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 out of which you might chive all nations before you, securing your maritime greatness, whilst you increased your internal strength.—In the creeks and harbours of all countries, the smaller fish are always so numerous, that they are used for manure in quantities that almost exceed belief.—Is it certain that with the use of salt they might not be applied also to purposes more useful, and instead of being entirely cast out in large masses to fructify by corruption, be preserved from it by chemical skill, and be devoted to the subsistence of mankind?

"Another momentous subject still more, if possible, demands your attention, and with that I shall conclude.—One of the first sentences you uttered to me, after snatching me from the grave, made an impression upon me which I shall carry there hereafter. You said that this highly-favoured island had been the chosen instrument of Divine dispensation, and that if she deserted or slumbered upon her post, she would be