our Engraving may be the means of rescuing his eccentric ingenuity from
oblivion.

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A DESULTORY CHAPTER ON LOCALITIES.

(_For the Mirror._)

Rotterdam and Erasmus.--Holyrood and Mary Queen of
Scots.--Scotland.--Switzerland and Rousseau.--Pope's
Grotto.--Chiswick, &c.


There is perhaps no sentiment more generally felt, or more delightful, than
that indescribable interest with which we are led to contemplate places and
scenes, immortalized in historical renown, or hallowed by genius.

The propensity for moving from place to place, so observable in mankind,
derives, no doubt, its chief zest from the anxiety we feel to visit
countries of which in the course of our historical researches, we have
heard and read so much to awaken our interest, and excite our admiration.

Without the early reverence which we as boys imbibe for the departed
splendour of Greece and Rome, we should not as men be found wandering among
the ruins of the Pyræus, or the deserted streets of Pompeii. We find it
impossible to behold unmoved the sad, the astonishing changes which time,
the arch-destroyer has effected with his giant arm. Our exuberant fancies
carry us back to those remote periods when all was glory and magnificence,