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foll4d ill a Multiply;
fn,;!owtng paragraph' lately ap
ci, ia nioA (If.the nowspapers':—
I NT TIMER .1 7 N 1 PSAND YEARS OLD.
;ors wro• alriend oflhe Earl of :
: nom 4.iving an oecaiiinn to- UN-
, — E vi ptian intimmy c -was sur-'
a.. few grains of tvlieat in
,'.,n-r:with .the body ; and hav , ':
present to' itis:-10tp 8 - ,
ow seeds, it was sent to:
inaunitieent seat of Ty
Bast Lothai and so twit in
l e 'spot in the kttelten garden,
7 , 1 o f Nov, mber of lasi year.
it the kinttness of Ins lordship's
•, Mr. Ford, we -have been fa
a sight' of the produce : of
:1 , 1 !.1v interesting seeds; , and as
3tttatperfeet adeount of them has
ed in a` contemporary, we yen
lac before our.s renders the fol
hriel
deseriptiori.of them :—AI
- there may by nearly a ltundied
rangmg in length from nearly
u pwards of six feet. 'lire leaves,
advr titan usual, and fully an
•as to length. The grain ts in,
.a
-s of triplets; and tine or kW - 6'
counted emitainect .twenty trip
le or forty on the ear. Ttle
•5 a. few bards or awns on the .
!..and is open •antl, distant 'be
nt grains. It fitiweretr nearly
before any of the varieties
same Period- in the neigh-
A feW grains of the MO
i,.ian,wlieat were sown along
.d ceria I v no two articles
re dis:iincitar. The i c nodern
"_l(itoliv3re than four feet high
751', and barbed in %Try part
:.aril its general resitiblanee
sent pragenhor is not greater
;of btlev . to wheat.''
;2710.1:S circuinStanoe is by -no.
:;lrecedenied. Seeds, have on
oryvasions been obtained
a , e; of Egyptian, mummies,
to all instances, when sown;
rf;4i•lire. In atleast one in
were found in the in
:li:sotly of the mummy, and
is germinated. Some
Lut greatly Cliss'imilar, are
sivy years :,no, in
of the wall of Anton
emen,:ed between the
same wheat was
1,211 recess, sound,
it tva4 slirdidy
l'his - 'grain, of whirh
!,: - ! - It-r </ace possessed a
e,,,!!.1 not he less than ,
rears old. About the
ea iin•covery 'of a ao
lareresli, where there was
rxici , :vi of the caul' in7S of the
Llr of wine was found, per-
Su much celebrated
- •.!,;:t di - inverted by time into
thyti . T{l .still possess
s6Tass%v!:-.ness. -We grieve
aulte reasivr 4es of .the
Rot. a dean to their hall,
- :onsumed'the whole
ntirbi
tie negus. A
ztze some 'raspberry seeds
from a hod; found in an an-•
tiladus:nea'r Di4tiliester,
beneath the sw - rface. and
`-' 4 l the coin of ili4drain ac
it, WIS supposed to hale
t•lersixtecti hundred yPars.
-:slcere sots n in . the garden
Soi•iety at E 3 iris wick
the new plants
7 '!fart thorn. It has also
som e cummin, found
ne solnh f France eon
wi:h Marcus Aurelius
germinated on _being
onion, found in the
'! - . 1 11 - nn‘,-, and therefore pre
'in !ir e to - three thousand
'. l sls ready to vegetate as
"toe toentio'ned.
ins these instances are,
r" , as show the utmost 'per- -
relaini!!gf their vi
!,er earth is broil:ill/ to
a - cons•itlerable, depth,
t'' -}W upon it, thel protitte,
of seeds !probably
ler a g es . Of ithis
phe
`''rttt•o unusually Striking
rje adduced - , !!!, To the
'•arling there is r a large
1 . '..:,? -21 p:irt of which has
by raising water;
, !rah, *and dm:barging
theunder soil c.f . elai
• ,•• The clergyman !
4 ,, er s,tanili ng by while the.
' lo . , iirinin g a duel!' in this
°pncovered with four
`442lth:saw- some seeds
was thrown out .of .
tw,..
° some of them Up, I
they germinated, .and
NE
produced of ~ Chrysanthemum sept
uat" ." What a series of years," ;re
markS the narrator of the circumstance.
" Fnust'have elapsed- while the seeds .
were getting their covering of clay, and
while - this clay .become buried uner
41,
fourteen feet of peat-earth 1" Some n -
gatit,teeiidence on this point is, 'we be
lieve, to be found in the fact that Ro-
MP 'utensils ' have been Sfotind in the
bob at-tliat place,' indicating, that the
',. • surface has tiotheen exposed since
the time-When that,people occupied our
couottv—say sixteen hundred years—
however much noire ! The instance
which follows is in some - respect still
pore curious, lli h i ie . it.r. - undoubtedly
speaks- to'amuch louget-tapse of time.
"About . twenty-dive or thirty years
ago," Writes Judge Tuelterman of Bus
ton to Dr. Carpenter of Bristol, "Judge
Thatcher, one of Am! judges of thil,Su
prone Court of Massachusetts, told me
hut he kiiew the fact, that in a. town on
the Petiobscot river. in the' state ,of
Maine. and ahtitit: forty miles from the
sea, some well,diggers.„3vhen sinking a
well, struck, at the depth of about twen
ty feet,ra stratum of sand, which strong=
ly exeited•euriosity and interest from
the.cireunistance 'that no similar sand
was to bc?. found ant where in the neigh
borhood, and that none like it was
nearcr,than the sea-beach.. As it was
drawn, up from, the %yell, it Was placed
On a pile by itself, an. unwillingness
havi'nb been felt to mix it -with the
stones andtgrayel whiclewas also drawn
~
up...-But when the . work was about to
be finished, and the pile of stones and
gravel to be removed, it was found ne
cessary to remove .alSo the] sand heap.
This therefore, was scattertid about the
spot on which it had been formed,,; and
was for some time seareel t , retrienibered.
In a year or two, flowerer, it was per
ceived that a lar;te numht;r of small
trees had sprang from the ground over
which the heap of sand had been strewn:
These trees became in their-turn Objects;
of strong interests, and care was taken
that no injnry,should come to them.—
At length it was ascertained that they
were beach plum trees; and they actu
ally bore t4 , -. beach plum, 'which had
never before been seen except itntnctli
ate!y ow the 'sea-shore. 'iliese trees
h'n.l therefz)l-e- IFpra:7f,7 up frOin seeds
which had .effli stratum of sand,
which has; briery pier , •E•d• Uy itie
- couvukion- of the
elenteati they bati been tbrow / n there,
o r 4,, w long thz.v h id quietly...slept be.
tles of the earth. Must be
thosc who know very.
tnueli more than A. very lit:le
knowl e , 4 -v „logy is sortivitott. to
• .rttotv.son.'e klght ott the histuk-y of these
seeds. The sand ih which they., wele.
found, was prObablY one of the superfi
cial strtta, Which.' though recently cont
. pared others, are, old witlt regard
to chronology. The seeds
,had
, proligtly grown on a coast near the sea
whiith 'Lon down the sand.• and thus
were played in a tomb ii Bich was des
tined to .preserve them* for . numberless
ages.
c • , -‘?
'Seeds-axe also known to . preserve
the geiiiiiirtating power,' and plants are
known to ~, .in circumstances
which all I:analogy wourii
: shoW
ealculated Ito destlrov them. A lake
dries up, and imme - diaiely a 'crop of
plants :Springs froth:seeds long kept
dormant in the And at the bottom.—
What is called red snow consists of a
cry tog,nme plant, whieh'of course resists
the effects of a temperature below the
freezing, 'point. The ulna fituntalis
lusartoes in sprinis on the verge of
' the. oulition of water,, and. the - v/lex
;ognus cactus will grow with• its roots
sustained ist hot• water. The roots of
ginger that had been previously kalded•
tor: Linn? vegetation on Ithe voyage to
M)gland. •A, chara found' in the
bOiinor springs and steam alive • Gev
,
4sers of Iceland not only. in flower, but
perfeeling-Ats seeds. Kidney beans, aG
ter h y ing . exposed to. the parehing.heat
Of au otiznecrrew well enough. and even
malted barley It'as been known .to ger
!urinate." in one ins,tance, the seeds cif.
• elcierberrie," after being" boiled, pro•-
dueed trees that are•still growing,
and seeds Corit, stri A wherry •. jam have •
produced p!anta• and fruit. , Sir Min
Herschel discovered that the seeds• of
a
theracacia•lolphauta rbkv very al
! ' !!! <- • .
ter !being steeped for twelve hours in
water at 140 degrees Fahrenheit, and
Ludwig found that those of a kind of
cedarcbd •not "germinate until they had
been first thorolighly. coiled. In •the
island Of_Tanna, Forster found the soil,
Within die precincts of the volcano.
though „ burning, hot, Carpeted with
floWers: "Ozark mountains in'
North AMeriCe.lthere is a . Chain cif abolit . ,
seVenty hot splitigs, - Eorne:of them hai4.
ing a teniperature as high as 14E00,51
_ ,
ragardless of - Denunciation from any Quarter. - 7 00+, POUTER.
4 11'07VREDLN:9 D22:41DY02131) OCZEEPOIrs, a 69 . 112416 a, '
_degrees, yet containing' corifervw and
other.vegetables. 'The confervce have
been found innther instances in water
little less hot._ A plant of phormium
tenax (thicelebrataNew Zealand flax)
in one of the cOnservafortes of the jar
die des plantes. was, 'in conseqUence of
an extensive conflagration, apparently
reduced to a mass of charcoal; ye't,
like a vegetable phenix, a new plant
arose from its ashes, and-nOw liVes.—
An elder near Alatlaek was cut down
atid placed under a stack, where, after
remaining some time, it was reduced to
chai-coal over a great part of its surface,
in ,
consequence of a tire which seized
the g - rain.placed above it.. It then .be
eNne a gate post; and in this situation,
budded, and soon was a thriving tree
once more. But even in the craters of
Etna, amid selphury vapor, and a tem
perature of lOU degrees, certain plants
have been seen flourishing.
There is a similar tenacity of life in
certain of the humbler animals, it is
affirmed that living iieseett have been
found within the bodies of Egypti`a%
. mummies ; and the statement may be
reeeived with little hesitation, when we
know that, .on'the - opening of the stone
coffin of King John in %yorcester ca
thedral, lava! were discovered in the
body, with one of which an.angler bait
ed his hoiik and caught a fish. The
skull of •the patriot Ilampden,nn his
grave being opened a few years ago,
was also full of larvw. Bomore .found
that eggs, alter having remained herme
tically excluded from air in a wall for
three hundred'years, were quite fresh.
The roe. of fishes has been thoroughly
, dried and preserved for a considerable
time; yet when east into water,' it has
benome pregnant with life. The eggs
of the slug, when dried by the' rays of
the sun or by artificial heat, shrivel up
to minute'points, only e distinguishable
by the microscope: yet, if they be'
moistened by a shower of rain, of put
Tinto water, they are restored to their
former•plumeness, and do not lose their
fertility. It has been fatted that, alter
being treated e - fil; it times in this man
tier, t h e eg g s were .e t e e t te d. Th e ,
donta ithens, 'tin aquatic molitiscnOus
live eight months after the
water is tiried up, fmcl even when con
s`tanily exposed to the rays of a vertical
sun. These singular facts eNplain the
-i.lidden . appeamlee of the I:.y offish,
'pills and other cl;l!eclitll.s bf
water, that have loo!y, been 1
rip, a
monies the reser v oirs are rep—nkhed
by rain. The silk tins been
the coyonrt of the vstor'n
,water without kLi:L; the Toil.:
The Innta• . 6f the rnm:ea
sports \ through the Mitt sprig u 1 the
Baies kla Loel,e;and perish tit. water.
of a lotree-tentperature. iiumholdt re
!ales an' anqllizte oNt hovel having been
been by chance; builtover ti 'spot w here
a yhung 'crocodile reposed in suspended
animation, in the hardened mud. And
he mentions that the Indians often find
enornions boas in the same lethargic
state, which revive when irtiteted, or'
wetted with water. Again, theepppo-,
.site extreme of a temperature below the
tree Zing, point is sufficient to injure,
some animals. From October to April
the snail remains in a lethargic state,
buried in, tilt earth, with its shell her
metically sealed up.by4ealeerous mem
brane, In some ver s e severe winters,
as that of 1795, it flak , been frountl com
pletely frOen, and yet has revived on
being exposed lo a mild teMperature.—
During Sir John RoSs's thirtyi
larvm of the moth, named teria Reesti
were put into a box and exposed to the
winter temperattire for three mouths;
(111 being brotight'imo,the cabin, every
one of them returned to life and walked
about. 'rho/ were again exposed to a
temperature of 40 degrees below -zero,
and instantly became re-fii)zen ; aft& a
week they were again brought into the
!cabin, when tiventpthree returned to
It is alseproved' that addersfro
zen so as to he brittle, bees which on
the slightest pressure would crumble to
dust, fishes enellised in masses of ice
(as was the _case with some takeitley
Sir John. Franklin from the Copper
mine river)pll revive on being gradually
thawed. Spallanzani kept frogs, sala
manders, and
,snakie, in an 'ice-house
for three years "and a half, and they
readily returned-to life When exposed
tr the influence of a warm atmosphere.
On this -subject the following extract
'from the Biblothegt u eUniverselle (1840)
emits author r itive:*• In the - Winter-cif
'lB2B-9 in Ireland, Oamiard found 'that
loads could. be completely frozen, so
that iee•-lav in small between
their muscles, their bodies became quite
hard ,
stiff and motionless, broke easily,
land Wicked( any effuSion of blood,
thaOri,sliort, every trace' of life disap-,
'teared, and -yet. in ten or twelve ini-
nutes thercouldbe, revived by immers
litg therit in verytsfighly Warmed water.
If they Were not quickly frozen they
did riot revive." When we find such
to be the case, 'the credulity Which has
been shown' with regard ; to the many .
reported instances of toad's; found pos
sessed, of life in sandstance strata where
they must have been eiftorned for ages.
appears to rest on -no, good foundation.
some of these instances have been well
authenticated ; and there is no difficulty
in siippo. , Fing that, if life, will continue
three and a half years in a frozen ani
mal, it may last indefinitely: Probably
the toad was dormant or frozen.'When
enclosed. And being excluded from
the atmosphere;the, prolongation of its
life Might be simply owing to the im
possibility of any reviving influence
'ever reaching it; so that• iii fact, there
was no necessary end to its existence
in such circumstances: The hardy vi
tality of these creatures, 'arid the others
mentioned above, is obviously connec
ted with that languorof the circulation
which makes their respiration so slow.
St. Hilaire, a first rate authority on
such subjects, thinks there may exist,
fur such-creatures, "a state of neutrali
ty- intermediate between life and death
—a state into _which . certain animals
are . plunged, in consequence: of the,
stoppage of respiration, when it takes
place under certain cireumstances.
The want of food is obviously a con-I
sidetation of not the least moment,:
When there is a complete toispension of
that process of waste which food is re- .
quired to supply. With regard to the;
.preservation Of vitality in seeds, nothing
is required for it but a continuation of
the organic character of the seed. The
suspension of vital action in them' de
pends, says Dr. Carpenter, "on their
not being submitted to any of the agents
which would call them into activity, or
which would tend to disintegrate their
structure."
Unruly Milking.
Does your cow kick ? Dot not fly in
-26 a passion and pound her witlf-a hand
spike or trim her with a gad or a cow
hide,. or vent yonr spite by kickinglier
in, turn., You will only spill a great
deal Of vengeance uselosslyausitig .
great wear and tear of temper; make
yourself fee i very foolish when ° you get
co'or it, and sr.t 0 had example, to your
eh wbiie von cow, in se,vc.my
vases out of seventy-one, will,kick as,
had as before,: or worse. If she is a
hylfcT, you will infallibly . teach • her to
as liar kicking, in the first instance
from pain, or some such cause, of
which she wciuld be cur ?d by simply
paying no attention to it., A htufeAteT- -
er kicks . from principle. If she is an
old cow, your thrashing will
. generally
be thrown away. Just keep philosophi
cal, and try other means. Make-a pen
of just such size that the cow can com
foil:kip stand in it, and no more. This
you can do m the corner of Your yard,
by setting down three posts, and' board
ing them up fenc&like, leaving it open
at the end to drive , in the cow. Let a
space be left open at the side where you
wish to milk. Put you cow intoit.and
fasten her in by stretching a chain across
the end of the peri behind her; Then
talte•a, : piece of rope, say fifteen feethmg
and tie one end-of it to a post hehinti,the
cow and near its length distant front her,
tie the other 'end lo the let of the atilt:tat
just above her 'foot drawing'it I • k as
much as it would naturally he for her o
be milked. Then sit down and. Milk
the cow at your leisure. It, will take a
man ha I an hour porhapa,..to make the
pen ; and when once made, it is eery
little more trouble than to milk'NVithout.
She May iohject to
.going into it once or
twire.but will afterwards give -no-trouble.
• This We recommend only, however,
when a man has an , ahirnal, valnahle
otherwise', which zcill. kirk, aiutiwhich
he wishes to keep. A poor 'cow that.
kick, is too great a nuis'anee to tidnk,
of keeping' af . all. If .you c are afflicted
with a kicking. row. Ire it ; and you will
not regret.—Prairie Farmer.
THE. FAU)fI:R A , ND TI D E 811gG.41:.+-A
strong. hearty lazy fellow, who preferred
begging for a precarious subsistence to
working for a sure one, called at ahe
house of a blunt farmer, and, r ia the Usu
al language of 'his race, asked for." cold ;
',victuals und : old clothei." "
"You appear to •be ca stout ; Itearty
looking\ man." said thefarmer ; . What do
you fora living, sir?'''
",Wliy - ;not much," replied the fellow,
" : except travelling abnut frOM'one place
to another:" '• •-• .- •
"Travelling about, hey !"''replied
farmer can you travel
" 0, yes," returnett.the sturdy beggsr,
" I'm pretty gOod'ai: that." , •
1~ ell then," . siid the farmer,coollY,,
opening the door, " let's See you travel.".
I
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1
IBM
. •
Visit to tin English_ Cottage.
I entered.. a .;hird eabin. - , :Here the
. .
green earth imiled.agato, as did the mo
dest furze and &say holly, that felt
not the approach of winter. The floor
was much like the first. Near the mid
dle sat the mother" peeling potatoes,.
which. she threw MI6 a pot at her aide
half . with water; -;• I introduced
myself oh' every oecasion, saying,
that I came froth beyond the seas, : ald
wished to inform my countrymen how
the laborers lived in England.. Sir
pence.brciughticrth willing answers to
interogatortes, which I 'put without
stint.
How many children have you
"Eight." • " what did they feed upon
this morning.?" , Potatoes." ' "What
will you give them for dinner?" "Theie
potatoes you see me . pe.eling." " No
thing else?" " No; - nothing else
" Have you no meat, no milk, no but
ter for them r' 7 She made 'no reply,
fixed, her eyes ~itpon them and sobbed
aloud. But her countenance suddenly
brightened . inMa smile, and she said
with a' leer voice 7-" Thank God, salt
is cheap." But her joy was a transient
beam, for her eyes again overflowed, as
she.sltewed me her • eldest daughter,
fourteen years of age, whom she made
rise to her Her. tattered garnients
scarcely concealed her .sex; it left her
bare to the knees behind, while it dan! .
oled to the greund in front. She blush
ed deeply, for want bad not extinguish
ed the modesty of .nature,. as her moth
er drew aside the rags that covered her
snowy skip.. "These," said she, "are
all the clothes my child' has ; she can
not go to school in them ; besides, she
is obliged to stay at home to take rare
of the children.' This was palpably
true, for her wasted form tottered under
a burden that would, soon add another
inmate to this abode of misery. ,
The other children were , grouped
near the elder sister, sitting on the nak
ed hearth. • Their little' hands and feet'
were red with cold ; their features were
set in melancholo; .they were not play
ful, as became their innocent years ; no,
'it has been truly said, that the children
of the English poor know nochildhood
Sorrow begins
.1 with life; they are dis
ciplined to privation from the cradle.—
From the cradle, 'did I say ? I saw no
•
cradle, and I verily believe that such - a
luxury was never known by the child
.of an English laborer.
In the corner of the chimney was an
Id man, sittinc . r, on his haunches, put
tiny' fag7ots to the tire intended to boil
the frntaiOeS. "W h 9 is that ?" •'-it
.oh.l Mr. , he tins no home, and
we lets him stay wish us.' ; ' lid was
e4ility-ihrfe years of age.'and pariook
with the children, his portimlorpotatOes
ana salt.
i asked one of the'litde girls, where
was the cat? The tnothfr answered.
they,had none,, for a..cat must eat."
4. Have yoit a dog?" ...No, we cannot
keep a dog ; besides he , disturbs the
game." .. gut.' you have a 'cock to
.
crow for • dayi NO, -we have
none."
4 felt a sort of horror come over me
at the absence of these animals, sacred
•fdevery household- - -the cat, 'the cont
portion.- and pastime of littie'children
the dog, the well, tried, trusty friend of
man ; the cock, whose joyous song hails
the coining day—yet; vet poverv, that
hitter. blighting, urse, has expella even
these front the cottage 'of the English
peasant.
"•0:421 your husband read ?" " Yes
ho ; cati read the easy parts of the Bible: .
Can,you road', ?" " No, I never wen
- to school."
- How many apartmerltp are there in
your house ?-11. , yw0, one beloW and
amber." ...May I g& up stairs ?"
She,was eviclen Lyon my guide
gave the . a discour.ming look-; I peyse-.
rem!, and ascende d' a dirty, rickety
fl is-fit of steps to a • chamber, where the
wit . * family slept: near a;zarrow bro
ken Windoiv, stood a- wooded frame on .
four leg S, on which 'werelaid transverse
laths that suppOrted a bed or nat=ehaft
.sewed, -up' in a dirty tattered sack, over
wine!) nsuread a coarse woollen
woollen
sheet almOst bltick ; upon this lay two
pillows of - strati', and a thick striped'
coverlit, worn inte. holes. Another.
saek.of ehati" lay on 'the leer in a cor
ner, over which was spreticl . o sort' of
blvatkectorn to ragS: Here, slept' bit
the children. - eicept; the two youngest. ,
who lay. with their, parents: l . The fate .
die-old mariat night *as, not niacle,
,known to Me, tfti'r'did 1 inquire.: • .
fnrnittire of the apartment below
Consisted itrhiehtheirinther
sat: abox. 'occupied as a seat by the
eldest) daui,iliteriTiWnbrOkin , Chairs;
u iiSa feftir eithek.My "gtfide , , or,mcself,
fourteCti or fifteen articles of crockery'
of fractured pla!tes;'-tiatiCers' - .antl.etips;
-
(DV a. a. (wilt:7ls43'cm . a cza.
QM
. _
a tea pots two or three small iron
sell for cooking, and a broad, table, aus
tained.bk.diagonal, bars.. .fastened with
pada. On the wall, ~under. • broken.
piece.nf plate glase." - hung a white nap
kin, Triagettlat thebettora,,the„onlitee-,,-
timenial of neatness• that poverty could
, altord. _The whole eh'attel estate, .in
eluding the apparel , ' of man, wife rind
children,' could not: be
,sold . lot ten
dollars.
Aztec Sicrifices.
. . .
Onevelheir most important festivals
was.that in honor of the god tezeatfip : -
pea, 'whose rank'was inferior .onlYtil
that of the supreme Being. - .- •He 'was
called ,! the soul. of the world," and
supposed to have been its . creator. He
was depicted as a handsond man' en
dowed with perpetual youth.: - A . year ,
before the; intended 'sacrifice, a .eaptive,
distinguiihed for his personal beady.
and without. a blemish. on his body,
was selected to represent the
Certain tutors, took "charge of him, anti
instructed him how to perform • his
new part with becoming grace and.dig 7 :
pity. He.was' arrayed in splendid
dress, regaled. with, income and with a
profusion of sweet scented .flowers, of,
which the Mexicans Were as fond as
{heir descendants at the present
When he went abroad, he was.attended
by a train , of the royal pages; and, As
he halted in the - .streets to play some
favorite_nielody r the crowd prostraied
themselves before him, and dichtim
homage as the . iepresentatives, of their
good deity. :In this way he led in
easy, luxuriiins life,. till within a month
of his sacrifice. Four, beautiful girls,
bearing . .the names of the priceipal god::
desses were then selected to share the
'honors of his bed: and with Aliein he
continued to live in idle dalliance, feast
ed at the. banquets of the principal -no
bles, who paid him all the honors of a
divinity.
Atrlength - the fatal day of sacrifice
arrived. The term of his . short-lived
glories was at an end.. He was strip,
ped of his gaudy apparel, and bade...,
adieu to the..fair partners of his revel-
ries.. One of the royal barges trans
ported him across the lakelo a temple
which rose , on its margin, •gboat it '-
league from
,the city.. Hither -the in
habitants of - the•capital flocked, to uFit,i
nets the consummation: of the ceremo
ny. As the sad procession-.. Wound up
the sides of the pyramid, the !" - unhappy ,
victim threw away his gay chaplets of
flowers, and broke in pieces the ittuai i :
cal instruments with which he had, so
laced the hours of captivity. , Otithe
summit he was received by:;iiiix
whose long - and. matedi Ikekg flowed
disorderly over.their sable robes,. cov- -
ered with hietoglyphic. scrolls of mys
tic import. They led him to the sac
rificial-stone, a huge black 'of ja.sper;
with its upper surface - somewhat. Co
nvex. On this the prisciner Was stretch
ed. 'Fivepriests secureithis head and
his limbs; while 'the , sixth Clad, in a
scarlet mande, emblematic of his bloody '
office; dexterionslyopened the breast
of the wretched victim 'with a sharp
razor of itztll. 7 —a volcanic substance, -
hard es flini—and, inserting his
.hand
itt the wound, Ore out the palpitating
heart. ',file' minister 'of' death, Susi'
holding this np toicvrdß the 'sun. an
object'of worship throughout Atalmac,
cast it at the feet of the diety• to,whom
the temple was.devoted, while ihemul
titudes below piottrated thernselVeS).in
110110 - lit adoration. tragic:story of
this prisoner Was .expounded by the
priests as the - typo of human
.dettitiy:
which, brilliant .in its commencement, .
too often rinses in sorrow 'and disaster.
.-Pre.scoti's conquest of .;:rexico.•
POTATOES.—The follow
upon -the ose of potato6s are
Though potathes are - of tz•veat va
a nuttitious and isholes . arae article
food, it is very important. to their del
serving this character, that 'they should
be mealy and in good contlitiOn„ and
that they should throtighly dressed yet
not overdone:4 and svatery.:. Frequent
opportunities of examination. after death
have convineed' me that 'watery and
.undone' potatoes are the - most .
hie articles taken into the stomach, as
food, It. must also be observed, that'
midi individuals of very weak digestion,.
it is Sometirnes necesairv"tn enjoin ,not.
only rare as to the quality; but g,r4tly
trklimitilte r quantitv,tstWholly suspend .
the use of potatoes, as well,as other veg,:,
etables." -
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a canal
.boat heads west,north-westltlir
the horse'6' , l4l,-and.hai the'ivitid abeam
with a ?law. coroing,up .in ~the fetith,
. would
_the. - captain, ace. , online to. map
time lair; he justified ip taking af . regf in .
'the Etove . pi . po without' atkiit
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