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ject, as he was so deeply interested, from having al' his estate in Boston.

4. After he left the chair, he addressed the chairman of the committee of the whole in the following ⚫ words: "It is true, sir, nearly all the property I have in the world is in houses, and other real estate, in the town of Boston; but if the expulsion of the British army from it, and the liberties of our country, require their being burnt to ashes, issue the order for that purpose immediately."

5. What inspiring lessons of duty do examples like these inculcate! War, fellow-citizens, is a great evil; but not the greatest of evils. Submission to injustice is worse. Loss of honor is worse. A peace purchased by mean and inglorious sacrifices is worse. That sordid or that self-indulgent spirit, which would lead a man to prize the satisfactions of avarice or of worldly ease above country, above manliness, above freedom, is worse, far worse.

6. I am no apologist of war. 1 hate and deplore it. It should be the last resort of nations. It should be shunned on every principle, Christian and humane. It brings tremendous evils in its train. It foments some of the vilest passions of our nature, even as it often develops the most heroic virtues. If the money lav. ished in keeping up great naval and military establishments were spent in employing labor, and educating the people, how much good might be effected, how much evil might be prevented!

7. But an ignoble peace may be even more demoral izing than a sanguinary war. It may corrupt all the springs of a people's energy and magnanimity. It may make them servile, sensual, selfish. It may be such an in'cubus on a nation's character, that every true patriot must feel crushed and degraded under its weight, till he could almost exclaim, with disgraced

Cassio, "O! I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bes tial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!”

BROWN. (1812.)

XXXIV. -SUNRISE ON MOUNT ETNA.

CA-TA'NI-A, n., a town on the east | IM-PLIC'IT (im-plis'it), a., wrapped up

coast of Sicily.

DE-CLIV'I-TY, n., a slope.

PROG'E-NY (proj'e-ny), n., offspring.
E-RUPTION, n., a breaking forth.
LA'VA, n., the melted matter which

flows from a volcano.

VOL-CA'NO, n., a burning mountain.
AR-O-MATIC, a., fragrant; spicy.
DIS-SIM'I-LAR, a., unlike.

SEP'A-RATE, v. t., to disjoin; to part.

in; trusting to another.

PLASTIC, a., giving form.

CHA'OS (ka'os), n., a confused mass.
PĂRʼAL-LEL, n., a line equally distant
at all points from another line; a
resemblance.

SCEN'ER-Y, n., the objects that make
up a scene or view.

DE-SCRY', v. t., to see at a distance.
DI-VER'SI-TY, n., difference.

Pronounce Alicudi, Al-e-coo'de. The ph in atmosphere has the sound of f. Do not say trax for tracts. Perfume, the noun, has the accent on the first syllable, to distinguish it from the verb per-fume'.

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mountains. His base and his immense declivities are covered with a numerous progeny of his own; for every great eruption produces a new mountain, and perhaps by the number of these, better than by any other method, the number of eruptions, and the age confident Etna itself, might be ascertained. The whole mountain diffszent rates divided into three distinct regions, called the fertile,

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and lava, we arrived on the confines of the woody region, or temperate zone. As soon as we came to these delightful forests, we seemed to have entered another world. The air, which before was sultry and hot, was now cool and refreshing; and every breeze was loaded with a thousand perfumes, the whole ground being covered with the richest aromatic plants. Many parts of this region are surely the most delightful spots upon earth. to Join

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nature. Here you observe a gulf, that formerly threw out torrents of fire, now covered with the most luxu-ch riant vegetation, and from an object of terror become one of delight. Here you gather the most delicious ove fruit, rising from what was but lately a barren rock. Here the ground is covered with flowers; and we wander over these beauties, and contemplate this wil- deser derness of sweets, without considering that, under our feet, but a few yards separate us from lakes of liquid d fire and brimstone.com large 4. But our astonishme

increases, upon raising our eyes to the higher region of the mountain. There we behold, inion, the two elem perpetual which are at perpetual war,- an immense gulf of fire, forever existing in the midst of snows, which it has not power to melt; and immense fields of snow and ice, forever surrounding this gulf of fire, which they have not power to extinguish. The woody region of Etna ascends for about eight or nine miles, and forms a

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mountain.

5. This night we passed through little more than
half of it, arriving some time before sunset at our
lodging, which was a large cave, formed by one of the
most ancient eruptions. Here we were delighted with
the contemplation of many beautiful objects, the pros-
pect on all sides being immense; and we already
seemed to have been lifted from the earth. After a
comfortable sleep, and other refreshments, at eleven
o'clock at night we recommenced our expedition.

6. Our guide now began to display his great knowl- an edge of the mountain, and we followed him with imPerfectplicit confidence where, perhaps, human foot had never

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trod before; sometimes through gloomy forests, which
by day were delightful, but now, from the universal total
darkness, the rustling of the trees, the heavy, dull bel-sing

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rocks of lava, where, if our mules should make but a

false step, we might beong over the

precipice. However, by the assistance of our guide, we overcame all these difficulties, and in two hours we had ascended above the region of vegetation, and had left far below the forests of Etna, which now ap peared like a dark and gloomy gulf surrounding the mountain. or all side. 8. The prospect before us was of a very vie. different nature. We beheld an expanse of snow and ice, which alarmed us exceedingly, and almost staggered our faightened resolution. shy resolution. In the center of this we descried the high summit of the mountain, rearing its tremendous head, throwing. V and vomiting out torrents of smoke. The ascent, for some time, was not steep, and, as the surface of the

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10. The immense elevation from the surface of the earth, drawn as it were to a single point, without any neighboring mountain for the senses and imagination dea to rest upon, and recover from their astonishment, in their way down to the world; this point, or pinnacle, raised on the brink of a bottomless gulf, as old as the world, often discharging rivers of fire, and throwing out burning rocks, with a noise that shakes the whole island; the unbounded extent of the prospect, comprehending the greatest diversity, and the comthe most beautiful scenery in nature, with the rising sun advancing in the east to illumine the wondrous scene, formed a combination to which I do not know a parallel. ke 11. The whole atmosphere by degrees kindled up, and showed, dimly and faintly, the boundless prospect around. Both sea and land looked dark and confused, as if only emerging from their original chaos; and light and darkness seemed still undivided, till the morning, by degrees advancing, completed the separa tion. The stars are extinguished, and the shades dis

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