PERHAPS there is no circumstance which more forcibly reminds an European traveller, when in the southern hemisphere, that he is at an immense distance from his native country, than the extraordinary alteration which he finds in the appearance of the h...
PERHAPS there is no circumstance which more forcibly reminds an European traveller, when in the southern hemisphere, that he is at an immense distance from his native country, than the extraordinary alteration which he finds in the appearance of the heavens, aws surveyed upon a starlight night. Above him, are constellations of unparalleled beauty and brilliancy; but they are not those which he has been accustomed to contemplate.