Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1856-01-17

so perfect and apparently for our comfort, safe
", and convenience, there is strong opposi-
ton manifested all the time against our re-
naming on shore, and constant entreaties for
US to leave are made. have been obliged to
write the Governor some plain letters and in
the last one, told him never would admit
that l had no right to remain on shore, and
that if left here before my own convenience
suited me, it would be only by force or COM
pulsion and that if they laid hands on me in
this manner, should hold them responsible
for an Infringement Of the Japanese Treaty.
This wrote some six days ago, since which
time | have not been interrogated or impor-
tuned on the subject. The climate of this
place is fine, although it is now the wet sea-
son. We have had some weather truly de-
lightful, but then there is more rain now than
we would wish. The houses are all open,
which seems to be the style, and indicates
that they have no very cold weather. When
we arrived here the middle of March, all was
fresh and green; and grain was knee high,
fruit trees in blossom, and all seemed refresh
ing and beautiful to US, just from monotonbus
sea voyage. As we approached this coast,
we beheld one of the most beautiful and un-
mistakable landmarks ever seen. 1t was the
Fudge Jamma,' or the perpetual snow-cov-
cred mountain, whose height is said to be some
twelve or fourteen thousand feet. The morn
ing was clear and the wind fair, and we saw a
cone-like figure in the sky, as white as mar
BILE. We said it must be the FUDGE, but
could not credit il ourselves. We were run
ming at the rate of seven 10 ten miles an hour !;
and all day this mountain was before US, be-
coming gradually more distinct, until we came
within ten or twelve miles of the shore, when
the hills intervened and shut out the view
This mountain is far inland from this place as
near as can learn, one hundred miles distant,
and on the day Of our arrival we must first have
viewed it at the distance of one hundred and
eighty miles. Truly it is one of the grandest
of the world. As we approach the shore, the
scenery is grand and picturesque. exhibiting
such verdure and flowers, bluff coast and wild
chasms, mountains terraced and cultivated to
the very tops, and houses built in the sides of
precipices with steps cut out of the solid rock
to approrch ihem, standing like statuary in
riches in some large temple or castle. All
combined, the scenery is the most beautiful
imaginable. Landing, the same pleasing
views invite you on, and you go from one
mountain top to another, admiring, step by
step, all and everything, until your eyes fail
and ache from sightseeing, ere you are aware
that your limbs are failing. l am convinced
from experience, that many time the Amer
ican observer, who sets out on a morning
stroll, will find himself unconsciously led on
much too far from home TO return the same
night. On our arrival here, Smoda, as we'll
as most of the sea port towns Of Japan, had
been washed away, sr destroyed by an earth
quake. Our city was destroyed in the short
space of FIVE minutes. The water rose TO the
depth OF IL feet all over the plain on which
it was built and yet, out of the multitude that
inhabited il, there were but SO lives lost
This account is almost incredible, and seems
miraculous.