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EXPLANATIONS---by Mr. WARD.

A.---mouth of the Cave, 40 feet high, and 30 wide.

B.---Hoppers---where salt-petre is made by Wilkins & Gratz---the owners of the Cave---Oxen are worked 2 miles in.

C.---Pits 175 feet deep in many places in this chamber.

D.---This area contains upwards of eight acres, covered with one arch at least 150 feet high in the centre; called the main city.

E.---Contained about six acres---the walls around at least 60 feet perpendicular height---one arch.

F.---This chamber and avenue leading to it was never explored until I entered it---I went to the end.

G.---This is called the second city.

H.---The bed of this chamber, which is 1,800 feet in circumference, is 40 feet above the level of the passage leading to it. You go up a passage like that of a chimney for 40 feet perpendicular height.

I.---At this place I found a cedar pole 12 feet long, and which was perfectly sound.

O.---I went no farther than this---how much farther I might have gone I know not.

L.---From the side of the Cave issued a fine stream of water, which falls 60 feet.

R.---Green River passes over these branches of the cave.
S.---A long body of yellow ochre found here.

T.---A very beautiful dome, at least 40 feet diameter, and 60 feet high.
X.---Here are 6 or 8 large columns of spar, standing upwards of 60 feet
perpendicular height---the base of which rest in elegant basins of water
that is as clear as amber.---This is a beautiful sight.---Soda is found in great
quantities in and by those columns of Spar.---I called the pool Clitorius.
2.---Found no end.---N. ditto.
K.--The Mummy.

--The dotted passages pass under the others.

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THE LAST REIGN

OF THE

EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

WITH AN APPENDIX

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OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS.

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participate in most of the sentiments of Mr. Hobhouse, and earnestly recommend the general circulation of his work as a phenomenon of political virtue, and as an antidote to the falsehoods and perversions which are so profusely scattered by political profligacy.]

MISS WILLIAMS'S MISREPRESENTATIONS.
DEFORE this preface is concluded,

BEFOR

notice should be taken of a work, entitled, "A Narrative of Events, which have taken place in France, from the landing of Napoleon Buonaparte, on the 1st of March, 1815, till the restoration of Louis XVIII."-which work, though it made its appearance after this collection of letters had been prepared for the press, seemed to the writer to add to the which he imagined to exist, urgency for attempting to disabuse his fellowcountrymen on the subject of the return and last reign of the Emperor Napoleon. Certainly the author of that work and the writer of these letters did not look at the same side of the shield, and it is possible that one city, in the diversities of civil discord, may, like Pope's single nymph, present many moral portraits: "All how unlike each other, all how true."

{This historical work is the production of Mr. HоBHOUSE, the son of Sir BENJAMIN HOBHOUSE; and where is the Briton who would not be proud of such a son, or the country which ought not to glory in possessing such a citizen---At a period when the press is disgraced by the multiplied misrepresentations of the hirelings of courts; and when the spawn of corruption insult us by their Poems, Travels, Tours, Pilgrimages, Histories, Pamphlets, Journals, Reviews, Newspapers, Paintings, Engravings, Dramatic Exhibitions, Festivals, and Monuments, Mr. But it must be permitted him to deHobhouse has voluntarily stepped forward, clare solemnly, that, were it not notolike another Leonidas, to oppose the force of truth to the overwhelming torrent, and to rious that the composer of the Narrative rescue the cause of Liberty, and the match- was a spectator of the events she deless exertions of its defenders, from the oblo- scribes, he would not hesitate to aver, quy with which a trained band of sycophants are endeavouring to cover them. This work that she had employed the optics of the merifs, therefore, a conspicuous place in editors of some ministerial journal, raththe library of every man who justly values the character of freeman; and, whatever er than those eyes which beamed with may be the insolent assumptions of the venal delight at the dawn of continental freewriters who bask in the sunshine of power, it dom, and communicated their animation ought to be handed down to posterity, not only as a correct account of the events it to so many admirers of revolutionary records, but as a faithful representation of France. the honourable feelings of nine out of ten of It to add, that, be necessary may our intelligent contemporaries. For our own parts, we continue the undismayed friends although that narrative will appear to be of those principles of Public Liberty which directly contradicted by many positions were established in England in 1688, and in America in 1776; which were nobly assert- contained in these letters, yet not a line ed in France in 1789, but which have been of them was written in the contemplation malignantly opposed by confederacies of of such a controversy, nor, except in one kings since 1790, and are now endangered by the forcible restoration of the Bourbons solitary instance, where the assumed în France, Spain, and Naples: we therefore fact was too important to be left unconMON. MAG. No. 286.

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