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lently; but their flashes were not the
soft gentle colors I had just seen,
but sharp and dazzling like forked
lightning. Vast quantites faded into
nothing, and there remained but a
few on the spot, brighter, indeed,
than they had arrived; but I thought
these few brilliant shapes a poor
compensation for the numbers that
had perished. Even in the planet
Venus, I said, there is death, and
love, and war; —and these, among
beings impalpable and destitute oi
our earthly faculties. What a les
son ot humility I read : I passed my
hand through many of these forms
—there was no resistence —no sense
of touch ; I shouted, but no sound
ensued; my presendo was evidently
unnoticed —there existed not the
earthly sense of sight. And yet, I
thought, how wo creatures of earth
reason on God’s motives, as if he
were endued with faculties like our
own; while we even differ from these
created phantoms of a sister-world,
as much perhaps as they from the
tenents of Jupiter, and far more from
the creatures of other systems ! But
there was still one thing common to
us all. All these bright beings float
ed close to the surface, and it was
evident that to keep the restless be
ings of creation to their respective
worlds, a general law’ was necessary.
Great Newton ! neither touch, nor
taste, nor sight, nor sound, are uni
versal, but gravity is forever, la
lonc am the only wretched being
whom a feverish curiosity has peeled
of this general garb, and rendered
more truly unsubstantial than the
thin sliding hues I gazed
After some time I fancied my own
native planet was shining above me.
{sprung frantically upward, but ma
ny a dreary century passed by, be
fore I approached near enough to
distinguish the objects on its surface.
Miserable being ! I was again out,
outlie proper line, and I should have'
passed once more into boundless
darkness, had I not, in passing the
earth’s surface, imbibed a small por-1
tion of gravity; not indeed sufficient
to draw me to it, but strong enough
to curve my line of flight, and makci
me revolve round earth like a moon,,
in an elliptic orbit. This was, per
haps, the most w retched of the phan
tasies of my brain : in continual sight
of my native land,without the chance
of approaching it by foot! There
I was, rolling in as permanent and
involuntary an orbit as any planet in
the heavens; w ith my line of nodes,
syzygy, quadratures, and planetaryi
inequalities.
But the w orst of it w as, I had im
bibed, with that small portion of gra
vity, a slight share of those terrestri
al infirmities 1 had hitherto felt free
from. 1 became hungry—and my
hunger, though by the slowest de-'
grees, continually increased, and at,
the end of some years, I felt as if re
duced to the most emaciated state.
My soul felt gradually issuing from
my tortured body, and at last, by one
of th« strange inconsistencies of
dreams, I seemed in contemplation of
myself. I saw my lifeless body whirl
ing round its primary, its limbs some
times frosen into ghastly stiffness,
sometimes dissolved by equinoctial
heat, and swinging in the wide ex
panse. 1 know not if it sprung from
the pride inherent in all created be
ings, but this contemplation of the
ultimate state of degradation of my
poor form, gave me greater distress
than any part of my phrensied wan
derings. Its extreme acuteness
brought me to myself. I was still
standing m my garden, but it was
daylight, and my friends stood look
ing on my upright, though fainting
form, almost afraid to approach me.
1 was disengaged from my tubs, and
sacks, and carried to bed. But it did
not escape the notice of rite bystan
ders, that 1 was destitute of weight ;
and although I took caretu'show my
self publicly with a proper gravity.
• \en with an additional stone weight,
strange stories and whispers went
forth about me: and when my feats
of agility, and frightful, though not
fatal, falls was recollected, it became
generally believed that I had cither
sold myself to the devil, or was my
self that celebrated individual. I
now began to prepare myself for im-i
mediate escape, in case 1 should be
legally prosecuted. 1 had hitherto
been unable, when suspended in the
air, to lower myself at pleasure ; for
I was unable to make my pump acti
upon itself, and therefore, when 1
endeavored to take it with me, its
own weight always prevented my I
making any considerable rise. 1 j
have since recollected, indeed, that
had 1 made two pumps, and extract-; 1
ed the weight from one by means of
the other, 1 might have carried the
light one up with me, and filled my
self, by its means, with gravity,when
1 wished to descend. However,thisj
plan, as 1 said, having escaped myi
reflection, 1 sat painfully about devis-!
ing some method of carrying about
gravity with me in a iieutralised stale,
and giving it operation and energy
when it should suit my convenience.
After long labour and expensive ex
periments, 1 hit upon the following
simple method :
You will readily imagine that that
subtle fluied, call it gravitation, or
weight, or extraction, or what you
will, pervading as it does every body
in nature, impalpable and invisible,
would occupy an extremely small
space when packed in its pure and
unmixed state. 1 found, after decom
posing it, that besides the gases h
mentioned before, there always re
mained a slight residium, incombus
tible and insoluble. This was evi
dently a pure clement, which 1 have
called by a termination common,
among chcmisls, ‘ gravium.’ When 1
admitted to it the other gases, except
the asote of the atmosphere, it as
sumed a creamy consistence, which
might be called ‘ essential oil of gra
vitation;’ and finally, when it was
placed in contact with the atmos
phere, it imb bed asote rapidly, be
came immediately invisible, a&d form
ed pure w eight. 1 procured a very
small elastic Indian Rubber bottle,
into which 1 infused as much oil of
gravity as 1 could extract from my-,
self, carefully closed it, and squeesed
it flat; and 1 found that by placing
over the orifice an extremely fine
gausc, and admitting the atmosphere
through it (like the celebrated Eng
lish Davy Lamp,) as the bottle open
, cd by its own elasticity, the oil be
came weight; and when 1 squeesed it
again the asote receded through the
gause, and left the weightless od.
I Thank heaven, 1 was now in posses
-1 sion of the ultimatum of my inqui
ries, the means of jumping into the
air w ithout any weight, and the pow
er of assuming it w hen 1 wished tode
scend. As 1 feared, 1 was indicted
as a sorcerer, and condemned to be j
hung; 1 concealed my bottle under'
my arm, ascended the scaffold,avow - ■
ed my innocence, and was turned ofl.
1 counterfeited violent convulsions, |
but was careful to retain just weight
i enough to keep the rope tight. In
the evening, when the populace had
retired, 1 gently extricated my neck, j
walked home, and prepared to leave
my country. At Petersburg!) 1 heard
that Captain Khavk of Voronets was
about to sail to India to bombard a
British fortres*. 1 demanded an in
terview. ‘ Sir,' said I,‘ lam all un
happy man. whose misfortunes have
compelled him to renounce hiscoun
try. 1 am in possession of an art by
w hich 1 can give you accurate intelli
gence of every thing going on in the
fortress you arc to attack; and 1 of
fer you mv services, provided you
will give me a passage and keep my
secret.' 1 saw by his countenance
he considered me an imposter.
“ Sir.” 1 said, “ promise me secre
sy, and you shall behold a speci
men of my art.” He assented. 1
squesed the little bottle under my
arm, sprung upward, and played a
long the ceiling to his great amase.
lie was a man of huher, and kept Lus promise;
and in six months we arrive! off the coast <f
Coroninndcf. I lore 1 mafde one of the greatest
mistakes in my I fe. 1 had frequently practis
cd mv art during the fits! part of the voyage
Uarthcamus m. nt of ’he •.us: ar.C ies’eud
of carrying hij’ gravity.hottie with inc, I used
1 to divest myself of just sufficient gravity to
1 leap mast.high, and descend gently on the
deck; and by habit I knew the exact quantity
which was requisite in Northern climes, But
when I had ascended to view the fortress near
the equator, 1 found too late that I had ex
tracted fa- 100 much, and for this reason.* I 1
you had anorange at its head and stalk, by
the fortingcr and thumb, and spin it with velo
city, you will see that small bodies will be
thrown with rapidity from those parts which
lie mid-way between the finger and thumb,
while those that are nearer are far less affect
ed by the rotatory motion. It was just so with
me. 1 had been used to descend in the north
ern climates with a very slight weight; but I
1 now found, that in the equatorial regions 1 was ,
thrown upward in considerable strength. A
strong sea-breeze was blowing. 1 was borne
rapidly away from the astonished crew, passed
over the fortess, narrowly escaped being shot,
and found myself passing in the uoble« + inaa
ner over the whole extent of India. Habit had
entirely divested me of fear, and I experienced i
the most exquisite delight in viewing that fine
country spread out like a map beneath m: 1 . (,
recognised the scenes of historical interest.
There rolled the Hydasnes, by die very spot
where Fonts met Alexander. There lay the
track of Mahmoud the great Gaznevide. I
left the beautiful Kashmir on the right. 1
passed over the head quarters of Persia in her
different ages, Herat, Ispahan, Ramadan.—
Then camo Arbela on my right, where a na
tion, long cooped up in a country scarce lar
ger than Candia, had overthrown the children
of the great Cyrus and crushed a dynasty .
whose sway reached uninterrupted for two |
thousand miles. I saw the tomb of Gordian,
on tho extreme frontie r .of his empire—a noble I
spot for the head of a nation of warriors. I
skimmed along the plain where Crassus and ,
Galerius, at the interval of three hundred
years, had learnt on the same unhappy field i
that Rome could’breed. A stromg puff from I
the Levant whirled metothe northward, and .
dropped me at length on a ridge of Mount Cau- !
casus, fatigued and hungry. I assuaged my
hunger with mountain mosses, and slept a few
hours as well as the extreme cold would per
mit me. On waking, the hopelessness of my
situation distressed me mn?||, After passing
over so many hot countries where the exhala
tions from the earth had enabled my body to
imbibe gravitation more rapidly ‘than usual, 1
had gradually moved northward, where the
centrifugal force of the earth had much de
creased. From these two causes, and in this
wild country, without the means of chemically
assisting myself, I now found my boity too
heavy to trust again to the winds —intrenched
as I Avas, between the Black sea and the C is
pian, but without weight to give ’firmness to
my step; without the lightness of a fowl, 1 had
all its awkard weakness in water. The sav
age cast lots for me, and I became a -rfaye.
My strauge lightness was a source of mirth to ;
all, even to my fellow servants; and 1 found, i
by-experience, how little weight a man 'bears
m society who has lost his gravity. When 1
attempted to dig, 1 rose without effect on my
spade. Sometimes when 1 bore a load of wood ■
on mV shoulders, it felt so top heavy, that up
on the slightest wind I was sure to tumble ov
er—and then I was chastised: my mistress one '
day hoisted me three miles by a single kick on
the breech. But however |>owcrless against
lateral pressure, it was observed with amaze
how easily I raised the vast weights under .
which the most powerful men .in the country
sunk; for, in fact, my legs being formed to the .
usual capabilities of mankind, had now little or
no weight of body to support: I was, there- J
fore, enabled to eabry ten or twelve stone in
addition to a common burden. It was this
strength that enabled me to throw several feet
from the earth a native wlto hud attacked me.
lie was stunned by the fall, but on rising, with
one blow he drove me a hundred yards before
j him. I took to my heels, determined ifpossi
i ble, tc escape this wretebed life. The whole
I country was on foot to pursue me, for I had
J doubly deserved death; 1 had bruised a free
' man; and was a fugitive slave. But not with
' standing the incredible agility of these people
in their native craggs, their exacl knowledge
pf the clefts in the hills, the only passes be
tween the eternal snows, and my own ignor
ance, I utterly baffled their pursuit by my want
; of weight, and the energy which despair sup
plied me. Sometimes when they pressed har-
' dest on me, I would leap up a perpendicular
crag, twenty feet high, or drop down a hund.
red. 1 bent my steps towards the Black Sea,
determined, isl could reach the coast, to seek
a passage to some port in Cathenoslaw, and re
tire where I might pass the remainder of my
life, under a feigned name, with at least the
of dying in the dominions of my
legitimate sovereign, Alexander.
Exhausted and emaciated, I arrived at n
straggling village, the site of the ancient .Pity
us. This was the last boundary of the Roman
power on the Euxinc—and to this wretched
place state exiles are frequently doomed. The
name Lccamq proverbial; and, 1 understate,
has been so far adopted by the English, that
the word “Pityus” is, to this day, rrtost adapt
ed to the lips of the banished. In a small ves
sol we sailed for Azof; but when we came off
the straits of CaflTd, where the waters of the
Don are poured into the Euxine, a strong cur
rent drove us on a rock, and in a fresh gale
the ship went speedily to pieces. I gave my
self up for lost, and heard the crew, one after
the other, gurgle in the waves and scream then*
last while 1 lay struggling and butfetißg for
life.’ But after the fust hurry for existence, I
found I had exhausted myself uselessly, for my
specific giavity being so trifling, I was cna
bled to lie on the surface efthe billows without
any exertion, and even to sit upon the wave
os securely as a couch. 1 loosened my neck-
cloth, and spreading it wide with tny hands
and teeth, 1 trusted myself to the same winds
that had so often pelted me at their mercy, and
always spared mo. In this way I traversed
the Eu\ine. 1 fed on the scraps that floated
on the surface —sometimes dead fish, and once
or twice on some inquisitive stragglers whose
curiosity brought them from the deep to con
template the strange sail. Two days I floated
tn misery, and a sleepless night; by night I
dared not close my eyes for fear of falling
backward—and by day I frequently passed ob
jects that filled me with despair—fragments of
wrecks; and then 1 looked on my own sorry
craft: once I struck my feet against a drown
ed sailor, and it put me in mind of myself. At
last 1 landed safe on the beach, between Odes
sa and Otchacow, traversed the Ukraine, and
b v selling a little curiosities I had picked up
on n. v passage, I have purchased permission to
reside IC'* tiA rest of my days unknown and
unseen in a forest near Minsk. Here,
within the gray ci .unbling walls of a castle,
that fel'l with the .independence of this unhappy
country, I await my end. 1 have left little to
regret at my native AK’scow’, neither friends
nor reputation, nor lawful .life; and I l ]a d failed
hi a love which was dearer to me than reputa
tion—than life—than gravity n?ell. I have
established an apparatus, oh improved princi
ples, to operate cm gravity; aasd I am now em
ployed, day and night, for the benefit'• not
more of the present, than cf ajil .mankind
are to come. In fact, £ am Laborioiwly ano
unceasingly extraatiug the gravitation from
the earth, in order to br.iug.it nearer the sun;
and though, by thus diftiinisbing the earth’s or
bit, 1 fear I .shall confuse the astronomical ta.
bles and calculations, 1 am confident I shall im
prove the teihperature of the globe. How far
I have succeeded, may be guessed from the re
cent errors ifithe Almanacs a bent the eclipses
and from the late mild winters.
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South, and of that older doctrine of Jeffersonian State
It.ig'hts, avowed by both parties alike, and now the
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To vindicate, then, our peculiar Instilutione; to tn.
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tittguished from a Democratic and Consolidating ad
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ders of the Central government. Where Reform is
hopeless, mid even useless, till yon hare given your
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Taste, their natural allies, such will be the general
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the country, which lias been ectou fool in the present
undertaking.
Os its critical purposes, it is not necessary to speak
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guide the popular taste towards the best aeurccs in
knowledge, and the truest cnodek in Elegant Letters.
Its judgments will however, found themselves upon
the dent of iris temporary renown, nor that of his birth
on this or the other side of live Atlantic. Towards
the few good writers, the want of cultivation has yet
permitted us have m America, it w ill know how to be
respectful. But in Literature, as lately in Trade, we
shall insist that no man’s bad commodity be forced 4p'
on us, under patriotic pretences. Upon all that achodl
of wntamed.
Upon rhe Literature of mere amuecmcnf, existence
' enjoyed by tins literary grass, which ffouriehea green
' ly tn the morning, and iecut down and flung away be.
: fore the night. Luc is tco short. Art too long, and
I Learning grown too prolific, for people to occupy them,
i selves more than an instant with bad books, while
suah grvat bodies of good ones axe at their command.