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castles and towers that I ha e not seen. But I have seen all of grandeur, which our cities can display. I have seen, -too, these lonely tombs of the desert,­ seen them rise from these boundless and unpeopled plains. iy imagination and my heart ha e been ll of the past. The nothingness of the brief dream of human li has rced itself upon my mind. he unknown race to which these bones belonged had, I doubt not, as many projects of ambition, and hoped as sanguinely to ha e their names survive, as the
great ones of the present day.
T. F T. LESSON VI.
THE AMERICAN INDIAN, AS HE WAS, ND AS HE IS.
READING LESSONS.
GENERA1TION, n. In the sense here used, an age. From L. generans, genero.
Ww'wAM, n., an Indian cabin, or hut.
WHooP, n., a hout of war, or pu it. Goth. wopyan. A.S. hwe an. TA'BLE, n., a at sur ce of some extent, or a thing that has a at
sur ce. F. From L. tabula. I. tavola. S. tabla.
WHIRL1WIND, n., a violent wind moving in a circle round its axis.
Ger. wirbel, whirl, and A.S. and Ger. wind, wind.
PaoGEN1ITOR, n., an ancestor ; a re ther. L. om progigno, pro
and gigno, to beget. G. gennao. •
FAL'co ( wk'n), n., a hawk. F.faucon. I.fatcone. L.falco. lNQurs'rnvE, a., apt to ask questions ; addicted to inquiry. From L.
inquiro, in and qu ro, to seek.
ExT RMINA1ToR, n., he or that which exterminates. From L. extermi­
no, to exterminate.
TRrn'uTE, n., a personal contribution. F. tribd. L. tributum, to give,
bestow, or divide.
1. NoT many generations ago, where you now sit, circled with all that exalts and embe1lishes civilized li , the rank thistle nodded in the wind, and the wild x dug his hole unscared. ere lived and loved another race of beings. Beneath the same sun that rolls over your heads, the Indian hunter pursued