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‘‘In about one hour We descended
.i 0 iuu, alia . aiuo 10 luioiiier oi most:
ici iiic ana kukiy plums i\ IHv.ii abuuiia
every n tieie in Hie recesses ol these
maamal.is. Ii *vas leu or twelve
ni.iOs laiig, and iliice or lour broad,
wwa a liver wiikimg lls way through
lue centre it w.is tilled with v n-
lyii^es, cattle, eum fields, uiieyuius,
a ad irujA-lrees, all whuh wort; in tin;
Highest suite o. rural beauty. Tfie
I iv*.' J a a ii lust none 01 liieir foliage,
the wilder corn was springing above
I ground, and the, pasture was iicli ana
the seeds wc reap in this | verdani; bul the circumstances inosi
I slriKing was, tne inaccessible uroun-
I a ke.l a dyin-sinner, on* (he stroke | lailw VVl , Uc1 ' 11 80U "'«<J l« »>« sur-
Oi‘ vithlew death life’s golden bowl had rounded. It Or. Johnson Intel ever
b oke,” | travelled through these countries, I
I a be I hi n, what is time? “Tun !” lie . should have suppos d lie had d. scrib
ed ms valley of II sscias from the
WHAT IS TIMM
I a*ked an a I man, a man o cares,
Wr.ii'ii* and curv’d, and vyli.le
h uiry hat - s;
“Tail** is'tlie ww/» of life,” he sa !;
tell
The ron vr, the fair, the gay, to w are it
well!”
I a«. in • ancient, venerable dead,
S,l- whew vto. "■irri.vre vva) Died,
v.J.n jm co. i grave a hollow inurinar
ilow’ !,
“Tune sow’
abode.”
■ replied,
re Wt It!— ih! the
lie died!
what is time?
treasure!” and
I asked th" golden sun and silver spheres;
Those hr,ght chronometers of days ami
years;
an wvei ed, “ Time is hut a meteor’*
TV
An
bade me for eternity prepare.
.’ I the seasons in their annual round
i .’Ii beautify or desolate the ground;
- ' th"v r°p! >> 1, (no oracle more wwe,)
i’i d!y’s blank. and wisdom’s highest
prize.”
T as 5 1 a spirit lost—but, O! Ill" shriek
That pierc’ 1 «; soul! i shudder while i
speak!
ft crieo, "Aparticle! a speck! a mite
Of endless years, duration infinite!”
Of things inanimate, my dial 1
C insult d—an I l ma le m ■ this reply:
“T ne is the s°a'<on fair of living well,
The path to Glory, or the path to 11 ell.”
I a .M my B hie, and metliinks i( said,
rt T n * 1 is the pre-ent h >ur, 111" past is fled;
L v"! live latidny! to-morroio! never yei
Ou any human being rose or s..-t!”
X ask'd old fatlwr Time himself, at last,
13 c in a m i n«»nt he il--w swiftly past;
H s char.ot wa a clou 1, h- vncvvies., wind
II noiseless steeds, winch left no
behind.
trae
i ’ 1 ill" mighty Angel, who sli.a'l stand
i' oat on sea. an i one on solid a , 1;
By ll'aven’, gr*at K.ng 1 swear, the
111 t Tv ’ o’er!
i’un ■ mis” lie erie !; “but Time shall be
no more.” ,
JOSHUA M t USD o\.
sx j no ja.
From ne: SouUiern Review.
Til i BALKAN MO UN PAINS.
The 13 clc.au mountains have long
been e nsiilei ed as on.: of t he most Ibr-
tti l.ule oarnors. o.i lite side of Eu
rope!, of tin; Fui'Kisii cm, ire. They
have been reprose net] as impractica
ble anil idipassa lie, ii skilfully and
g wiantly defended; and iuey have, in
i’a.-t, arrested tint progress of the
Riisian a r n i sons v ova! occasions.
13 ;t allliougn l.ie inouiitai is are sleep
0 i , lofty, ilie ravines and gorges lew.
n ■ otv, precipitous and difficult of
a.' ’ess, the roads iniseraiile, the
cot,dry desolate, yet no one who re-
cell • ts the events of the last thirty
years who reme.noors that neither
l*. ei''S ior A >p.minis, nor the
Ai ps the ns elves, i o aid oppose any
in iaeiide obsla lo, to die career of
di i.’iplined troops and able command
ers. vil 1 view* tins range of monntains
as off.iring any ins innauntable difficul
ties to the in well of an invading army.
Indeed, when we are told that in
lod), clouds of Cossacks passed the
I) -1 kail, and advanced to Burghaz, we
It iow not why mo ulted infantry might
no. iheii have borne them company,
in iamb as s iHi ient to have secured
tlie most im lortant points oi’ the de
file, by which they traversed these
monntains. The real obstacles are,
p • naps the deep snows of winter,
t!i ‘ sickliness anti scarcity of .vater in
th • simmer and autumn, causing a
g e 11 waste of life to northern troops,
an I the character nnd liahi's of the
To s themselves which adapt them
be' r f>r the defen-e of mountain
pastes for irregular warfare, where
tb • ‘ontest is between man and man.
Ilia a for the taeti s of regular wa -
f.and the evolutions of a day of
k ittle .We will give Mr. Walsh s de-
s intions of one of the passes; and
his observations on the chain as a
weans of military defence \t Fa-
ki i. the mxt post to Drol h-H ghe,
the lotv 13 Ikans commence, a id con
tinue about thirty miles to Ifaydhos
n largo Turkish tow n, where the high
Balkans commence.
k -We now ascended the first ridge
of the High Balkan, and had a spe
cimen of its rainv character; the wind
Ji ul changed to fh“ South nml dark
h aw m sses of mist were hanging
on the hiils.
aciu.il scenery of mis place. On
looking rou.id, I could not see where
we ,oi in, and fiow we eouhl get out.
— )V e followed, however, liie course
of the river, till we came to the per
pendicular front of the ridge at the
opposite side ot the valley. Here,
as ifuy sum,.- spell of Open Sesame!’
tlie face of liie mountain seemed to
gape, as if rent asunder, and present
ed to us a narrow chasm, into which
we entered along w ith the river.
“This ravine is, perhaps, one of
the must magnificent and pictures.pie
in Europe, and far exceeds the Tro-
saciis of Lough Catherine, or any lhat
1 have seen before. Its perpendicu
lar sides ascend to an immense height-
covered with wood from the bottom
to the top, and leaving a very narrow
stripe of the blue sky between. Fo
some time we pursued the bed of the
river, descending still deeper into
Ibis gorge; and I supposed tve intend
ed lo follow it the whole way, in the
dim twilight in which we were in
volved, till we should ('merge with it
at the other side of the mountains; bu;
after a short time we left it, and be
gan to ascend gradually, till tve reach
ed the summit of this second ridge
Here we found the masses of clouds
whi di had appeared so picturesque
were diffused into a uniform haze
■vhicli ciivunisivibed our view to a
very small distance, and poured down
torrents of rain. The road was now
become disagreeable and dangerous:
ii W'as sometimes very steep, and so
slippery, that the horses could n t
keep their feet, but were continually
(ailing. )Ve passed several ravines
over tottering bridges of slight boards,
which were so closely put together,
that they arose at one end, while any
weight pressed the other.
“In this way we got on till tlie
shades of evening warned us to has
ten. We proceeded, therefore down
a steep, with the rapidity usual to
l urks on difficult ground, and were
dashing across one of those fragile
wooden bridges, thrown over a deep
ravine, when it suddenly gave way
with a crash, and the s irrogee and his
horse, who were foremost, disap
peared.— The surrogee was thrown
forward, and, clinging to the broken
planks, he scrambled out o.i the other
side, hut Ids horse went through.
His hind feet, however, got entan
gled in the framework below, and
here he remained suspended.”
Here, after some time consumed
in extricating the horse, our author
adds:—
“Had the horse been killed, I was
informed that I should have to pay
the Sultan for the consequences of
his rotten bridge. Wo now descend
ed a very steep mountain; the Tartar
was just behind me. when the feet of
his horse giving way, he tumbled
over, an I both he and his rider rolled
passed me to the bottom of the hill.
I thought they were killed, hut for
tunately tlie ground was soft, and
neither received much damage. The
shades of evening had already closed,
when we arrived at a valley, in the
bosom of which is situated the ro*
rnantic village of Lopenitza, where
we proposed to pass the night. * * *
“We left our kind hosts before
daylight, on a dismal, dark, drizzling
morning. We made our way with
difficulty, through low rocky hills,
stumbling among ravines, and wishing
for the light of day. At length it ap
peared, accompanied by a hitter cold
north-east wind: in a little time it
became so piercing, that we all got
nninhed and powerless. It was ac
companied by a dark dry sky, which
seemed to threaten snow , and w as a
spe« imen of those Scythian or lfy-
’ eiborean blasts whi< h come srnldrn-
’yrnd intensely over these regions
Our road lay still among the last
rid.es of the Balkan \ ith occasional
plains. In one of these we fell in
again with the rtver with which we
ciiercd ,ne uiouiiui.us,- it is Here eali-
ed tiny uk wnieichie, and runs par-
‘ aieiio liie Balkans'into me Biaek
■bin. t snouid liivc to have traced
Ins mysterious stream througn tlie
d;/ru, deep, and suoterraneous re-
cjsscs through which 1 was told it
kissed. One wouid imagine that,
Ums running through tne level ground
at one side oi tne mountains, and issu
ing out at the other, having penetrat
ed at their base, and wound its w’ay
through the chain, it would ail'ord a
level for a road Oeloiv, without the
necessity ol carrying it over liie im-
meusi ndge; and no doubt, in any
oilier country but Turkey, such a
road would have been made. It is
possible, however, that Hie Turks
wo,ltd not wish to remove this formid
able barrier, which nature lias placed
between them and their northern
enemies, or afford them a greater fa
cility of invasion by cutting a level
road through the very heart of it.
Having crossed this river, w T e pro
ceeded toShumla, where vve arrived,
after a long and fatiguing • ride, at
three 6’clock. Not apprised of the*
eiiect ol this cold, 1 attempted to
dismount, but w r as so entirely depriv
ed of leeiing or motion,that 1 fell pow
erless lo the ground, like a sack of
corn. * * *• * In the morning
we found tlie stable full of horses,
that had come in the night, so at day-
dawn ive set out -Our way lay over a
tiill which commanded the whole
countly, and I slopped on the summit
at s ilrise to view it.
“Behind us lay the vast ridge of
the Balkans which u r e had passed,
presenting a steeper and more inac
cessible face at this side than at the
other; running along the horizon in a
right lire, like a vast wall which as
cended to the clouds. The aneieKis
had sipli an idea of the height of this
ridge,.that i oniponi ,s Mela affirms
the Eu\i it- and Adriatic could he
seen mmi it at the same time; and
Pliny says it was six miles high Hoemi
cxceidti-y vi millibus passman, highci
than ihr chain of the Andes or Hyma-
laya. It is., therefore, very remarka
ble thri Herodotus should have taken
no notice of it. though it must have
presented so formidable an obstruc
tion lo the a.rny of Darius. The
mountain was called Humous from
.lima the bio d of the Typhnn; be
cause he It, d as ended it as the near
est way to scale lo heaven, and Jupi
ter had there struck him down. The
length of the chain is not less remark
able than the height, extending for
five hundred miles one end resting on
the Gulf of V Dili, e. and the other on
the Black sea. The chain is now
called the Balkan, which signifies a
cliliiv iill delile, and it is properly di
vided inio high and loo, the latter
advancing forward on «*ac Ii side, like
outwoii.s before tlie great natural
rauipait. The town of Sliumla lies
in an angle oi a valley, formed by-
two ridges of those low mountains;
and they are the last brain li of them at
this side, and their extreme termina
tion; if, therefore, the whole breadth
of this immense chain be taken, it
maybe said to extend from Fakih to
Sliumla, tliirty-lwo houis or ninety-
six uiili s, the country beyond these
places being ail level plain, and be-
iween them being ail mountain; the
tofty ridges, however, extend only
from Haidhos to Lopenitza,nine hours,
or twenty-seven tnilt s.”
and anxieties attendant on the defence
ot I,is usurped icy,iiiiiuy VI.
uitu in liit. lower, aim as was suppos
ed, by violence, iwiwmii IV. was
worn out by ms excesses, tuiu l.is son
Low aril Y . was murdered by Ins un
cle, Richard 111. who alierwarus iell
in the battle ol Bosworih field, (-..men
Mary died of vexation ior the loss ol
Calais, and Elizabeth ironi renioise
lor her cruelly lo tin Earl of Essex.
—-James the 1. died of the ague, a dis-
ea’se which seluoui proves mortal.
Charles I. was* beheaded on the seal-
fold. Charles II. shortened his < ouise
by his vices, and James II. died in ex
ile. William 111. expired in . onse-
quence of breaking bis collarbone,
by a fall from bis horse.—George I.
died in his carriage on the road; George
II. in a lit; and George 111. in a state
ol insanity.—,/V. Y. Mirror.
WEST INDIA LADIES.
When the young ladies in the YY'est
Indies fain y themselves too much tan
ned by the scorching rays of the sun,
they gently scrape off the thin outside
of ilie stone belonging to the cashievv-
tre£ (a cenusol tlie polygamia manervia
class) and then rub their faces all over
with it. Their faces immediately
swell &. grow black; & the skin, being
poisoned by the caustic oil of the nut.
will, in the spare of five or six days,
come outirl_y otTin large Hakes, so (but
they cannot appear in public in les 1
than a fortnight; by which time the
new' skin looks as fair as that ol a new
born child.
In Spanish S. America, the ladies
sometimes ornament their heads with
a baudeau of living fire, it being form
ed of the fire-fly fastened on a black vel
vet band by the w ings, an insect which
emi'S a bright eorrusention every time
it breathes. What are diamonds com
pared to this! There are tw o species
of the fire-flv one v hich emits its light
from the abdomen every time it inhales
its breath, and the other, which is
considerably larger, from a round
prominence just behind the eye on each
side of the head, like a pair of globe
lam >s. ! have often read by the light
afforded by two or three confined in a
glass phi; I. The largest kind are a-
bnut two ihirds of an inch in length,
the other about one qum ter of an inch
Correspondent <f the Athenaeum.
gruage, as the whole trust fip orf>n& T —The
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future,
ELIAS BOUDIN OTT.
iCT 0 Editors who exchange w.tfi ii>-
Phujii x will do us a special - favor b) me
sorting th - above in theirpapers. _
Flowers of Liieralme. Hit and Scnli~'
A
EQUANIMITY.
The celebrated Henderson was sel
dom know n to he in a passion. When
at Oxford he was one day debating
with a follow student, who, getting
out of temper, threw a glass of wine
in bis face. Mr. Henderson applying
his handherebief, wiped himself, and
coolly said—“That, Sir, was a digres
sion; now' for the argument.”
ROYAL EXITS.
It has been remarked that most of
the sovereigns of England either died
a tragical or uupeaceful death, or de
parted this file in a manner that had
some singularity attached to it. AYii-
liaiut.he conqueror, while riding at the
bead of his army, receive d a slight
bruise from being thrown torvvaida-
gamst tlu? pummel ol his saddle, by
the starting of his horse—this o< casi-
oued his death. His son. M ru. Rufus,
was accidentally shot in New Foust,
by an arrow aimed by one of his at
tendants at a deer. Henry I. his suc
cessor, died from eating toe many
lampreys. The end of Henry II. w as
hastened by the rebellious conduct of
his sous. Richard I was shot w ith an
arrow while beseigirg a erstle; and.
though the wound was sli. ld. it was
rendered mortal hy the nnskilfulness
of his surgeon. King John died ol
vexation, and Homy III 1 inciprlly
from the same cause. Id nidwiw
nssasinated n ;■ most shock n manner
by order of his wife and her gallant.
Richard II. was murdered in piison.
aid his successor ’ ■ my IV expiied
Irom being worn cm with the cares
Warls ami Corns.—It is stated that
the bark of the w illow' tree, burnt to
ashes, mixed with strong vinegar, and
applied to the parts, will remove all
warts, corns, or excrescences on any
part of the body.
CHEROKEE PHCENiX,
And 'Indians' Advocate.
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paper, vviili a trembling hand and a reluct
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him, and hut limited information to recom
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