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f The Mcsk ! wlutc'cr the Muse inspires, Mvsoul the tuneful strain admires. ...scott. T5 mm rnoM THE COLUMBIA.. 35 there one whose pure heart was cntwinM with thy own, That hath left thee and fled o'er the wide ocean's wave ? 1$ there one whom thou lov'd that for ever hath flown, And left thee deserted and lone as the gTave ? Is there one that was dearer than life to thy heart, Whom the stern hand of destiny fore'd to depart ; And made distance to spread and the ocean to roll, Between that loved one and thy desolate soul ? Then w hen others were round thee, less lovely, less kind, Than her who in memory was deeply inshrined J last thou mourn'd that the blue rolling' wave of the sea Should spread between that belov'd being- and thee ? And when the spring1 flower hath open'd its breast To woo the fond kiss of the breeze of the west, "When nature was glowing in beauty and bloom, Hast thou mourned for the woes that embittered thy doom ? That the earth should be gay and her roses en twine, But the loved of thy bosom could never be thine That she to whose worth thy affection hath clung, Whose name with fond blessings hath dwelt on thy tongue ; Whose love lighted eye had the mildness of heaven, Prom the heart that adored her for aye should be driven ; Then hast thoa not felt in thy darkness and sor row, That year after year should roll on, ar:d no mor row Should come o'er thy night of affllcticn and pain, And that all thy warm hopes and young wishes were vain ? These feelings have pangs which car ne'er be express'd, fifld life hath no charm that can lull them to rest And joy bath no beam, and oblivion vo bowl, To brighten their darkness, or drown their con trol. FLOItlO. IROM THE tout tolio. II. n. JVilde, Esq. of Georgia. life is like the summer rose, That opens to the morning sky, But, ere the shades of evening cloe, Is scattered o.i the ground to die. But on that rose's humble bed, The sweetest dews of night are shed, As if she wept such waste to sec But none shall weep a tear for me. Zly life is like the autumn leaf, That trembles in the moon's pale ray ; Its lu ld is frail its date is brie f ilestlesi, and soon to pass away : Tet, ere that leaf shall fall and fade, The narcnt tree shall mourn its shade, The winds bewail the leaflesi tree But nor.e shall breathe a sigh fcr me. My life is like the print which feet Have left on Tempe's desart strand Soon as the rising tide shall beat, This tract will vanish from the sand : Yet, as if grieving to efface All vestige of the human race, On that lone shore moans the sea But none shh.ll e'er lament for me. -! irtjxunrnwffgpn nT"rTn in immn.i Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. LAKE SCEXEKY. Extracts from Schoolcraft's narrative of the Ex pedition to the Sources cf the Mississippi. The pictured Rocks, (La Portaille, of the French Voy agents,) on Lake Superior, are a series of lofty bluffs, which continue for twelve miles along the shore, and present some of the most sublime and commanding views in nature. We had been told, by our Canadian guide, of the variety in the color and form of those rocks, but vere wholly unprepared to encounter the surprising groupes of overhanging precipices, towering wall, caverns, water-fall, and prostrate ruins, which are htre mingled in the most wonderful disorder, and burst upon the view in ever varying and pleasing succession. In order to convey any just idea of their magnificence, it is necessary to premise, that this part of the shore consists of a sand-stone rock of a light gvey color, internally, and deposited stratum super stratum to the height of jhree hundred feet, rising in a perpen dicular wall from the water, and exten ding from four to five leagues in length. This rock is made up of coarse grains of sand, united by a calcarious cement, and occasionally imbedding pebbles of quartz and other water-worn fragments of rocks, but adhering with a feeble force ; and, when exposed to the wea ther, easily crushed between the fin gers. Externally, it presents a great variety of color, as black, red, yellow, brown, and white, particularly along the most permanent parts of the shore, but where masses have newly fallen. its color is a light grey. In no place 43 r b J' ,. . 1 the able research and ingenuity they con recent fracture disclose any After delivering his 'sentiments red, and tne variety ol out- geologically on the formation of the earth, does the traces of ward coloring is owing partly to mine ral waters, which appear to have oozed out of the crevices of the rock, but mainlv to the washing down of the banks of colored clay from the su perincumbent soil. Thus, although a great variety of surface is presented, there is, in reality, none in its geological character. This stupendous wall of rock, exposed to the fury of the waves, which are driven up by every north wind across the whole width of Lake Superior, has been partially prostrated at several points, and worn out into numerous bays and irregular indenta tions. All these front upon the lake, in a line of aspiring promontories, which, at a distance, present the terri ble array of dilapidated battlements and desolate towns, ' Their rocky summits split ami rent, Form'd turret, dome, or battlement, " Or seemed fantastically set ar With cupola or minaret, " Wild crests as pagods ever decked, " Or mosque of eastern architect." In some places, the waves have lash ed down the lower strata, while the upper ones Jiang in a threatning pos ture over the lake : in others, extensive caverns have been worn into the rock, and, in this way, rocky bluff's, nearly severed from the main, are left stand ing upon rude and massive pillars, be tween which barges and canoes might with safety sail. All that we have read of the natural physiogomy of the Hebrides, of S tafia, the Doreholm, and the romantic isles cf the Sicilian coast, is forcibly recalled on viewing this scene, and it may be doubled whether, in the whole range of American scene rv, there is to be found such an inter esting assemblage of grand, pictur esque, and pleasing objects. On quitting our encampment on our way from St. Louis river to Sandy Lake, the Indians left a memorial of our journey inscribed upon bark, for the information of such of their tribe as should happen to fall upon our track. This we find to be a common custom among them. It is done upon birch bark (betula papyracea J a number of figures and hieroglyphics, which are understood by their nation. This cVifPf rf lmrt- i c n rrv;irrlc incprfrfd in .u i r i it i i m the end ot a pole, blazed, and drove . i-i i- into the ground, with an inclination to- wards the course of travelling. In the present instance, the whole party were represented in a manner mat was perfectly intelligible with the aid ofj our interpreter, each one being charac terized by something emblematic of his situation or tmplo3ment. They distinguish the Indian from the white man, by the particular manner of draw ing the figure, the former being with out a hat, &c. Other distinctive sym bols are employed ; thus Lieut. IMac- kay was figured with a sword, to signi- fy that he was an officer ; Mr. Doty, with a book, the Indians having under- stood that he was an attorney; mvself, with a hammer, in allusion to the mine- ral hammer I carried in mv belt, ike The figure of a tortoise and prairy-hen, denoted that these had been killed ; three smokes, that our encampment consisted of three fires ; eight muskets, that this was the number armed ; three bucks upon the pole, leaning N. XV. that we were going three days N. W ; the figure of a white man with a tongue near his mouth, (like the Azteek hier oglyphics,) that he was an interpreter. Sec. Should an Indian hereafter visit this spot, he would therefore read up on this memorial of bark, that four teen white men and two Indians en camped at that place ; that five of the white men were chiefs or officers, one an interpreter, and eight common sol diers ; that they were going to Sandy Lake, (knowing that three days' jour ney N. W. must carry us there :) that we had killed a tortoise, a prairy hen, &c. I had no previous idea of the ex istence of such a medium of intelli gence among the northern Indians. All the travellers of the region are si lent on the subject. I had before wit nessed the facilitv ".vith which one of the Lake Indians had drawn a map of certain parts of the southern coast of Lake Superior ; but here was a histori cal record of passing events, as perma nent certainly as any written record a mong us, and full as intelligible to those for whom it was intended. Solution ANTIQUAl 11 AN DIFFICULTIES. OF mOM THE XEW-TOIIK GAZETTE. The following remarks, from a memoir of Ira Hill, Esq. at Manchester, Vermont, addressed to Or. Mitchell, are copied for mountains, and rocks, by the agency, in an especial degree, of subterranean and sub-oceanic fire, he treats ol alluvial for mations. Having described the ancient moumb and walls situated in the western country, Mr. II. thus proceeds : u Hut many of these walls and mounds have doubtless been buried beneath allu vians, which have covered that part of the country, and buried the inhabitants, their fields, and their dwellings, in one com mon ruin. These sites of villages and improvements, which now remain visible, were upon the eminences of land, or where the overwhelming torrent was bro ken from them. But by far the greater part was covered with a soil of many feet in thickness, in digging through which for wells, in some places, relics are found. Where the banks of rivers are worn away, other remains of this primitive people appear, in fire places, hearths, pottery, and human bones. " At that period of the world Avhen these beings lived, the northern section of our continent had not risen from the o ccan. At one explosion the range of the Allegany was the vent through which the heat of fire was emitted ; at another the Stony Mountains were the crater through which the flame ascended. Near where the Allegany terminates were the bounds of the Continent. I he Lakes had not the same outlet they now have. They ilowed either to the south into tnc Atlantic, south west into the Gulf of Mexico, through the vale of the Mississippi, cr to the north into an occm which covered the northern part of the Continent. South ward of the lakes, the range of rocks which were raised by internal fires, runs nearly from north to south. This is the course of the principal mountains, and this is doubtless the way that the crater opened to emit the heat which raised the land. The Rocky Mountains run in a similar direction, and extend further north. To the north and north west of Lake Superior, the ranges of mountains and ledges of rocks run nearly from east to west ; or this is their general direction, if I have been rightlv informed by mem bers of the North West Company, who have traversed those extensive forests. They say that the stratas of stone lie shelving to the south and north, in the same manner as they do to the east and west here. If this be a fact, it is evident that the crater which opened to emit the fire when the northern part of our Conti- . nent was raised, ran from east to west. When the solid bottom of an ocean, sev- eral thousand miles m cxlr.nt, was raised, ..in;. , r ! with all its ponderous mass of waters up- on u . whcn the ccmi by bein.r ovep ; centre of the fire, was raised fastest, we j must suppose that the waters to the south ot the centre would rush, with amazing force and velocity to the south, inuadat ing all the fiats and plains which fell in their course. Some of this immense tor rent turned to the cast, passed over the Canadas, filling lakes and rivers with sands, and bursting its way to the sea. Bnt the greatest part pressed south, over the North West Territory, Michigan, O hio, a. id all those flat countries sweep- lnir torests: tilling va lies, lakes, and j ponds, with the soil now called aliuvian, .and passed off wherever passages could be found or formed to the ocean. Fields, , villages, and cities, were instantly over- wncinieu ami ourrieu neneatn tne sanu and mould which were raised and borne in the irresistible flood. " As many cities in Italy were buried under the ashes and lava that proceeded from Mount Vesuvius, to was the grea ter part of North America buried by this mass of mud, rocks, sand, and water, which was raised from the Northern O cean by internal fires. " If you, sir, were to see such a deluge as this, overspreading an extensive coun try, in some places covered with inhabi tants, in some diversified by hills and dales, and in others divided by rivers and lakes, in what a situation do you expect that, that country would be found one thousand y ears afterwards ? Would you not form, in imagination, an exact picture of Ohio, and most of our alluvial tracts ? " In Ohio, at various depths below the surface, have been discovered human skeletons, promiscuously scattered, and lying in every direction ; not ss is the manner of burial among any nation or tribe of whom wc have a description, but as we should expect to find them when o verw helmed by sudden desttuction, and covered by a vast accumulation of earth in an instant. Millions of human skele tons may lie in the same manner below our alluvial soil, and wc should not dis- covcr them, unless by accident we hap pened to dig where some of them were strewed. " The remains of large cities may be concealed under hundreds of feet of sol id matter, brought upon them as has been described. " But, as cities are net commonly built on the most elevated lands, we are to con clude the largest cities, if any cities there were, are now far beneath the surface of the earth. " There is scarce a river channel of a ny depth in Ohio, but presents some cu rious remains of antiquity. Scarcely a well is dug, but some of the works of for mer ages are brought to light for the ad miration of the curious. So common are instances of this kind, that they scarcely attract the attention of the resident inhab hunts, particularly those of the older J Jn m solitary moments class. borne walls, curiously laid m J - . mortar, have been discovered many feet i what can adord tne mind so sovereign under ground. So many remains of art i a relief as the exercise ol devotion to have already been brought to light in that ! an all-present God ? and when domes region, that a doubt cannot exist that it J tic sorrows cluster upon you, which was once as thickly peopled as is now an ; vou cannot reveal to any friend on portion of the United States of the same extent," Sec. "IUA HILL.' COUNT VOLXEV. This distinguished Frenchman paid the great debt of nature at Paris, Apitl 27, 1S20, aged 65 years. His demise was most respectfully noticed in both hemis pheres, for both had been enriched by his genius, his learning, and talents, and by researches of no ordinary scope or impor tance. With all his industry, though he lived to a good old age and to accomplish much, yet, at his death, he left several literary works, on which he had long been employed, in an unfinished state, besides some others of great labor and research, finished, but unpublished. In all the vi cissitudes of his native and beloved coun- trv, the merit of Volnev was never over looked by France. He died a Count, a - . r Peer ot the kingdom, and secretary ot the National Institute, of which he had long been a most active, conspicuous, and distinguished member. It will be recollected by my readers that Volncy spent several years of his ac tive and useful life principally in exten sive tours through these United States that lie published an interesting work on our soil, climate, statistics, and geography, III I.VUJ11U J ges of modern Europe, as have also his 1 Ruins, and other productions of his pen. In the United States, where he came in tending to pass the evening of life incase and retirement, he was not fairly used, and wc view his character tinder a cloud of prejudice. While anonymous critics, envious of his fame, assailed his works, others, or perhaps even themselves a suggestion not lightly made,J found it convenient to pirate his labours, and ap pear in them as original authors ! At one time he did contemplate a severe retort, but his noble spirit shrunk from even the appearance of anger or revenge. With the ardour of genius and the heroism of a martyr, he spent his life in the pursuit of truth : no man loved it more ardently. His investigations made him enemies, as matter of course ; for, in these he was firm, ardent, undeviating and unaccom modating, a remarkable contrast with his personal manners, always mild, bland, un assuming, characterized by the simplicity of a very child. He could be roused, it is true, but only by wrongs and injustice, to the personal majesty and the strength of the lion. I am no eulogist. The character of Volncy has been misunderstood in this country, as well as the cast and character of his writings. As I enjoyed his confi dence and friendship, and was favored with his correspondence, during the latter years of his life, I feel myself hound in justice, as well to his fame and character, as to truth and righteousness in the opin ion of my fellow citizens in the United States, to pay this tribute to his memory. He rilled a large space in theiiterary cir cles and performances of the age, and in the public eye of two hemispheres and was a true and ardent disciple of liberty, political and religious. Next to our own Jefferson, I frankly acknowledge, I regard him among the greatest and best men of the age. As he is now gone the way of all the world, I shall avail myself of a per mission to publish translations of extracts from some of his letters to me, which I hope w ill not be unacceptable to my read ers. Saratoga JFarmer. , 1 EM ALE DEVOTION. Though relig is indispensably necessary to oot sexes, and in every possible character and station, yet a w oman seems, more peculiarly, to need its enlivening supports, whilst her frame must be confessed to be admira blv calculated for the exercise of all the tender and devout affections. The timidity, arising from the natu ral weakness and delicacy of your frame ; the numerous diseases, to which you arc liable ; that exquisite sensibili- after his veturn to Paris, in French : and , s l- uc,u w "c that this work, attacked and mutilated by j a single sentence hastened tne question crides and translators, was extensively to a decision ; Roma dehberat Sagun read, and appeared in most of the langua- ! turn perit. " While Home deliberates ty, which, in many of you, vibrates the slightest touch of joy or sorrow ; the tremulous anxiety you have for friends, children, a family, which no thing can relieve, but .? sense of their being under the protection of God ; the sedentariness of your life, naturally followed with low spirits, whilst wo are seeking health and pleasure in the field ; and the many lonely hours, which, in almost every situation, are likely to be your lot, will expose you to a number of peculiar sorrows, which vou cannot, like our sex, either drovi in wine or divert by dissipation. Un der these, or indeed any other distress es, religion is the only true and unfail- mg resource ; and its hopes and proa- nprtc tVf ri r1 T cnlifl hn;K n rnncnl i. j earthy what method have you left, but to pour them into the bosom of vour Father in Heaven, who is confessedly the friend of the friendless, always willing to hear their cries, and always ahle to protect them t Let it, then, be your first study, byr earnest prayer, and by all the appointed means of grace, to secure the protection of your Great Creator. ELOQUENCE IX THE REST OF CAUSES. Extract of an address of the Rev. Wm. Jo welt,, at the formation of the Hibernian Church Mis sionary Society. IVIy Iord, the zeal and ardour with which we should all engage in this work, have been so strongly enforced, ! that I know net how any thing c ? i i i . -t i r v n uj added to the general feelinc:. I5ut there is one consideration which lias deeply impressed my mind whenever our friends have met together for con sulting on the interests of this Societv. I remember to have read, that in the Panic War, when a citv in Spain was ; besieged by the Carthaginians, and k ! was tarady deliberated in Rome what . 1111 1 1 1 j baguntum perishes I I would apply this sentiment to the present occasion. While Britain deliberates, the world is perishing! I am not for precipitate counsels ; but I would remind the meet ing that every moment we lose, the world is sinking beneath our ieet it has been calculated, estimating the population of the globe at a thousand millions, and allowing thirty years for the period of one generation, that in everv moment of time the soul of one human being passes into eternity., How awakening this reflection ! and could I, my lord, conceive that it is my dearest friend who is in this moment expiring, what must my feelings be i And yet this alters not the considera tion : I am bound to call everv human being my neighbor, my friend, my bro ther ; my Saviour has taught me to do so. Whether he be the person that is within the reach of mT arm, or the man that treads the antipodes of the earth ; he is my neighbor. The place or manner of his death cannot change the question. Whether he be languish ing in pain, ivithout God and ivithout hopt on the sultry deserts of Arabia, or breathing out his spirit in the holy raptures of the Christian's death-bed, it is enouch for me to know that a kin dred soul to mine is at this moment de parting he is dying he is dead ! Krc I can give utterance to the thought, another, and another is no more ! O could I call up the spirits of those who have departed this life since the pres ent assembly began its meeting ; cctdd they tell you of the scenes that in the last few moments have burst upon their view ; some, perhaps, unfolding a tal that would harrow up the soul, other:; animating us by a ray of that joy which eye hath not seennsr ear heard, neither hath it entered the hedrt cf man to con ceive ; how gladly would I leave to them the pleading of this cause. Hut they are dead, they are gone dow n in to silence. Still, my lord, there are millions yet alive, and other genera tions unborn. By that solemn voice, then, that speaks to our imagination from the graves of the departed ; and by that awful account, which we must ere long give of our religious privile ges at the judgment seat of Christ, we arc adjured to add fresh vigour to our deliberations and exertions in behali of those millions that are now alive, and millions yet to live. Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, figu" for it, die for it, anything- but uvf. tor jt,
