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Article PARK'S TRAVELS IN AFRICA. ← Page 3 of 3 Article CHARACTER OF GENERAL CLAIRFAIT. Page 1 of 1
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Park's Travels In Africa.
Explorer of Africa ; not unlike , though greater in degree , the one recorded in Prior ' s Alma : Now see how great Pomanque's Queen Behav'd herself among the men . Pleas'd with her punch , the gallant soul First drank , then water'd in the bowl ; And sprinkled in the Captain ' s face
The marks of her peculiar grace . Mr . Park lost his thermometer , in the part of his tour where he wanted it most : he remembers that the ground was too hot for the naked foot , and that even at Benown , the northernmost place he visited , the Negroes could not go from one tent to another without their sandals . On . his return home he was stopped by the periodical
rains , which occasioned the country to be so much inundated as to make it impassable , owing to its being intersected by the branches of the Senegal , the Basins or Black River , for the space of 200 miles east and west . This could hardly have been foreseen in so parched a climate . The Senegal is the Niger of Leo Africanus .
Character Of General Clairfait.
CHARACTER OF GENERAL CLAIRFAIT .
FROM THE VIENNA COURT GAZKTTE ,
DURING th ? long and painful illness of this General , he exhibited the same greatness of soul in the eyes of reason and philosophy , the same wisdom , and ail the virtues by which he had been distinguished . during the whole of his honourable military career . As he was generally beloved in his life-time , so his dea ; h is universally lamented . He had been in the service of the illustrious House of famehis zeal
Austria 45 years , under four Regents , during which his , , and his fidelity were equal : impartial historians will no doubt rank him with the first Generals . He looked upon the soldiery as his children ; he encouraged them by his benevolence , which proved that he was continually occupied with their necessitie .-, hence he frequently heard them call him father . He distinguished himself as an ' excellent Officer very early in life , especially during the seven
years war , and about the end of the same was made a Colonel . He Was not less conspicuous in the campaign relative to the Bavarian succession . In the last Turkish war he commanded a particular corps , he gained upon all occasions a number of signal advantages - The tvvo masterly retreats from the Netherlands which he made , after sustaining repeated misfortunes , drew the attention of all Europe upon him in 1792 and 1794 ; but his fame attained its hig hest pitch through the Rhine in 6 after which
the happy issue of the campaign upon 179 ; , like another sage , he returned to Vienna , and lived in a dignified retirement . The sympathy of their Majesties , the Emperor and the Empress , honoured the loss of this eminent servant ofthe State , and caused his remains to be interred with every mark of distinction , though by the tenour of his will , he was to have been buried in private .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Park's Travels In Africa.
Explorer of Africa ; not unlike , though greater in degree , the one recorded in Prior ' s Alma : Now see how great Pomanque's Queen Behav'd herself among the men . Pleas'd with her punch , the gallant soul First drank , then water'd in the bowl ; And sprinkled in the Captain ' s face
The marks of her peculiar grace . Mr . Park lost his thermometer , in the part of his tour where he wanted it most : he remembers that the ground was too hot for the naked foot , and that even at Benown , the northernmost place he visited , the Negroes could not go from one tent to another without their sandals . On . his return home he was stopped by the periodical
rains , which occasioned the country to be so much inundated as to make it impassable , owing to its being intersected by the branches of the Senegal , the Basins or Black River , for the space of 200 miles east and west . This could hardly have been foreseen in so parched a climate . The Senegal is the Niger of Leo Africanus .
Character Of General Clairfait.
CHARACTER OF GENERAL CLAIRFAIT .
FROM THE VIENNA COURT GAZKTTE ,
DURING th ? long and painful illness of this General , he exhibited the same greatness of soul in the eyes of reason and philosophy , the same wisdom , and ail the virtues by which he had been distinguished . during the whole of his honourable military career . As he was generally beloved in his life-time , so his dea ; h is universally lamented . He had been in the service of the illustrious House of famehis zeal
Austria 45 years , under four Regents , during which his , , and his fidelity were equal : impartial historians will no doubt rank him with the first Generals . He looked upon the soldiery as his children ; he encouraged them by his benevolence , which proved that he was continually occupied with their necessitie .-, hence he frequently heard them call him father . He distinguished himself as an ' excellent Officer very early in life , especially during the seven
years war , and about the end of the same was made a Colonel . He Was not less conspicuous in the campaign relative to the Bavarian succession . In the last Turkish war he commanded a particular corps , he gained upon all occasions a number of signal advantages - The tvvo masterly retreats from the Netherlands which he made , after sustaining repeated misfortunes , drew the attention of all Europe upon him in 1792 and 1794 ; but his fame attained its hig hest pitch through the Rhine in 6 after which
the happy issue of the campaign upon 179 ; , like another sage , he returned to Vienna , and lived in a dignified retirement . The sympathy of their Majesties , the Emperor and the Empress , honoured the loss of this eminent servant ofthe State , and caused his remains to be interred with every mark of distinction , though by the tenour of his will , he was to have been buried in private .