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 ¬come, have been a trackless desert, the forlorn abode of uncultivated life ! May the East, then, and the West, from the rising to the setting of the sun, remember, with eternal gratitude, the blessings that have flowed to them from my be- loved country ; may they always work upon the pattern she has set them, whatever forms of government may distinguish them; may they bury in oblivion the occasional imperfections which are inseparable from human dominion; and may the Christian standard she has planted amongst the nations be still carried forward to all tongues and people, until they are ga- thered together at last as a flock under one shepherd, when sin and sorrow shall be at an end! ¬" If we examine the aids derived from the sea in the progress of society, and the universal ¬comforts which * * # * *" but here my ¬youthful companion (tired enough, no doubt, of my soliloquy) recalled me to myself, and ha- ving no wish or thought but to please me, he ¬shook ¬ /n