FOREIGN TRAVEL,

AND

LIFE AT SEA;

INCLUDING
A CRUISE ON BOARD A MAN-OF-WAR,

AS ALSO

A VISIT TO SPAIN, PORTUGAL, THE SOUTH OF FRANCE, ITALY, SICILY,
MALTA, THE IONIAN ISLANDS, CONTINENTAL GREECE,

LIBERIA, AND BRAZIL ;

AND

A TREATISE ON THE NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES.

BY THE

Rev. CHARLES ROCKWELL,

LATE OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY.

"It is a strange thing that in sea voyages, where there is nothing to be seen but
sky and sea, men should make diaries, but in land travel wherein so much is to be
observed, for the most part they omit it; as if chance were fitter to be registered
than observation : let diaries therefore be brought into use."-LORD BACON.

BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY TAPPAN AND DENNET.
NEW YORK :-D. APPLETON & CO. AND WILEY & PUTNAM.

PHILADELPHIA: -- CAREY & HART.
LONDON :- WILEY & PUTNAM.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by

CHARLES ROCKWELL, in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts

TO THE

REVEREND PROFESSOR EMERSON,

OF THE ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,

AS THE TEACHER AND GUIDE OF EARLIER CLASSICAL

AND LATER PROFESSIONAL STUDIES,

AND THE

HONORABLE JULIUS ROCKWELL,

OF PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS,

AS A COMPANION AND SCHOOLMATE IN CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH, AND A CLASSMATE AND ROOMMATE DURING THE

WHOLE OF A COLLEGIATE COURSE,

THIS WORK
IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

BY THEIR RELATIVE AND FRIEND

THE AUTHOR.