Thy reign is the last, and the noblest of time,
Moft fruitful thy foil, moft inviting thy clime;
Let the crimes of the east ne'er encrimson thy name,
Be freedom, and science, and virtue, thy fame.

2. To conqueft and flaughter let Europe afpfre;
Whelm nations in blood, and wrap cities in fire;
Thy heroes the rights of mankind fhall defend,
And triumph pursue them, and glory attend.
A world is thy realm: for a world be thy laws,
Enlarg❜d as thine empire, and just as thy caufe;
On freedom's broad bafis thy empire fhall rise,
Extend with the main, and dissolve with the skies.
3. Fair fcience her gates to thy fons fhall unbar,
And the eaft fee thy morn hide the beams of her ftar;
New bards, and new fages, unrivall❜d fhall foar
To fame unextinguifh'd, when time is no more;
To thee, the last refuge of virtue defign'd,
Shall fly from all nations the best of mankind:
Here, grateful to Heaven, with transport fhall bring
Their incenfe, more fragrant than odors of fpring.
4. Nor lefs fhall thy fair ones to glory afcend,
And genius and beauty in harmony blend;
The graces of form fhall awake pure defire,
And the charms of the foul ever cherish the fire:
Their sweetness unmingled, their manners refin'd,
And virtue's bright image, inftamp'd on the mind,
With peace, and foft rapture, fhall teach life to glow,
And light up a smile in the afpect of woe.

James

5. Thy fleets to all regions thy power fhall display,
The nations admire, and the ocean obey ;
Each fhore to thy glory its tribute unfold,

And the east and the fouth yield their fpices and gold.
As the day fpring unbounded, thy fplendor fhall flow,
And earth's little kingdoms before thee fhall bow,
While the enfigns of union, in triumph unfurl'd,
Hush the tumult of war, and give peace to the world.
6. Thus, as down a lone valley, with cedars o'erfpread,
From war's dread confufion I penfively ftray'd;
The gloom from the face of fair heaven retir'd;
The winds ceas'd to murmur; the thunders expir'd;

Perfumes,

Perfumes, as of Eden, flow'd fweetly along,
And a voice, of angels, enchantingly fung,
Columbia, Combia, to glory arife,

2. The walls of this city 60 miles in circumference, 350 feet high, and 87 feet thie The city was exactly fquare, meafuring 15 miles upon very fide. walls were built with large bricks, cement ether with a kird of glutinous flime fuperior to any lime, and wh grovs harder than the bricks themfelves.

3 They were encompaffed by a vast ditch lined with bricks, cemented with the fame kind of bitumen, and filled wih water. The earth which was dug from the ditch feved to make the bricks for the walls; it muft, therefore, have been of great depth and width.

4. On every fide of the city were 25 brazen gates, exactly oppofite to each other. Between every two of thefe gates were three towers, and four more at the angles, and three between each of the angles and the next gate, on every fide.

5. The towers were all ten feet higher than the walls. Streets interfected each other at right angles from all the gates on every fide, being 15 miles in length, and 50 in number. Thus was the city cut into 676 fquares.

6. The hanging gardens were a great curiofity. They contained a fquare of 400 feet, and were carried to the height of the wall of the city by feveral large terraces. This vaft pile was fuftained by arches built upon arches, and ftrengthened by a wall 22 feet thick on every fide.

7. Thefe gardens contained all kinds of flowers and plants, and even large trees. On the upper terrace was an aqueduct, which ferved to water the whole.

8. The Tigris, a branch of the river Euphrates, ras through the city from north to fouth. After Cyrus had befieged the city two years, he found ans to turn the courfe of this river, and marched his army under the walls through its channel. This was done on the night in which Belshazzar and his nobles were revelli, at the banquet; who were all flain, and the city taken

THE SAILOR AND T MONKIES.

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mal, below the human fpecies, resembles man moin the imitative faculty than the monkey. It is faid that a failor, having a number of red woollen caps to iofe of, went on fhore in SouthAmerica to trade w wth the natives.

2. In his to a fettlement, lying through a wood very thily inhabited by monkies, it being in the heat of day, he put a cap on his head, and laying the athers his fide, determined to take a little repofe under the faade of a large tree.

3. To his utter aftonifhment, when he awoke, fom the fpecimen he had given his imitative obfervers of the ufe of his caps, he beheld a number of them upon the heads of the monkies in the Trees round about him; while the wearers were chattering in the most unusual manner.

4. Finding every attempt to regain his caps fruitlen, he at length, in a fit of rage and difappointment, and under the fuppofition that the one he retained on his head was not worth taking away, pulled it off, and throwing it upon the ground, exclaimed, "Here, you little thieving rogues, if you will keep the reft, you are welcome to this alfo."

5. He had no fooner done this, than, to his great furprife, the little obferving animals very readily imitated him. They all threw down their caps upon the ground; by which means the failor regained his property, and marched off in triumph. Happy would it be for mankind, if they refembled monkies only in imitating the virtues of thofe whom they confider their fuperiors, while they avoided

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their daughters are gaining that knowledge, which will enable them to become amiable fifters, virtuous children; and, in the event, to affume characters, more interesting to the public, and more endearing to themfelves than both.

11. How tranfporting are the profpects of America! With what juftice can it challenge the reality of that prophetic eulogy! "Bleffed is that nation, whofe fons and daughters are trained to virtue, honor, and usefulness; whofe fchools are as broad rivers and streams. Yea, bleffed is that people, whofe daughters wear the robes of innocence, and whofe young Elifbas rife up in fucceffion, and wear with dignity the mantles of their departed Elijahs."

J2. If parents wish to guard their children against an undue attention to external ornaments, againft extravagance in drefs and gaudy equipage, what better expedient will they find, than to replenish their minds with fuch a fund of useful knowledge, as fhall enable them fuitably to contemn all worthless things; to difcern where real merit lies, and what conftitutes the dignity of their fex?

13. Then they will not eafily be captivated with glittering trappings, trifling toys, and taftelefs amufements, but extend their views to more noble objects. What greater barrier against vice of every kind than ufeful knowledge?

14. Is it not a melancholy truth, that man too often prostitutes his boafted faculties to the deftruction of female happiness? How neceffary then to fortify their minds against the attacks of fuch vile feducers? Blemishes in female characters feldom are effaced. Not fo with man. He tarnishes his name, and brightens it again.

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But if woman chance to fwerve from the stricteft rules of virtue,

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"Ruin enfues, reproach and endless fhame,
And one falfe ftep forever blafts her fame.
In vain, with tears, the lofs fhe may deplore,
In vain look back to what fhe was before,
She fets, like ftars that fall, to rife no more."

Let other nations boaft a fuperiority in the produc. tions of fruits and flowers "Man is the nobler growth our caims fupply!" And, happily, we do not limit merit or knowledge to either fex. Both, we confider, as the natur growth of the human mind; and fure of flourishing,

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