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 ¬set at nought all the nations of the old \vo v ld it' the new one invoked her assistance. Such a great work could not be begun prematurely. — If the sun stood still of old in the camp of the Israelites, it would now rush to the west with increased velocity and lustre, to shine on the British standard, if it stood planted even for a moment in the night.* ¬" 1 have now finished all I have to observe upon the condition of your sublime country. — Looking at it with the eager curiosity of a stranger, bred in one which has long been the admiration of its own world, and not wishing to see her in any thing surpassed, yet I am obliged in justice to say, that I consider ¬• It may be proper here to inform the reader, that when it is six in the morning in Armata, it is midnight in the new world alluded to, because this twin planet with the earth re- volves also round its axis from west to east in twenty-four hours; and Armata being eastward of the new world, nearly ninety degrees of longitude, it follow* as above-mentioned, that when it is six in the morning in Armata it must be mid- night in the new world ; every 15 degrees of a great circle of 360 being equal to an hour of time ; 15 times 24 being 360. ¬o Armata ¬