries never before seen by any European. His coland not with all those facilities which the autholections were made under every disadvantage, rity and purse of the French government gave to M. Delalande, and in a country inhabited by Europeans (or whites). || The dangers which he talks of must be rather exaggerated, as the country was then cleared from Caffres, and well protected by the militia and large bodies of military. At the time Mr. B. was in that same part of the colony, travelling was attended with much more real dan+ This is called the "country of the Hotten-ger, as in fact the Caffres carried off in one tots," merely for the purpose of making his excursion seem more wonderful. "The country of the Hottentots," properly speaking, is no other than the Cape Colony, in every part of which the Hottentots dwell; and in Cape Town itself and its vicinity. What is here called Caffraria is only that part of the colony, which had formerly been inhabited by the Caffres. § Mr. B. has no better attendants than Hot night no fewer than 24 of his oxen; nor were * Mr. B. killed ten rhinoceros': nine of the Of insects Mr. B. brought home 815 species, besides a large parcel he unfortunately lost. Of birds the number of species was 265; but of reptiles only about 70 specimens. In these, and in fishes and mollusca, it is but justice to allow that Mr. Delalande's statement proves he has far surpassed his predecessors. Mr. B.'s travels being inland, and his time while at Cape Town, (where Delalande might, without great difficulty, collect or purchase a great number of marine animals,) otherwise employed, gave him no opportunity of collecting fishes, &c. Mr. B. collected and preserved by his own injects of natural history. In this he never had any other assistance from his Hottentots than that of skinning the large quadrupeds, and very rarely any thing else; and never in the department of botany. M. Delalande states his collection to be 13,307, divided in half, as it is the work of "two na10,000 of which are insects, which ought to be turalists." It will therefore give only 6,653 against Mr. B.'s 63,000. So much for his having" shewn greater activity than his predecessors." And admitting that Mr. B.'s number ought to be halved, as being the work of four years travelling instead of the other's two, yet then Mr. Delalande's " activity" would amount only to a little more than one-fifth. But besides what has been above stated, Mr. B. made more than 500 drawings and sketches, and an immense number of scientific descriptions, together with all those geographical and astronomical observations necessary for obtaining a correct map of his travels. These have not been said to form any part of Mr. Delalande's labours. These remarks are far from being intended to deprive Mr. Delalande of that share of praise to which his industry is entitled; for the bulk of his zoological collection does, in the aggregate, surpass that of former collectors; but |