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THE MINSTB.EE.
INVOCATION.
E/nr or the West l thiit slumbering long hast lain,
Amidst the changes that have shook thy hills;
Nor roused tlice oncc't^my a single strain,
To waft to imm*o5iality thy rills—
Wake front thy leaf}’ couch I Bnrhnntrtn, wake!
Arts, science, tommeree.nll demand thy songs
Xhy rust wornttrlngs attune—the silence break,
And let inspired Minstrels round thee throng.
If s’eep rett/d chnln the accents of thy strings,
While nought but savage hordes possessed your
land;
Since like the dew, the wild hath taken wings,
And in its place fair Freedom’s alters stand;—
Oak.mi/I'i**'* pfoeld waters swell with pride,
(The Naiades now their realm no longer holding;)
The stately strenm shall benrto oct-.n’s tide,
The wealth its fertile banks are now unfolding.
And where the savage yell but lately connded,
Tha hand-maids, Art and Science often meet;
Where forests drear in vast extent abounded,
Friend now meet friends With hospitable greet—
And Nature’s fairest work,' eisdwosuk, smiles,
Where late tbc savage beasts roamed uncontroll'd,
Kotv social joys,the care of man beguiles,
And Piety the worksof Heaven unfold;—
Then let tby chords awake the vales among,
Audscbolag hills reverberate the song.
SELECTED.
DREAMS.
OH! there is a dream of early youth,
AnJ it never comes again;
Tis a vision of light, of life, and truth,
That flits across the brain:
Ami love is the Ihcmo of that early dream,
8 j wild, so warn, so new,
That in all our after years 1 deem,
That early dream we rue.
Oh! there Is a dream of maturer yean,
- More turbulent by far;
Tis a vision of blood, nnd of woman’s tean,
For tbc tbeine of that dream Is war:
And we toll in the field of danger enddonth,
An(l shout lu the battle array,
Till we find that fame Is a body less breath,
That vanUheth away.
«lJ’-e the buselcss fat re of a vision,
• Left not a wreck behind.
Around the secluded spit, tl o romantic
and picturesque prevail m a high degtee. It
is! situated in a green valley, well pkm’ed
yfllr umbrageous trees and 1 f:" 1 , ! . i
Vive willows droop over the blank tablet, nnd
waving in the breeze, throw ul-cinatc l.ght
and foado on this unlettered monument, rusl-
1 ng, at the same time, ilt a sort of mournful
cadence. On the left side of the grave are
peach trees, which bear feint; «nd a spring,
as bright as chrystal, glides on the outside ol
tire railing which is about the tomb, and it*
self encompassed by a hedge of geraniums.
A sergeant and a private arc placed here
on guard, and have orders to prevent peo
ple from gatherin'.' leaves, aud cutting pieces of
the willowlrces. I had intended to write a
line by tiro wuy of epitaph, wtih my pencil
on tho stone, but the thing was impossible.—
My attempt was resisted, and I bad some dit-
ficulty in obtaining a small niece of one of the
trees, but was freely allowed Jo gather some of
tho poaches and tho geranium, the hue of
which reminded me of the ribband ol the Le
gion of Honor, founded by the deceased, and
elevated by tho blood of so many a battle
field. I now prepared to depart, when an in
cident of some interest arrested my steps for
a while. A young and pretty French lady
approached, and was soon leaning in a pensive
attitude over the railing before described, with
her eyes is tears, bent on tho grave which it
enclosed. Site was one of a party of natives
of France who had landed from a ship :n ihe
bay, to visit this memorable sepulchre. Her
companions speedily arrived, and. after a look
or two persuaded her to quit tho spot to which
she seemed almost immovably attached. The
only male in the parly evinced that trivial
disregard which signalizes the character of his
countrymen. lie shrugged up his shoulders,
and as they fell again uttered something illus
trative of tho shortness and uncertainty of hu
man glory. Then (speaking of the island) he
said, Mo foi e'esi un endroit execrable. The
young lady remained without speaking all
the time, and in a few minutes I lost sight of
her. I now regained my ship nnd made sail
for Euglnnd; but tlio.barren rock, lone grave
and weeping girl, have over since been in my
thoughts.
great itterests come in collision, it is reasonable
to suppose that the contract was not obtained
without great difficulty. The French, Italian,
and Splnif.it inteiests were easily disposed of;
ihc British held out to the last and died hard.
Their ] red diction lor commanding positions all
over tl ? world, and their possessions at Balize
on the Jay of Honduras, were used with great
effect t ^tinst them.”
Oh I there Is a dream of hoary age,
’Tis a vision of gold In store—
Of sums noted down-on tlio figured page,
: To be counted o’er and o’er;
And we fondly trust in ourglittcring dust,
Asa refuge from grief and c*lar,
Till our limbs are laid io that Inst dark bed,
VVhtflb the wealth of the. world i, vain.
And is it thus, from man’s birth to his grave-
lathe path tvblch all ore treading t
1* there nought iu that long cancer to save
From remorse and sell-upbraiding ? ’
O vei, there’s a dream so pure, so bright,
That the being to whom it is given,
Hath bathed in a tea of living light—
And the theme of that dream it Heaven.
THE CHAMBER OF PSYCHE.
Tread softly through these amorous rooms;
, For ovory bough is hung with life,' '
And kisses in harmonious strife
Unloose their sharp and wing’d perfumes.
From Airic and the Persian looms
The carpet’s silken leaves have sprung,
And Heaven in its blue bounty lluug
Those starry flowers and azure blooms J
Tread softly—By a creature fair
The Deity of love reposes:
11 is red lips open like the roses
round his I
\Vhich round"his byaclnthine hair
Hang In crimson coronals; . ,
Aud passion fills the arched halls; (
And Beauty floats upon the air!
Tread softly, softly,—like the foot
Df Winter, shod with fleecy snow,
Who cotueth white, and cold and mute.
Lest ho should yrmkic the -Spring below.
Oh, look! for here lia Love and Youth,
Fair spirits of the heart and mind;
Alas I that one should stray from truth,
And one be ever,"ever blind 1
Here He they, like lost pleasures flung
From Eden’s rich aud massy bower*/
Nourish’d both by tread of flown s;
Once, and still d;vine and young:
Sure somewhere a green home must be.
Though paradise and faith have flown,
Where these two mny slumber on,
8»yeet friends, Into eternity. •
SKETCHES.
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BONAPARTE’S GRAVE
From the journal of a gentleman just returned from
Our touching nt St. Holona would have
been an incident devoid of in.crest to me, had
l not been for tho opportunity of viewing the
Tomb of him whose d v-mating arms spread
terror over the fate of Europe. St. Helena
^ appeared to nte to be in .tsolf a frightful isl-
"**' ami—a rock of desolation—au emblem for tho
teat of exile—an iuiulnioj p>;.n n ~a scene, nl’
Oil others the most likely to break tho hcait
of one banished to its abrupt and rugged strand,
it cost me a world of trouble and fatigue (which
v i-t Tor tlio object I had in view would have
been ill repaid) to mount tip die steep, ser
pentine windings nnd constant twistings and
turnings, which relieve the traveller to a cep-
'tn’ii degree in tho almost perpendicular ascent.
Vu my tray I passed by the country house
cuilod the Briars, which was the habitation of
Napoleon on his arrival in the island. It is
?erjr sweet spot, when contrasted with the sur
rounding horrors of the place, and owes much
Oi its attraction to the water-fall, which invites to
fliusing and meditation; but the haunts of tho
Lv >ne were not die objects of. my expedition;
iu d I at length gained the tomb.
' Ko who looks for the lofty or sublime in
th is mansion of the dead, will pe wholly disap
pointed; not a trophy, not a wreath, no bro
ken trumpet nor fallen spear, no glaive nor
Mroet; a plain slab, formed of three Port
land flag stones, taken for tho purpose from
The fire place of the ex*empcror’s kitchen in
Au now house, is the only cover ng on his
grave:-on this, not a lino, oithcr descriptive
ly or coramemoratively, is writton; no name,
' date, m if ho had gone—»
TRUE GLORY.
Front the first annual Oration delivered before the
Union bilosopkica! and Belles Lettres Society of
Dicker on College, delivered on the2fith ult. by
Richai » HexrvI.ee, a member of the Union Pm-
losophi a) Society, we extract the following, being
one air many excellent passages;
“ Bt j the glory of a people does not consist
only iri heir physical wealth and strength—
their trt s glory is their moral force; their
greater tiengtli, the power and influence of
their mo al character. This glory of our coun
try shine across the Atlantic, and is reflected
from the voters of the Pacific. In the vision of
it, reinrc Isles sing with joy, and oppressed
continent stretch forth their-hands.—-Therich
est sourpof this moral wealth and strength of a
count iyjs the number and fame of its great men.
Wo hatenot yet the walls of Chinn, the Pyra
mids ofEpyptj nor the mines of Golconda, but
our ltistpy is alreadythc study and light of the
world ! The peculiar value of this history is the
cxampl s it presents of so many great, because
enlighi ted men. With a comparatively few
instnnr i of exception, the nursery of such men
will be the learned institutions of a country.
Let n popular jealousy awake at this remark.
The c lightened talents of one fellow citizen
are, bj a wise and inevitable constitution of
GUATEMALA.
We have been permitted to take the following ex
tracts from the journal ol an American gentleman who
paid a visit to the capital of this interesting country in
May last. He landed at Omoa, sailed thence for Isa
bel, 150 miles distant, and proceeded over land to
Guatemala.—Norfolk Herald.
“Wo set out from Isabal (says the writer)
mounted on mules, and arrived nt Guatemala,
distant from Isabal 210 miles, in 9 days, one of
ewant of mules.”
This was slow tra*
nssutes us that he
in less
time than is usually taken. “Th^road (ho con
tinues is a veiy bad one. An t^np'lish ffentle-
mun who is here, informs me that he has trav
elled much through ’I'/" F.nst nnd Wnat Indies,
and South America, nnd that he has never seen
so had a road as that from Isabal to Gautemala.
Wo never made less than 18 nor more than 30
miles per day. The country through which we
passed is an alternation of high mountains,
mostly without timber, and rich valleys. For
seven days tho journey was through an exces
sively hot country. There had’been little rain
since December, and the air was like the at
mosphere of an oven. Tho clouds of dust,
want of water, and the vertical rays of a blazing
sun, rendered the journey 3Dy thing but agree-
ablc.
“Gautemala is in latitude 14 Ni, in a rich
valley, and in a delightful climato. Its eleva
tion is 5000 feet above tlio sea. Within 20
leagues there is every climate. In 6 longues
and in view, is the great volcano called here the
votcan de Aqua, which destroyed old Gautcma-
la, and from which this city is supplied with ice,
supposed to bo 15,000feet high. Within a few
leagues from thence, on the shores of tho Pacific,
is to bo found the climato of Africa under the
equator. This variety of climate affords an e-
qual variety of productions; hence is to bo seen
in thismarket the productions of all countries,
Tho population of this city is variously stated at
from 40 to 60 thousand. The s'roets are 36
feet wide, well paved with limo stone. Tho
public square Is 450 feet,rectangular. The ca
thedral with its appurtenances fills up one side of
the square; on tho other three sides there are
public edifices. The houses mo all one story
high, except the churches, with thick walls to re
sist the frequent earthquakes, plastered inside
nnd out with limo and covered with red tile.—
Tho yards and gardons aro ornamented with
flowers, orange nnd lemon trees, and other shrub
bery common to tho country, and each has ono
or more fountains of pure water. There is a u-
niformity and neatness in this city which I have
not seen equalled any whore. Thcro aro about
4Q churches and 4 or 5 hundred priests of tho
tFflbicm orders. Mo.it of lire chinches are mag
nificent buildings. Tho priests have absolute
dominion over the religion nnd cash too, of the
people. The operation of tho Government
will in the progress oftimb in a great degree cor
rect this evil,
“On the arrival of Col. Williams, tlio
Charge d* Affairs of tho United States tb Gautc-
mala, tho Government made considerable prep
arations and gave him a splendid reception.—
The United States have foe first place in the
affections oftliose people. Co). Boneski, for
merly of tlio French army, but now the agent of
a Now York company, has obtained a contract
to. make a ship communication between tho
North and South Seas, through the Lake Nic-
horaqua. The English wore very desirous of
procuring this contract. Their agent at one
timo thought ho had it, and wrote home to that
effect. The English in thij city are mortified
at the disappointment. It is perhaps fortunate
for the commerce and navigation of the United
States that this channel has not fallen into tho
British hands. Col. Boneski thinks tho arri
val of Col. Williams, contributed essentially
to his success. The contract was concluded on
tho 16th June. This magnificent enterprise
has attracted the attention of tho capitalists in
different parti of tho world, and when so many
They
Piovic nee, the property of another,
cannot exclusively act. They are essentially
diftusiw. That country is most truly rich
which host abounds in talented and educated
men. (hall we hear this questioned? Look
at the plicy of some of tho wisest, most pow
erful, md most famed of our sister republics.
New-Y»rk, whilo she annually provides from
her puHc treasury, for the education of 430,000
of her ihildrcn, liberally endows institutions for
their infraction in the higher and highest de-
partmcits of knowledge. Conscious of .Her
tvisdon and of her dignity, she displays the
list of ler colleges, her students and her schol
ars. Virginia, by others than her own sqns,
eulogised ns “ the land of heroes, statesmen,
and otetors,” does not seek for the sources of
her wtalih and glory only in her navigable
streami innumerable, in her wide spread apd
various territory. She does not attribute to
warmer suns the glory of former lipics, jipr
looks to brighter skies for the wisdom nnd elo
quence of her future politicians. She loolts.for
these lit her colleges and her university, among
which she annually distributes her public revg*
world; with all its attendant circumstances, to
bis children, grand children, &c. till tho day
of Methuselnh. Methuselah handed it down to
Noah; Noah to hischildren; nnd these again to
succeeding' generations down to Moses, who
committed it to writing. Thus did this most
interesting history, exists only in memory, for
about 3500 years, withont suffering the slight
est variation in authenticity. |
Europe- has produced some remarkable in
stances of memory; but none to equal that of
a Rev. Professor, in a respectable college in
the United States. This gentleman is said to
have improved his memory to such a pitch, that
he can recite the scripture verbatim; and ho
feels confident, of his ability to give a true, and
exact copy of the hible, were that inestimable
volume ontiroly destroyed.
It is worthy of notice, that , strong mental im
pressions, made in early life, are very rarely
obliterated. Tbus many old persons recollect
the transactions of their youth, with scrupulous
exactness; end will toll a story or relate a vol
uminous history, fifty times over without the
least variation, either in style, diction, or ver
bosity. But so exceedingly dull does foe per
ception become, in old age, and so weak are
the impressions, made by external objects, that
each succeeding day, destroys ,tbc sensations
which have been produced the previous one;
and many old people do not remember from day
to day, the common occurrences of life.
nue with unsparing hand. Is she asked for a
T *- lt -t0'expire - when he pleased;
perient
SCIENTIFIC.
mamoBF
r IHNFJdGNirS.
Or the art of improving the Memory.
Memory would appear to be the act of re-
calling|to mind, impressions, which have pre
viously been made, in’the iensorium commune.
But! for the exercise of this faculty, scjoxa-
1 — lXi perception,'seem indispensable.’ An
tion ai
trattsmtted by thb pervfcs, to tHe braittf it Is
pcrcei id, or Ml by : tliat organ: it then be
comes icrception. In this Tvay we form an i
dea of iSurids, colors, magnitude, dec.
The whole art of improving tho memory
consist in the proper fixation or joegtipn,
and astociation of impressions, or idea?, jh
order for impressions to be firmly fixed, or
located in tho sensorium, it would seem re
quisite that only one sensation J>e propagatcc
by tie 'sentient nerve j,' at once. JFor if all the
orgnts of, sense' bq influenced ait the same
lime, syo am only acquire confused notions of
those bodies which have ‘'produced the differ
ent sensatiins we experience, and one parti-
cularajhd sponger r
tho other yeakcr orips, and fixe? i
Thus (he
terosti
plcasii
siriiult
may
t >n who ha? his eye on |ome In-
, oqect which produces in hi? mind, a
sedation, is not susceptible tip othpr
cout sensations; although impressions
m r male on his’ear, or other organs of
sense,; at tie same moment: nor docs he Hear
the raise ol passing carriages, or the'yoice'qf
one tho asis him a question.
For^the location of ideas, it is also Access-
aiy, that sensation continue for Sjorne time; for
when a sensstion is of short duration, the per-
ceptioi we have of it, is so weak, mat soon
afterwards there does not remain any, remem
brance oi having experienced it." Thus wheft
wo" hsi$ti(y pwuw--«‘Vili. C.n ->wt-
dotes, each iitcrests us for a moment, but ma
kes, no pernment impression on the mind;
and when wj have completed the narrqtiye^
wo are
been the
sion of ide
thing but a ]
particularly
rcmcmbranc
d to find, that so short have
tion, and so rapid the. supces-
that we have forgotter, evejry
iw actions, which served more
i demand our attention. The
will be more or less lively, in
proportion tj the stronger, or weaker im
pressions, wlich have beeq produced in t}ie
fibres of the Ira in.
Impression' sometimes bgcome obscure, and
the memory cm only give an idea of some Qf
the qualities if those objects, which have ex?
cited such impressions. But by the exercise
of the sensor,um, they are re-produced, with
all ’heir connexions, and attendant circum
stances. TIib re-productive faculty, is term
ed imagination When the brain combines
and classifies deas, in the same order of suc
cession that thry were found, the connexion is
called association.
The memory becomes retentive in propor
tion as it is exercised: and some of the most
accurate histories have been transmitted to suc
ceeding generations, by memory alone; or as
we say, have been handed down by tradiiipn.
It was Adam who communicated by frequent
rehearsals a true account of the creation of tho
From Ihe Quarterly Bevieio.
SINGULAR NARRATIVE.
Dr. Reid’a first essay (on Nervous.affectlons) con
siders the question how far Nervous diseases can be
resisted by the will. Patients are told not to give
way to their complaints; and Buchan concludes the
treatment of hypochondriacWm ly advising the suffer,
cr above all thidgs to keep up bis spirits—as if the
essence of the malady did not consist in inability to do
so. Dr. Reid, however, cites some strange instances
of the power of the will over the actions of the bo
dy ; particularly, the following extraordinary narra
tive: ' '
“Dr. Cheyne, in one of his medical treaties,
narrates a case, the accuracy of which is es
tablished by an irrefragable combination of e-
vidence, of a man .that could die, to all ap-
E a ranee, at any time ho cjlO^o ; apd after
ving lain for a considerable period exactly
as a corpse, was able, it seemed, by a volun
tary . effort, to restore to himself the ap
pearance and all the functions, of animation And
intellect. It is to he inferred from ftps.latter
part of the story, that tho unnatural arid pain
ful exertions by which' this person assumed
the appearance of disease, produced at length
a fatal result: Death would no longer be
mocked with impunity. Tho counterfeit corpse,
a few hours after its last revival, relapsed m'tb
a state which was capable of no -longer re
suscitation. But the case is so interesting and
but children of the forest.”
The following Recount of the celebrate
remarkable as to deserve our civiua it in-all Ghesnut, of Mount -iEtnn, is from Bp
the detail with which Dr. Cheyne presents ^’fTrovvls: “ ^oaving tho Cataum roa
tne aetau wi n i t . the left, they beran to ascend the morn
and yet, by an effort, or somehow, he could
come to life again. Ho insisted so much upon
our seeing the trial made, that we were at last
.forced to comply. We all three felt his pulse
.first; it.was distinct,.though.small and thready,
aodhishparthad its usual beating. He composed
jhipuelfoA Jhl* hack, and ,lay in a Still posture for
som.e time. While .1 held hj? right hand, Dr.
.Baynard laty Jfiji'ji&d jyt Iwwh and Mr,
Skrine hej.d a cle.ar looking-glass to iu? (nouth.
I foupd his pidse sink gradually till at last f
could not feel the Jpast .motion in his heart,
nor could Mr. -$Jtripc perceive ffie least port
of breath on the hnght pfoirn Jp.gl? fo his
mouth. .Then pach pf .us by (urps cjtapipr ’
his arm,hjart, and hrpath; but copld riot, ). y
.dip nicest scrutipy, discoyer in him fop least
symptom of life. We reasoned a Ipjiig time,
as well as we could, about this odd appear
ance ;apd finding he continued in that .state, be
gan to coptdude that he .carried foe experiment
too far. At last wo .\yprp sqtisfipd foat ,hp actu
ally was dead, apd #ere rpaijy to leavp hm.
This continued half an hpur. By pfop o’duck
in the morning as wc were going away >ye ob
served some motion about the body, and j tip-
on examination found his pulse and foe motion
of Jtis heart gradually returning; bp began jp
brpafog gently apd speak softly. Wp yerp ??-
toqished al foi? «nP8PPftSd foange, and after
sorng further conversation but) »dtb
each other, W§nt
tne particulars of
. .m satisfied p? to all
is fact, but not
count for it. He afterwards called tor ah at
torney, added a codicil tq his will, and calmly
apd composedly died, about % v Q o’clock that
eypqiDg.”.
]LAR4r5h5?s.
Chardin, the traveller, tells us that in the
King’s Garden at Shiras, (in Persia) “ he obser
ved a tree whose trunk was eight yards in dr*
tumferenee. From the great age of this tree,
it" was treated with peculiar veneration by the
clothes on its boughs.' The sick, or their
friends, resort here, to burn incense, to fix ligh
ted candles to the trunk, and to perform' other
superstitious ceremonies, in the hopes of their
health. Throughout Persia, are many other
trees thus superstitiously reverenced by the
people."
“ The Chatter Oak" in Connecticut.
“From the best information that we can ob
tain,•*. says a Hartford paper, '.'this tree is
no less than four hundred-years old: it is torn-
ty-eight.fut in circumference near the ground,
and at the height of seven feet, it is seventeen
feet in circumfereftce; the height, of the tree,
as near as can be ascertained, is. about seventy
feet; some of its branches. extend nearly
twenty feet." ;
In May, 1826, there was an Elm blown
down in Wells, (Maine) which "measured
twenty-xvcnftet and four inches in circumfen-
ence, making the diameter something over nine
feet} and was forty feet from the foot to a
thence it was twenty feet to the
first limb running to tho height of sixty feet
from the bottom oefore it had any limbs, whenit
expanded to an immense size. The exact
height of tho tree could not be accurately ob
tained, M the top was much broken, but was
computed to bo upwards of on* hundred feet."
“ An Elm tree standing near the bouse of
Captain Joshua Avery, in Strathara, (Massi
and reared since his recollection, at f our - *1
from the ground, measures eighteen feet in tl ,
cumference, and one hundred feet from the
tremity of the branches on one side, to tho cj!
tremity of them on tho other. It was plan,’
ed 80 years ago; and to use Capt. A’s. ei.
pression, was then “ smaller than his thumb.’
Mr. Nelson, the Botanist, who accompanj.
ed Capt. Bliou to the South Sea, for the pig.
pose of conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to
the West-Indies, when on Van Dieman'i
Land, “ found a tree in a thriving state, of the
enormous size of thirty-three feet and a halfi
girth, and of a proportionable height.”
In Coon’s first voyage, Sir Joseph Bank?
and Dr. Solanper, (I think it was in New.
Zealand) measured a tree that was "ninety,
eight feet high from the ground to the fa)
branch, quite strait, and nineteen feet inarcun,
ference; and they found still larger trees a;
they advanced into the.wood."
’ On Cook’s third voyage they saw India*
Canoes on the North West Coast of Ameri.
ca—“the largest of which carry twenty person!
or more, aie formed of one tree. Many o|
tbom ore forty feet long, teven broad andabou
for^etleep.”
Wo aro told in the narrative of Governot
Phillip, in his voyage to Botany Bay, that ot
Norfolk Island, “ tho pines arrive at a magni-
tude unusual in any other part of tho world roaK
of them are one hundred and sidy, or even i
hundred and eighty fed infdightt and nine
ten feet in diameter, at the bottom of the trunk
They frequently rise to eighty feet without
branch."
The Elm in Hatfield, (Mass.) is said to bi
the largest tree in Nqw-England. “It measurc
in circumference thirty-four feet, at two fed
from the ground; at tne height of five feet, th
smallest place in the trunk, tho circuraferenct
is 24 feet 6 inches. There is a cut in tlio tree
four feet from the ground, whicji tradition sayi
was matjc by foe Indians, for foo highest rise ui
Connecticut River.”
The largest tree in Great-Britain, that 1
have ever read of, is’ the ono cited’ by Smel-
lie, in his Philosophy of Natural History;
which was growing at Cowthorpc, near Woth-
erhy, upon the estate ,bc!-)n;.lng to the Rieb
Hon. Lady Stouhton. “ The dimensions rn
almost incredible. Within three feet of tfo
surface, it measures sixteen yards, and close b]
the ground,.twenty six yards. Its height, in ij
' 1776) is about ciehty
foe left, tliey began to ascend the mountain, ii
order to visit tho celebrated tree, known hy the
name of the Chosnut-Trce of an hundred Horse
which, for some centuries, has been rcgardci
as one of the greatest wonders of dStna.
" At foe etitlof the first region, the ascent bq.
f trae muchmorp rapid, till they arrived atfoe be,
? “ inning of tho second region of /Etna, called Li
legoine Sylvain, by tho natives; because if?
composed of one vast forest thatextends all irouw
foe mountain. [“ Tho woody region of JEtra
ascends for about eight or nine miles, and form
a zone, or girdle, oft he brightest verdure, a!
round the'mountain.”] The same author.
“ Near this place, they passed through som
beautiful woods of cork and evergreen oak
growing put of the lava ; and proceeding aboui
Jive roues farther, they caino to the Chesum
tree already mentioned, which, in the old map!
of Sicily, always makes a conspicuous figure.—
Mr. Bryson says ho was rather disappointed
as it appeared rather a duster of five tree*
growing together,than a single root; however
he was qssured that they were all,once unite;
in foe same stem, nnd that in the days of old i
was regarded as the beauty' of tho forest, nnd
visited from all quarters. It measured no les
than two hundred ahdfourfcet in circumference,
nnd if, os it is protended, it was formerly one
trunk, jt.jnust, indeed, have beon a wonderfe
phenomenon in the vegetable kingdom. Then
are many other trees 111 this vicinity, of oxtr.ior>
dinary magnitude. Our author measured ont
which rose in a fojid trunk to a considerable
Height, fojt was not loss than seventy-six feet i)
ardmfatntc, at two feet from the ground.”
The ^egington,(Ky) Public Advertiser says,
thatthere now stands on the bqnk of foe Ohio
river, in foo State of Indiana, opposite the
mouth ofSalt river, a Sycamore tree, which Ilat
stabled fourteen head of horses at one time
wifo ample room, It takes 75 long paces ti
go round its truifo, and you may with perfect
case turn a fourteen foot pole in the inside o!
In Lewis and Clark’s Expedition, thoy sav
Pine trees, at the mouth Columbia river,jo!
twelve feet diameter, and, tw.ajiundredfeet high.
The lareest tree, I believe, In the ncighor*
hooid of Charleston, is a Live Oak near th?
Goose Creek road, about nine miles from towo-
It takes, fifteen long paces.to go round it,
near as., you can trqad between, the roots.--
About four feet feom. the ground j foo smallest
part of foe trunk measures eighteen and a half
feet in circumference; and ono of its arm!
measures twelve and a half feet in girth. Thr
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tree, with a vertical sun, would cast a shado of
370 feet in circumference.
There is. a Live Oak tree on the Charles tot
Race Course, that has a limb extending seven*
ty-five feet from its trunk, in a horizontal posi
tion.
The abovo trees have all-grown within thi
temperate zones, and with the exception ol
that in Great-Britain, between the latitudes of
30 and 48. Charleston Courier.
dull eer-
A Country clergyman preaching a'very um>
moil, set all his congregation asleep, except one po 01
fellow, who was generally deficient in intellect. Al
length the Reverend Orator, looking round, exclainj:
ed, with great indignation—*‘whnt all asleep hut tbc
poor Idiot 1” “ Aye," quoth the fellow," and if! has
not boea on Idiot, I shouldharo gone to sleep too";