Evidence: | 'Then I have been turning lazily over the pages of a certain "magazine" called the "Saturday Magazine", which the worthy chaplain has lent me. There are six double volumes of this astounding rubbish; or more properly six strata - a huge deposit of pudding-stone, rubble, detritus and scoriae in six thick stratifications; containing great veins of fossil balderdash, and whole regions of what the Germans call "loss" and "trass"; amongst which, however, sometimes glances up a fragment of pure ore that has no business there, or a gleaming splinter of diamond illuminating the foul opacity. After an hour's digging and shovelling, I meet perhaps with an authentic piece of "noster" Thomas himself - there are two of those in the whole six beds - and once I turned up what made my heart leap - "The Forging of the Anchor" - which I straight away rolled forth till the tweak timbers rang. There are a great many not intolerable wood engravings in the volumes, and some readable topographical description: but on the whole the thing is of very base material - "Amusements in Science" - "Recreations in Religion" - no, but "Easy Lessons on Christian Evidences" - much apocryphol anecdotage of history, but, above all, abundant illustrations of British generosity, valour, humanity...' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 15 Jan 1849 and 1 Feb 1849 | ||||||||||
Country: | Bermuda | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: on board "Dromedary Hulk", at Bermuda | ||||||||||
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Reader: | John Mitchel |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 3 Nov 1815 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | author, Irish Nationalist, under arrest for Treason |
Religion: | Presbyterian family |
Country of origin: | Ireland |
Country of experience: | Bermuda |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | Saturday Magazine |
Genre: | Other religious, Miscellany / Anthology |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | six volumes |
Provenance: | borrowed (private library) borrowed from the chaplain on the prison hulk |
Record ID: | 12757 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | John Mitchel | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Jail Journal | |
Place of Publication: | Dublin | |
Date of Publication: | 1913 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 119-120 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | John Mitchel, Jail Journal (Dublin, 1913), p. 119-120, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12757, accessed: 27 April 2024 |
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