The Investigator proving unseaworthy, Flinders, with part of his crew, sailed homewards on the Cumberland; and touching at St. Mauritius was detained by the French Governor because his passport was made out for the Investigator. He was set free after seven tedious years on the island, 1803-1810, and died at Donington 1814.
[35] The Times, alluding to the Ulster Plot, spoke of “The Pinchbeck Napoleons of the Cabinet.”
[37] These were cut in Nottinghamshire; but I see that Sussex is to supply the oak for the roof timbers of Westminster Hall.
[38] An expression used in “Long whist.”
[39] Or “Shelter,” which, from its name, “Lonely Bield,” was probably far from any other human habitation.
[40] Waterfall.
[41] “A trotting burnie wimpling thro’ the ground,” Allan Ramsay’s Gentle Shepherd, Act I., Sc. 2.
[42] Daisied slopes.
[43] Vale.