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    perceive all the people walking about round the band and discussing its combined merits , and the talent of the chief performers , who all manifested the utmost excitement of expression and action in blowing , beating , sawing , and winding , but without producing a single tone . Meantime all the Flats waited anxiously looking up at the Olympian baud , and then at their native performers , in expectation of sounds that

    would set them all upon their legs again in substantial harmony ! When , after a most exhausting delay , down fell a great stone by accident , from the mouth of Mars , as he was about to titter a signal from his crimson-flagged trumpet , and smashing a great hole in the middle of the band of Flat Island , there instantly arose , through the vent , the true sound of all their instruments , amounting to a deafening clamour of tongs , brass kettles , marrow-bones and cleavers .

    But probably the present period is too matter-of-fact to relish allegories of this kind , even byre-action and for the sake of relief from cutting realities in their natural shape . It is indeed quite time that we looked every fact directly in the face—beitas ugly as Sin—and wasted no thought upon double meanings . Yet ' , if an intermediate plan of attack can find

    favour in the public eye , —a plan whicji shall unite the most extensive knowledge of details with great powers of generalization and a logical application of analogies to practical questions of the deepest present interest , then we shall not have to search far or wide for a master-hand to accomplish the task , at least as far as measures are concerned . With reference to

    the subject of free-trade , for instance , we beg our readers to remark in what a level , home-sliding style the following argument is propelled from the North Pole : " I engaged to show that the agriculturists have no real interest in . sup * pressing our foreign trade . Let us take a case , then , in those countries which have been much before the minds of all our friends in consequence of late events . If it should turn out that Boothia Felix , or any <> ther

    part of the coast of the Polar seas , was all made of" alternate layers of coal and iron ( and I am not sure that there are not appearances of both these substances being abundant in those regions ) , —such a country 'Would be very likely to be at some time the seat of extensive manufactures , population , and wealth . And if it should also happen , —which is not impossible , —that coal and iron should foil in the rest of the world , the consequence would be inevitable , that our Manchesters , Sheffields ,

    $ nd Glasgows , would all have to migrate Northward , and there would be as great u change as when wealth and political power removed themselves from Rqme to bleak and savage Britain , a prophecy of which would have been just as incredible to an ancient Roman , as a similar one with respect to the-Polar regions might be to some English of our day . Towns would be built with covered roads wanned by steam ; and" railways would in Uine be tunnelled under the ice , from one great cotton-factory to another

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1837, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1827/page/4/