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Both these pictures belonged to the old collection of the crown, and are to be admired for grace and beauty. N deg. 940. There is a wonderful vigour of colouring in these two capital pictures. The preceding are the most admirable of the productions which are at present exhibited of this inimitable master, the first of painters for truth of colouring. N deg. 753. Jerome.
In latitude 40 deg. he spoke two Zeeland ships, homeward bound, and obtained information of great warlike stores accumulating in Cadiz and Lisbon. His mind was instantly made up. Fortunately, the pinnace which the Queen despatched with orders to stay his hand in the very act of smiting her great adversary, did not sail fast enough to overtake the swift corsair and his fleet.
It resulted in the annexation, upon the compromise of extending the Missouri compromise line of 36 deg. 30 min. across the Texan territory, leaving a disputed boundary north of that line, which was adjusted in 1850 by making 36 deg. 30 min. the north boundary of Texas.
The subject is worthy the investigation of those who may examine the region between the equator and 10 Deg. S.; for the Nile does not show much increase when the sun is at its farthest point north, or tropic of Cancer, but at the time of its returning to the equator, exactly as in the other case when he is on Capricorn, and the Zambesi is affected.*
Lucia. St. Michaelina. These are the best pictures of BAROCCIO already exhibited. His colouring is enchanting. It is entirely transparent and seems as if impregnated with light: however, his forms, and every thing else, bespeak the mannerist. N deg. 721. The Resurrection of Christ. The Nativity of Christ. Christ laid in the tomb. Of the CARRACCI, ANNIBALE is the most perfect.
The isle of Filbeards is a small isle, about one league long, and halfe a league broad, but they are all banks of sand. The isle of Filberds stands in 47. deg and 3/4.
No wind fall in with a largish island and four little ones, give them the name of Willis's Archipelago. "11th. A dead calm sea smooth as a mirror all of us dull and sleepy. "12th. Heat 90 deg. shot a boobie, roasted and ate him, rather fishy passed the night amongst some reefs. "13th. Same as the 12th, but no boobie. "14th. Same as the 13th.
After breakfast next morning, we crossed the hill-spur called Waeranhanje, the grassy tops of which were 5500 feet above the sea. Descending a little, we came suddenly in view of what appeared to us a rich clump of trees, in S. lat. 1 deg. 42' 42", and E. long. 31 deg. 1' 49"; and, 500 feet below it, we saw a beautiful sheet of water lying snugly within the folds of the hills.
The exaggerated account of its volume, however, given by the expeditionists who were sent up the Nile by Mehemet Ali, did not surprise us, since they had mistaken its position; for we were now 3 deg. 42' north, and therefore had passed their "farthest point" by twenty miles. In two hours more we reached a settlement called Madi, and found it deserted.
You desire that I will favour you with a particular account of the means employed to transfer from pannel to canvas those celebrated pictures which I mentioned in my letter of the 13th ult deg.. Like many other, things that appear simple on being known, so is this process; but it is not, on that account, the less ingenious and difficult in execution.
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