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and coafted on its fhores for 400 leagues. But the laft part of his life was made wretched by the perfecutions of his enemies.

23. Their pride and jealoufy could not endure that a foreigner fhould obtain fo high a rank as to be viceroy for life, and have the office of admiral hereditary in his family, to the exclusion of the Spanish nobles. They were, therefore, indefatigable in their endeavours to depreciate his merits, and ruin his fortune.

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He was once carried home in irons; and, in violation of gratitude, humanity, and juftice, bafely deprived of all the offices and poffeffions in the new world, to which he had a right by the folemn ftipulations of Ferdinand. When he returned from his laft voyage, in 1505, Queen Ifabella, his only friend and patronefs in the court of Spain, was dead.

25. Worn out with ficknefs and fatigue, difgufted with the infincerity of his fovereign and the haughtiness of his courtiers, he lingered out a year in fruitless folicitations for his violated rights, till death relieved him from his forrows. He ended his useful and active life at Valladolid on the 20th of May, 1506, in the 59th year of his age.

26. In the life of this remarkable man, there was no deficiency of any quality, which can conftitute a great character. He was grave, though courteous in his deportment, circumfpect in his words and actions, irreproachable in his morals, and exemplary in all the duties of religion.

27. The court of Spain were fo juft to his memory, that, notwithstanding their ingratitude towards him during his life, they buried him magnificently in the Cathedral of Seville, and erected a tomb over him with this infcription, COLUMBUS HAS GIVEN A NEW WORLD TO THE KINGDOMS OF CASTILE AND LEON.

COLUMBIA.

COLUMBIA, Columbia, to glory arife;

The queen of the world and the child of the fkies;
Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold,
While ages on ages thy fplendors unfold.

Thy

Thy reign is the laft, 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 afpire;
Whelm nations in blood, and wrap cities in fire;
Thy heroes the rights of mankind fhall defend,
And triumph purfue them, and glory attend.
A world is thy realm: for a world be thy laws,
Enlarg'd as thine empire, and juft as thy caufe;
On freedom's broad bafis thy empire fhall rife,
Extend with the main, and diffolve with the skies.

5. Fair fcience her gates to thy fons fhall unbar,"
And the east fee thy morn hide the beams of her star;
New bards, and new fages, unrivall'd shall foar
To fame unextinguifh'd, when time is no more;
To thee, the laft refuge of virtue defign'd,
Shall fly from all nations the best of mankind :
Here, grateful to Heaven, with transport shall bring
Their incenfe, more fragrant than odors of fpring..
4. Nor lefs fhall thy fair ones to glory ascend,,
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 fmile in the aspect of woe..

5. Thy fleets to all regions thy pow'r fhall difplay, The nations adniire, 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, as of angels, enchantingly fung, "Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise,

The queen

of the world, and the child of the skies."

DESCRIPTION OF BABYLON.

THE first foundation of Babylon, is, by fome authors, afcribed to Semiramis, and by others, to Belus. Who the founder was, is not fo material; but it is certain that Nebuchadnezzar was the perfon who railed it to fuch a pinnacle of glory, as that it became one of the principal wonders of the world.

2.

The walls of this city were 60 miles in circumfer ence, 350 feet high, and 87 feet thick. The city was exactly fquare, meafuring 15 miles upon every fide. The walls were built with large bricks, cemented together with a kind of glutinous flime, fuperior to any lime, and which grows harder than the bricks themselves.

3. They were encompaffed by a vaft ditch lined with bricks, cemented with the fame kind of bitumen, and filled with water. The earth which was dug from the ditch ferved 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, exact ly 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 ide, 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 vall pile was fuftained by arches built upon arches, and strengthened 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, ran through the city from north to fouth. After Cyrus had befieged the city two years, he found means 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 revelling at the banquet; who were all flain, and the city taken.

THE SAILOR AND THE MONKIES.

PERHAPS no animal, below the human fpecies, refembles man more in the imitative faculty than the monkey. It is faid that a failor, having a number of red woollen caps to difpofe of, went on fhore in South America to trade with the natives.

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

3. To his utter aftonifhment, when he awoke, from 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 fruitless, 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 allo."

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 their vices.

THE

THE BRAVE SOLDIER'S REVENGE.

WHEN the great Condè commanded the

Spanish army, and laid fiege to one of the French towns in Flanders, a foldier being ill-treated by a general officer, and struck several times with a cane, for fome difrefpectful words he had let fall, anfwered very coolly, that he should foon make him repent of it.

- 2 Fifteen days afterwards, the fanie general officer ordered the colonel of the trenches to find a bold and intrepid fellow, to execute an important enterprife, for which he promised a reward of a hundred piftoles.

3. The foldier we are fpeaking of, who paffed for the bravest in the regiment, offered his fervice; and going with thirty of his comrades, which he had the liberty to make choice of, he difcharged a very hazardous commiffion with incredible courage and good fortune. Upon his return, the general officer highly commended him, and gave him the hundred piftoles which he had promifed.

4. The foldier prefently diftributed them among his comrades, faying, he did not ferve for pay; and demanded only, that, if his late action deferved any recompenfe, they would make him an officer. And now, fir, adds he to the general, who did not know him, I am the foldier whom you fo much abused fifteen days ago, and I then told you, I would make you repent of it.

5. The general, in great admiration, and melting into tears, threw his arms around his neck, begged his pardon, and gave him a commiffion that very day.

AN ORATION UPON FEMALE EDUCATIÒN, PRONOUNCED BY A MEMBER OF ONE OF THE PUELIC SCHOOLS IN BOSTON, SEPTEMBER, 1791.

WHILE the great and the rich are contrib

uting from their abundance, to the ftock which fupports our youth in knowledge, we come, ambitious to contribute our mite.

2. The

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