Old Clem then recites the following speech:--

“I am the real St. Clement, the first founder of brass, iron, and

steel, from the ore. I have been to Mount Etna, where the god Vulcan

first built his forge, and forged the armour and thunderbolts for the

god Jupiter. I have been through the deserts of Arabia; through Asia,

Africa, and America; through the city of Pongrove; through the town of

Tipmingo; and all the northern parts of Scotland. I arrived in London

on the twenty-third of November, and came down to his majesty’s

dockyard, at Woolwich, to see how all the gentlemen Vulcans came on

there. I found them all hard at work, and wish to leave them well on

the twenty-fourth.”