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goes on addressing the Devil, till he has worked himself up, and begins thus to rave in rhythm.

"Then where's thy ground on earth? receive thy doom, the pit, there twist in flames, and there thy like deceive!Then Cain receive thy doom from Abel's blood. Then where is Paraoh and his host? Judge then, need Moses fear! Where is the Lion fallen! and the pit has oped its mouth, the covering's dropt;the Lamb has nought to fear-then roar no more to shake the earth and sea. Where now's the eagle and vultur'd host-thy wings are pluck'd on earth, she stands defenceless, the fatal net beneath-The Dove now has protection; she ranges earth and sea, and soars aloft unhurt, unfeared, to carry peace to all. The Ark is opened now, she brings the olive branch, the floods are past, where's now the giant race?-Who pressed on Lot? 'Twas thee the proud oppressor! Where art thou now Where is thy pride and city? Knowest thou the words, come out! come out! let Sodom feel its doom. Where now is Lot? At Zoar safe! Where is his wife? Is she not salt all?The writing's on the wall-Thou lewdly revellest with the bowls of God.-Thy kingdom's past away Now see my Daniel rise-Who cast him in the den?-'Twas thee-Thou rolledst the stone, thou sealedst his doom-the roaring Lion thee! Then let the stone return, the seal be broke, and go thou in his stead, Where is the image gold and Bel? Where is proud Babel's builder? Confusion is thy name: confusion is thy doom! Let Bel asunder burst! the pitch, and tar, and walls of wood expose thy make, deceit, and craft, --and pass in flames away. The God of Daniel stands--Daniel rise up!

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Six days are past—the seventh now is here-seven times refined and rified-in innocency come. emerald, unhurt in fire, displays great Judah's son.-Let Urim's light and Thummim shine in bright per fection's day. The twelve men stand upon the plate-the fourth denotes great Judah's son, who is the right ful heir. The stones denote old Ja cob's sons, their light and quality-they shine as stars in Jesus' crown upon the Woman's head.-The Su unveil'd shall now arise-The Moon from scarlet shall emerge-The stars from darkness now appear to light the midnight hour-Then where art thou, O Satan! Where are thy heads, and horns, and dragon's tail, which slew and hurt the living stars! Where are thy rays of fire-thy watery floods-behold they are past awayThe woman's fears of thee are o'e

the wilderness receives her child, whose iron rod now feel. The p has oped its mouth-thou now art cast, shut up and sealed-the saints now judge the earth. The Omap. tent is here in power and spiritin the word-The sword, white horse, and King of Kings has drawn the flaming sword! Rejoice, ye saints, rejoice! The Beast and Draga, mountain, tree, no more shall hur devour, becloud, the saint, the god, and vine. The gold and gems ap pear-The mighty earthquake displays the hidden Son of God. The rod and smitten rock gush torth, and smite and slay, and make alive, new saves and now destroys. The cloud and glory, Jonah's sign, display the virtues of the word, the light and darkness shews. The Gospel bring the light, and life, and death-and death as men obey or mock. The six denotes the suffering time to shew the Son of Man-The sign with

he sun-The fowls now feast on hee Then where's thy former eign? Beneath the rod of Moses ee thy fall from Heaven's height. Son of the Morning, Lucifer, no more oppress-be thou a fallen star! Great Gog and Agag, where are ye? The walls of Jericho art thou; fall lat! Joshua's ram's horns, the seven nd twelve, pass Jordan's stream.Where is the Lion, Bear, Goliath uge, but in the center thee.

Da. id appears, a stripling youth, now ears, and slays, and slings the stone, nd smites thy dragon's head. Now ee great David's reign-The temle's stones, unhewed by man in hose days, unite, the King of Peace midst the seven in oil unite, and in stope with seven eyes appears. The stately fabric now is laid, ounded and topped with gems of very hue. The ark of Moses now 3 built-The words, the laws, the ceptre, all unite, and Aaron's bud. ed rod—He now is chosen; eat he bread, prepare the sacrifice. ohn eats the book which sweet and itter is-He prophecies; the temle metes, and stands before the amb. The temple measures, and noints, and Moses' tabernacle. The witnesses, Matthew and John, s olive trees appear-The broken ones of Moses now uplift, renowin books arise from death-The ord's anointed reigns-The rods, laws, of Ephraim ten, unite in ne and hold by Judah's skirt-The on of Man o'er Israel reigns-The y bones now arise-Here ends y earthly reign-The bond of ion now is come-The marriage g appears-The bride is come

e bridegroom now receives the arriage scal-The Law and ospel now unite-The Moon VOL. XLVIII.

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"Tremble and flee, 'tis done. The seals are burst-the vials pour and end thy destiny.

"These are a small part of the thoughts of the judgments of God pronounced on Satan," concludes the writer, who is a gentleman of vast respectability.

One of her books has the title printed on the last page, because it was ordered that the book should contain neither more nor less than forty-eight pages.-Another has a seal in the middle of it bearing the letters J. C.-the J., it is said, being meant for Jesus and Joanna!! 3 U Keswick,

Keswick, and its Lake.-Lodore Waterfall.-Ascent of Skiddaw. From the same, Vol. II.

From Penrith to Keswick is four leagues and a half; and as we were told there was no place where we could breakfast upon the way, we lay in bed till a later hour than would otherwise have beseemed pe

destrians. The views were uninteresting after such scenery as we bad lately passed, yet as we were returning to the mountainous coun. try, they improved as we advanced. Our road laid under one very fine mountain called Saddleback, and from every little eminence we beheld before us in the distance the great boundaries of the vale of Kes. wick. At length, after walking five hours, we ascended the last hill, and saw the vale below us with its lake and town, girt round with mountains even more varied in their outline, and more remarkably grouped than any which we had left behind. It was beginning to rain, and to confess the truth we derived more satisfaction from the sight of the town, than from the wonders around it. Joyfully we reached the in to which our trunks had been directed from Ambleside, but our joy was in no slight degree damped by the unwelcome intelligence that the house was full. Was there another inn ?-that was full also; the town was crowded with company-but if we would walk in they would endeavour to procure us beds. In a few minutes word was brought us that they had pro. cured one bed, if we had no objection to sleep together,—and if we had it seemed there was no alternative. We were assured for our comfort that strangers had some

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times slept in their carriages. Ac cordingly we were conducted to our apartment, which proved to be at the house of the barber.

The barber in England is not the important personage he is in our country; Le meddles with no sur. gical instruments, and the few who draw teeth practise exclusively among the poor, and are considered | as degrading the profession ;-still the barber is a person of importance every where. Our host was as at tentively civil as a man could be, and partly out of compliment to him, partly from a fancy to be shaved in the English fashion, I submitted my chin to him. Barbers basons it seems are as obsolete here as helmets, and Don Quixote must in this country have found some other pretext for attacking a poor shaver. Instead of rubbing the soap upon the face, he used a brush; this mode of operating is not se cleanly as our own, but it is more expeditious. We find him of great use, in directing our movements here. He has been a sailor; wa in the famous action against the Comte de Grasse, and after having been in all parts of the world, returned at last to his native place, to pass the remainder of his days in this humbler but more gainful em. ployment. His wife was as active

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venience. The room is very neat, and bears marks of industrious frugality; it has a carpet composed of shreds of list of different colours, and over the chimney piece is the portrait of one of the admirals under whom our host had served.

It rained all night, and we were congratulated upon this, because the waterfall of Lodore, the most famous in all this country, would be in perfection. As soon as we had breakfasted a boat was ready for us, and we embarked on the lake, about half a mile from the town. A taste for the picturesque, if I may so far flatter myself as to reason upon it from self observation, differs from a taste for the arts in this remarkable point, that instead of making us fastidious, it produces a disposition to receive delight, and teaches us to feel more pleasure in discovering beauty, than connoiseurs enjoy in detecting a fault. I have oftentimes been satiated with works of art; a collection of pictures fatigues me, and I have regarded them at last rather is a task than as a pleasure. Here, on the contrary, the repetition of uch scenes as these heightens the enjoyment of them. Every thing I become daily grows upon me. nore and more sensible of the height of the mountains, observe heir forms with a more discrininating eye, and watch with in:reased pleasure the wonderful changes they assume under the ffect of clouds or of sunshine.

The Lake of Keswick has this lecided advantage over the others which we have seen, that it immeliately appears to be what it is. Winandermere and Ulswater might De mistaken for great rivers, nor in Heed can the whole extent of either

be seen at once; here you are on a
land-locked bason of water, a
league in length, and about half as
broad,-you do not wish it to be
larger, the mirror is in perfect pro-
portion to its frame.
portion to its frame. Skiddaw, the
highest and most famous of the En-
glish mountains, forms its northern
boundary, and seems to rise almost
immediately from its shore, though
it is at the nearest point half a league
distant, and the town intervenes.
One long mountain, along which
the road forms a fine terrace,
reaches nearly along the whole of
its western side; and through the
space between this and the next
mountain, which in many points of
view appears like the lower segment
of a prodigious circle, a lovely vale
is seen which runs up among the
hills. But the pride of the Lake of
Keswick is the head, where the
mountains of Borrowdale bound
the prospect, in a wilder and grand-

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manner than words can adequately describe. The cataract of Lodore thunders down its eastern side through a chasm in the rocks, which are wooded with birch and ash trees. It is a little river, flowing from a small lake upon the mountains about a league distant, water, though there had been heavy rains, was not adequate to the channel; indeed it would require a river of considerable magnitude to fill it, yet it is at once the finest work and instrument of rock and water that I have ever seen or heard. At a little public-house near where the key of the entrance is kept, they have a cannon to display the echo; it was discharged for us, and we heard the sound rolling round from hill to hill,- but for this we pay four shillings,-which are very nearly a peso duro. So that En 3 U 2

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glish echoes appear to be the most expensive luxuries in which a traveller can indulge. It is true there was an inferior one which would have cost only two shillings and sixpence; but when one buys an echo, who would be content for the sake of saving eighteen pence, to put up with the second best, instead of ordering at once the super-extradouble-superfine?

the scene something like the unrea. lity of a dream. It was a bright evening, the sun shining, and a few white clouds hanging motionless in the sky. There was not a breath of air stirring, not a ware,-a rip. ple or wrinkle on the lake, so that it became like a great mirror, and represented the shores, mountains, sky and clouds so vividly, that there was not the slighest appearance of water. The great mountain-opering being reversed in the shadow be came a huge arch, and through the magnificent portal the long vale wa seen between mountains and bound

all this in the water, the distance perfect as in the actual scene,-th single houses standing far up in the vale, the smoke from their chimneys -every thing the same, the shadow and the substance joining at their bases, so that it was impossible distinguish where the reality ended and the image began. As we stood on the shore, heaven and the clouds and the sun seemed lying under we were looking down into a sk as heavenly and as beautiful as that overhead, and the range of mou tains, having one line of summit u der our feet and another above were suspended between two firmi. ments.

We walked once more at evening to the Lake side. Immediately opposite the quay is a little island with a dwelling house upon it. A few years ago it was hideously disfigured with forts and batteries, a shamed by mountain beyond mountain, church, and a new drudical temple, and except a few fir-trees the whole was bare. The present owner has done all which a man of taste could do in removing these deformities: the church is converted into a tollhouse, the forts demolished, the batteries dismantled, the stones of the drudical temple employed in forming a bank, and the whole island planted. There is something in this place more like the scenes of enchantment in the books of chivalry than like any thing in our ordinary world, a building the exterior of which promised all the conveniences and elegancies of life, surrounded with all ornamental trees, in a little island the whole of which is one garden, and that in this lovely lake, girt round on every side with these awful mountains. Immediately behind it is the long dark western mountain called Brandelow the contrast between this and the island which seemed to be the palace and garden of the lady of the lake, produced the same sort of pleasure that a tale of enchantment excites, and we beheld it under circumstances which heightened its wonders, and gave

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This morning we inquired anxiously about the weather a we had been on shipboard, for the destined business of the day ascend the great Skiddaw. After suffering hopes and fears, as s shine or cloud seemed to predom nate, off we set with a boy to guide us. The foot of the mountain l about a mile from the town; way for the first stage is along green path of gradual and uninter

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