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specifications of the productions by which the thing named is characterized , as Emu River , Pigeon Hill , &c . Next , and very fairly , provided congruity be regarded , come the names of personages who have an immediate and conspicuous connexion with the primal history of the place ; such are Mount Bischoff , as aforesaid , Hellyer River , Arthur River , &c . In some cases , it may be permitted to name new places after ancient ones / provided there be a striking resemblance of aspect , and the association is not merely individual and fanciful , though it is better to avoid the confusion which might arise from not preserving individuality of name . The Hampshire and Surrey Hills of Van Diemen ' s Land may , however , be allowed to pass . But when the
fancies of a variety of minds are allowed to vent themselves in nomenclature , the jumble becomes intolerable ; as when we read of a new road ( not in the Company ' s district ) which leads to Richmond and Jericho ! Whether we consider the tastes of grown-up people at home , or the interests of the little ones who are to be born in these new places and to take a short trip from either to visit their companions in the other , we are driven to complain of this monstrous inroad upon proprieties . It is absurd enough , and , as we well remember , puzzling enough to a child , to have an Etruria in our own country : let us have no more such collocations of terms as Richmond and Jericho , Brighton and Bagdad . We are happy to see no oriental or classical names in that part of the map which comprehends the Van Dienaen ' s Land Company ' s district .
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Adown , adown the rapid Rhone ! Amid its craggy hills sublime—Whose rugged tops were built upon By Princes of the feudal time—All peaceful now—all warlike then ! In ancient days each separate hill Sent forth its brave and battling men , The neighbouring mountain brave—to kill . O happy change ! the vine-trees grow In smiling luxury—and the noise Of horrid war ne ' er troubles now The sweet , the silent rural joys ! And when shall nations tower above The festering hate of gather'd years—And dwell in peace and dwell in love Like these regenerate villagers J ? . Bowrinq .
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380 Lines written while sailing down the Rhone .
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WRITTEN WHILE SAILING DOWN THE RHONE . May 8 , 1832 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/20/
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