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READING LESSONS. 345 LESSON I .
DISCO RY OF AMERICA (CONCLUDED).
lG'NORAN?E, n., want, absence, or destitution of knowledge. L. iy­ norantza.
lNc_REDU1LITY, n., the quality of not believing; indisposition to be­ lieve. F. incredulite.
lN'soLENCE, _n., ride or haughtiness mani sted in contemptuous and ove_rbearm reatment of others; petulant contempt; impudence. L. insolentia.
SPEC'TACLE, n., a show; any thing seen; a sight. L. ectaculum. I. cttacolo.
PRos'TRATE, v., to lay at; to throw down. From L. prostratus, lying at length.
TRESS, n., a lock or we of hair. F. tre.se.
FANTAS1TICALL¥, ad., in a ntastic manner; whimsically. From F.
fantastique. I. fantastico. G. phantasia.
CANOE', n., a boat impelled by a paddle instead of an oar. F. canot.
S. canoa.
M'ICABLY, ad., in a iendly manner; with good will. From L.
amicabilis, iendly.
0ALAM 1ITY, n., a great mis rtune, or cause of misery. L. calamitas.
1.. Tnrs o ce of gratitude to Heaven was llowed by an act of justice to their commander. They threw themselves at the et of Columbus, with feelings of self-condemnation, mingled with reverence. They implored him to pardon their ignorance, incredulity, and insolence, which had created him so much un­ necessary disquiet, and bad so o en obstructed the
· prosecution of his well-concerted plan; and passing, in the warmth of their admiration, om one extreme to another, they now pronounced the man, whom tliey had so lately reviled and threatened, to be a person inspired, by Heaven, with sagacity and rti­ tude more than human, in order to accomplish a de­
sign so r beyond the ideas and conceptions of all rmer ages.
2. As soon as the sun arose, all the boats were manned and armed. They ro ed towards the island