well; and thine image is too deeply engraven on my foul, to permit me to be filent. The expreffions of thy love revivify, in fome degree, my felicity: they afford me a tender recollection of our faithful union, as a remembrance thou wouldeft have left to me.

3.

Thefe are not lines dictated by wit; the artificial complaints of a poet. They are perturbed fighs which efcape from a heart not fufficient for its anguifh. Yes, I am going to paint my trobled foul, affected by love and grief, that only occupied by the moft diftreffing images, wanders in a labyrinth of affliction.

4. I fee thee yet, fuch as thou waft at death. I approached thee, touched by the moft lively defpair. Thou didst call back thy laft ftrength to exprefs one word, which I yet afked from thee. O foul, fraught with the pureft fentiments, thou didft only appear difturbed for my afflictions; thy laft expreffions were only thofe of love and tendernefs; and thy laft actions only thofe of refignation.

5. Whither fhall I fly? Where fhall I find in this country an afylum, which only offers to me objects of terror? This houfe in which I loft thee; this facred dome in which repofe thy afhes, thefe children-Ah! my blood chills at the view of thofe tender images of thy beauty, whofe artlefs voices call for their mother. Whither thall I fly? Why cannot I fly to thee? 6. Does not my heart owe thee the fincereft tey to thee? tears? Here thou hadft no other friend but me. It was I who fnatched thee from the bofom of thy family; thou didst quit them to follow me. I deprived thee of a country where thou wat loved by relatives who cherished thee, to conduct thee, alas, to the tomb.

7. In thofe fad adieus with which thy ffter embraced thee, while the country gradually fading from our eyes, the loft our laft glances, then with a foftened kindnefs, mingled with a tender refignation, thou didft fay, I depart with tranquility; what can I regret? My Haller accompanies me.

8. Can I recollect without tears, the day that united me to thee. Yet even now, foftened pleafure mingles with my forrows, and rapture with my affliction. How tenderly loved thy heart that heart which could forget every thing, birth, beauty and wealth! and which, notwithstanding the avowal I made of my fortune, only valued me for my fentiments.

9. Soon thou didst refign thy youth, and quit the world to

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be entirely mine! Superior to ordinary virtue, thou waft only beautiful for me. Thy heart was alone attached to mine: careless of thy fate, thou waft alone troubled with my lightest forrows and enraptured with a glance that expreffed content.

10. A will, detached from the vanity of the world and refigned to heaven; content and a fweet tranquility, that neither joy nor grief could difturb; wisdom in the education of thy children; a heart overflowing with tendernefs, yet free from weakness; a heart made to foothe my forrows; it was this that formed my pleafures, and that forms my griefs.

11. And thus I loved thee-more than the world could believe-more than I knew myself. How often in embracing thee with ardor, has my heart thought, with trembling, Ah! If I fhould lofe her!-How often have I wept in fecret!

12. Yes, my grief will laft, even when time shall have dried my tears: the heart knows other tears than thofe which cover the face. The first flame of my youth, the fadly pleasing recollection of thy tenderness, the admiration of thy virtue, are an eternal debt for my heart.

13. In the depth of the thickeft woods, under the green hade of the beach, where none will witness my complaints, I will feek for thy amiable image, and nothing fhall distract my recollection. There I fhall fee thy graceful mein, thy fadness when I parted from thee, thy tendernefs when I' embraced thee, thy joy at my return.

14. In the fublime abodes of the celeftial regions I will follow thee; I will feek for thee beyond the stars that roll beneath thy feet. It is there that thy innocence will fhine in the fplendor of heavenly light; it is there that with new strength thy foul fhall enlarge its ancient boundaries.

15. It is there that accuftoming thyfelf to the light of divinity, thou findeft thy felicity in its councils; and that thou mingleft thy voice with the angelic choir, and a prayer in my favor. There thou learneft the utility of my affliction. God unfolds to thee the volume of fate; thou readeft his defigns in our feparation, and the clofe of my career.

16. O foul of perfection, which I loved with fuch ardor, but which I think I loved not enough, how amiable art thou in the celeftial fplendor that environs thee! A lively hope elevates me; refufe not thyself to my vows; open thy armis, I fly to be united eternally with thee.

I.

STORY OF LOGAN, A MINGO CATEF.

IN the fpring of the year 1774, a robbery and murder

were committed on an inhabitant of the frontiers of Virginia by two Indians of the Shawanese tribe. The neighboring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a fummary way. Colonel Crefap, a man infamous for the many murders he had committed on thofe much injured people, collected a party, and proceeded down the Kanhaway in queft of vengeance.

2. Unfortunately, a canooe of women and children, with one man only, was feen coming from the oppofit fhore unarmed, and unfufpecting any hoftile attack from the whites. Crefap and his party concealed themfelves on the bank of the river; and the moment the canooe reached the fhore, fingled out their objects, and at one fire killed every perfon in it.

3. This happened to be the family of Logan, who had long been diftinguifhed as the friend of the whites. This unworthy return provoked his vengeance. He accordingly fignalized himself in the war which enfued.

4. In the autumn of the fame year, a decifive battle was fought at the mouth of the great Kanhaway, between the collected forces of the Shawanefe, Mingoes, and Delawares, and a detachment of the Virginia militia. The Indians were defeated and fued for peace.

5. Logan, however, difdained to be feen among the fuppliants; but, left the fincerity of a treaty fhould be disturbed, from which fo diftinguished a chief abfented himfelf, he fent by a meffenger, the following fpeech, to be delivered to Lord Dunmore.

6. "I appeal to any white man to fay, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him no meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the laft long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace."

7. "Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they paffed by, and faid, Logan is the friend of white men. I had even thought to have lived with you, had it not been for the injuries of one man. Colonel Crefap, the laft fpring in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even fparing my women and children.

8. "There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of

any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have fought it: I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace; but do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to fave his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not one.”

1.

SPEECH OF A SCYTHIAN EMBASSADOR TO ALEXANDER.

WHEN the Scythian embaffadors waited on Alexañ

der the great, they gazed on him a long time without fpeaking a word, being very probably furprized, as they formed a judgment of men from their air and ftature, to find that his did not anfwer the high idea they entertained of him from his fame.

2. At laft, the oldeft of the embaffadors addreffed him thus. "Had the gods given thee a body proportioned to thy ambition, the whole univerfe would have been too little for thee. With one hand thou wouldst touch the Eaft and with the other the Weft; and, not fatisfied with this, thou wouldst follow the fun, and know where he hides himself.

3. But what have we to do with thee? We never fet foot in thy country. May not thofe who inhabit woods be allowed to live without knowing who thou art, and whence thou comeft? We will neither command over, nor fubmit to any

man.

4. And that thou mayeft be fenfible what kind of people the Scythians are, know that we received from Heaven, as a rich prefent, a yoke of oxen, a ploufhare, a dart, a javelian and a cup. Thefe we make ufe of, both with our friends and against our enemies.

5. To our friends we give corn, which we procure by the labor of our oxen; with them we offer wine to the gods in our cup; and with regard to our enemies, we combat them at a distance with our arrows, and near at hand with our javelins.

6. But thou, who boafted thy coming to extirpate robbers, art thyfelf the greatest robber upon-earth. Thou haft plundered all nations thou overcameft; thou haft poffeffed thy felf of Lybia, invaded Syria, Perfia, and Bactriana; thou art form. ing a defign to march as far as India, and now thou comeft hither to feize upon our herds of cattle.

7. The

great poffeffions thou haft, only make thee covet the more eagerly what thou haft not. If thou art a god, thou

Oughteft to do good to mortals, and not deprive them of their poffeffions.

8. If thou art a mere man, reflect always on what thou art. They whom thou shalt not moleft will be thy true friends; The strongest friendships being contracted between equals ; and they are esteemed equals, who have not tried their strength against each other. But do not fuppofe that those whom thou conquereft can love thee."

I.

SINGULAR ADVENTURE OF GENERAL PUTNAM.

WHEN General Putnam first moved to Pomfret, in

Connecticut, in the year 1739, the country was new and much infefted with Wolves. Great havoc was made among the Theep by a fhe wolf which, with her annual whelps, had for feveral years continued in that vicinity. The young ones were commonly deftroyed by the vigilance of the hunters; but the old one was too fagacious to be enfnared by them.

2. This wolf, at length, became fuch an intolerable nufance, that Mr. Putnam entered into a combination with five of his neighbors to hunt alternately until they could deftroy her. Two, by rotation, were to be conftantly in purfuit. It was known, that, having loft the toes from one foot, by a Reel-trap, fhe made one track shorter than the other.

3. By this veftige, the purfuers recognzied, in a light fnow, the route of this pernicious animal. Having followed her to Connecticut river, and found the had turned back in a direct course towards Pomfret, they immediately returned, and by ten o'clock the next morning the bloodhounds had driven her into a den, about three miles diftant from the houfe of Mr. Putnam.

4. The people foon collected with dogs, guns, ftraw, fire and fulphur to attack the common enemy. With this apparatus feveral unsuccessful efforts were made to force her from the den. The hounds came back badly wounded, and refuThe smoke of blazing straw had no effect.--Nor did the fumes of burnt brimstone, with which the cavern was filled, compel her to quit the retirement.

fed to return.

5. Wearied with fuch fruitlefs attempts (which had brought the time to ten o'clock at night) Mr. Putnam tried once more to make his dog enter, but in vain; he propofed to his negro