This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ... of perambulations upon land, what must have been his view of the larger adventures by sea, which in his time had begun to exhibit a bolder spirit? He denounced the discovery of the mariner's compass as "pernicious," and complained that it led people to "think more of ploughing the ocean than of ploughing the fields." ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ... of perambulations upon land, what must have been his view of the larger adventures by sea, which in his time had begun to exhibit a bolder spirit? He denounced the discovery of the mariner's compass as "pernicious," and complained that it led people to "think more of ploughing the ocean than of ploughing the fields." Yet this Mr. Donaldson was no mean man in his time: he was the Secretary to the Government of Jamaica, and the letters, in which he breathed these wailings and forebodings, were "inscribed to the king." It probably had never occurred to him to ask how he could have held the proud office of "Secretary to the Government of Jamaica," but for the "per nr jTTTPoniTr. nicious discovery" which he lamented! There were thousands of men who entertained similar sentiments in his time. Not only was the pen employed in condemnation of stage and mailcoaches, but the pencil of the caricaturist, which always affords an index of popular feeling, supported the common prejudice. The annexed engraving is a fac-simile of a caricature which appeared in 1785--mail-coaches having been instituted about the year 1784. The illustration is interesting, as throwing light upon one or two points essential to our history: there were no springs to the conches--no back seat--the guard "furnished, paid, clothed, and armed at the 172 DISHONEST INNKEEPERS. expense of the revenue," sat in front, and carried a brace of pistols and a blunderbuss! There are frequent imputations in books of the seventeenth century against the integrity of innkeepers, who were suspected to connive at, if not to participate in, robberies committed in their houses and upon the roads: --"Certes (says Harrison) I believe not that chapman or tr...
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