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, that aid more, much more than any could utter. The firt ounds proceeded from mouths of the mot patient of Nature’s creatures-from the melancholy cow that had lot its calf,  with frequent lowings invited its return; from  mother ewes, that with frequent bleetings  their lambs, which were friking out of ight,  of danger and unmindful of food:  which olemn and pathetic invitations, after uch  night, the contemplation of uch a cene, and  dipoition of the mind to receive pathetic, came home with full effect to thoe who  uffered but who wihed not to complain! If ditrees of the feathered tribe be taken into  decription, their natural timidity. their of food, of helter, and dometic protection,  duly conidered, trifling as thee obervations  appear, they certainly help to well the  of ditres, to awaken the igh of enibility, and  teach us that their exitence, and their end are the hands of the ame Creator.

The morning of the 4th of October preented with a propect, dreary beyond decription, and  mot melancholy beyond example; and  with uch blated igns of nakednes and ruin,  calamity, in its mot awful and deftructive, has eldom offered to the deponding  of mankind. The face of the country to be entirely changed: the vallies and the, the mountains and the forets, that were only  day before mot beautifully clothed with every vare, were now depoiled of every charm; and an expected abundance and uperfluity of gain,  a few hours ucceeded terility and want; and  propect, as far as the eye could tretch, was  tricken blank with deolation and with  The powers of vegetation appeared to be an on