went the judgment pronounced by Solomon on the child. It was cleft asunder; each of the sisters replanted her own half, and wonderful to be told! the tree, which had been separated by sisterly animosity, received a new clothing of bark from the be nignant hand of Nature. p. 61.

Many of those marine harmonies have escaped me, for I then considered them as merely the effect of chance. I looked at them, I admired them, but I observed them not: I suspected, however, even then, that the pleasure which their harmonic combination inspired, must be referable to some law with which I was unacquainted. p. 93.

The cat and the dog live peaceably by the same fireside, unless where the tyranny of man has vitiated their dispositions, by a treatment calculated to excite hatreds and jealousies between them. P. 96.

I am frequently at a loss to know what has become of my snuff-box, because it is

black, like the table on which I put it down. If nature had not been possessed of more intelligence than I am, the greatest part of her works would utterly disappear.

Man is incessantly pursuing the illusion which escapes him, and neglects the useful truth which is lying at his foot. p. 98.

The physical beauty of man is so striking, in the eyes even of the animal creation, that to it, principally, must be ascribed the empire which he exercises over them, in every part of the earth. The feeble flee for refuge under his protection, and the most powerful tremble at sight of him. Mathiola relates, that the lark will save herself amidst troops of men, when she perceives the bird of prey hovering over her. The reality of this instinct was confirmed to me by an officer, who was once an eye witness of one, in such circumstances, fleeing for safety among a very distinguished squadron of cavalry, in which he then served; but the trooper whose particular protection she sought, trampled her

to death under his horse's feet; a most barbarous action, which drew on him, and justly, the indignation of every good man in the corps. I myself have seen a stag, when run down by the hounds, appeal with sobs for relief, to the compassion of persons accidentally passing that way...... If we meet less frequently with instances of the effect of animal confidence in man, it is because of the noise of our fowling pieces, scaring them incessantly, and of the continual other persecutions which they are doomed to undergo. It is well known with what familiarity the monkeys, and fowls of all kinds, approach travellers in the forest of India. I have seen at the Cape of Good Hope, in Cape Town itself, the shores of the sea swarming with water fowls, which perched confidently on the shallops, and a large wild pelican playing close by the custom-house, with a great dog, whose head she took into her enormous beak. This spectacle conveyed to me, from the moment of my arrival, a most powerful impression in favour of the happiness of that coun

try, and of the humanity of its inhabitants: nor did my conjecture deceive me.

But dangerous animals, on the contrary, are seized with terror at the sight of man, unless they be driven from their natural bias by some pressing necessity. An elephant will suffer himself to be led about, in Asia, by a little child. The African lion. retires, growling, from the cabin of the Hottentot; surrenders up to him the possessions of his ancestors, and seeks for himself a kingdom far remote, in forests, and among rocks, untrodden by the foot of man. The immense whale amidst his native element, trembles, and flees away before the puny bark of the Laplander. And thus, to this day, is executed that all-potent law, which secured empire to man, though sunk into guilt and wretchedness: "And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air; upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered." p. 110.

But, wherefore are there so few happy marriages among us? I answer, because with us the sexes have divested themselves each of its proper nature, and assumed the other. It is because the women, with us, adopt the manners of men, from education; and men the manners of women, from habit. The women have been despoiled of the graces, and of the talents, peculiar to their sex, by the masters, the sciences, the customs, the occupations of men. There is no way left, save one, but that is infallible, to bring both back to nature; it is to inspire them with a taste for religion. By religion, I do not mean attachment to ceremonies, nor systems of theology; but the religion of the heart, pure, simple, unostentatious; such as it is so beautifully depicted in the gospel. p. 116.

In cases innumerable, the most unrelent ing slavery is imposed, together with an accumulation of honours; and in the meanest of human conditions, we frequently find the possession of the most unbounded empire,