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2. It is no wonder that the ancients, who under­ stood not the nature of air, nor consequently even of simple sound, should have deemed the music of the olian harp supernatural, and, in their warm imagi­ nations, should have supposed that it was the strain of invisible beings om above, come down in the stillness of evening or night, to commune ,vith men in a heavenly language of soul, intelligible to both. But even now, that we understand it well, there are w persons so insensible to what is delicate and beauti l in nature; as to listen to this wild music without emotion; while the in rmed ear nds it additionally delight l, as a ording an admirable i ustration of' those laws of sound which human in­ genuity at last has traced.
ARNOTT.
FRAGMENT.
LuLL'D in the countless chambers of the brain, Onr thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain; Awake but one, and lo! what myriads rise!
Each stamps its image as the other': ies!
Each, as the various avenues of sense,
Delight or sorrow to the soul dispense,
Brightens, or des, yet all with magic art
Control the latent fibres of the heart.
LESSON XI.
MERICA.
CnRis'ToPHER, n., one who carries Christ. G. ri.topheros,- ris· tos, Christ, or the Anointed, and phero, I carry.
ARc'TIO O'cEAN (-shun), the vast expanse of water lying N. of Europe, Asia, and America, joining the Paci c at Bhering's Straits. L. Arcticus, northern,-lying near the polar star which is the con-
ROGERS.