The Regular Lines Intersecting
Each Other At Right Angles, In Which It Is Laid Out, Will, Nevertheless,
Afford But Little Gratification To An Englishman, Who Has Been Used To
Contemplate The Natural Style Which Distinguishes The Pleasure Grounds
Of His Own Country.
At the head of the centre walks stands a menagerie,
on which, as well as the garden, many pompous
Eulogiums have been passed,
though in my own judgment, considering the local advantages possessed
by the Company, it is poorly furnished both with animals and birds; a tyger,
a zebra, some fine ostriches, a cassowary, and the lovely crown-fowl,
are among the most remarkable.
The table land, which stands at the back of the town, is a black dreary looking
mountain, apparently flat at top, and of more than eleven hundred yards
in height. The gusts of wind which blow from it are violent to an excess, and
have a very unpleasant effect, by raising the dust in such clouds, as to render
stirring out of doors next to impossible. Nor can any precaution prevent
the inhabitants from being annoyed by it, as much within doors as without.
At length the wished-for day, on which the next effort for reaching the place
of our destination was to be made, appeared. The morning was calm,
but the land wind getting up about noon, on the 12th of November we
weighed anchor, and soon left far behind every scene of civilization
and humanized manners, to explore a remote and barbarous land; and plant in it
those happy arts, which alone constitute the pre-eminence and dignity
of other countries.
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