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fKU Tl SURTIlCtS W'ttlU.
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fair Hymen i entreating,
JSow in thy maiden jirjmr.
Ami beauty fast is fleeting
Before the touch of tkn.e.
Thert't blis for thee when eddJ
Thert't blist for thee in a'ore,
(And fairest I.utnl shall khej it,)
t jiknown to Ok e hi (ore. ,
Then teie the boon that't offered
t'limiiM with pain or griff;
AnJ take the blitt that'i proffered,
For time's a elloiu thief,
bo vicw thy gems departing
In silence qiiick away,
TVithout remorse for starting
The besom of decay.
Tby lirtiie i the purest
Of all thy beauties bright,
Tben I'nve to make it twrest
F.re inttr'i freezing blight
Shall dim the start that grace it ;
V ink tlander but an art
Tout ent) will eiiibrtce it,
To cheer iti gangrene hcrt.
ALMS-i-IiiLk.
Alas how transient it tlx- venial hour,
Viitn mortal bbs cipands its tender floa'r,
ficarce open to the light iti glory rhet,
It tremble on the stalk, fades, droops and dies 1
Poor fragile being of tunny day
bit ahall I ay thou art ' a breath ' a tpati
Still, ttill too nmch ! a fleeting shadow iuy,
Dr' m of a fleeting tbadow .'.Such i m,:n.
AUtvvtj ViXlncs, &c.
V arieU ' the very apiee of life,
That givet it all itt flavor.
hum aurmtf t uoiuti.
L.1DR.1DOR.
The following narrative it from the peri'wf.cil
acciH it of the Moravian missions. It contain,
Bou.e of the most impretsive descriptions leitr
femcmber to have read.
brother Samuel Leihsich (now a
number of the eldrrs conference cf
the ui.ity) being at that time entrust
ed with the general ore of the breth
fir's missions on the coast of Labra
d' r, the duties of his office required a
tin- to Okkak, the most northern of our
ittiicmrnts, and about one hundred
fifty English miles distaut from
Js in, the place where he resided.
Ur. ther William Turner being ap
pointed to accompany him, they left
iWirt ia March the ll.h, 178'2, ea'ly
in he morning, with very clear wea
tK r, the stars shining w ith uncommon
lii'tre The sledge was driven by the
b. ji'ued Esquimaux Mark, and an
o rr sledge with Esquimaux joined
Company .
An Esquimaux 6leJe is drawn by
a s;eiies ol d n, r,ot unlike a wolf in
sS..mc. Like them they never bark,
hut hnwl disagree tbly. They are kept
b thr Esq'iintauX in grcatrr or larger
patks or teams in proportion to the
sfHatnce of the master. Thev quiet-
1 ubmit to be harnessed for their
work, and are treated with luile mercy
b the heathen Esquimaux, uhomake
them d' hard Juty f r the small quan'
tii of food they alloMr them. This
c'isists chiefly in oiT.d, old ikins, en
traits, such part of whale flesh as are
U'.ti; for other use, rotten whale fins,
Su . und if they re not provided with
thi kind of dog's meat, they leave
thi m to go and seek dead fish or mus
cles on the beach.
tf :.t..t . .t-...
u iii,iku (tun nungci nity
will swallow almost any thing, and on
n journey it is necessary to secure the
harness within the snow hous; over
night, lest by devouring it, they should
Tci.Jer it impossible to proceed in the
rooming. When the travellers arrive
at their nihi quart trs, hnd the dogs
are unharnessed, they are left to bur
ft w tn the snow, where they please,
at d in the morning are sure to come at
thr.r driver's call, when they receive
some IohI. Their strength and speed,
evrn w-iih a hu g-y stonuch, is astoo
ishint?. In fastening them to the slfde,
enr is taken not to let them go abreast.
They are tird by separate thongs, o
unequal lengths, n an horizontal bar
0" the fore-part of the slei!'.e ;' an old
itoui;vTcrr Irals the wav. running
ten 9t twenty paces ahtad, tLrtctcd by !
thi Jt'ivcr, whip, whuh is c,f grf-rtj
hn,th. and can be well
maua?vu niv
by an Esquimaux. The other dogs
follow like a fl ck cf sheep. If one
of them teceives a lash, he generally
bites his neighbor, and the bite goes
round
To return to our travellers : the two
sledges contained five men, one wo
man and a child. All were in good
spirits, and appearances being much in
their favor, they hoped to reach Ok
kak in safety in two or three days.
The track over tiie frozen sea was in
the best possible order, and they went
with ease at the rate of six or 9cvcn
miles an hour. After they had paksed
the Islands in the bay cf Nain, thty
kept at a considerable distance from
the coast, both to gain the smoothest
part of the ice, and to w eather the high
rocky promontory of Kiglapeti. About
eight o'clock they met a sledge with
Esquimaux turning in from the sea.
After the usual salutation, the Esqui
maux alighting, held some conversa
tion, as is their usual practice, the re
sult of which was, that some hints
were thrown out by the strange Esqui
maux, that it might be better to return.
H wever, as the missionaries saw no
reason whatever for it, and only sus
pected that the Esquimaux wished to
enjoy the company of their friends a
Utile longer, they proceeded. Alter
some time, their own Esquimauxhint
ed that there was a ground swell un
dcrthc ice. It was hardly perceptible,
except on lying down and applv ing the
ear close to the ice, when a hollow dis
agreeable grating and roaring noise
was heard, as if ascending irom the
abyss. The weather remained clear
except towards the east, where a bank
of wlrte clouds appeared, interspersed
with some dark streaks. Hut the wind
being strong from the north west.
nothing less than a sudden change of
weather was expected. The sun had
now reached its height, and there was
as yet little or no alteration in the ap
pearance of the sky. But the motion
of the sea ut.der the ice had grown
mere perceptible, so as rather to al.trm
the travellers; and they began to think
it prudent to keep closer to the shore.
The ice had craiks and large fissures
in in my places, some of which formed
c!i3irn of one or two feet wide, but
as they are not uncommon even in its
best state, an f the dogs easily leap
over ihem, they arc only terrible to new
comers.
As soon as the sun declined tow ards
the west, the wind increased and rose
to a storm, the bank of clouds from
the east began t asiend, aud the dark
streaks to put themselves in mution
against the wind. The snow was vio
lently driven about bv njrtial whirl.
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on the south side of the rsivak. But;
.is it plainly appeared that the ice would
break and disperse in the ope sta.
Mark advised to push forward to the i
tioiiii oi iuc mt.k, iii'ui wiithic i lo
lloped the track to Okkak might still
remain entire. To this proposal the
com p. my agreed, but when the sledges
approached the coast, the prospect be
fore them was truly terrific. The ice
broken loose from the rocks was forced
up and down, grinding and breaking
into a thousand pieces against the pr
cipices, with a tremendous noie
which, added to the raging of the
w ind, and the snow driving about in
the air, deprived the travellers almost
of the power of hearin
any thing distinctly.
To make the land at any risk, was
now the only hope left ; but it was w ith
the utmost difficulty the frightened
d"gs rould be forced forward, the
whole body of ice inking frequently
below the surface of the rocks, then
wind, Ijoih rn the ice, and from rfT -u,,u Uir DOU"u-r " na
the peaksof the high mountains, and country lo which lh" ,ru,ian tltIc hai
filled the air. At the same time thc,bltn "languished. At present Mike
ground swell had increased so much, Shurk c!aim a Portable citizenship,
that its effect upon the ice became vcrv or a fl' -4Urg l a residence that
extraordinary and alarming. Th'e he locates f r the time brmg whercv
sledges, instead ol gliding along tr he may chance to lay himsrlf down
smoothlv upon an even sol face, some- for thc ribht- I,is subsistence' he
times ran with violence after the i!ogs df-ws from nature's grand store-house,
and shortly alter sccnud with d ificul- ,; mcan of an &lcl rusl.v r,le th-lt h-'
tvt.. ascend the rising hill, for the I l.'ren h,s f conipanoii simc his
elasticity of so vist a body of ice, of' ,ijral ni'g General George
many leagues square, supported by a ' ,k' ?cr Glark.
trmiMfd sea, though in some places 3! He possesses, in an eminent degree,
or -t yards in thickness, would, in some,- knowledge of all the minotia of
degree, occasion an undulatory motion trapping, and he appr priates his au
not unlike that of a sheetof paper ac-1 tumns,the proper season forthis branch
commodating itself to the surface of f his business, in exploring the small
a rippling stream. Noises were now creeks th.it put into the Misouri a!-ov e
likewise ilistinrtly herd in manv di- the settlements. He is fr qutntK di
rections, like the rrpcrt cf a cannon, covered "at 'he peep of dawn," ban
owing to the bunting of the ic. at headed and bare -footed, pursuing the
some distance. meanderings of these water courses,
The Esquimaux therefore drove beading under a load of traps, tn learn
with all haste towards the shore, in- whether or not his bait has attracted
tending to take up their nig t quarters the cautious victim ; or for the pur-
rising above it. As the only moment
U land was that when it gained the
level of the coast, the attempt was ex
tremely nice and hazardous. How
ever, by God's mercy it succeeded ;
both sledges gained the shore, and
were drawn up the beach with much
difficulty.
The travellers had hardly time to
reflect a ith gratitude to God on their
safety, when that part of the ice from
whah they had just nude good their
landing burst asunder, and the water
forcing nstlf frim below, covered and
precipitated it into the sea. In an in
btant, as if by a signal given, the whole
mass of ice, extending for several
miles from the coast, as far as the eye
could reach, began to burst, and be
overwhelmed by the immense waves.
The sight was tremendous and awful
ly grand ; the large fields of ice, rais.
ing themselves out of the water, stri
king against each other, and plunging
into the deep with violcnre not to be
described, and a noise like the dis
charge of innumerable batteries of
heavy guns. The darkness of the
night, the roiring of the wind and
sea, and the dashing of the waves and
ice against the rotks, filled the travel
lers with sensations of awe and lv rror,
so as almost to deprive them of the
power of utterance. They stood ovcr
whtlmed with astonishment at their
miraculous escape, and even the heath
en Esquimaux expressed gratitude to
God for their deliverance.
MOM TBI IMOl l I.Tll Ut,E KB.
THE REAVER UL'.VTEl.
There appears in the character of
the inhabitants who reside immediate
ly on a frontier, certain doubtful fea
tures that render it dilfkult to deter
mine to which side of the boundary
they bel ong. Thus it is with our tior
derers of Missouri who have t.ikcn up
their residence in the neighborhood of
the Indian Lnds, and ir. many instan
ces have adopted the r ahits, manners
and costume of the natives.
Michael Shuckwrll, or as he has
been more familiarly den minatcd,
Mike Shuck, may be presented as a
sample of these v lunteer Uarbarians.
Amongst the earliest settlers rf Ken
tucky, Mike Shuck was known a white
headed hardy urchin, whom n body
claimed kin to, and wh disclaimed
connexion with all mankind.
He was inured to danger in the
course of the Indian wars of that pe
riod ; and when the celebrated Ctl.
B ion migrated to this country, Mike
was one of his numerous followers.
Advancing as the settlements progress
ed, for the convenience of hunting, he
has at last found himself pushed be-
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pose of locating his traps more advan
tageously.
Such is the accuracy of his skill.
that he can make up a pack of beaver,
1'iicrc an iiiumii,
wioi n 1113 ruuc
knowledge of natural history, wctild
esteem the prospect hopeless. A gen
tleman who was in the pursuit of elk.
about the middle of November last,
discovered this modern Crusoe at eve
ning, laden with his effects, that by
i,rcat good fortune at this time ninount
t d to about a pat k-horse load. He pro
posed to encamp with him for the
night. Mike muttered a kind i f
grr.mbling assent, and led the way.
first through an extensive ha.le thick
et, thence descending into a ravine,
he proceeded by a devious route thro'
a compact grove of swamp ash, and
at length arrived at a cheerful fire that
had previously betn liphted up by our
hero; hut for which the place would
hav httn as dreary as purgatory is
represented to be. Ihe owls them-
selves, however pressing theif neces
sities, could scarcely have Happed tneir
way into this dismal labyrinth. But
Mike and his plunder, as he very
properly termed it in this instance,
(for it was the legitimate property of
the Indians) was safe. Mike Shuck
threw down his burden, and turned to
his follower with a malicious smile, or
rather hysteric grin, and desired him
to be seated. The hospitality of his
board, if a bearskin spread on the
ground deserves the name, was ten-1
dered with little ceremony, and con
sisted of a beaver tail and an elk mar-
row bone, both of which were prepar-,
ed on the coals by mine host in his
own proper person.
Mike, as I have before remarked,
claims no family connexions; and if I the lurks, Carnal, is mentionca by
he ever had any, he has outlived them ; ! holy Job, under the name of the East
he is therefore making no provision j Wind, and extends its ravages all the
for legacy hunters. But he is always, way from the extreme end of the
when he deigns to make use of his Ciulj)h of Cambaya up to Mosul ; it
tongue, grumbling about his arrange-1 carries w ith it flake of fire like.threads
menu for an easy independent ohl age, cf silk : instantly strikes dead thos:
and speaks of it as if it was yet very . that breathe- it, and consumes them in
far distant, although he has attained wardly to ashes, the flesh soon becom
almost fourscore. When the trapping , ing Mack as a coal, and dropping off
season is over, he betakes himself to the bones. Philosophers consider it
his crafty as he is pleased to term a I as a kind ol electric lire, proceeding
cotton wood canoe, and proceeds to j from the sulphureous or nitrous cxha
markct with his usual indifference to-1 lations, which arc kindled by the agita-
wards the elements. On one occasion,
when his cargo was fairly afloat nn
the angry current of the Missouri, and
Mike had extended his weather-worn
limbs upon the shore, for repoee, his
bow-Lst (a grape vine) parted, and
his frail bark put to sea without a pilot. I I He oiclinary neat ot trie climate is
O., making this discovery in the mom-1 extremely dangerous to the blood and
ing.he wascht.griiitd. Init not .liscour-j 1"1G tvtn 10 the Mn tthlch
aged by the event. He lost no time, ! M"i.crs and peels from the flesh, affect
but instai.tlv set off in tmrsint of his " the eyes so much, that travelled
fortune ; on the third dav he discover
ed his rraft, self-moore d under the he
of a raft of drift wood, without hav
ing sustained the smallest 'u ji.rv in
hull, rigging or cargu. Michael was
so much rejoiced, that, by inspiration
or instinct, he was induced to ofli r a
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n.iiiv imici ui iiuuN- (;n li ; Dili
whether it was directed to dsJ, Man.
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or the Ucvtl, 1 have not been inform-
i a ,ii m- i i . i . i
ed. As old Michael disdains to dec -
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orate his pericranium with the beaver
i c
he may entrap, his hair has been suf-
t I 1 i i
fered to grow into a matted trristly
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resembles the borrowed wig of a stroll
. - - -
ing player. His features too are worn
by time, : nd the storms of nearlv 80
winters, into the infle xibility of a bar
ber's blork. With all these tvidi tsces
10 the contrary, he professts to be ex
tremely happy, lie insists that h
relishes his meals infinitely better
than a professed epicure ; and he con
tends that Madeira can bv ro means
bear a comparison with spring water. I
I do not envy him las happiness,!
nor would I recommend copying his
pursuits; yet I believe, most religious
ly, that such a life of active exertion,
by giving to the blood a vigorous cir
culation, will insure health and chur
f ulness to the spirits, while nn inert
sedentary life, will be- fruitful onTv'in
blue-devils. atrora nonrAMi.
w nn w
ih.vsth.hiiix or jikv.ui iv. ;.
And it tame to pan, ulu n the m "lid irif.
that inI prrpaml a trhrm-iit a,t jm ; 3r,.
the viil U at upon the ht-a.1 of J(;i..ih ll...t he
tainted, and wiihrd in hirtiself tn die, nd -.aid,
It i bctkr for mi to die than to hie.
This account of the extreme heat
of the climate ol Nineveh, is well il
lustrated in the ingenious Mr. Camp
belt's trav els :
It was early in the evening when
the pointed turrets of the city of Mo
sul opened on our view, and commu
nicated no very unpleasant sensations
t" my heart. I found myself on Scripture-ground,
and could not help feci;
ing som portion of the pride of the
trurlli r. when I refti-cteil lliat I ua
1 r.ow in sight of Nineveh, renow ncd in
holy w rit. The city is seated in a ve
ry barren sandy plain, on the banks of
luc river i igris. inc csiemai view
of the town is much in its favor, being
encompassed with stately walls of solid
stone, over which the steeples or min
arets of other lofty buildings are seen
with increased effect. Here I first
saw a caravan encamped, halting on
its march from the Gulph of Persia to
Armenia ; and it certainly made a
most noble appearance, filling the eye
with a multitude of grand objects, all
uniting to form one magnificent whole.
But, though the outside he to beauti
ful, the inside is most detestable. The
heat is so intense, that, in the middle
of the day, there is no stirring out :
and even at night, the walls of the
houses are so heated by the day's sun,
as to produce a disagreeable heat to
ihe body, at foot or even a yard dis
tance from them. However, I enter-
ed it with spirits, uecaiuc I consider
ed it as the last stage of the worst
part of my pilgrimage : but, alas ! I
was disappointed in my expectation,
for the Tigris was dried up by the in
tensity of the heat and an unusual long
drought, and I wss obliged to take the
matter with a patient shrug;, and ac
commodate my mind to a journey on
horseback, which, though not so long
n3 that I had already made, was likely
to be equally dangerous ; and which.
therefore, demanded a full exertion tf
fortitude and resolution.
'It was still the hot ecar.on of the
year, and we were to travel through
; that country, over which the horrid
t i. - i f i .
Wtnti.i nave oeiorc uicuuuucu sweeps
its consuming blasts. It is called, by
tion of the winds. The only possible
means of escaping from its fatal effects,
is to fall flat on the ground, and there
by prevent the drawing it in ; to do
this, however, it is necessary first to
: if. which is not always practicable.
ire oMii'ed to w ear a transparent cov
ering over them, to keep c if the heat.'
rui.M nmxigi,
We cannot but remark of the Li
ble, how uniformly and decisively it
announces itself in all its descriptions
i f the state and character of man,
t , ft' ' II' t
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i rnatter, it brngi before us the totality
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l cur alienation, how it represents
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' us to be altogether broken oil Iron
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'our allegiance to God, and how it
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leais not in the face of those undoubt-
, , r . . . ,
ed ihvtrsi'ies of character which exist
m thf vn.rlil tc ii'.rrl .I i?i 11 li !..
world, that it is guilty before him.
And if we would only seize on what
may be called the element, ry princi
ple of guilt. if we would only ttke
it along w ith us, that guilt, in refer
ence to God, must consist in the de
fection of c.ur regard, and our rever
ence Irom him. if we would only
rpen our eyes to the undoubted fact,
that there may be such an utter defec
tion, and vet there may be many aa
amiable, ami many a graceful exhibi
tion, both of feeling and of conduct,
in referct.ee to those who are around
us, then should we recognize in the
statements cf the Bible, a vigorous,
discerning, a;.d intelligent view of hu
Mian nature, an unfaltering announce
ment of what t'.iat nature essentially
is, uidcr all the plausibilities which
"rrvc to ilisguisc it,---and such an in
siht, in fact, into the secttties of our
inner mnn, ns if carried home by that
Spirir, whose rilict it b tj apply the
word with pr.wcr into the conscience,
is enough, of itself, t.i stimp upon
thi book, the evidence of t'ns Divini
ty which inspired it.
It was rot by inflicting pains ana
penalties that Christianity first made
its appearance in the world : the divine
truths it inculcated received irresista
ble confirmation from the lives, prac
tice, and examples, of its venerable
professors. These were arguments
which no popular prejudice could re
sist, no Jewish logic rrfute, and no
Pagan persecution discredit. Had the
primitive Christians only praised and
fromuJgiited c mrt perfect religion
the world ever saw, it couid have pro
duced but very slender effects on the
faith and manners of the people, if the
jealous and inquisitive eye of malice
could have detected that the Doc
trines they recommended had not
been illustrated by the Livrs they led.
HANNAH MORC.
One jjreat canse of the neglect of reli
gion is ihe want of seir-examination. Men
re fearful of examining their actions, be
came their judgrnentscondemn what their
inclinations approve; and in this volunta
ry blimhaess, thev Rrope their way through
life, to the brink of eternity.
Yo'j must pardon numerous triviul faults
in )ur friends, if you will live well with
the i ii, or even with yourself. No man h
pet feet.