COCHRANE, CAPTAIN JOHN DUNDAS, R.N., born about 1780, distinguished himself by travelling ou foot in a very eccentric manner through France, Spain, and Portugal, and afterwards through Russia and Siberia, to the extremity of Kamtchatka. (Seo ' Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary, from the Frontiers of China to the Frozen Sea and Kamtcbatka,' 2 vole. 8vo, Loud., 1824.) He subsequently engaged in some of the mining companies in the New World, and died in Colombia August 12, 1825, at a time, it is said, when he was contemplating a journey on foot through the whole of South America. He tells us in his book, that in January, 1820, immediately before he began his jourdey to Russia, he made an offer of his services to explore the interior of Africa and the course of the Niger, but this offer was declined by Government. His
object, when he left London for St. Petersburg, was to travel round the globe, as nearly as can be done by land, crossing from Northern Asia to America at Behriug'a Straits. "I also," ho adds, "determined to perform the journey on foot, for the beet of all possible reasons, that my finanoes allowed of uo other." But at the seaport of St. Peter and St. l'aul's, at the end of the Katutehatkan peninsula, he became enamoured of a young lady of the country, and his marriage, together with some other circumstances, induced him to return to England, whither be brought his wife. The eccentricities of this most hardy and traveller sometimes approach to insanity, but his book is amusing from its oddneee,'and contains a good deal of curious information concerning countries rarely visited by Europeans.