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look upon light that des not, hues that change not, nd rms which shall never be dissolved.
G. GRIFFIN,
FRAGMENT.
SAFE in the hand of one disposing power
Or in the natal, or the mortal hour,
All nature is but art unknown to thee ;
AH chance, direction which thou canst not see! Alldiscord, harmony not understood ;
All partial evil, universal good.
And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear,-whatever is, is right. PorE.
LESSON VI.
OCEANICA.
AR.CHIPEL1AGO (ar-ke-), n., a sea containing a number of small islands. The word is thought to be a corruption of argeiopel its,-the Argive or Grecian Sea. A.N. of the European Archipelago,­ Jfare g um, or gean Sea.
FRIGID ( id'-jid), a., cold. L. frigi s, om igere, to be cold, and this probably om (G.) phrike, shuddering.·
ZooPHYTE (zo'-o- te), n., substances partaking of the nature both of vegetables and animals. G. zoophytos, om zoon, an animal, and phuton, a plant.
CALCA1REous, a., stony, inty; reeembling limestone. L. calcarius, om calx,-calcis, lime, om (G.) chal·ix (ch ask), a stone, or ag­ ments of stones.
VOLCA'No, n., a mountain that, like Etna or Vesuvius, casts rth ames and smoke. I. vulcano, from lca us, L., the god of re. Sco'RI ,1 n., gross substances; dregs. L. scori , om skor, G., dregs. PRISMAT IC, a., cut or rmed like a prism, which in mensuration is an oblong solid body. A triangular prism has three ces or sides, and two triangular bases ; and there are as many varieties in the rm of this prism as there are varieties in the rm of trianglea. F. prismatique, om (L. and G.) pris a, a prism, om priein, G.,
to cut.