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winter moon, ll and high, looks down om the brow of night, spangling with ten million stars the beauteous network thrown over the low world. Some­ thing approaching to the appearance presented by a northern clime in summer may be witnessed in other countries, but the splendours of a winter scene belong only to the higher latitudes.
GLIS.
A COMP RISON.
THE lapse of time and rivers is the same ;
Both speed their journey with a restless stream: The silent pace with which they steal away,
Ko wealth can bribe, no pray'rs persuade to stay: Alike irrevocable both when past,
And a lvide ocean swailows both at last.
Though each resembles each, in ev'ry part,
A di 'rence strikes, at length, the musing heart: Streams never ow in vain ;-where streams abound, How laughs the land, with various plenty crown'd ! But time, that should enrich the nobler mind, Neglected, leaves a dreary waste behind. CowPER.
LESSON XIX.
THE RUINS OF HERCULANEUM.
VEsu'vws, n., a mountain near Naples, which, by an erupti , over­ whelmed Herculaneum and Pompeii, A.D. (Anno Domini) 79. Pliny the Elder, endeavouring to ascertain the cause of its bu ing, perished in the attempt. Vesuvius is in Ga ania, a division of ItaUa Propria.
BITU1MINOUS, a., having the nature of bitumen. L. bitumineus, from bitumen, a slimy, unctuous matter, dug out of the earth, and o en
used as a cement or mortar.
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