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 my groin, and taking an oblique course broke the trochanter of the hip joint. Had his example been followed, all the boat’s crew must have been destroyed: but fortunately, they had been so intimidated by my fire, that we were beyond the reach of theirs, by the time they rose from the ground. The pinnace was luckily within signal distance; she was called down, and before I fainted from the loss of blood, I had the satisfaction of sending her round to rescue the scattered officers, and to protect the small boat, which waited for them to the eastward of the castle. Before the pinnace, however, could reach that place, Mr. Olphert, a remarkably fine young man, who was midshipman of the former boat, had fallen a sacrifice to the same party of assassins.”

P. 308.– “The wound I had received was dangerous in the extreme, and the sultry climate of the Levant was highly unfavorable. My constitution had already suffered from many former wounds; and for some time there appeared but little hope of its weathering the present struggle: but assisted by the skill of the surgeon, Dr. Hugh Stewart, of whose unwearied attention I shall always preserve the most grateful remembrance, it ultimately triumphed; though not till after many months of tedious confinement and painful ex-foliation.

After the Frederikssteen’s return home, Captain Beaufort was fully occupied for several years in laying down the result of his labours on the coast of Asia-Minor, and in constructing a set of charts, which have since been engraved, for the use of the British navy. From the weighty responsibility attached to such a work, he considered it necessary that the whole should be executed by his own hand; and we have reason to believe, although he has never favored us with any communication on the subject, that previous to his doing so, no maritime surveyor ever lodged at the Admiralty, MSS, so. drawn and arranged as to be fit for immediately placing on the copper, without first deriving aid either from the Hydrographer or some of his assistants.

