being compofed of parts almoft as fmall as thofe of water, they affume a fimilar appearance, rolling onward in waves like those of a troubled fea, and overwhelming all they meet with inevitable deftruction. On the other hand, thofe tracts which are fertile teem with vegetation even to a noxious degree. The grafs rifes to fuch a height as often to require burning: the forefts are impaffable from underwoods, and fo matted above, that even the fun, fierce as it is, can feldom penetrate thefe are fo thick as fcarce to be extirpated; for the tops being fo bound together by the climbing plants that grow round them, that tho an hundred fhould be cut at the bottom, yet not one would fall, as they mutually fupport each other. In thefe dark and tangled forefts beafts of various kinds, infects in aftonifhing abundance, and ferpents of furprifing magnitude, find a quiet retreat from man, and are feldom difturbed except by each other.

In this manner the extremes of our globe seem equally unfitted for the comforts and conveniencies of life; and although the imagination may find an awful pleasure in contemplating the frightful precipices of Greenland, or the luxurious verdure of Africa, yet true happiness can only be found in the more moderate climates, where the gifts of nature may be enjoyed without incurring danger in obtaining them. It is in the temperate zone, therefore, that all the arts of improving nature and refining upon happiness have been invented; and this part of the earth is, more

properly

properly speaking, the theatre of natural hiftory. Although there be many animals and vegetables in the unexplored forefts under the line, yet moft of these may remain, in the prefent ftate of things, for ever unknown, as curiofity is there repreffed by furrounding danger; but it is otherwife in these mild regions which we inhabit, and where this art had its beginning. Among us there is scarcely a fhrub, a flower, or an infect, without its particular hiftory; fcarcely a plant that could be useful which has not been propagated, nor a weed that could be noxious which has not been pointed out *.-[To be continued.]

THE APOSTLES' CREED,

As published, in 1151, by Order of King HENRY the Second, to be fubfcribed by the Irish.

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BELEEVE in God Fadir Almichty, Fppiper of

Heeven and Earth, and in Jhefus Chrift his oneleihi fon ure Lorverd, that is ivange Thurch the Holy Ghost, bore of Mary Maiden, tholede pine under Ponce-Pilat, picht on rode tree, dead and is buried, licht into hell, the tridde day from death arose, fteich into Heeven, fit on his Fadir richt honde God Almichty, then is commande to deme the quickke and the dede. I beleeve in the Holy Ghöft, all holy chirche, mone of all hallwen, forgivenis of fine, fleifs uprifing, liff with aaten end. Amen.

* See Goldsmith's Hiftory of the Earth.

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THE PIOUS PRINCE.

ENRY, Prince of Wales, fon of King James the First, being at a hunting-match, the ftag, almost spent, croffed a road where a butcher was paffing with his dog the ftag was inftantly killed by the dog, at which the huntfmen were greatly offended, and endeavoured to irritate the Prince against the butcher; but his Highness anfwered coolly, "What "if the butcher's dog killed the ftag, could the "butcher help it?"-They replied, "That if his "father had been fo ferved, he would have fworn fo "no one could have endured it."-" Away!" cried the Prince," all the pleafure in the world is not "worth an oath." It is alfo faid of this Prince, that when at play, being afked why he did not fwear as others did, he answered, "He knew no game worthy of an oath."

The Account of Jonah and the Whale, confidered. HE Hebrew having long been a dead language, it is only by comparing of words, and feeing the various agreements of them in the feveral places in which they occur, that their precife idea can poffibly be known. Inftead therefore of condemning former tranflators of the Bible for any errors they may have made, much praise is due unto them. If moderns with their advantages laboured equally with them, foon would a flood of truth be poured forth, VOL. I. whofe

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whose brilliancy would captivate and astonish mankind. To attain this, Chriftians fhould not be offended at a difference of fentiment, nay even should fome of those paffages which they have long looked upon as a principal bulwark of divine truth be overturned: they ought not indiscriminately to condemn but examine, ftudying rightly to understand divine" truth. The paffage which I have undertaken to comment upon is of that nature. Some may think I would wish to deftroy the miracle of Jonah's falvation, and by it to add one more argument in favour of infidelity; but let fuch confider, that the facred writings refer every, yea even the most trifling occurrence of life, to an all-directing Providence; and that the principal difference betwixt fcriptural and modern believers is the fame as that which is betwixt fcriptural and modern hiftory: the one acknowledges the hand of God in every thing, the other only in remarkable occurrences: the one could fee him in the house, the store, the field, or the camp, but the other only in fupernatural events. But let the Chriftian confider Jehovah ruleth over all things, and that the miracle is equally a miracle, whether he preferveth his fervant in the belly of a fifh, or in the heart of a rock: each or either would be a miracle, that is, an interpofition of Divine Providence, only that the one is acting as he generally does, by caufes adapted naturally to the event; but in the other, by laws contrary to those which he has himself appointed to govern nature.

1. And Jehovah appointed a great Dag to fwallow Jonah; and Jonah was in the infide of the Dag three days and three nights; and Jonah prayed to Jehovah his God from the infide of the Dag, and faid,

2. In my diftrefs I called to Jehovah! he answered me! 3. From the inside of Shaul, I cried! thou heardeft my voice!

4. For thou causedft me to be thrown into the heart of the overwhelming waters.

5. For the ftream encompaffed me; all thy breakers and removings paffed over me.

6. And I said, I am banished from the presence of

thine eyes,

7. Yet I will look repeatedly to the temple of thine holinefs.

8. The waters raged beyond my body, the deep turn ́ed around me.

9. The weeds girded my head, to the ends of the mountains I defcended!

The earth with her bars was behind me for a time. 10. But my life, thou raisedft it up from corruption, Jehovah, my God!

11. When thou caufedft my body to be hid, I remembered thee, Jehovah ;

12. And my prayer came unto thee, to the temple of "thy holiness.

13. The keepers of false restraints forfake abounding goodness;