| Show INTERESTING INSCRIPTION County Cork Monument Bears Tribute Trib-ute to First Steamship Navigator Navi-gator of Atlantic Ocean Tho following Is a copy of an inscription in-scription made from a monument erected In the churchyard of his native parish the marriage and premature death of the first omrer under WhOM command a steam vessel ever crossed tho Atlantic ocean Undaunted hrav pry exhibited In the suppression of the slave traffic In the African seas a character unequaled for enterprise consurnmatn skill In nil the details of his profession recommended for arduous service Lieut Hlchard Hob pits H N In accomplishing It he surpassed sur-passed not only the warmest anticipations antici-pations of the present gave to science triumphs she had not dared to hope and ctented < an epoch forever memorable memor-able In the history of his country and navigation The thousands that shall follow In hits track must not forget who It was that first taught the world to traverse with such marvelous rapidity that highway of the ocean and who It I thus connecting by a voyage of a few days thin eastern and western hemIsphere hemis-phere has forever linked his nnnia with the greatest achievements of navigation nav-igation since Columbus first revealed Europe ant America to each other God having permitted him this high destination was pleased to decree that thin leader of this great enterprise should also be Its martyr Lieut Hob errs perished with nil on board his shjp the President when on her voyage voy-age from America to Kngland She was lost In tho month of March 1840 As the gallant seaman under whose guidance was accomplished an undertaking under-taking the results of which centuries will not exhaust It Is for his country for tho world to remember him His willow who erects this melancholy melan-choly memorial may bo forgiven II to her even three claims are lost In the recollection of that devotedness of attachment that uprightness and kindliness of spirit which for alas but three brief years formed tho light and ivy of her existence Vessels British Queen Black Joke SIrIus President |
