Severed from all that could appear to bind
Their spirits to the home of human kind;
The memory of far friends, now doubly dear,
And the strange workings of mysterious fear,
As at some high and gifted vision, sealed
From first creation, but to them revealed;
Impatience of the veil which yet confined
Their scrutiny, and imaged bliss behind;
Triumph o'er dangers braved and perils passed,
Regret o'er hopes too lovely long to last;
The alternate bliss and woe of yesterday,
Revived again, again to pass away;

Move o'er the glimmering mirror of their minds,
As reason sways, hope pictures, terror blinds,
Light as the vane that fluctuates in all winds.

Three days were passed--but when the fourth uncurled
Her mists, long slumbering o'er the curtained world,
O'er the calm surge delighted they survey
Tall hills arise, and groves of green array
Fringe the advancing shores: on either side,
Compressed, in narrower bounds the waters glide;
They stretch their sails before the willing wind,
Bright Dibbie, crowned with rosy light, behind
Fast closes on their sight: with wings of fear,
Far from Jinbalian crags their course they steer,
And midway down the rapid river bear,

With whispered vows and many a murmured prayer,
And eyes to heaven upraised, in gratitude
For sadness banished, and for joy renewed.
High on his deck behold the chieftain stand!
He sees an Eden in the palmy land,

And strains his sight, if haply he may view
The station where barbaric TOM BUCTOO,
Queen of the Desert!-sits, enthroned in state,
And pours rich commerce from her storied gate;
And lists as in expectancy to hear

The murmur of strange tongues salute his ear.
Are those her towers dim sparkling in the sky?
Veil, rash adventurer! veil thy daring eye,

The meteor of the wilderness is nigh.

And lo! in his destructive course, Simoom—

The sands his chariot, canopied in gloom

Stoops from on high: and heaven vibrating reels
Beneath the thunder of his moving wheels.

One moment kindled was the burning blast,
Another, and his fiery aspect passed,

Fearful and lightning-like: his rushing wings

Smite the warped wave: round-round the galley swings,

And gathering from the madness of his wrath
Fresh speed, flies swifter on its liquid path.
And Downe's savage cliffs are backward cast,
And the proud port of Rakbara is past,
Not unendangered; -for the shriek of men
Rose on the wind, and paused, and rose again,
And the tracked waters bore a sanguine hue:
And Kaffo's peopled heights beheld anew
The shivered lance and the repulsed canoe.
The barbarous clang of iron,-the unwonted shock,
Hill tossed to hill, and rock replied to rock;
High grove and cavern caught the floating sound
Afar-and spread the sullen murmurs round.
As though there were a voice in every glen,
That stern Jugurtha had arisen again,
Breathing immortal hatred from his tomb,
And still the terror and the scourge of Rome.
XXIX.

But Lybia here bent to a milder chief,
Pity in him assumed the hue of grief;

Reluctant was the heart though firm the hand,
Which gave to death the natives of the land.
But veiled the sanctuary of Niger yet,
This is no season to indulge regret,
And what to him if, fruitlessly and vain,
The negro trembles for his wild domain?
Not his the wish barbaric chains to hold,
Or polished elephant, or grains of gold.
Nurtured in arts of peace, his soul abhorred
War's sacrilege, and the devouring sword,
And 'midst the savage nations still had stood,
Guiltless of strife, and innocent of blood;
But exercised in ill, at many a mart,

The insidious Moor has put forth all his art,
And fearful lest his foreign hand should claim
Divided empire, or an equal name,

Hath whispered cause to each surrounding state,
Of deep mistrust, and jealousy and hate.
Ripe for assault the ready native runs,

And town and village launch forth all their sons.
These on the winged wave, with loud alarms,

The fight provoke, and clash their brandished arms;
Breathing revenge and clamorous of success,

Now round their foe in darkening swarms they press;
Irresolutely brave; now shoreward steer,
As hope stands trembling on the verge of fear.
Baffled-beat back-they yet renew afar
Defying shouts and sound the shell of war,

Hang round the vessel's side-the javelin wing,
And fix the impatient arrow to its string.
The river shakes beneath the dash of oars,
And many a wave runs purple to its shores.
[To be continued.]

NOTES.

Note (14) Page 179, Line 11.

The biographer of Mungo Park informs us, in the Memoir affixed to the Account of his last Expedition into Africa, that he was fond of poetry, and wrote verses; and in one of his letters, Park observes, that he and his brother-in-law, Mr. Anderson, used to beguile their tedious night-watches on the Niger with the recital of the songs of their dear native land.

Note (15) Page 181, Line 2.

Beyond the town of Jenné, at the distance of two days' journey, the Niger expands into the Dibbie, or Dark Lake; in crossing which, from west to east, the canoes are said, by some, to lose sight of land for an entire day; by others, for three days, (Park's Travels, vol. i. p. 317.) From this lake the river issues in several streams, terminating in two large branches, which join at Kabra, one day's journey south of Tombuctoo, and the port of that city or town. Isa calls it Rakbara. At the distance of eleven days from Kabra, the river passes to the southward of Haoussa, which is two days' journey distant from the Joliba. Of the further progress of this great river, whether it loses itself in the inland lake of the Arabian geographer, Endrisi; whether beyond the kingdom of Dar-Kulla, it blends with the Bahr el Abiad, and mingles its ample current with the Nile, or whether it takes a southern direction, and gliding amongst the "Lunar Mountains," actually joins the precipitous Congo-is a question likely to remain undecided, unless a happier issue attends future expeditions up the Niger than has hitherto attended those set on foot by the English govern

ment:

"Melioribus, opto,

Auspiciis, et quæ fuerit minus obvia Graiis."

VIRG. Æn. lib. iii. 498.

Note (16) Page 181, last Line.

Or, as the author of the " Pleasures of Memory" beautifully says: "A world of waves, a sea without a shore."

PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY
INTELLIGENCE.

Remedy for Mildew in Wheat.-Dr. Cartwright, to whom the agriculturists of this kingdom lie under great obligations for numerous improvements, has discovered that a solution of common salt, sprinkled on corn infected with mildew, commonly removes the disease. In the year 1818, he was engaged in a series of experiments, to ascertain the minimum of salt

that would be required to destroy vegetation in certain weeds, as coltsfoot, bindweed, the common thistle, &c. The salt, it was found, had very little effect on weeds, or other vegetation, when they had arrived at that stage in which they ceased to be succulent, and are becoming fibrous. But as soon as the rain washed the salt down to their roots, if in sufficient quantity, they languished and died. Happening to have some wheat at the time that was mildewed, the doctor tried the experiment upon it; and the result was such as was anticipated, without any injury to the corn; salt having_no' injurious effect on fibrous matter, whether vegetable or animal. The expense in this case ceases to be any object, for six or eight bushels will serve an acre, which, at the price of salt applied to agriculture, will be under twenty shillings; and this will be more than repaid by the improvement of the manure, arising from the salted straw. Two men, one to spread, and the other to supply him with the salt water, will get over four acres in a day; the operation of the remedy is very quick in less than forty-eight hours, even the vestiges of the disease are hardly discernible. Its efficacy has been completely verified by more recent experiments.

Mode of Destroying Insects on Fruit Trees.-It has long been believed, that leaves of the elder tree, put into the subterraneous paths of moles, drive them away; but it is not generally known, that if fruit trees, flowering shrubs, corn, or vegetables, be wiped with the green leaves of elder branches, insects will not attach to them. An infusion of elder leaves in water is good for sprinkling over rosebuds, and flowers subject to blights, and the devastations of caterpillars.

Prevention of Gumming in Fruit Trees.-Horse dung, clay, sand, and pitch tar, form a composition, which, when applied to the trunk and stems of fruit trees, after they are properly cleansed, prevents that spontaneous exudation called gumming, which is very injurious to the growth of trees.

Liquor from Mountain Ash-berries. In North Wales, a liquor, called Diod Griafel, is brewed from the berries of the mountain ash, by merely crushing, and adding water to them. After standing for a fortnight it is fit for use; its flavour somewhat resembling perry.

Felling of Timber.-Mr. T. A. Knight has ascertained, by direct experiment, that there is a striking difference between the properties of spring and winter felled timber; the former absorbing much more moisture than the other. He is of opinion, that oak timber would be much improved if the tree, after being barked in the spring, was permitted to stand till the following winter.

New Era in Agriculture.-Major-general Beatson, on a farm of 300 acres, at Knowle, Tunbridge Wells, since the year 1813, says he has proved, that by light or shallow ploughing on a stiff soil with one horse, without lime or dung, and without fallow, he can raise crops of wheat, or other grain, at the expense of £5. an acre, equal or superior to those of his neighbours, in expense, in lime, and labour of cattle, of £16. an acre.

New Mode of Ploughing on Hilly Ground.-It has lately become the practice in the light hilly parts of Norfolk, for the farmers to plough their lands across, instead of up and down: by this means all the rain is stopped by the ridges, instead of running to the bottom, and frequently carrying the seeds, soil, and manure with it.

A Substitute for Potatoes.-Europe owes infinite gratitude to the memory of Sir Francis Drake, who first introduced from America the potatoe. We are assured, that there grows in Santa Fé de Bagota a root, called arakatscka, even more nourishing, and as prolific as the potatoe; resembling the Spanish chesnut in taste and firmness. It is a native of the Cordilleros, a climate as temperate as that of Europe, and might be

cultivated here with the same facility as the potatoe. It would be a most desirable thing to procure the plant, as well as some of the seed; and we earnestly recommend it to the Admiralty, to instruct the officers of ships on the South American station, to make inquiries concerning it; and to bring a few of the roots home, for the purpose of experiment.

Sherbet. It is not generally known, that this beverage, so often mentioned with praise in Arabic poetry, is neither more nor less than a decoction of oatmeal and sugar, seasoned when cold with rose water.

Extraordinary Production.-There grew, last year, in the garden of Mr. Johnson, at Sunbury, a stalk of wheat in the hollow of an apple tree, five feet from the ground, which produced, without care, and with scarcely any notice, 361 straws, 33 ears, and 1092 grains of wheat, besides what was destroyed by birds and insects. The straws are still to be seen in the hollow, where they grew all affixed to one root, and the produce growing upon and covering near two roods of ground.

Rein Deer, imported and established in the Netherlands.-Two rein deer, a male and female, brought from Lapland, in the month of November, are now living at liberty in a gentleman's park, two leagues from the city of Ghent. Not only have they supported the change of climate extremely well, but the female has lately produced a young one, which it is hoped will live. This is the first instance of the kind, it is said, in a temperate climate; and it is the more remarkable, in that fourteen were some years ago brought into Scotland, a climate and country apparently more suitable for them, yet all of them progressively dropped off, and the endeavour to naturalize them completely failed.

Curious Birds in England. The dean of Westminster has recently felt it necessary to give directions to have the interior of the Abbey cleansed, as from the number of birds which had congregated at the top of the Gothic pillars, where they had built their nests, much inconvenience had been experienced in the choir. In effecting this labour, upwards of seventy nests, of different birds, were discovered, together with the remains of a number of the feathered tribe that appeared to have died of old age. Among other birds found in this situation, was one with very brilliant plumage, somewhat similar to the king's-fisher. The plumage was in excellent preservation, but the flesh was completely dried up. It was conveyed to the dean, by whom it has been preserved.

Eruption of a Volcano.-M. Baunhauer, Dutch resident in the Island of Banda, in a letter of the 13th of June, reports that two days before, at halfpast eleven o'clock in the forenoon, the famous volcano, Goenong Api, broke out in so dreadful a manner, that every body who was not obliged by his duty to remain in Neira fled to Great Banda. At two o'clock, vast red hot stones were propelled with prodigious force into the air, which, on falling, set fire to every thing combustible in the neighbourhood; while the most violent shocks rapidly succeeded each other, so that the houses, and even the vessels in the roads, were shaken. The smoke and ashes thrown, out obscured the whole mountain, and sometimes also the neighbouring Lonthoir. In the evening the shocks became more frequent; the stones were projected to an elevation, calculated to be double that of the moun tain, which appeared to be half covered with a sheet of fire. The scene was rendered more awful by the shock of an earthquake, which was felt in the evening, and by a terrible tempest, so that the whole population passed the night in the greatest alarm, and at day-light all the vessels fled from the roads. During the whole of the 12th, the mountain continued to throw out fire and stones; and the smoke and shower of ashes spread over Neira, and Lonthoir, to the middle of the plantation of Bogauw. The nutmeg trees