The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1840-12-16

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vcrs larger surface than any other build
ing in. the world. It's style Of architec-
ture will be beautiful. have seen arlan
and elevation, and in fact perfect model
Of the building itself, and il is really mag g
nifcent. 'a@s's
Time would fail me to point out all the
improvements in buildings Of splendor in
an imintnse metropolis like this, the
population Of which IS now reck0neC at
100000! So. . 81" . y
The Rev. DR.. Oln. Of the Methodist
Church. and an American gentleman of
distinguished learning and abilities, and
we'll known in the United States, has just
arrived insLondon from his travels in the
East. Hehas<been three years in Europe.
and during the time visited every part. in
cluding Italy, where in Naples, he had
the misfortune to lose his amiable wife,
Since when, he has visited Egypt, and
abided in Alexandria, Cairo and Thebes
and crossing an arm of The Red Sea,
proceeded TO explore Arabia, Patria and
Syria. He went to Nazareth, Bethlehem
and Jerusalem, returned to Beyrout, then
to Smyrna, and from thence to CONSTANT
nople, and thence to the mouth Of the
Canube, and up that river 10 Vienna,
where he was taken down sick, and laya
month with an intolerably severe attack of
intermittent fever. AS soon as he .cMid
travel, he bent his way on to Paris, and
from thence to Havre, and from there to
London, and took lodgings ih7the same
house I am boarding at. But, poor fellow,
he came back in wretched health. In
crossing the Channel, during a~rough and
stormy passage, he had a violent return
of intermittent fever, and has-bcc.' con-
fined to his bed a week-an;i Ftaaing
konwn him and esteemed him much as
friend, in America, put all my skill to
work 10 devise means to cure him; and
fortunately with good nursing, his inter-
mittent fever contracted on the fmarshy
shores of the Canube, has been subdued,
and he is convalcent. -. y:ifg ,i.i.!7,ln
He was some time back elected PresI-
deni Of the Middletown College, at Mid
dletown, Connecticut, 10 supply the va
cancy occasioned by the death Of the late
DR.. Fisk, and his great anxiety at present
is to proceed 10 America, to fill the station
assigned him. Dr.. Olin, early in life
graduated at Middlebury College, in YER
mont, and for many years resided at the
South, and at one time was Professor OF
Bellies Lettres, in the University of Geor7
gia-and subsequently President of Ran
dolph Macon College, in Virginia. But
his labors, studies, in various and impor-
tant stations of life, combined with a hot
climate. 10 undermine and sink his health,
ant for three years past he has been travel.
ling abroad with the hope of restoring his
health. He is man of uncommon mind,
indeed of the very highest order and no
tourist has ever travelled abroad, who, by
intellectual endowmen,s was SO wellaquali-
fed 10 describe all he saw in his long jour
neyiRgs as himself. He has collected a
large mass of the most valuable materials
and should he ever publish book of
his travels, it will possess an interest be-
yond any thing Of the kind in the present
age. 1t is his purpose, he tells me,
should his health permit, when he re-
turns to the United States, TO arrange ma,
tcrials for publication, which | trust may
be the case. ~! u -
Iwent the other day to the agents Of
fee and secured berth for him in the
Acadia, to sail from Liverpool for Boston,
on the LIST of October, so that if nothing
happens he will return to his native coun-
try, which he longs 10 see again, by that
ship.
Ihsve enjoyed much interesting and in
structing conversation with him since his
return from the East. Whenever bis dis
order would give way sufficient for him to
converse, he never failed to crafty me
with the most agreeable descriptions Of
his journey through Egypt Arabia, and
Syria:-copntries that have lately become
of great interest to the civilized world
And what appeared remarkable to me was,
that the largest number of travellers ne
met within his route, were Americans, al
though France and England were so much
nearer to these countries than America,
and so much more populous.
At Jerusalem, he met Miss Livermore
from America, who evidently is the sub
iect of a monomauia. She says she is
one of the four witnesses spoken of in
the Revelations. She says within two
wears she is TO die, and is to rise again
from the dead, and has accordingly taken
~, bar rosidcncn in the LEWIS quarter of