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    and a feir bay is opening to the gladdened eyes of the crew . The sun has just dipped beneath the western wave , but the pale moon sheds around the scene a holier light . On the right hand all is ia darkness , save the broken outline of the lofty cliffs , marked in the blue vault , and the speck-like fires of the fishermen ,

    whose canoes have left the waters . To the left is seen a winding road , leading , by a zig-zag traverse , to a fortress on the cliffs , beneath which a gentle surf is playing . A broader road crosses the mountain farther on ; farther to the right is a picturesque ravine , out of which a -small mountain brook is meandering , bordered in some parts by rocks , and in others by green sloping

    banks . White cottages peep forth amongst them , surrounded by patches of garden , which seem scarcely to find a level . Vines crawl here and there up the face of the banks , and straggling peach and almond trees are rooted in the clefts of the rock . That level patch which looks greener than the rest , and behind which there is a thread of water , is lucerne grass . The

    brownlooking tree , which shades it at the end , is an olive . That with the thick shade is a fig-tree . At mid-day the master of the dwelling and his family take their meal beneath it , and the green lemons and bitter oranges , fresh from those trees which skirt the garden , furnish a delicious relish to it . The cliffs surround the bay in the form of a horse-shoe . In the centre there is a broad , level , sandy beach , on which canoes are drawn up . Backwards

    towards the cliffs a fair town is spread . Many of the dwellings are surrounded by white-walled gardens , and thickly groved orchards ; they are the dwellings of the rich . Church towers rise amongst them , and huts of rushes fill many vacant spaces . Row upon row you may see white cottages , rising one above the other , and looking oyer the numerous vessels which stud the water like an enchanted mirror . Oh ! how beautiful it is ! Can

    the crew of that craft leave it to follow the trade of war on the waters ? They will . The leader is in his youth , and has not yet learnt to distinguish good from evil . Enthusiasm is to him as judgment . Reader , it is but a sketch . Wilt thou travel further in search of beauty , with Junius Redivivus ?

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    TO THE EDITOR . v , —It may be the habit of looking on the dark side of a picture which has ever led me to regard national prosperity as consisting almost entirely in the absence of poverty , but 1 still must maintain that all estimates of the happiness of a community should be founded , not on the aggregate riches of its members , but on their

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    96 . Beauty '

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    ON THE PROSPECTS OF THE PEOPLE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1833, page 96, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2608/page/28/