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 ¬the centre of a transeendant blaze of light, brighter than if all the whales in the South Seas and Greenland had been melted down into oil and set fire to at my feet. — I am almost afraid to express the similitude it suggested, and the sensation it produced ; though it cannot surely be prophane to feel the power of the Creator in the inventive faculties of his creatures — it ex- alted my mind to contemplate the astonishing effect of the divine word upon the universe throughout its boundless extent, when God said — Let there be light, and there was ¬LIGHT. ¬Whether this grand discovery can be brought into all the uses of man, is wbat I had neither skill nor leisure to examine. ¬I was next shewn how well they knew what concerts ought to be. — Music of every descrip- tion seemed to have reached perfection, and its characters were as various, as the nations of its authors were different. In the softer climates ¬it ¬