The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

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of the age, instancing his power of giving ' life to the eye, and
expression to every feature.' "
The children of James and Caroline G. P. S. Earle were :
721-1. Clara Earle.
722-2. Phebe Earle; m. ist, D. Dighton, military painter to
George IV., of England; 2d, Patrick Macintyre. In
1863 they were living at Kilburn, near London.
723-3. Augustus Earle, b. 1793.
Augustus inherited the artistic talent, and, perhaps from a better
early education, exhibited a much greater power in painting than
his father. He was admitted as a student in the Royal Academy, in
London, before October, 1807 ; and some of his pictures were in two
of the public exhibitions previous to that date.
In 1832, the Longmans, of London, published a work with the
Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New
following title : "A
Zealand, in 1827 ;
together with a Journal of a Residence in Tristan
d'Acunha, an Island situated between South America and the Cape
of Good Hope. By Augustus Earle, Draughtsman to his Majesty's
surveying ship, ' The Beagle.' " The following account of the
journeyings of Augustus is extracted from the introduction to the
book above mentioned :
—
"Although educated as an artist, a love of roving and adventure
tempted him, at an early age, to sea. Accordingly, in 1815, through
some interest he possessed at the Admiralty, he procured a passage
on board a store ship bound to Sicily and Malta, where he had a
brother stationed who was a Captain in the navy. In one of the
small craft attached to the British flotilla he visited many parts of the
Mediterranean, accompanying Lord Exmouth's fleet, in his brother's
gunboat, on his Lordship's first expedition against the Barbary States.
A peace being concluded with the Bey, he visited the ruins of Carthage,
and likewise the remains of the ancient city of Ptolomea, or
Lepida, situated in Lybia,—the Bey providing our traveller and his
companions with a tent, camels, and a strong guard of Janissaries to
protect them against the Arabs. After this he returned to Malta,
passed through Sicily and ascended Mount Etna. He next proceeded
to Gibraltar, taking a minute survey of that mighty rock, its batteries,
caves, and Moorish ruins.
In the summer of 181 7 he returned to England, which he quitted
in the March following for the United States of America. After
rambling through them, which occupied nearly two years, he
embarked, February 11, 1820, on board ' The Warrior,' and reached
Rio de Janeiro on the 2d of April. In the June following, he
visited the coast of Chili ; and on the 18th of July he reached Lima,