it proved in the sequel, most advantageously for me. It began to storm and rain with such fury, that it would have been madness to proceed farther, so I turned, and wended back to Aberfoyle. an I found at the little inn two intelligent and agreeable English gentlemen, who informed me that they had attempted the day before to ascend Loch Lomond in the steam-boat, but had been forced by the storm to stop at Luss, and there procured guides to conduct them to Loch Katrine; that they had this morning climbed Ben Lomond with great labour, which was all they got for their pains, as Ben absolutely refused to take off his night-cap during the time they remained there, in other words, it was so cloudy that the prospect beyond their noses was inconsiderable. On learning that I was American and alone, they expressed some admiration at my venturing thus about in a strange country-and such a countrywithout guide or companion; and as our road the following day was to be the same for some distance, politely invited me to join their party, which was, of course, agreed to; and co-operation immediately commenced by an unanimous demand for the whiskey, hot water, and sugar, with which appliances, and the help of a good fire, we proposed to make a night of it. The comforts of our situation were, at the same time, enhanced by comparison; the wind without, by fits, "blew as 'twad blawn its last;" the rain pattered against the windows, and the storm roared and howled round the little building, like the voice of some demon of the winds, enraged at finding me cozily reinforcing the radical moisture, instead of floundering in a flow-moss, or bewildered in some abominable "beal or corrie;" a consummation reasonably to have been expected from my original project of extending my day's march to Alpine. There was no lack of conversation among us, for, not to mention the inspiring influence of John Barleycorn, a Yankee in the Highlands was a lion extraordinary to my companions, while, on my part, I had been long enough alone to be glad to find any one who spoke a christian language, to whom I could say "how lovely is this solitude." So, on these and other arguments our mouths were opened, as the man in the play says, for the agreeable things that popped out, and the pleasant liquor that went in. But the merriest night, as well as the longest lane, must have an ending, and after we had settled the state of the United States, the British empire, and the world in general, to our satisfaction, we parted, at what hour this letter saith not, and retired to beds stuffed with heather, to dream, as unshackled association might direct, of the adventures of Baillie Jarvie or the mishap of Tam O'Shanter's mare. POETRY. TO A CLOUD. Beautiful cloud! with folds so soft and fair, Swimming in the pure quiet air! Thy fleeces bathed in sunlight, while below On streams that tie her realms with silver bands, comes From the old battle-fields and tombs, In the dark heaven when storms come down, ITALIAN SCENERY. B. 267 Full and unveiled the moon's broad disk emerges. Up from the sullen lake of mouldering reeds, But night is in her wane :-day's early flush H. W. L. -Night rests in beauty on Mont Alto. Beneath its shade the beauteous Arno sleeps In Vallombrosa's bosom, and dark trees Upon the beauty of that silent river. Bend with a calm and quiet shadow down Still in the west, a melancholy smile Mantles the lips of day, and twilight pale Moves like a spectre in the dusky sky; While eve's sweet star on the fast-fading year Smiles calmly :-Music steals at intervals From out the upland dingle of tall firs, Across the water, with a tremulous swell, And a faint foot-fall sounds, where dim and dark Hangs the gray willow from the river's brink, O'er-shadowing its current. Slowly there The lover's gondola drops down the stream, Silent,-save when its dipping oar is heard, Mouldering and moss-grown, through the lapse of Thy roof. Serenely, from the giant limb Or in its eddy sighs the rippling wave. years, In motionless beauty stands the giant oak, A calm is on the deep! The winds that came O'er the dark sea-surge with a tremulous breathing, And mourned on the dark cliff where weeds grew rank, And to the Autumnal death-dirge the deep sea * Theodoric. TO AN INDIAN SKELETON, BURIED AFTER Of a vast oak, gazing at all around,- the moon, the calm and stormy heaven,- The Indians, it is said, hang their infants in rude baskets on the branches of trees, for repose and security, in their absence, while hunting or fishing. It is said the tribes on the Columbia bury their dead in coffins of bark, secured by thongs of skin, and hung in the branches of high trees. Rang loud, and stopped him in his pride of place. W. C. *The features of the dead, being exposed by the mode of burial among these Indians, are first devoured by the birds of prey. JUAN FERNANDEZ. "O that the desert were my dwelling place, With one fair spirit for my minister!" There's an island afar in the blue western sea, Where spring smiles forever for you, love, and me; The sun when he sets on the fountain and flowers, Will leave not a bower so delicious as ours; To solitudes lovely then hasten with me back; which, before the discovery of Pompeii, was unknown. small town, similarly situated, and not a mile off from it. In returning to Naples, on the third day, we stopped at a large san- On the 6th of this month (February, dy looking bank, on the right side of the 1824), we made our visit to the top of Veroad, about ten miles from town. The suvius. The ascent and descent along the bank was that which destroyed Pompeii, lava take about five hours. We had, forA. D. 79; and we were now at the walls of tunately Salvadori for our guide, who told that city. There are few things so strange us all about the different eruptions, &c. &c. as a walk through the silent streets of a The crater is not at all the thing I expected, town, which, for 1700 years, has been hid but a gulph of most immense size, and one from the light of day and the world, when can see to the very bottom of it. I can the manners and every-day scenes of so re- scarcely believe what we were told. that it is mote an age, stand revealed, unchanged, four and a half miles round the crater, and after so long an interval. It would appear that its depth is two thousand feet; but it that, sixteen years before the shower of is a most horrid, magnificent sight. Here sand and ashes from Vesuvius occurred, an and there a quantity of smoke is seen curlearthquake had nearly ruined the town; so ing up the rocky sides; but at present the that the houses are roofless, partly from mountain is very quiet. All around is a that cause, and from the weight of ashes dark, black looking waste of lava, extendwhich fell. Otherwise they stand just as ing to the sea; and near the foot are the they were left. The streets are narrow, vineyards of the Lachryma Christi. In but paved; and the mark of the carriage spite of the sad example of Herculaneum wheels in the lava pavement is evident. In and Pompeii, villages are sprinkled here Murat's time four thousand men were em- and there, at the very foot of the mountain; ployed in excavating; and so a great num- and our guide told us that one of them, callber of houses, perhaps one third of the ed Torre del Greco, had now been destroytown, have been uncovered; but at presented fourteen times, and another seven. The there are only eleven men and a few boys day was very clear and beautiful, and the at work. I fancy the Neapolitans find the view very fine. The country around Naexpense of giving 20,000 Austrian troops ples, towards the hills, is so rich and prodouble pay a little troublesome; and so ex-ductive, that it is called the Campagna cavations must stand over for the present. Felice; but still the people are poor and The houses were all small, generally of two miserable. stories, but beautifully painted; and the figures of animals, such as horses, peacocks, SIMPLE METHOD OF LIQUEFYING THE GASES. &c. are as bright as that day they were Sir H. Davy has recently used a very painted. There are two theatres standing, simple method of liquefying the gases by and one amphitheatre, all nearly perfect; the application of heat. It consists in placbut I find it impossible to give you any idea ing the gas in one leg of a sealed bent of the wonders we saw in one walk through tube, confined by mercury, and applying Pompeii. At one time, we walked up a heat to ether, alcohol, or water, in the other street, called the Strada dei Mercanti, on end. In this way, by the pressure of the either side of us, the shops of mosaic selvapour of ether, he liquified prussic gas, lers, statuaries, bakers, &c. &c. with the and sulphureous acid gas. When these owner's name painted in red, and the sign About fifty miles from Albergo Vittoria, of his shop rudely carved above the door. gases were reproduced they occasioned are the ruins of three temples, standing to- The mill in the baker's shop, and the oven, gether on the seashore, at a place called amused us much. At another time, we Pæstum. We made up a party last week, passed through the hall of Justice, the temMr Davis has shown, in a paper lately and drove out to these ruins. It was cold, ple of Hercules, the villa of Cicero, and clear weather, and the Apennines were the villa of Sallust. The only villa of three published in the London Philosophical covered with snow, but a more interesting stories I observed, belonged to a man call-Transactions, that the Chinese year is a trip we never made. The ruins are the ed Arrius Diomedes (his name was at the lunar year, consisting of twelve months of most magnificent in Italy, particularly what outside of the door); and, in the cellar, twenty-nine and thirty days alternately, with is called the temple of Neptune, with four- beside some jars for wine, still standing, teen large Doric pillars in length and eight was the skeleton of this poor fellow found in the other direction. Further than these with a purse in one hand, and some trinkruins, and the wall of the town, not a vestige ets in his left, followed by another, bearing of it remains; and what is very singular, up some silver and bronze vases, the last scarce a notice now exists of any account supposed to have been his servant. They of the town, though it must have been a had been trying to escape by taking refuge very considerable maritime place. Like in the cellar. Many other curious things most of the other places on that coast, it have been discovered here, and a great deal must have been a Greek settlement; but may yet be brought to light, for, from a times, alas! have sadly changed with it, for ticket of a sale stuck up on the wall of a now three solitary farin-houses are all that house, it would appear that one person had remain, owing to its being unhealthy in no fewer than nine hundred shops to let. summer. There is something very incom- The street of the tombs is the most imprehensible about the unhealthiness of towns pressive; they are beautiful and extremely in Italy; for the town of Salerno, situated interesting. One for the gladiators has a on a beautiful bay, which we passed along, representation of the different modes of is almost deserted by its inhabitants in sum-fighting carved on it; and from this it would mer; and yet they find safety at another seem, that they occasionally fought on horse-containing a few necessary directions as to INTELLIGENCE. S. H. VISIT TO PESTUM, POMPEII, AND VESUVIUS. cold. CHINESE YEAR. the triennial intercalation of a thirteenth month, or rather an intercalation seven times in nineteen years, to make the year correspond more nearly with the sun's course. It has not been ascertained why they fix upon the fifteenth degree of Aquarius as a rule for regulating the commencement of their lunar year; but they have an annual festival about the recurrence of this period, which resembles the deification of the god Apis. VACCINATION IN CHINA. Mr Davis, in the paper just quoted, mentions the following curious fact. When Dr Pearson made the Chinese his invaluable present of vaccine inoculation, it was accompanied by a small pamphlet, in Chinese, the use of the virus, and stating the discovery to have been English. A purified edition of this little book was very soon after published, in which not one word was retained as to its origin, nor any trace by which it could be known that the discovery was not Chinese. WATERSPOUT in France. In the arrondissemens of Dreux and of Mantes, about three o'clock on the twentysixth of August, 1823, a storm came on from the S. W. accompanied with a sudden and powerful heat. A waterspout was seen not far from the village of Boucourt, having its broad base resting on the ground, and its summit lost in the clouds. It consisted of a thick and blackish vapour, in the middle of which were often seen flames in several directions. Advancing along with the storm, it broke or tore up by the roots, in the space of a league, seven or eight hundred trees of different sizes, and at last burst with great violence in the village of Marchepey, one half of the houses of which were instantly destroyed. The walls overturned to their foundations, rolled down on all sides; the roofs, when carried off, broke in pieces, and the debris were dragged to the distance of half a league by the force of this aërial torrent. Some of the inhabitants were crushed to pieces, or wounded by the fall of their houses, and those who were occupied in the labours of the field, were overthrown or blown away by the whirlwind. Hailstones as large as the fist, and stones and other foreign bodies carried off by the wind, injured several individuals. Carts heavily loaded were broken in pieces, and their loads dispersed. Their axle-trees were broken, and the wheels were found at the distance of two hundred or three hundred paces from the spot where they were overturned. One of these carts, which had been carried off almost bodily, was pitched above a tile-kiln which had been beaten down, and some of the materials of which had been carried to a considerable distance. A spire, several hamlets and different insulated houses, were overthrown. Several villages were considerably injured. The lower part of the waterspout is supposed to have been about one hundred toises in diameter. Near Genoa on the 16th of the following month, a waterspout was observed, accompanied by similar phenomena. A heavy rain fell on that day in the communes of Quigliano and Valeggia, in the province of Savona, beginning at five o'clock in the morning. It increased to such a degree that at nine o'clock the country was inundated. Towards noon there issued from a mountain situated in the parish of Valeggia, a whirlwind of black smoke and fire. It first carried off the roof a house, in which two children were crushed to pieces, and the parents wounded. The waterspout then advanced to the opposite side of the mountain called Magliolo; crossed the river, the waters of which it heaped up in an instant, though they were much swelled; carried off the roofs of two inhabited houses, the names of all works of every kind, preand advanced along the mountain in the paring for publication, in the press, or district of Quigliano, where it dissipated itself near the convent of Capuchins, situated recently published. As they will be inin the village It tore up many large trees of serted in the Gazette, it is particularly all kinds, and committed ravages, the extent desired that the exact titles be stated at of which was not certainly ascertained. length. 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