the head than the former, while he wants the graceful | four complete rings. Along the back of the neck and and lengthened form of head and body by which the the anterior part of the spine is a mane, consisting of latter is distinguished. His fur is not sleek, but has a longer, crisper, and more upright hairs. peculiar crispness. Above, the ground colour is a "In the east he is used in hunting by the higher bright yellowish fawn; beneath it is a pure white; the classes. Hiding himself as much as possible, he apback and sides are covered with innumerable spots, proaches the object, and when he has come sufficiently close to each other, from half an inch to an inch in near to it, he makes five or six enormous bounds with diameter. The spots are larger, but less closely set, incredible velocity, darts on his victim, and instantly on the back than on the head, sides, and limbs. On strangles him. In his domesticated state, the Chetah the chest and under part of the body they are wanting. is one of the most playful and fond of animals. He The tail is marked with interrupted rings of them, till has not the slightest appearance of the caprice and near the extremity, which is surrounded by three or mischievousness of the cat. Oceanus was one of the ancient race of the Gods. He was one of the sons of Celus and Terra. His brothers were Titanus, Hyperion, Japetus or Japhetus, and Saturnus. Calus (or Uranos) discovering that his sons were conspiring to rebel against him, caused them all to be seized except Oceanus, who refused to join his brothers in the revolt; but Saturnus (Saturn) encouraged and aided by his mother Titeca (or Terra) set them at liberty; wherefore, as an act of gratitude, they placed him on the throne of his father, dispossessing the latter, who died a few years afterwards, borne down with age and sorrow. The children of Uranos and Titeca (or Cœlus and Terra) intermarried, and propagated the race of the Titans. Oceanus married his sister Tethys, (the nourisher,) and from them descended the Fountains and Streams. Yea, Oceanus was called by the ancients not only the father of these, but of the animals, and of the very gods themselves; for they imagined that all things in nature had their origin from him. It is said that he and his wife Tethys were the parents of three thousand sons. They had seventy-two daughters, called Oceanides. Though Oceanus did not participate in the war between the gods, yet, when Jupiter divided the government of the universe between his brothers and himself, he seated Neptune on the throne of Oceanus, and the latter disappeared along with the other pristine deities. To avoid confusion, it may be well to give in this place the genealogy of the gods. In the beginning, self-existent and eternal, were Chaos and Nox (Confusion and Night or Darkness.) These were the ancestors of Nature. From them also sprang Gea or Terra, (the Earth,) and Erebus, (the olden seat of gloom,) and Cupid, (Love.) Earth produced out of herself Uranos, who, as we have seen was the father of Oceanus, Saturn, &c. Thus, Chaos and Night were self existent; Earth was one of their children; Uranos was hers; and Oceanus his so that Oceanus was great-grandson of self-existent Chaos and Nox. With the generation immediately succeeding that of Oceanus, commenced the second series or modern race of the gods, of whom Jupiter, the son of Saturn, the brother of Oceanus, was the chief. At this epoch, too, as has already been seen, commenced the reign of Neptune, a brother of Jupiter, in the room of that of Oceanus. The most noted of the children of Oceanus were the following. Nereus: who was nursed and educated by the waves, and who afterwards dwelt in the Ægean sea, and became a famous seer. He was the father of fifty daughters by his wife Doris, who was also the daughter of Oceanus. These fifty daughters were denominated the Nereides, after the name of their father Nereus. "Metis, one of the daughters of Oceanus, married Jupiter, who, however, upon being told by an oracle that she should have a son who should be the mightiest of all the gods, drew her over into his own person, and gave birth to Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, who rose out of his head. Eurynome, likewise a daughter of Oceanus, and likewise married to Jupiter, is the mother of the three Graces; Aglaia, (the elegant,) Thalia, (the blooming,) and Euphrosyne, (the gay,) who give to all things their proper charms, and bestow on man in particular, dignity, beauty, and hilarity. Styx, (horror,) enjoyed the highest veneration among the daughters of Oceanus. She married Pallas, a son of Crius, the Titan, and gave him the powerful children, Zelos, (zeal,) Nike, (victory,) Kratos, (power,) and Bia, (strength.) In the war of the gods, Styx, according to the advice of her father, went over with her children to Jupiter, and, since that time, the latter have always their seat near the ruler of heaven and earth. At his command, Kratos and Bia led the sufferer Prometheus to the rock to which he was fastened. By the Titans in Tartarus, and the horrible Styx, the subterraneous fountain, the water of which, trickling in nightly gloom from a high-vaulted rock, forms the stream or lake over which there is no return, the gods swear that dreadful, inviolable oath the obligation of which cannot be dissolved by any power either in heaven or on earth. Thus the gods on high swear by the deep, where reign night and gloom, but where, at the same time, according to the ideas of the ancients, are the foundations of the universe, on which the preservation of all beings rests. Where dark Styx rolls its black waves, there is Tartarus, surrounded with a brazen wall, and overcast with threefold night. Here it is, where the Titans lie in their gloomy prison; but here it is, also, where the foundations of the earth, of the sea, and of the starry sky, are laid. Here, too, is the dwelling of Night, always covered with black clouds; before it stands Atlas, Japet's son, bearing upon his head and shoulders the burden of the sky. Here it is, where day and night always meet, but never dwell with one another. At the entrance to the prison, in which the sons of Earth are shut up, is the dwelling of their watchmen, Cottus, Gyges, and Briareus. HUMBOLDT, in the narrative of his journeys in the equinoctial regions of America, gives the following interesting account of the Volcancitos of Turbaco, a view of which is presented to the reader in the preceding wood cut. "After traversing a space of about 5300 yards, covered with the decayed trunks of trees, and in which there appeared here and there projections of a limestone rock, containing petrified corals, we reached an open place of about 908 feet square, entirely destitute of vegetation. The surface was composed of layers of clay, of a dark gray colour, cracked by desiccation into pentagonal and heptagonal prisms. The volcancitos consist of fifteen or twenty small truncated cones, rising in the middle of this area, and having a height of from 19 to 25 feet. The most elevated were on the southern side, and their circumference at the base was from 78 to 85 yards. On climbing to the top of these mud volcanoes, we found them terminated by an aperture, from 16 to 30 inches in diameter, filled with water, through which air-bubbles obtained a passage; about five explosions usually taking place in two minutes. The force with which the air rises would lead to the supposition of its being subjected to considerable pressure, and a rather loud noise was heard at intervals preceding the disengagement of it, fifteen or eighteen seconds. Each of the bubbles contained from 12 to 14 1-2 cubic inches of elastic fluid, and their power of expansion was often so great, that the water was projected beyond the crater, or flowed over its brim. Some of the openings by which air escaped were situ ated in the plain, without being surrounded by any prominence of the ground. It was observed, that when the apertures, (which are not placed at the summit of the cones, and are enclosed by a little mud wall, from 10 to 15 inches high,) are nearly contiguous, the explosions did not take place at the same time. It would appear that each crater receives the gas by distinct canals, or that these, terminating in the same reservoir of compressed air, oppose greater or less impediments to the passage of the aeriform fluids. The cones have no doubt been raised by these fluids, and the 'dull sound that precedes the disengagement of them indicates that the ground is hollow. The natives asserted that there had been no observable change in the form and number of the cones for twenty years, and that the little cavities are filled with water even in the driest seasons. The temperature of this liquid was not higher than that of the atmosphere. A stick could easily be pushed into the apertures to the depth of six or seven feet, and the dark-coloured clay or mud was exceedingly soft. An ignited body was immediately extinguished, on being immersed in the gas collected from the bubbles, which was found to be pure azote." THE FALLS OF NIAGARA. BY REV. F. W. P. GREENWOOD. A mile or two is soon passed, and now we turn a little.from the road to the right, in order to have a new view of the rapids. These occupy the whole breadth of the river, from shore to shore, and extend half a mile back from the falls, and are formed by the rush of the entire body of waters down a rough bed, the descent of which in the course of this half mile is fifty feet. Here all is tumult and impetuous haste. The view is something like that of the sea in a violent gale. Thousands of waves dash eagerly forward, and indicate the interruptions which they meet with from the hidden rocks, by ridges and streaks of foam. Terminating this angry picture, you distinguish the crescent run of the British Fall, over which the_torrent pours and disappears. The wilderness and the solitude of the scene are strikingly impressive. Nothing that lives is to be seen in its whole extent. Nothing that values its life ever dares venture it there. The waters refuse the burden of man, and of man's works. Of this they give fair and audible warning, of which all take heed. They have one engrossing object before them, and they go to its accomplishment alone. over almost slowly; the central and most voluminous portion of the Horseshoe even goes down silently. The truth is, that pompous phrases cannot describe these Falls. Calm and deeply meaning words should alone be used in speaking of them. Any thing like hyperbole would degrade them, if they could be degraded. But they cannot be. Neither the words nor the deeds of man degrade or disturb them. There they pour over, in their collected might and dignified flowing, steadily, constantly, as they always have been pouring since they came from the hollow of His hand, and you can add nothing to them, nor can you take any thing from them. As I rose, on the morning following my arrival, and went to the window for an early view, a singular fear came over me that the Falls might have passed away, though their sound was in my ears. It was, to be sure, rather the shadow of a fear than a fear, and reason dissipated it as soon as it was formed. But the bright things of earth are so apt to be fleeting, and we are so liable to lose what is valued as soon as it is bestowed, that I believed it was a perfectly natural feeling which suggested to me, for an instant, that I had enjoyed quite as much of such a glorious exhibition as I deserved, and that I had no right to expect that it would continue, as long as I might be pleased to behold. But the Falls Returning to the road, we rode the last half mile, as- were there, with their full, regular, and beautiful flowcending gradually, till we came to the public house. ing. The clouds of spray and mist were now dense A footpath through the garden at the back of the house, and high, and completely concealed the opposite shores; and down a steep and thickly wooded bank, brings us but as the day advanced, and the beams of the sun inupon Table Rock, a flat ledge of limestone, forming creased in power, they were thin and contracted. Prethe brink of the precipice, the upper stratum of which sently a thunder shower rose up from the west, and is a jagged shelf no more than about a foot in thick- passed directly over us; and soon another came, still ness, jutting out over the gulf below. Here the whole heavier than the preceding. And now I was more imscene breaks upon us. Looking up the river, we face pressed than ever with the peculiar motion of the Fall; the grand crescent, called the British or Horseshoe not, however, because it experienced a change, but beFall. Opposite to us is Goat Island, which divides cause it did not. The lightning gleamed, the thunder the Falls, and lower down to the left is the American pealed, the rain fell in torrents, the storms were grand; Fall. And what is the first impression made upon the but the Fall, if I may give its expression a language, beholder? Decidedly, I should say that of beauty; of did not heed them at all: the rapids above raged no sovereign, majestic beauty, it is true, but still that of more and no less than before, and the Fall poured on beauty, soul-filling beauty, rather than of awful sub-with the same quiet solemnity, with the same equable limity. Every thing is on so large a scale; the height intentness, undisturbed by the lightning and rain, and of the cataract is so much exceeded by its breadth,* listening not to the loud thunder. and so much concealed by the volumes of mist which wrap and shroud its feet; you stand so directly on the same level with the falling waters; you see so large a portion of them at a considerable distance from you; and their roar comes up so moderated from the deep abyss, that the loveliness of the scene, at first sight, is permitted to take precedence of its grandeur. Its colouring alone is of the most exquisite kind. The deep sea-green of the centre of the crescent, where it is probable the greatest mass of water falls, lit up with successive flashes of foam, and contrasted with the rich, creamy whiteness of the two sides or wings of the same crescent; then the sober gray of the opposite precipice of Goat Island, crowned with the luxuriant foliage of its forest trees, and connected still further on with the pouring snows of the greater and less American Falls; the agitated and foamy surface of the waters at the bottom of the Falls, followed by the darkness of their hue as they sweep along through the perpendicular gorge beyond; the mist, floating about and veiling objects with a softening indistinctness; and the bright rainbow which is constant to the sun-altogether from a combination of colour, changing too with every change of light, every variation of the wind, and every hour of the day, which the painter's art cannot imitate, and which nature herself has perhaps only effected here. About half a mile below the Horseshoe Fall, a commodious road has lately been cut in a slanting direction, down the side of the perpendicular cliff, and through the solid rock, to the river. Here we find a regular ferry, and are conveyed in a small boat across the stream, which is now narrowed to a breadth of about twelve hundred feet, to the American side. The passage is perfectly safe, and though short, delightful, as it affords a superb view of both the Falls above, and of the dark river below. The current is not very rapid, and near the American side actually sets up toward the Falls; by the help of which eddy the boat regains what it had lost in the middle of the stream. We land almost directly at the foot of the American Fall, and by walking a little way to the right, may place ourselves in its spray. Now look up, and the height will not disappoint you. Now attend to the voice of the cataract, and it will fill your soul with awe. It seems as if the waters which are above the firmament' were descending from the heights of heaven, and as if the fountains of the great deep were broken up' from below. The noise, which permits free conversation to those who are on the bank above, is here imperative and deafening. It resembles the perpetual rolling of near thunder, or the uninterrupted discharge of a battery of heavy ordnance, mingled with a strange crashing and breaking sound. This resemblance to the roar of artillery is heightened by the sight of the large bodies of spray which are continually and with immense force exploded from the abyss. The impression of superior height is gained, not so much from the fact that the American Fall is actually ten or twelve feet higher than the British, as from your having a complete profile view of the one, from brink to base, *The height of the Horseshoe Fall is 150, feet, its breadth 2376 | which you cannot well obtain of the other. And the motion of these Falls, how wonderfully fine it is! how graceful, how stately, how calm! There is nothing in it hurried or headlong, as you might have supposed. The eye is so long in measuring the vast, and yet unacknowledged height, that they seem to move feet. (To be continued." BIOGRAPHY. LORENZO DOW.-Concluded. Referring in his journal to the period of his conversion, he says: "This day, I am twelve years old." At a camp-meeting in a certain place, he says: "I found two young men and a young woman in the tent, with whom I conversed about their souls. The young woman was turbulent; I told her Old Sam would pay her a visit, which reminded her of my description of a character some months before, pointing to her and saying, ‘You, young woman, with the green bow on your bonnet, I mean.' On one occasion, he employed a smith to shoe his horse, while he was holding meeting. "Having no money to pay him," says he, "I was under the disagreeable necessity of making my circumstances known to the congregation, who gave me three-fifths of a dollar, this being the first time that I ever had hinted for the public aid since travelling." 66 After preaching at Ebenezer," says he, "I silently withdrew, and taking my horse, travelled all night, until ten next morning, when I spoke at Bethel, and then jumping out at a window from the pulpit, rode seventeen miles to Union; thence to Duck-Creek Cross-Roads, making near eighty miles' travel, and five meetings, without sleep." "When in Hartford city," says he, "I felt as if bewildered, and scarce knew which way to go; I left the beast to start which way he chose, feeling no inclina tion to go any where in particular. Thus in slow walk we started, and took the road West, toward the state of New York." He speaks of a visit to Stonington, Ct., thus: "Left Peggy; visited Hebron, Stonington, (where George's ship, Nimrod, killed two horses, one hog, and a goose ;) so to Newport, R. I." He denominated one church in which he preached, and which had two steeples, a horned meeting house. He describes one of his excursions in Ireland as fol lows:-"From the letters sent from America as above, some people, to show their loyalty to the king, and in gratiate themselves into the good opinion of the Government's Most obedient and very humble servants,' turned informers to set the bloodhounds upon my track, and offer me for a sacrifice to tyranny. But the Lord delivered me out of their hands. One instance as a specimen for the sequel. "When on my last tour in Ireland, I hired a horse and gig for ten weeks, for which I gave twelve guineas. In this time, sixty-seven days, went about 1700 miles, and held about two hundred meetings. Drive to a town-tell the boy to feed the horse and be ready for a start-would mount a stone or pile-sing-collect He describes a scene which was exhibited at a camp-remark I was an American-arrest their prejudicemeeting, as follows. "A chump of wood being flung in through the window, I leaped out after the man, he ran, and I after him, crying, “run, run, Old Sam is after you; he did run, as for his life, and leaping over a fence hid among the bushes. Next morning I cut Old Sam's name on the wood, nailed it to a tree, and called it Old Sam's Monument. I asked the people publicly (pointing to the monument) who was willing to enlist and serve so poor a master; I also observed, that the people who had threatened my life, only upon hear-say accounts, were cowardly and inhuman, as I was an entire stranger to them; and their conduct against me was under cover. I said, 'your conduct is condemnable, which expression means damnable, and of course, to make the best of you, you are nothing but a pack of damned cowards, for there durst not one of you show your heads.' These young coxcombs were mightily grated, and to retaliate, said that I cursed and swore: many, I believe, at that time, had a sense of the poor wages the devil would give his servants." He thus expresses himself in relation to a custom prevalent among Methodists. "I observed that for people to make a noise, and say loud amens, &c. was irksome to me, and I would like as well to hear a dog bark, unless it came from a proper feeling in the heart, which if it did would carry its own conviction with it; but otherwise it would appear flat, and bring a deadness over the mind; and to make a fuss and pretend feeling without possessing it, is a piece of hypocrisy, like a man possessing a vessel of water partly full, yet would say it was running over, and to prove it, would tilt the cup that it might run over. Yet if people feel the power of God (of which I have no doubt at times they do) to constrain them to cry for mercy or shout for joy, I can bear it as well as any one." The following was his opinion relative to the mode of conducting public worship by some. "I saw church service performed, but never saw any thing appear so much like a sham to represent reality, as this ceremony by way of religious worship; neither did I ever have a greater sense of the difference there was between praying and singing prayers. I thought if human wisdom could have invented a machine to go by steam, to preach and pray and say amen, and also make the organ play, and call to charm a parcel of beasts, when no human intelligent was there, that it would be Divine worship as much in reality, as some things which are now substituted for it." finish my public talk-jump into the gig, which by most would be supposed to belong to some gentleman and his servant in the neighbourhood-with such expedition move off, as none could follow my windings and turnings; and of course would not know who I was, where I came from, or was gone to. Thus ignorantly I escaped those pursuers a number of times." "The Roman Priests at the Altars," says he, "had cautioned their people against me also. Thus the HIGH PRIESTS,' in different orders, seemed to combine to proclaim war. MOBS also became so dreadful and noisy, that it gave the Police a plenty to do to guard the place, or assist me home, while the stones, brickbats, slush, mud, sticks, and dead cats, and whatsoever came to hand, at times seemed to fly like hail, while the yells of the people seemed to cut and jar the air, as if the imps of the lower regions had broke loose and come up-impostor,'' Heretic,' &c. &c." Speaking of a camp meeting where he was forbidden by the presiding elders to officiate, he says: "Not a word did I speak, good, bad, or indifferent, whilst on the ground-not even to answer a question-but remained entirely mute." 66 "Cold water societies among Indians," says he, expelled hot water from the village; some people moving, being encamped near by, seduced one to drink, and got him intoxicated, in order to tantalize and twit the other Indians, and argue--it is all a fudge. "The villagers held a council-then taking the young Indian who had got drunk down to the Camp, in presence of the whites, there cut off his head!" There are many anecdotes related of Mr. Dow which we do not find in his Journal. It is not, however, to be supposed, that a journal would contain every thing of this nature. We will relate one of these anecdotes as nearly as we can recollect it. He was applied to in a place where he was about to preach a sermon, to endeavour to detect a thief who had stolen his neighbour's axe. Accordingly, he carried up with him into the pulpit a stone as large as he could conveniently wield with one hand. During the service, he remarked that there was an individual in the assembly who had stolen his neighbour's axe; and seizing the stone, and wielding it for a heave, he declared that he was going to throw it at the thief's head; whereupon the guilty individual dodged, and thereby was detected. This eccentric individual departed this life on the 2d ult. at Georgetown, D. C. DENTOLOGIA; A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth, The notes appended to the poem by Mr. Parmly contain much valuable dental instruction; and one can hardly rise from their perusal, without viewing the subject in a light far more important than ever he did before. POETRY. MARCH.-Bryant. 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