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i Where Como on'itt Ulie'i itiil boora1v'"!
Blk Alpine 8nof, an4 fwaiiierVrtrvid ba,
There it a olltad more f tbJn er
1 Wu fcivento Fenvoreaiiwor oe Pjer f
l i Whele rock, woodward off the noon-Ude rar,
J f AnA me2 poinuloclow. tr4nquLb. J
: teh sleep on rat and,pr rippie o er,
Where the bare cng that to the ware descend , .
5 U thawdowit with the light-leaved olive blends,
ajknd myrtles ipirjled with the clurtering Tine
High orer-arch?d a bower of -fragrance twine ;
IWhllrt far bajyond the lake's broad waters roUtt
j Expand their; purple splendours edged with gold, ,
EBjr headland bleat and misty isle retire
Aad seem to tinge eacb dUtant cape with fire.
This calm retirement virtuous Pliny chose,
Within these' groves .he sought and found repose,
When sickening with the vulgar toils of life,
The courtly iomage, the forensic strife,
He left the world which triflers hold to dear,.
; And joyoui sprang to feast on Nature here,
f ' Beauties of earth and heaven," (twas thus he cried)
f ' Thou wave dark-heaving to the cavern's side,
fThoa ancient forests venerable shades
5 Ye azure mountains that in distance fade,
. Te clouds that round their icy summits break, .
How pure, bw deep the wisdom that ye speak-!!
Not that vain knowledge taagbt in worldly schools.
tTo flatter, fawn, ensnare, delude by rules: j
In truth's fair semblanee to conceal our guile, ' , i
! And tbeathe the sting of malice, id a smile;
j Not that base grovelling to another's will, '
j Beviled, spurn'd, trampled, yet complacent sti 11 )
. But studious thoughts on Nature's works Intent,
j The soaring hopes lo fancy's vision sent, j
f The clear transparence of the spotless mind, J ,
! Which glows with joys that leaves no shade behind'
Thus didst thou read Creation's moral page,
Thus soothe thy cares, O philosophic sage.
I feel with thee the raptures that insplr'd
- Tby lonely hours, when, in itself retired,
Thy free mind soar'd upon the wings of thougLtj
And grasp'd the fair fdeas which it sought,
i I seem thy sports', tby studies t divide,
! Through valleys lone I linger by thy side,
': Breathe the keen freshness of the mountain-air,
: And read man's, charter'd independence there.
Or trim with thee the midnight lamp, and gaze
TJpon.the glories of Rome's anelent days, , ,
The glowjifmind,,the constancy of soul, i
i Sthmp'd by thy genius on the historic roll,
When o'sjr thy breast prophetic longings came,
And throbb'd with promise of immortal fame.
'i But did thy5 virtuous bosom never feel
Those blighted hopes which thought could never heal
Did thy capacious wisdom ne'er explore ;
An unseen world, where fame should be no more ?
Wast thou content mind's purest joys to kmm",
And inlhe silent grave those joys forego ?
The towering heights of Reason's lore to try,
To plume thineeagle fancy and to die ?
Did no still voice e'er'whisper in thy breasi, ,
That those fond aspirations to be blest, .
Thateverish restlessness, that mortal strife,
"Were the sure earnests of immortal life, , "
(seeds of that flower that was again to bloom
More bright, more fair and live beyondlhe tomb?
Unhappy ! from these truths thoi turn'dst away, '
Nor hail'dst the morn that brought our glorious day.
. The. view of the Lake of Como from the town is
confined' to a small circular basing surrounded by
hihhills, and enlivened by villas. On doubling a low
headland, a very beautiful reach is seen, j The moun
tains rise on each side boldly from the water's edge,
and their summits terminate in peaks of varied form
and elevation. Their gradual ascent (in Gibbon's
words) is covered by a triple plantation ,-of olives, of
vines, and chesnut-trees, and they are clothed nearly
to their summits with verdure., The green mass of
"the woods is agreeably interrupted in various places
ijv small villages, clustering rpund the slender tower
l'thej church, pr by the solitary convent or chapel,
i whilst the white villas which crowd the shores are re
i fleeted in;the transparent waters which flow close un
der their walls. About three miles from Como we
came to the promontory and small village of Torno.
iJt fotmsa very picturesque object, sloping gradually
1 from the higher hills, and projecting far into the lake,
with its houses, chu'reh, and cypress-trees. Here
KorWhave placed Pliny's two villa's hi3 Tragedy
and Comady. , The situation has sufficient beauty,
"and agrees well enough with Pliny's description to
warrant us in placing them there jbut there is nothing
like conclusive evidence, of their having Occupied this
Site, j We coasted the Eastern shore of the lake from
Tornd. adrairing, as we advanced, the beauty j and
.4; boldness of the ccnery, and, about two miles farther,
landed at a modern villa called the rlmiana. Here,
in the inner court of the house, is the intermitting
fountain described by both Phny a. Its source is
under alow cavern ; it runs with great rapidity, and
iia as clear as crystal. The attendant informed us,
Vtat oJll rlooo dnrl folio iria c Ant IVt-it at
r I . tain hourp. It does not, I think, appear from Pliny's
account, that he had a villa close to this fountain :
and, Hndeed, the confined situation, hardly allowing
room tor a house, is very ill adapted to the space ol-a
Roman mansion. The site, however, of the,Pliniana
rs very, beautiful j it is embosomed in a grove of ches
liuta, laurel, and cypress : it clings close to the! rocky
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hill which rises immediately aboVe it; and cqintnands
an extensive and magnificent view of the lake.
I shall subjoin Pliny's description of i his villas on
1 the lalge, m tending to illustrate the beautiful scenery
: in wnicn ma eicguiii genius seems so muca 10 nave
delmhted. " On this shore I have many villas, but
two, as they please me most, so. principally engage
' me. 1 1 The one placed on rocks, after the Baian fashion,
looks over the lake j the other, also, in the Baian man
lier, touches its waters : wherefore, that, I am accus
tomed to call Tragedy, because she is supported on
buskins S this. Comedy, because her leet are sandaled.
.Each has itspcculiar charms, which, to the possessor
of both, are. from their very diversity, rendered more
attractiycA This enjoys the lake more closely; that
' more extensively this embraces in "its prospect one
bay only qf a toft circling outline; that with its
lofty : promontory divides two : faDm that, the exten
ded line of coast, stretching, to a great distance, ap-
nears hke a school of equestrian exercise ; from this,
the: gentle curve of tlie shore forms a spacious and
sheltered nortico for pedestrian recreation, That feels
lioti the waves : this breaks them ; from that you can
took down upon the fishermen : from thtsyou can par
take in the snort vourself?and throw the hook from
vour: chamber, nay, almost from your bed as from a
ooo-h i hese united, attractions nave induced me to
make td each those additions in which they are sepa
rately deficient.-PinB. lxlEp. 7.
PKVER f Piarly national,, while they convey
h mndP,, nf tT;UKm& wiuconsequemy mcucaxe
had a preverbialeiprioni;,rr,o;,io uv. ir,
rem ad trtanos venia f-w 1" j
irsof the people'might inferSi
their reserve. A proverb has mLZvP.
torn! of ancient coxcombry, vhiT1 CU
frmr, the Gre. To mr-nnf Sy Came
r.JZ . ::rSe manners in
in Rome, that -they might not discom pose the econiJiz
of their hair'. The Arab, whose unsettled exists"!
makes him miserable and interested, says, I Vinecar
given is better than honey bought Every thing of I
high esteem with him who .is so often parched in the
desert Is described as milk How large his flow of
mun i is a proveruiai expresuou wiin tne irab, to
: distinguish the'most copious eloquence! . To express
a state oi penect repose, uie raoian proverD is, ' 1
r throw the rein over my back an allusion to the toos-
eninff of th -jokh ot tne cameis, wnicn are tnrown
diiCOYer the rustic manner of our ancient Britons 1
in the Cambrian proverbs ; many relate to the hedge,
. a. . - i i .. a - .i i j 1
'ZThe cleanly Briton is seen m we hedge: the horse
looks not on the hedge but the corn: the bad hus
band's hedge va full of gaps The state of an agn-
. I i? ami tM,r..1ir' ait
their proverbial sentence for olTajre i, 1 An old mans
end is to keep sheep'.' ! Turn from ifte vrraiu jxu
ana me ajmcuiturai rjnton to a iiuLum cw.t -
high state of artificial civilization : the Chinese proy-
ums OUUUb Wl mup."
rMumantW nll.n r mQ rrVllfiVnt DUiXailUTJ. Al
fectine a mere solemn exterior than all other nations,
n fflvni-irifA mvT with them is. 'A i?rave and ma
ipctin rmtA i uk it were, the valace of the soul.7
JWViV M.W w M- , ;
Thpir notinn r ffnTBrfllnCIli la uuiie aiuictiuiai.
Thpvmv A aovereicn maybe compared to a. hall:
lus officers to the steps that lead to it ; the, people to
ihf DTonnd on which they stand.' W hat should we
think of a people who naa a provero, tnat "nemo
cri ves blowa is a master, ne wno gives none is a aog
We should instantly decide on the mean and servile
soirifcoT those' who could repeat it ; and such we una
to have beefi that of the Bengalwe, to whom the de
grading proverb belongs, derived from the treatment
thev were used to receive from their Moeul rulers,
who answered the claims of their creditors Ty a vigo
rous application of the whip 1 In some ofthe Hebrew
Wnvprh wa n ctn.rir fcw th- fiwnipnt. allnfiioiis of
that fugitive people to their own history. The; cruel
r j . r. ;
oppression exercised bv the ruling power, and the con-
niaence in tneir nope oi cnange in xiie uay oi reiuuu-
fT rt , .1 L i 1 1 J f -
tion, was delivered m this Hebrew proverb . vy hen
the sale of bricks is doubled, Moses comes !' The fond
idolatry of their devotion to their ceremonial law, and
to every thing connected withtheir sublime i neocracy.
in their Magnificent temple, is finely expressed by this
proverb 'None ever took a stone out of the Temple,
but the dust did fly into his eves.' Peysonel, who long
resided among the Turks, observes, that their pro
verbs are full of sense, ingenuity, and elegance, the
surest test of the intellectual abilities of any nation.
He said this to correctthe volatile opinion of De Tott,
who to convey an idea of their stupid pride, quotes
one of their favourite adages, of which the truth and
candour are admirable : ' Riches in the Indies, wit in
Europe, and pomp among the Ottomans.'
Curiosities of Literature.
The following lines by Gothe, the celebrated poet,
are now, we believe, for the first time presented to
our readers. They apply exactly to the question so
often agitated, are we better with or without the aid
of romance and antiquity, in a literary and moral
point of view. :
America thou hast it better,
Than our ancient hemisphere.
Thou hast no falling castles
Nor Basalt as here : 6
Thy children, they know not,
(Their youthful prime to mar)
Vain retrospection.
Of ineffective war? "
Fortune wait oh thy glorious spring?
And when in4ime thy poets sing,
May some good genius guard them all
From Baron, Knight and Ghost traditional.
Fras. Mag1.
THE UNITED STATES.
. A land more fair and happy, never sun
View'd in hi$ wide career! a lovely spot
For all that life can ask: salubrious mild!
Its hills are. ;reen, its woods and prospects lair :
Its meadowslertile, and to crown the whole
In one delightful word it is our HOME,
The seat of LIBERTY, and all its sweets.
From the Liverpool Chronicle.
. PATRIOTIC SOXG.
Air " Scotts wha hae wi' Wallace bled."
Britons ! who, by Wellington,
To -glory oft have been led on ;
A nobler fight may now be won,
A bloodless victory !
Now1 the day, and now's the hour,
See approach corruption's power ;
See its deadly banner lower,
I Badge of slavery !
Wha would be a traitor knave?
Wha sae base as be a slave?
Wha a vile; faction will not brave ?
j Let him turn and flee !
Wha for a patriot King and laws?
Wha for Freedom's sacred cause?
Wha from plundering foes withdraws?
i Let him on wi1 me !
Spurn oppression's woes, and pains !
Boroughmonger's lawless gains ;
William over Briton's reigns,
And Britons shall be free !
Lay the hateful faction low;
Robbers fall in every foe ;
Reform, Reform's in every blow ;
! Reform we'll have or die !
Fifty Years Hence! The increase of popu
lation in the United States within ten years,
appears by the last census to have been up
wards of three millions, which is something
more than the entire population of the Colo
nies at the commencement of the Revolution
ary war. This (shows with what rapid strides
our country is advancing in physical strength
and political importance. Those are now born
who will in all probability, live to see this Re
public the most; powerful among the nations of
the earthy as well as the most free and happy.
In half a century more, our population may
reach frondT forty to fifty millions, and be equal
to that of Franee and Great Britian united.
If improvement; in the useful arts for the next
fifty years keeps pace with the. progress they
have made in the last fifty, there' will be scarce
ly any part of the country so remote as not to
be penetrated by eanals and reil-roads that
will not be brought near to market by the new
ly discovered power of steam or rather by
the new application of that power to propel
ling boats and carriages. The present gener
ation has witnessed wonderful discoveries, and
political revolutions of incalculable importance
to the freedom 'and happiness ofthe human fa
mily. The succeeding ones our children and
children's children are destined perhaps to
witness occurences not less extraordinary.
Judg ing by the past who can pretend to say
what will be tlie extent of future discoveries ?
The man who had ventured to predict a few
years ago that carriages could be impelled by
steam with safety to passengers and cargo, at
tne rate of thirty or forty miles an hour, would
have been viewed as a visionary. But this has
been realized, and from its frequency, so ex
traordinary a performance has ceased, in par
ticular places to be a novelty.
Milledgeville Recorder.
An Gi.d Paper. The Newport Mercury of
Saturday last says:
"This number completes seventy-three years
since the Newport Mercury was first published
in this town, ( June 12, 1759) by James Frank
"n, brother of Dr. Benjamin Franklin."
The first fiTTa rra rift-ha Vo1in OTS. fortUnate-
- - v ugb JX lUb vw.g7
iy lor mankind, both in pleasure and pain, is
worn off bv
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ine nrst enjoythent ana the nrst
sunenng.
ivr t0ir
mentioned as containinir the most valuable and
rare works in the literature of his country, has, we
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understand, made an arrangement for bestow
ing it -upon the Collegiate Institute for Young
: Ladies at Brooklyn. The only condition te-
quired is, that he pupils of that school shall
i let n the language from his instructions.
'C.hrn hn rmiW returned from the
nation West of th?iississippi, who mentions
that in the election for members of the Che-
rokee Legislature, the successful candidates
ts from Georcria. Sam
Hal Unnttnn Imim linirprnftr fit I PTinrSSRR. WnO
W XA 4. A W A V M.M.M m A fj
left his wife in that state to associate with the
Indians in the wilds ofthe west,
was also a can
rlidatP. fnr a seat in the Indian Council, but was
defeated and lost his election; since which, he
has abandoned his Indian wife among them, and
has signified his intention to banish himself to
the Choctaw nation. bavannati Georgian.
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We learn from the " Conemaugh Republi-
can, printeu at uiairsvme, umu musnouicu
table circumstance occurred in Fairfield town
1 -Tl ' ' xl A I lvAn
ship in this county, on the 19th ult. 1 he par
. "n rn, .
ucuiars given re as luuun 9
Early in the morning, a son of Mr. John
TUair. took down and loaded a rifle With which
he went to a cornfield for the purpose of pro
tecting the crops from the ravages of the black
bird. While out, a shower of rain came on,
which dampened the priming and prevented .a
discharge of the gun's contents. On returning
to tne nouse, ne piacea it in us usuai pu&iiiuu.
In the afternoon, an older brother, unaware
that she was loaded, took down the rifle for the
purpose of cleaning her. The ram-rod becom
ing fast, he procured the assistance", of another
brother to pun it out. Alter several ineneciuai
attempts he succeeded ; but no sooner was this
effected, than the gun went ott the contents
passed through the head of one of Mr. Blair's
sons, a small boy about lour years ot age, wno
was at the time playing on the porch. I he
ball entered immediately above the child's right
eve, and having passed through his head, made
its way through a pale ofthe porch in the yard.
The Tides Again. Without being able to
account for, we must again record the astonish
ing rise of the Tide, in our harbor. At dark,
last evening, the water had risen above many
nfnnr wharves, fcnd continued to rise.1 All
hands were employed in removing the Cotton
exposed, and within its reach, and proper pre
cautions taken against any further injuries,
which might arise from the swell. The clouds
were ragged, wild and unsettled. Throughout
the day, heavy showers, at intervals, accompa
nied with considerable wind, gave quite a March
like aspect to the season Chart. City Craz.
A nole cargo. The ship Splendid of 642
tons, whose magnitude justifies her name, com
manded by Capt. Britton, cleared at Mobile on
2d inst. for Liverpool, having on board two
thousand and ninety-nine bales of cotton, a
mounting in weight to 853,643 lbs. averaging
consequently, over 406 lbs. to the bale. Her
freight money amounted to about four thou
sand one hundred pounds sterling, premium of
J2iXCIla,Ilgc lllbiuucu, ji auuui cigiiiucii uiuuauu
two hundred dollars.
From the Ontario Repository.
Black Cherry Tree. A medical corres
pondent of the Cooperstown Watchtower says
that the bark of this tree is poisonous. He re
lates the case of a young lady to whom he was
lately called, and who, in consequence o
drinK
from a
ing about half a pint of cider, taken
elosely stopped bottle filled the evening pre
vious ! with cherry bark iresn irom tne tree,
was seized with vertigo, stupor and syncope,
followed by great difficulty of respiration and
vomiting. Similar effects were produced in a
slighter degree upon another person, who took
from the same bottle a smaller draught of ci
der, i He says that French chemists 'have re
cently ascertained that the deleterious! princi
ple of the cherry, laurel, and the kernel of the
peach, is very analagous to prussicracid. This
acid in its concentrated state, if a feather be
dipped into it and draipr across the eye of an
animal, produces instant? death. Two drops,
says the writer, have been known to kill a
vigorous dog in a very few minutes.
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Effects of Fright. We have often remarked
on the impropriety of exciting the fears of
children, for the purpose of more easiljr mana
ging them ; but never, since we appeared before
the public, have we heard of anything so hor
rible as the following. The subject being too
delicate to allow for the mentioning of names,
we shall avoid such an exposure, but at the
same time we pledge ourselves for the correct
ness of the narration. Some time ago, a lady in
a certain considerable town in Yorkshire went
to a neighbor'shouse to take tea, along with
her husband, and left her little familyl to the
care of her servants. In the course of the even
ing she felt very uneasy, and being impressed
with an idea that all was not right at home, she
left her friend's house early. On arriving at
her home, she found that her servants,! in the
exercise of high life below stairs, had collected
a social party. This she passed over j without
observation, and proceeding up stairs to the
nursery, she was surprised by a terrific figure
at the bottom ofthe bed ofthe youngest child
which was but three years of age ! The fact
was that the nurse maid, findig the child" not
very ready to go to rest, and being 1 jth to be
disturbed in her evening's enjoyment by its
crying, had dressed up and placed thle figure
alluded to at the ottom of the infant's bed,
with a view of frightening it to sleep, j
The contrary effect had; however, been pro
duced the child had been horror struck, and
appeared to its mother with its eyes fixed, in
an idiotic stare, upon the image. Astonished
and distressed, she rung the bell, and then pro
ceeded to take up her infant; but lo t it was a
lifeless corpse. The fright occasioned by the
nurse's folly had been too much for the little
innocent. . In the extreme of fear the pulse
had ceased to. beat the vital spark had fled,
and the mother was le'ft to mourn in unuttera
ble anguish the credulity which induced her
to trust to such a servant, and perfidy of the
unprincipled nurse, in whom she had confided.
To add more is needless; and to describe the
subsequent sorrow of the parent is impossible.
It is a melancholy story; - but it is not more
strange than true ; and we give it with no other
ihn to nlare such parents as may reau
pect to those to whom they
may
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y . 1 - a. .-J I. Alr.ias nHenrinff.
care 01 .ineir mnoceni auu hciicoo w"""-e
, York Herald.
( ,v : a
Mysterious Document. A communication,
of which the following is an exact copy, waaiwas me custom mere, once in seven years tQ
an exact copy, was
received bv Tost on Tuesday, at the Manches-
ter police office. It bears tne nanrwicn post
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mark. Of jcourse, the most distant ideacannot
be formed of the object or purpose of this sin
gular communication: j
Anne minshuli
Sent for a gown at township of gorten blew
short sieaves axe him place to look after them
Chieldren won after me every where low p .rt
Dour house.
for the lord Jasus Christ pour juonn
(Direction on the back.)
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directed to pleace office in Manchester.
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Manchester iruaratan.
The number of Emigrants reported this fore-
noon was mro. ui tnese otot
yea auring tne past wee, "77 ""
ally arrived probably exceeds by fully ten per
il .1 . ' 1 riTI .;nknii o i 11
cent mat statea in ine return, xuc x
t 1 . 1 ra-vi.. Uilrrvim I
fromNewry for instance returned
150 adults,
i ' i ..rt i r j
and upwards of 2o0 souls were found onboard.
mi ; i . J .:4-U friM irocc I c
ine same nas occurreu wim umi-
though not to so grea an extent At the la-
the la
test dates eleven
vessels had sailed irom ongo
II!: Kr fnlW. all with
and p.leven more were about to follow, all with
emigrants. In the former years only one ves
sel has been known to leave that part of Ireland
with setlers. Quebec Mercury, June 4.J
Parisian Society. The tone of society in
Paris is very far from John Bullish. They do
not ask what a man is worth, or whether nis
father is the owner of a tin-mine or a borough
but what has he to say, whether he is amia
ble and spirituel. In that case (unless a mar
riage is on the tapis) no one inquires whether
his account at his banker's is high or low or
whether he has come in his carriage or On foot.
An. English soldier of fortune, or a great tra
veller, is listened to with some attention -as a
marked character ; while a booby Lord is no
more regarded than his own footman in livery..
The blank after a man s name is expected to
be filled up with talent or adventures, or he
passes for what he really is a cypher.
Monthly Magazine.
A bashful man is like a tiger ; he makes but
one effort, and if that fails, slinks away to his
jungle, and essays not another. I myself have
my own experience to'vouch for this ; having
in the far-off days of my gallantry, full many
a time and oft, in dining out, gathered myself
together with a gallant ferocity to ask the
lady of the feast for the honor of a glass of wine
with her. But alas! if peradventure the lady
listened not to my first demonstration, I was
prone to relapse into an utter and insensible
incapacity to repeat the mighty effort The
sound of my voice died suddenly, and word
spoke I never more-
A man is sometimes pleased with a littlevio
lence, which saves him the trouble of making
up his mind, when he don't know. exactly what
he would be at, and so is a woman if she is not
very much belied.
Blessed, indeed, yea, thrice blessed is he
whom trifles can make happy ; it is this which
forms the bliss of childhood, and the consola
tion of old age, each of which finds its appropri
ate enjoyments in an exemption from the seri
ous labors and oppressive anxieties of the
world's great business.
It is social intercourse alone that, by calling
us off from self-contemplation, and making it
necessary to remember and administer to the
wants or the enjoyments of others, can make
man happy himself, and an instrument of happi
ness to others.
The two Sexes. The last number of the
Ladies' Magazine contains its usual variety of
valuable and interesting matter. The following
true and elegant paragraphs are extracted from
an article by Mrs. Sigourney, whose mind
is the dwelling of light and beauty, "Man
might be initiated into the varieties and mys
teries of needle work ; taught to have patience
with the feebleness and way wardness of infan
cy, and to steal with noiseless step about the
chamber of the sick ; and woman might be in
structed to contend for the palm of sciene; to
pour forth elequence in senates, or to 'wade
through fields of slaughter to a throne.' Yet
revoltings ofthe soul would attend this violence
to nature; this abuse of physical;and intellectual
energy ; while the beauty of social order would
be defaced, and the fountains of earth's felicity
broken up We arrive, therefore at the conclu
sion : The sexes are intended for different
spheres, and constituted in conformity to their
respective destinations, by Him who bids the
oak brave the fury of the tempest, and the Alpine
flower lean its cheek on the bosom of eternal
snows. But disparity does not necessarily
imply inferiority. The high places ofthe earth,
with their pomp and glory, are indeed acces
sible only to the march of ambition or the grasp
of power; yet those who pass with faithful
and unapplauded zeal through their humble
round of duty, are not unnoticed by the "Great
Task-master's eye ;" and their endowments,
though accounted poverty among men, may
prove, durable riches in the Kingdom of Heav-
en.
5
Extraordinary Contest. Captain Crow, in a
work recently published, relates the following
as having occurred on a voyage to Memel:
"One morning -during a calm, when near the
Hebrides, all hands were called up at three
o'clock in the morning to witness a battle be
tween several of the fish called thrashers and
some sword-fish on one side and an enormous
whale on the other. It was in the middle of
Summer, and the weather being clear, and tlje
fish close to the vessel, we had a fine opportu
nity of witnessing the contest. As soon as the
whale's back appeared above the water, the
thrashers springing several yards into the air,
descended with great -violence upon the object
of their rancour, and inflicted . upon him the
uWp Dc,ere iaps wim meir. tails, the sounrl
of which resembled the
reports of muskets
fired at a distance, j The
sword-fish, in their
turn attacked the distressed
him from below ; andihusbeset on all sides and
wounded, when the poor creature appeared, the
water around him was dyed with blood. In this
wuwuucu.u.a.iu.g ana-woun.
compusneu uis uesirucuon.
The same author gives the followinar accmm '
oi a: sacrifice at Bonny,' in Africa :- " Whilst
Bonnjf, a distressing ceremony took place. ?
sacrifice a virgin of fteen or sixteen years of
age, as a propitiatory offering to Boreas, thep-o,!
OI menoriB wmu. ror suujc weens previnno
to the sacrifice, the female selected, is ie(j
tnrough the town, attended by numbers of
priests, vismng every nouse, ncn ana poor
and whatever she fencies is immediately granted
ner When the poor creature, is satisfied witji
her booty, and (strange infatuation !) expresses
her willingness q die, she is placed, with all th
arucies sne nas coneciea, into a targe canoe
ana laxen to a piace aDout iwemy miles from
tne town ; wnere, togetner wnn ner oooty, she
is thrown into the sea by the priests, and isin -
stantly devoured by the sharks. While the
preparations for a repetition of this sacrifice
were going on, I made repeated endeavors to
persuade-the great men and priests to abandon
P , cruelintLtion: but unhannilv. mv oZ
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r,r- w.-
mail was iiuuetj iu uic nst wuu nuu luiien vie-
, ignorance and superstition of
. , . Tin -nri imnPOCC;ntl
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bv this brbaro us ceremony was vetfrLJ
i ' vru- , V
when a Quaw chl( being taken in battle, Waa
sent from the interior to King Pepple, and the
great men at Bonny, to be eaten at a grand
feast. In this instance, too, I. did my utmost to
dissuade the king and the priests from their
horrible purpose, and I offered them the price
of three slaves to save the life of the captive,
who was a fine looking man. Neither argu
ments nor.fmo-ney, however, could avert his
fate. He was put to death: and those who; had
feasted on hia body, afterwards boasted of the
delicious treat they had enjoyed." 1
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