muskets that were rested against the tree, and instantly shot down the two soldiers that kept guard.

12. By this time the serjeant and corporal, a couple of brave Englishmen, recovering from their panic, had sprung and seized up the two muskets which had fallen from the slain but before they could use them, the Americans, with clubbed guns, levelled each, at the head of his antagonist, the final blow. Then, securing their weapons, they flew between the surviving enemy and their arms, grounded near the road, and compelled them to surrender.

13. The irons were taken off, and arms put in the hands of those who had been prisoners, and the whole party arrived at Parisburgh the next morning and joined the American camp. There are but few instances upon record where personal exertions, even for self-preservation from certain prospects of death, would have induced a resort to an act so desperate of execution; how much more laudable was this where the spring to action was roused by the lamentations of a female unknown to the adventurers.

14. After the gallant defence at Sullivan's Island, Colonel Moultrie's regiment was presented with a stand of colours by Mrs. Elliot which she had richly embroidered with her own hands, and as a reward for Jasper's particular merit, Governor Rutledge presented him with a very handsome sword. During the assault against Savannah, two officers had been killed, and one wounded, endeavouring to plant these colours upon the enemy's parapet of the Spring-hill redoubt.

15. Just before the retreat was ordered, Jasper endeavoured to replace them upon the works, and while he was in the act, received a mortal wound, and fell into the ditch. When a retreat was ordered, he recollected the honourable conditions upon which the donor presented the colours to his regiment, and among the last acts of his life suceeeded in bringing them off.

16. Major Horry called to see him soon after the retreat, to whom it is said he made the following communication: "I have got my furlough. That sword was presented to me by Governor Rutledge, for my services in the defence of Fort Moultrie-give it to my father, and tell him I have worn it in honour. If the old man should weep, tell him his son died in the hope of a better life.

17. "Tell Mrs. Elliot that I lost my life supporting

the colours which she presented to our regiment. Should you ever see Jones, his wife and son, tell them that Jasper is gone, but that the remembrance of that battle, which he fought for them, brought a secret joy into his heart when it was about to stop its motion for ever.' He expired a few moments after closing this sentence.

THE LAND OF THE BLEST.

THE sunset is calm on the face of the deep,
And bright is the last look of day in the west,
And broadly the beams of its parting glance sweep,
Like the path that conducts to the land of the blest :

All golden and green is the sea, as it flows,

In billows just heaving its tide to the shore; And crimson and blue is the sky, as it glows

With the colours, which tell us that day-light is o'er.

I sit on a rock, that hangs over the wave,

And the foam heaves and tosses its snow-wreaths below, And the flakes gilt with sunbeams, the flowing tide pave, Like the gems that in gardens of sorcery grow:

I sit on the rock, and I watch the light fade
Still fainter and fainter away in the west,

And I dream, I can catch, through the mantle of shade
A glimpse of the dim, distant land of the blest.

And I long for a home in that land of the soul,

Where hearts always warm glow with friendship and love, And days ever cloudless still cheerily roll, Like the age of eternity blazing above:

There with friendships unbroken, and loves ever true,
Life flows on, one gay dream of pleasure and rest;
And green is the fresh turf, the sky purely blue,
That mantle and arch o'er the land of the blest.

The last line of light is now crossing the sea,
And the first star is lighting its lamp in the sky;

It seems that a sweet voice is calling to me,

Like a bird on that pathway of brightness to fly:

"Far over the wave is a green sunny isle,

Where the last cloud of evening now shines in the west 'Tis the island that Spring ever woos with her smile; O! seek it-the bright happy land of the blest."

SKETCH OF THE MODERN GREEKS.

SECT. 1. Personal Appearance.

1. THE modern Greeks bear a great resemblance to the descriptions which have been transmitted of the ancient inhabitants of the country, in their form, features, dress, diet, and tempers. There is a national likeness observable among them all, but the islanders are of a darker complexion, and a stronger make, than the inhabitants of the main land. The young men are distinguished for beauty, but their appearance is thought too effeminate.

2. Their eyes are large and dark, their eyebrows arched, their complexions brown, but clear, and their cheeks and lips tinged with a bright vermilion colour. Their faces are of a regular oval form, and their features perfectly proportioned, except their ears are rather large. Their hair is dark and long, but shaved off in the fore part of the crown and sides of the face.

3. Beards are worn only by the clergy and persons of authority, but all of them wear thin long black mustachios on the upper lip. Their necks are long, but broad, and well set, their chests wide and open, their shoulders strong, but their waists rather slender, and their legs large, but well made. Their stature is above the middle size, and their form muscular and round, but not corpulent.

4. The women are often very beautiful, but are inferior to the men in face and figure, and though they have the same kind of features, yet their eyes are languid, their complexions pale, their stature rather low, and their whole persons loose and flaccid.

5. Those of the better class are very careful to improve their beauty by paints and washes, and often lay on their

colouring substances to an extravagant degree. They marry at the age of fifteen, but their beauty is short-lived, for they begin to decay and have the marks of age soon after twenty-five.

SECT. 2. Character.

6. The character of the modern Greeks has been variously represented: but travellers generally concur in the principal features of the following portrait. Though they are very ignorant, they are an ingenious people; and, if rescued from oppression, might again distinguish themselves in the arts and sciences.

7. There is still an abundance of native genius among them; but in the substantial part of their character, they are a degraded nation. Their manners are very engaging, but they have too much the appearance of insincerity. They are extremely courteous towards inferiors, and even servants; and make very little distinction in their behaviour on account of rank.

8. The rich are versatile and intriguing; the lower classes full of merriment, doing nothing at certain seasons but pipe and dance. They perform the rites of hospitality with good humour and politeness, but will take the meanest shifts to gain some pecuniary remuneration, and will do any thing for the sake of money. Though avaricious they are not sordid, but fond of pomp and show, and profuse in their ostentation of generosity.

9. Wealth is the chief object of their admiration; hence they are almost universally engaged in trade in some form or other. The cultivation of the soil is left chiefly to Albanians and colonists. Even their princes and nobles who reside at Constantinople are concerned in commerce.

10. They are little to be trusted; but are light, inconstant, treacherous, subtle, and selfish in all their transactions ready to practise the meanest artifices, and to utter the grossest untruths; and are more barefaced in their impositions than even the Jews. Political oppression has rendered them at once imperious and cringing; showing ferocity when entrusted with power, but rarely displaying the coolness of determined courage. They are completely sensible of their degraded state; and discover a strong attachment to their country, as well as an ardent desire of political freedom.

SECT. 3. Address and Amusements.

11. The Greeks are remarkable for the formality and tediousness of their salutations. When two of them meet, however casually, they stand with their hands on their hearts, bowing gently for five minutes together, inquiring after each other's health, their wives, daughters, sons, family, and affairs, twenty times over, before they begin to converse, or even when they are intending to separate immediately.

12. At Easter, the Greeks have amusements of all kinds, and crowds of people are collected, who engage in wrestling matches and other exercises. At these scenes are stalls filled with sweetmeats, and sherbet, and groups of people seated on the grass, playing at different games of chance, while others are engaged in dancing, in rings, to the music of an instrument not unlike a bagpipe. On every such day of festivity, the Greeks of course display their best dresses; but they cannot be commended for sebriety of demeanour.

SECT. 4. Mode of Travelling.

13. The mode of travelling in Greece, as in the rest of Turkey, is on horseback; none of their roads are practicable for carriages in all their extent. "I was not," says an eminent traveller, "able to discover in the Morea, either any Greek roads or Roman ways. Turkish causeways, two and a half feet broad, carry you over low and marshy spots; and these causeways are sufficient for the asses of the peasants, and horses of the soldiery."

14. Even the conveyance of merchandise takes place on the backs of the horses; and when the journey extends to Dalmatia, traders unite in caravans. The stages are long, generally above twenty miles. Travellers are much annoyed with bugs and other insects. The chief articles of diet are mutton, poultry, and rice; in their season, fruits, as raisins, oranges, dried figs, and pomegranates.

15. Tables are rarely used; a round tin plate, put on the top of a stool, is a substitute for them; and instead of chairs, people sit on couches or cushions.