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riio Ik.iIv wr.fi shard oul as c'uildiTM do; mcnt towarils us, alinosl inspirnd t1.c( ON A SAII.OU'S 1 I NKUAL AT HKA. Ill* is not vhcro iiis Ks lie. Ho sleeps not wlicrc tlu-v sleep— llis ii;iinc a wrtck ot memory, His dwclling'-place th’ ilecp— Od'vu mi.l iinlkthoniM j^ulfs lie lie?, And ocean’s unveilM mvsterics. Cor lie is j,''oiie where cave ami hall A\ ith cf)ral jrarnislu-l, Atul (1. rktiC'S for tlu-lV funeral pall, • l{i reive the ocean deatl, ■\V!.evc sca-iiU)n'.i«,-7s liavc iheir home, lliit me:> and sunbeams n«ver come. Cre\ was thy dawn, and not a braid Curl’d on the billow’s brow, While on the deck the prayer was said Ah he was cas' below, into llic wave’.ess j;listoi)lng sea Thia cl()SL'd about liini tranquilly. ■>Vi- watcli’d the circ le on the wave 'I'he dreary |)hinj?e had jjiven, And suw it widi n o’er his.grave, And j)ass away v.here heaven Jlct the smooth water’s darker blue AuJ blended their etherial !mc. They wrapp’d no shmud his linibs around. No bier sustauiM liisfonn ; Abo!it the cirsu its bed they bound, AVhich, oft in calm anrl storm, The slumberer and the dre:untr bore, AVlio now shall dream and wake no more. Sicken’d and sad we turn’d away I'roni the sad sijjlit of gloom ; Tiu: solitud*' of sea that day Seem’d but one mi;;'hty tomb, nurvMii;,- all tlioujjhti- ut thotijflits of voe— AsKiiig who next should plung-e below ’ Mi\injf together proiit and delifjht. CANM15ALS. Tl.c following exiract iVom Mr. An dersou’s “Mission to Sumatra,” will show lin; dreadlul extent to which the horrible practice of man-eatinj^ is car rit-ii ill many parts of that island. “ It is i.ui,'’ says iMr. A. “ for the s.ikc o» l’©o . iHe natives devour human tiesh, but to jrratifv their malij^nant and demon like ft-elinj^s of animosity against their cneMiies. Some lew there are, however of such brutal and depraved habits, as to bo unable, from custom, to relish any otlv r food. Tiie,rajah of 'I'apali Jawa one of the most powerful and indcpen dent liatta chlt-fs, il he does not eat hu iiiait fleish uvery day, is afilicted with pain in liis stjmacli, and will eat noth incj else, lie onlers one oi his slaves (wliLMi no enemies can be procuretl, nor crii.iinals for execution,) to go out to disiar.ce, anil kill a man now and then which sfi’vcs hini ior some tinie, the meal heinji; v‘ut into sl’ices j)Ut into joints of bamboo, and deposited in the earth for several days, wliich softens it. The pan> usually j)referred, iiowever, by epiciii'cb, arc the icel, hands, ears, na vel, lips, tongue, aiul eyes.”—“The lianas of liatubara are a particularly fe rocious race, and cannot be persuaded - to give their attention to agriculture, or the (juiet pursuits of commtrce, being coii'^lantly engaged in warlare witii cadi other. Both the 'runuingong aiui the Si i Maliarajft had lived a long time in tne h.itta fountry and were married, . one ti. thednughler of the rajah of Seaii- tai,, ifie other to the d.^ugliler of the rajali Jawa, two priiicijjal cannibal chu'is. A stout lerocious looking lollowj 'Wit)i muscular bandy legs, came in as 1 \v..> c(»i versing on the Mibject ol oanni- |jali'“iii, and was pointed out to me as a ■«?elfl)iated marksman and man-eater, lif Ijnd a most (ietermined luuk, and jm.y (haiight''niaII took a reniaikabl\ sitnkr’g likeiH'Ss ol liiin. 1 iu;nk,' pa*r- ticniar iiKjuii'es tl hiui, anil he gave me th- horrifl neiails n( caimibaliMii. iii saul llial the }i'Ung men wrre soil, aim thci! Hesli \s;ilei}. 'I'lie most agreea ble and ui licate eating was that ol liiaii whose hair hau bi'gun to tn —“We were now in the i'.vaii of tiie cannibal coniitr} , and 1 wa^ de tcrfi.incd to invesli”;ate tliu haijits and jTiiiniiers of the people whih' i n;inained. I ! Z'" ■ i*''feiideii tiie hill to the lalta vi:,jj;r, where a iaige crowd assoiiiljii-d in ami round the balel or hall, sharpen ing creisses atid swords, and making ep-»'sf‘ c-andlc.s 1 did nut obsei vi tlif hvai'is of any victims Iwi e ; but uj) on ''-L'akingto i!ie rajah of MunloPanei uii t'.e viibji i'l, he lold mo of a man wiio lia iitrii eaten o.ily six days belure, at one ni tl e vil. g s cIom* at hniiil, and that il 1 wishf'd, lie would immediately !,'lul a. i gel the head I'or me. He ao curillngiy ikspatclied some of his j)eo- j>lc, .111-, bliurlly afterwards we observed n lai jf'* party of liatlas coming down the mi.unlain with this Iropiiy of victo- cakes ;»l ho.iie. I shall never furget tin- i.pres'it.n upon my mind at the siglit uf a b.ire skuil, suspended at one end ol sticR, a bunch of plantains on the oth- tr extremity, and slung over a man’s boulder. Tiu; chief of a village accom- ied it, and brought with him to the ajah of Munti') PaiR'i G slaves, who had been caught two days before, viz. four women and two caildren. I was ofler- ed many slaves, but refused the accep tance of them. 1 might have seen the disgusting ceiemony ol eating hiiman esh, had 1 chosen to accompany the ijah to the fort, which he was about to attack (and which he was prevented from doing two days before my arrival,) with 500 men ; but thinking it not im probable that some poor wretch might be sacrificed to show me the ceremony, I declined witnessing it. 'I'liey seeinetl fjuite surpriseil that I should have en- lertaimul a doubt ol the prevalence ol cannibalism. 'The rajah was about to besiege eight forts, under the authority of Kajah rinding, ol the tribe 1 erdolo. \t 'several of tiie ailjacetil lorts were seen dozens of skulls, h'lng up in the hah'i. —'Die l.eads of-the peoifle killed the war, I're reckoned valuable j-.u- perty, and a -chief is consiilered rich ac- conling to the niunber of such tropliies which he possebses. The friends ol the deceased, when jieace is restored, pur chase the skulls of the relations, sonie- times as high as 30 or 10 dollars. I he rajah’s motiier gave the man who b.rought the skull to me, ten dollars.”—One or two Battas who came froni a jilace call ed Tongkiiig, also mentioned their hav ing partaken of luiman llcsh repeatedly, and expressed their anxiety to enjoy a similar feast ujjon some of the enemy, pointing to the other side oi the river. Ihis they said was their principal in ducement for engaging in the services of the sultan. Another disjilayed, with signs of particular pride and satisfaction, a kris, with w hich he said he hail killed the seducer of his wife, and whose head he said he had severed from his body holding it by the hair, and drinking the blood as it yet ran warm from the veins. lie pointed to a spot ol blood on the kris, which he requested me to remark, which he said was the blood of his victim, and which he j)ut to his nose, smelling it with a zest dilhcult to de scribe, and his features assuming at the same time a ferocity of expression which w’ould not have been very agreeable, had not niy safety been guaranteed by my watchful sepoy guard. 'I’he sultan’s force consisteil ol about *100 men, one third of tl-.em at least such savages as 1 have been describing. Their food con sisted of the ilesh of tigers, clcj)hants, hogs, snakes, dogs, rats, or whatever ofial they could lay their .hands upon. Having no religion, they fear neither God nor man. They belive that, when they die, they shall become wind.” ])prehension of an united attack up on us. A moment’s advar.ce, alter a snort and rajiid retrograde inoyemiMit, seemed to tetify their proud estimate of their wild independence. The infinite variety of their raj»id movements, their tamperings and manauvres, were ol such a wild and almost tcrrilic character, that it required but a inoiierate stretch of fancy to suppose them the genii of those grassy plains. At one period they were formed for an immense depth in front of us. A wheel, execut ed almost with the rajtidity of thought, presenied them hovering on our Hanks. Then, again, the could of dust that en veloped their movemeiits clearco away, and presented tliem in our rear. They evidently operated as a great annoyance to the horses and mules of our cavalcade, 'i'he friglitened movements, the increas ed indications of fatigue, sufliciently evidenced, with their frequent neigh- i.iigs, what unpleasant neighbors they considered their wild compatriots to be. So much did our horses ajipear to suH’er from fatigue and terrror in conse([uence of their viciniiv, that we were thinking of some way m which to drive them oil’; when on a sud.icn, a patient and laborious donkey of the cslablishement, wiio appeared to have regarded all their movenienfs with philosophic indifi'er- ence, pricked up his long cars, and gave n loud and most sonorous bray from his vocal shells. Instantly this j)rodi- gions luultitude, and there were thous ands of them, took what the Spanish call the “stompado.” With a tramj)- ling like the noise of thunder, or still more like that of an earthquake, a noise that was absolutely appalling:, tliey took to their licels, and were all in a few mo ments invisible in the verd iut depths of the j)lains and ways and were heard of ^^*’e rirc told in the narrative of flov’-* ( -nor Phillip, in his voyage to IJotany Hay, that on.Norfolk Island, “the pines arrive at a magnitude unusual in any other part of the world : some of them are ofie hundred andiLr/y, or evm out /lundrcd and figfil}] Jtet in height, and nine or fen feet in diameter, at the bottom of the trunk. They fre quently rise to eighty feet without a branch.” The Kim in Hatfield, (Mass. ) is said to be the largest tree in New-P^ngland. “ It measures in circumference thirty- four feet ^ at two feet from t he ground: at the height of live feet, the smallest place in the trunk, the cireumfercnce is xl l feet G inches.—There is a cut in the tree four feet from the ground, w’hich tradition says, w'as made by the Indians, for the highest rise of Connecticut Ki no more. From the Charleston Cotu-ier. ry. * 'I'his unfortunate wretch was devour ed. I was inlormed, in live minutes, «ich Wirriof olyt.ttiii’-d only 4. amallpiccc. The following is from the Rev. T. Flint’s new work “ Francis IJerrian,” and is descriptive of the mntmierable hordes of wild iiorses, which arc some times met in the prairies near the Rocky Mountains : “'I'he day before we came in view of the J^ocky Mountains, I saw, in the greatest j>erfection, thatimj)ressive, and, to me, almost sublime sj)i:ctacle, an im- mense drove of w’ild horses, for a long time hovermg round our path across the prairie. I had often seen great numbers of them befme, mixed with o ther animals, apparently quiet, and 'j;raziiig like the rest'. Here theie were thousaii.'.s unmixed, unemployed ;thiMr midioiis, if such a comparison might be iillowed, as darling and as wild as those ot huirur.ing-ljirds on the llow(;rs. I he treineiidoiis snorts with which the Iront columns of tiu: pi'.al inx made knoun ll,'‘ir a; jiroac'i tn Us, sOvimed ti.i be theii wild ami eneigetic way of eypro'-iiiii their pilv and (iisdarn (or the siM Vile lol of our horses, of wliich they ajqiear- cd tu be taking a survey, 'i'hey wer* ofall colors, miM.d, spotted, and diver sified with every hue, from the bright est white to the clear and shining black; and of evjry foi m and structure, Irom the long and slender race.', to those oi j a tn firmer limbs and heavier mould ; and of mous all ages, from the curvetting colt to the r.mgc of patriarchal steeds, drawn up in a hue, and holdi'ig their high, heads for a survey o-f us in the rear.— Sometimes they curved their necks, and made no more progress than just c- iiough to keep pace with our advance, 'I'hen there was a kind of slow and walk ing minuet, in which they performed various evolutions w tih the precision of the ligiire% of a country liance. 'I’hen a rapid moven\i*nt shifted t!ic trout to the rear. But still, in :.ll their evolutions and movements, like the llight of sea iowl, tlieir lines were regular, and frei; I’roni all indications of confusii)n, y\t tiuius a >poutuucous ^id sudden ii ovu- LAIUiK I'UKKS. Chardin, tne traveller, tells us that in the King’s Garden atShiras, (in Per sia) “ he observed a tree whose trunk was eight yards in circumference From tiie great age of this tree, it was treated with peculiar veneration by the inhabitants : they pray under its shade and hang chaplets, aoiulets, and pieces of their clothes on its boughs. The sick or their friends, resort here, to burn incense, to fix lighted candles to the trunk, and to perform other supersti tious ceremonies, in the hopes of their health, 'rtiraughout Persii*, are many other trees thus superstitiously rever enced by tlie people.” “ The Charter (Jak,” in Connecti cut. “From the best information that we can obtain,” says a Hartford paper, “ this tree is no less than four hundred years old : it is twenty-eight feet in circumfercnce near the ground, and at the height of seven feet, it is seventeen feet in cu cumference ; the height of the tree, as near as can be ascertained, is about seventy feet; some of its brandies extended nearly twenty feet.” In May, ISiJG, there vvas an F^lm blown dovvn in Wells, (Maine) which “ measured twenty-seven feet atidfou inches in circu/nfcrence, making the diameter suinething orer nine feel and was forty feet to a crotch ; from thence it was twenty feet to the first limb, running tu the height of sixt v feet from the bottom before it had any limbs when it ex])anded to ah iiiimense size 'Fhe exact height of tha tree could not be accurately obtained, as the top was much brpken, but was coinpuleil to be uj)wurd.\*()f one huiidrcdJeet.” “An-Kim tree slar.iiing near the house of t'ajituin Josiit:a Avkhv, in Strathani, (Mas^;,) and reared, since hi.s rc(‘(d/er/it;/i, ii{ lour feet from the ground, measures e.gh/een feet in cireumfer- encv, a id i-i.e hundred feel from the e. li'j init} ol t!ie branches on the other, fi, was pLinlcu SO years ago ; and to use ('apt. A’s expression, wa^ then ‘ sii/allcr tl.an his tiiumb.’ .Mr, Nllso.n, the liotanist, wdio ac companied C;ipt. lii.iGii to the South Sea, lor li.e purjjose of cunveyiiig the Breaii-Fruil 'I'ree to the \Ve>t Indies, when on \ an Dicman’s Land, “ found in a thriving state, of tin; (-uor- size of thirty-fhrcc frit and a half ill g-'r/h, and of a j)roportionable hei'^Iit." In ^'oojv’s first voyage, Sir .Toskimi H.'.nks and Di'. Soi.amikm, (1 think it was in .New Zealand) measured a tree (hat was “ ninety-eight fret high from the groioiti to the Jirst hranch, cpiite straight, and iiiif'teen feel in eireuni- ftrence; and they fouiitt still larger trees as they advanced into the wood.” On Cook's third vojage, they saw Indian ('anoes on the \orlh West Coast of ivmerie.a—“ the largest id' which car ried twenty persons or more, arc form ed of one tree. Many ol them an forty fe^'t lom^, scvc/i Lruad. an.d :ibc»ul thrgy tl'icp.’' _ ver.” 'Fhe largest tree in Great I’jritain, that I have ever read of, is the one cited by Smkllie, in his philosojihy ol Na- ti'iral History ; which was growing at Cowthorpe, near Wellierby, upon the estate belonging to the liighl Hon. La dy Stoukton. “ 'I’he dimensions art; al- nvost incredible. Within three feet of the surface, it measures si,rteen yard.\, and close by the groumi, tu'cuty-six yards. Its height, in its present and ruinous state, (1776) is about eighty- live feet, and its princijjal limb extends sixteen yards from the ball.”—“^Vhen comjiared to this, (says iJr. Hun’i ku,) M other trees are but children of the for.'st.” The following account ef the cele brated Horse Chesnut, t>f Mount J^lna, from lir.vnoN’s 'i’ravels :—“Leav ing the Catania road on the left, they began to ascend the mountain, in order to visit the celebrated tree, known by the name of the Chesnut 'i’ree of an hundred Horse, which, for some cen turies, has been regarded as one of the greatest wonders of .iKtna. * if * “ At the end of the first region, the ascent became much more rapid, till they arrived at the beginning of the second region of yEtna, called La Re- gione Sylvana, by the nativer ; because it is composed of one vast forest that extends all around the mountain.— [“ The woody region of yKina ascends for about eight or nine miles, and forms a zone, or girdle, of the tnightesl ver dure, all round the mountain.”]—The sa?ne author. A ■ ¥ » « ^ “Near this place, they passed through some beautiful w’oods of cork and ever green oak, growing out of the lava ; and proceeding rd)out five miles fai ther, they came to the Ch.esnut tree already mentioned, which, in the old maps of Sicily, always makes a conspicuous figure. Mr. Bkvdon says he was ra ther disappointed, as it appeared rather a cluster of five trees growing together, than a single root; however, lie was assured that they were nil once united in the same stem, and that in the days of old, it was n garded as the beauty of the forest, and visited from all (piar- ters. It measured no less than two hundred and forty feet in circninfer ence; and il, as it is pielended, it was formerly one trunk, it must, indeed, have been a v\onderful phenomenon in the vegetable kingdt-i'i. ’I'here are ma ny other trees in tiiis vicinity, of ex- traoi-dinay mat^nitude. Our ‘ author measured one w’hich rose in a solid trunk to a considerablr height, that was no less \.\\[\w seventy-six feet in circumfcrencc, at tu'o feel fro77i the ground.’’^ The Lexington (Ky.) Public Adver tiser says, that “there now stands on the bank of the Ohio river, in the State of Indiana, opposite the mouth of Salt river, a Sycamoi-e tree, which has sta bled fourteen head of horses at one tim.e, w’ith ample room. Il takes 75 longpaccs togoround its trunk, and you n'.ay wiih perfect ease turn a fourteen foot pole in the inside of its cavity.” 'In Lkw IS and Claki:’s i''.xpedition, they saw Pine trees, at the mouth oi' Uie Xcw-Hn'-l and Galaxy Extracts I'rom “5\hilhnL-;i.eaves and WaywarS Ci;ticisu)s. f/y Utl^IiY IGlI'l Kzck-iel’s vision of the holy water, that issued from under the temple, and became first ankle deej), then knee deep, then loins deep, then water to swim in; widening and widening as it ran ; is u beautiful emblem of the spread of the Gospel from its divine source. I have seen w'omcn so delicate that they were afraid to ride, lor fear the horse might run away ; afraid to sail, for fear the boat nugiii oveiset; afraid to walk, for fear the dews miglit fall j but 1 never saw one afraid to be mar ried. One reason why we should cherish our re lations is, that, as individuals of a world,.we are every succceding age be coming less nearly related to each oth- cr. Ex pedc Ilerculem.—Imagination is the finest sculi)tor and painter iit* tho w^orld ; it is the food of love. The sing er Thevenard, from seeing a beautiful female slijiper, fell violently in lova Columbia river, of twelrefel din me ter and tu'o hutulredJ'ct I high. 'I’he largest tree, 1 believe, in the neighborhood ol Charleston, is a Livi; Oak near the (ioose (,'rcek ro«d, about nine miles from town. It lakes//’/',Vw; long j)ftces to go ro)ind il, as near as voii can tread between the roots. A- hout four feet from the ground, the ,-»niallcst part of the trunk measures eighteen and a half fed in circumferciice; and one of its arms measures tweh’c anil a half leot girth. 'I’his tree, with a verlical sun, would cast a bhade of 370 fef't in circumference. '['here is a Live Oak tree on tlie Char leston llace Course, tluit has a limb C‘\- tending sevt nty-five feel from ils trunk, in a horizontal position. 'I'he above trees have all grown wilhiii the trri)])erate zones, :unl with the ('X- ceptlon of that in Gieat Miitain, bct'.VC'-'n the I'jititudeii of 'J'J uud -I J. _ with the unseen lady, and afterwards married her. I would ask an atheist, if any such there can be, whether it ajjpear mor& consentaneous to reason, that matter bhould make mind ; or thUmind should make matter. As a woman may be chastc, without being virtuous ; so may a man possess .t good disjjosition with a bad temper. Do not tamper with temjdation. 'I’he purest icicle on Dian’s temple will melt under the ardent glances of Ajjollo. It was a singular sojihistry of a cer tain sect, that they were beconne so per fect saints, that they had lost all inclin ation to sin ; but that Christians b- ing' conunanded to deny themselces, tney thought it incumbent on them to sin. Is it not a proof of a good heart at bottom, to speak ill of any one? Ho cannot bear to harbour vile thoughts of one so he speaks them out, to get rid of them. A sensible man, with an expressive countenance, who cannot speak the lan guage, is well likened to a casketj of gems, under a glass cover ; we can see, but cannot get them out. It aj)pears to me to discover more power, to have foriried and informed aa emmet, with all the necessary bodily* and instinciive functions, in so minute a compass, than to have organized an el ephant ; in tiie latler there was room to work in. Doth not the prayer of Dives, to be perniitled to send and warn his five brethren on the earth, imply th t the spirit, after death, hath knowledge of w’liat was left below ? True, it is a parable, but it is one of our Saviour’s and designed for our instruction. Marry a little for love, a little for beauty, a little for riches ; for, as for marrying all for one, that makes room for disaj)pointment. A heart-confessor is a diflferent per son from a lip-professor; one has merely a Jus ad rem, the other a jus in re. One argument why ghosts do not ap pear, is, that if in misery, they are not permitted to leave it ; and if in happi ness, they would rather stay where they are. From the Charleston Courier. Ja.mus II. was sitting to Sir CJodfrey Kncller for a portrait, desiy;ncd as a present to his friend, Mr. Pepy’s, when the news of the landing of the Prince of Orange was brought to that unhappy* monarch. Such was the apathy of the King, that he commanded ^ne painter to proceed and finish the portrait, that his^ friend might not be disapp.ointtd. In a duel fought in Cn\u;,i s II. reign, between tlie Duke of Buckingham an'^. the I’.arl of Shrewbbury, the lady of the. latler nobleman, in the disguise of a Jjagc, held the Duke’s horse as he was fightine; her !»us!)and. Tne I'.arl of Shrewsbury was killtd, and the Duke of Buckingham re- (eived immcdiatt'ly into his house, as a mistress, the woman whom his haiul lu’il made a widow, after having sent his owti Dutchess home to her futhcr’s. (';i\ju.Kr, undertook to introduce a n:;* tional dress into England, which w’.as ne ver to he. alicrcd, and was taken i'rotu i!iat of Poland. After wearing it him* St ir a few limfs, logelher with his cour tiers, il was laid asiiie, as making the wearers look luo much like magpies. (Hass coachcs were first introduced iu this rcif^n. Among other inconveniencicr. aitcfiding iliis new invention, Lady Ash ley described to Mr. Fepys, the flyirg open of the doors upon any great shake: and another was, that m.y lady Ptlcrboro* l)cing in her glass coach with the glass Uj), and srcing a lady pass by in a coacli w hom slie would salute, the glass was so clear lhat she thought it had been open, and so ran her head through the glass. If niankind made a ])ractice of doing a S' V- \lci; Id fa h (ith( r whenever opportunity ec- eurred, it would u.dd ni'idi to uur little stock Ci
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