On swiftly-circling engines, and their notes
Warble together, as a choir of larks;
Such joy arises in the mind employed.
Another scene displays the more robust
Rasping or grinding tough Brazilian woods,
And what Campeachy's disputable shore
Copious affords to tinge the thirsty web,
And the Caribbee isles, whose dulcet canes
Equal the honeycomb.

PAUL'S SPINNING-MACHINE DESCRIBED.
We next are shown

A circular machine,' of new design,
In conic shape it draws and spins a thread
Without the tedious toil of needless hands.
A wheel, invisible, beneath the floor,
To every member of the harmonious frame
Gives necessary motion. One, intent,
O'erlooks the work: the carded wool, he says,
Is smoothly lapped around those cylinders,
Which, gently turning, yield it to yon cirque
Of upright spindles, which with rapid whirl
Spin out, in long extent, an even twine.

BURSTAL; LEEDS DESCRIBED; THE RIVER AIRE, BARGES,

PACK-HORSES.

From this delightful mansion (if we seek
Still more to view the gifts which honest toil
Distributes) take we now our eastward course
To the rich fields of Burstal. Wide around
Hillock and valley, farm and village, smile;
And ruddy roofs and chimney tops appear
Of busy Leeds, up-wafting to the clouds
The incense of thanksgiving: all is joy;
And trade and business guide the living scene,
Roll the full cars, adown the winding Aire
Load the slow-sailing barges, pile the pack
On the long tinkling train of slow-paced steeds.

THE BUSY POPULATION COMPARED TO ANTS; THE WAIN,
KINE; HOUSEWIVES; SOUNDS OF THE MECHANICS' TOOLS;
DIGNITY OF INDUSTRY.

As when a sunny day invites abroad

The sedulous ants, they issue from their cells
In bands unnumbered, eager for their work;
O'er high, o'er low, they lift, they draw, they haste
With warm affection to each other's aid,
Repeat their virtuous efforts, and succeed.
Thus all is here in motion, all is life:

The creaking wain brings copious store of corn;
The grazier's sleeky kine obstruct the roads;
The neat-dressed housewives, for the festal board
Crowned with full baskets, in the field-way paths
Come tripping on; the echoing hills repeat
The stroke of axe and hammer; scaffolds rise,
And growing edifices; heaps of stone,
Beneath the chisel, beauteous shapes assume
Of frize and column. Some, with even line,
New streets are marking in the neighboring fields,

1 A most curious machine, invented by Mr. Paul. It is contrived to spin cotton, but may be made to spin finecarded wool.

And sacred domes of worship. Industry,
Which dignifies the artist, lifts the swain,
And the straw cottage to a palace turns,
Over the work presides.

CARTHAGE; MANCHESTER; SHEFFIELD; BIRMINGHAM. —
TRADER'S EXCHANGE.

Such was the scene

Of hurrying Carthage, when the Trojan chief
First viewed her growing turrets: so appear
The increasing walls of busy Manchester,
Sheffield, and Birmingham, whose reddening fields
Rise and enlarge their suburbs. Lo! in throngs,
For every realm, the careful factors meet,
Whispering each other. In long ranks the bales,
Like War's bright files, beyond the sight extend.
Straight, ere the sounding bell the signal strikes,
Which ends the hour of traffic, they conclude
The speedy compact; and, well-pleased, transfer,
With mutual benefit, superior wealth

To many a kingdom's rent, or tyrant's hoard.
LABOR AND PERSEVERANCE; THE OAK; GOLD; ITS LABORI-
OUS PREPARATION.

Whate'er is excellent in art proceeds

From labor and endurance. Deep the oak
Must sink in stubborn earth its roots obscure,
That hopes to lift its branches to the skies.
Gold cannot gold appear, until man's toil
Discloses wide the mountain's hidden ribs,
And digs the dusky ore, and breaks and grinds
Its gritty parts, and laves in limpid streams,
With oft-repeated toil, and oft in fire
The metal purifies with the fatigue
And tedious process of its painful works
The lusty sicken, and the feeble die.

SUPERIORITY OF WOOLEN MANUFACTURING OVER OTHER IN-
DUSTRY COMPARED WITH THAT OF FLAX, SILK, COTTON.
But cheerful are the labors of the loom,
By health and ease accompanied they bring
Superior treasures speedier to the state
Than those of deep Peruvian mines, where slaves
(Wretched requital !) drink, with trembling hand,
Pale palsy's baneful cup. Our happy swains
Behold arising in their fattening flocks

A double wealth, more rich than Belgium's boast,
Who tends the culture of the flaxen reed;
Or the Cathayan's, whose ignobler care
Nurses the silk-worm; or of India's sons,
Who plant the cotton-grove by Ganges' stream.
Nor do their toils and products furnish more
Than gauds and dresses, of fantastic web,
To the luxurious but our kinder toils
Give clothing to necessity; keep warm
The unhappy wanderer on the mountain wild
Benighted, while the tempest beats around.
HINDOOS, THEIR EFFEMINACY; ENGLISHMEN, THEIR HARDI-
HOOD AS SOLDIERS, SAILORS, COLONISTS.

No, ye soft sons of Ganges, and of Ind,

Ye feebly delicate! life little needs
Your feminine toys, nor asks your nerveless arm

To cast the strong-flung shuttle or the spear.
Can
ye defend your country from the storm
Of strong invasion? Can ye want endure,
In the besiegéd fort, with courage firm?
Can ye the weather-beaten vessel steer,
Climb the tall mast, direct the stubborn helm,
Mid wild discordant waves, with steady course?
Can ye lead out, to distant colonies,
The o'erflowings of a people, or your wronged
Brethren, by impious persecution driven,
And arm their breasts with fortitude to try
New regions; climes, though barren, yet beyond
The baneful power of tyrants! These are deeds
To which their hardy labors well prepare
The sinewy arm of Albion's sons.

MIGRATIONS OF THE WEAVING ART; FROM EGYPT TO PHŒENI-
CIA, GREECE, VENICE, FLANDERS, BRITAIN. — SCIENCE.
Pursue,

Ye sons of Albion! with unyielding heart,
Your hardy labors : let the sounding loom
Mix with the melody of every vale;

The loom, that long-renowned, wide-envied gift,
Of wealthy Flandria,' who the boon received
From fair Venetia; she from Grecian nymphs;
They from Phenice, who obtained the dole
From old Ægyptus. Thus, around the globe
The golden-footed Sciences their path
Mark, like the sun, enkindling life and joy ;
And, followed close by Ignorance and Pride,
Lead Day and Night o'er realms.

FLEMINGS, EXILED THROUGH THE DUKE OF ALVA'S TYRANNY,
MIGRATE TO ENGLAND FROM THE SCHELDT AND ANTWERP,
SETTLING IN KENT, NORWICH, COLCHESTER, ALONG THE
STOUR, MEDWAY, YARE, WAVENEY, AND DARENT.

Our day arose,
When Alva's tyranny the weaving arts
Drove from the fertile valleys of the Scheld.
With speedy wing and scattered course they fled,
Like a community of bees, disturbed

By some relentless swain's rapacious hand;
While good Eliza to the fugitives
Gave gracious welcome; as wise Egypt erst
To troubled Nilus, whose nutritious flood
With annual gratitude enriched her meads.
Then from fair Antwerp an industrious train
Crossed the smooth channel of our smiling seas,
And in the vales of Cantium, on the banks
Of Stour alighted, and the naval wave
Of spacious Medway: some on gentle Yare
And fertile Waveney pitched, and made their seats
Pleasant Norvicum and Colcestria's towers:
Some to the Darent sped their happy way:

SOME MANUFACTURING EMIGRANTS CAME FROM BERGHEM, SLUYS, BRUGES, ALONG THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND, TO THE SEVERN, HEREFORD, WALES, ETC.

Berghem, and Sluys, and elder Bruges, chose Antona's chalky plains, and stretched their tents Down to Clausentum, and that bay supine Beneath the shade of Vecta's cliffy isle. Soon o'er the hospitable realm they spread,

With cheer revived; and in Sabrina's flood,
And the Silurian Tame, their textures blanched;
Not undelighted with Vigornia's spires,
Nor those by Vaga's stream, from ruins raised
Of ancient Ariconium; nor less pleased
With Salop's various scenes, and that soft tract
Of Cambria, deep-embayed, Dimetian land,
By green hills fenced, by ocean's murmur lulled;
Nurse of the rustic bard, who now resounds
The fortunes of the fleece; whose ancestors
Were fugitives from Superstition's rage,
And erst from Devon thither brought the loom,
Where ivied walls of old Kidwelly's towers,
Nodding, still on their gloomy brows project
Lancastria's arms, embossed in mouldering stone.

Thus, then, on Albion's coast the exiled band, From rich Menapian towns, and the green banks Of Scheld, alighted; and, alighting, sang Grateful thanksgiving.

EFFECTS OF THE IMMIGRATION OF THE FLEMISH WEAVERS; TURNING SHEPHERDS AND IDLERS TO OPERATIVES.

Yet at times they shift Their habitations, when the hand of pride, Restraint, or southern luxury, disturbs Their industry, and urges them to vales Of the Brigantes; where, with happier care Inspirited, their art improves the fleece, Which occupation erst, and wealth immense, Gave Brabant's swarming habitants, what time We were their shepherds only; from which state With friendly arm they raised us: nathless some Among our old and stubborn swains misdeemed And envied who enriched them; envied those Whose virtues taught the varletry of towns To useful toil to turn the pilfering hand.

BRITAIN THE REFUGE OF THE PERSECUTED.

And still, when Bigotry's black clouds arise (For oft they sudden rise in papal realms), They from their isle, as from some ark secure, Careless, unpitying, view the fiery bolts Of superstition and tyrannic rage, And all the fury of the rolling storm, Which fierce pursues the sufferers in their flight. Shall not our gates, shall not Britannia's arms, Spread ever open to receive their flight? A virtuous people, by distresses oft (Distresses for the sake of truth endured) Corrected, dignified; creating good Wherever they inhabit: this our isle Has oft experienced; witness all ye realms, Of either hemisphere where commerce flows:

12 Flandria, Flanders; Venetia, Venice; Phenice, Phonicia; Egyptus, Egypt; Nilus, the Nile: Cantium, Kent; Norvicum, Norwich; Colcestria, Colchester; Antona, the Avon; Clausentum, Southampton (?); Vecta, the Isle of Wight; Sabrina, Severn; Silurian Tame, the Temd, which runs by Ludlow; Vigornia, Worcester; Vaga, the Wye; Ariconium, Kenchester, see note, p. 379; Salop, Shropshire; Cambria, Wales; Dimetia, the south part of Wales; Menapian, Belgian; Brigantes, people of Yorkshire.

BRITISH FABRICS CREATED OR IMPROVED BY PERSECUTED IMMIGRANTS; CHEYNEY, BAIZE, SERGE, ALEPINE, TAMMY, CRAPE, ETC.; STEEL, GLASS, MIXED FABRICS.

Th' important truth is stamped on every bale;
Each glossy cloth, and drape of mantle warm,
Receives th' impression; every airy woof,
Cheyney, and baize, and serge, and alepine,
Tammy, and crape, and the long countless list
Of woollen webs; and every work of steel;
And that crystalline metal, blown or fused,
Limpid as water dropping from the clefts
Of mossy marble: not to name the aids

Their wit has given the fleece, now taught to link
With flax, or cotton, or the silk-worm's thread,
And gain the graces of variety;
Whether to form the matron's decent robe,
Or the thin-shading trail for Agra's1 nymphs;
Or solemn curtains, whose long gloomy folds
Surround the soft pavilions of the rich.

THE ARRAS; BLENHEIM TAPESTRIES.-RAMILLIES, ARLEUX.

They, too, the many-colored Arras taught To mimic nature, and the airy shapes Of sportive fancy; such as oft appear In old mosaic pavements, when the plough Upturns the crumbling glebe of Weldon field, Or that o'ershaded erst by Woodstock's bower, Now graced by Blenheim, in whose stately rooms Rise glowing tapestries that lure the eye With Marlborough's wars: here Schellenberg exults Behind surrounding hills of ramparts steep, And vales of trenches dark; each hideous pass Armies defend; yet on the hero leads His Britons, like a torrent, o'er the mounds. Another scene is Blenheim's glorious field, And the red Danube. Here, the rescued states Crowding beneath his shield; there, Ramillies' Important battle next the ten-fold chain Of Arleux burst, and the adamantine gates Of Gaul flung open to the tyrant's throne.

A shade obscures the rest Ah! then, what power

Invidious from the lifted sickle snatched
The harvest of the plain? So lively glows

The fair delusion, that our passions rise

In the beholding, and the glories share
Of visionary battle.

HISTORY OF THE ART, VARIOUS CHEF-D'ŒUVRES OF DIFFER-
ENT NATIONS; FELT, PORCELAIN, VARNISH.

This bright art

Did zealous Europe learn of pagan hands,
While she assayed, with rage of holy war,
To desolate their fields: but old the skill;
Long were the Phrygians' picturing looms renowned;
Tyre also, wealthy seat of arts, excelled,
And elder Sidon, in th' historic web.

Far-distant Tibet in her gloomy woods
Rears the gay tent, of blended wool unwoven,
And glutinous materials: the Chinese

1 There is woven at Manchester, for the East Indies, a very thin stuff, of thread and cotton, which is cooler than the manufactures of that country, where the material is only

cotton.

Their porcelain, Japan its varnish boasts.
Some fair peculiar graces every realm,
And each from each a share of wealth acquires.
NATIONAL WEALTH FROM NUMBERS; IMMIGRATION; HOSPI-
TALITY A SOURCE OF NATIONAL POWER.

But chief by numbers of industrious hands
A nation's wealth is counted: numbers raise
Warm emulation: where that virtue dwells
There will be Traffic's seat; there will she build
Her rich emporium. Hence, ye happy swains!
With hospitality inflame your breast,

And emulation: the whole world receive,
And with their arts, their virtues, deck your isle.
EMPLOYMENTS FOR ALIENS; DRAINAGE, CANALS, NAVIGATION,

FISHERIES.BELGIUM.

Each clime, each sea, the spacious orb of each, Shall join their various stores, and amply feed The mighty brotherhood; while ye proceed, Active and enterprising, or to teach The stream a naval course, or till the wild, Or drain the fen, or stretch the long canal, Or plough the fertile billows of the deep: Why to the narrow circle of our coast Should we submit our limits, while each wind Assists the stream and sail, and the wide main Woos us in every port? See Belgium build Upon the foodful brine her envied power, And, half her people floating on the wave, Expand her fishy regions: thus our isle, Thus only may Britannia be enlarged. But whither, by the visions of the theme Smit with sublime delight, but whither strays The raptured Muse, forgetful of her task?

MANUFACTURING HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS OF COMMERCE IN BRITAIN; WATLING-STREET; THE TYNE, TEES, WEARE, LUNE, SWALE, AIRE, KEN, WICK, DART, EXE, TOWY, USK.

No common pleasure warms the generous mind When it beholds the labors of the loom : How widely round the globe they are dispersed, From little tenements by wood or croft, Through many a slender path, how sedulous, As rills to rivers broad, they speed their way To public roads, to Fosse, or Watling-street, Or Armine, ancient works; and thence explore, Through every navigable wave, the sea [Tees, That laps the green earth round: through Tyne and Through Weare and Lune, and merchandising Hull, And Swale, and Aire, whose crystal waves reflect The various colors of the tinctured web; Through Ken, swift rolling down his rocky dale, Like giddy youth impetuous, then at Wick Curbing his train, and with the sober pace Of cautious eld meandering to the deep; Through Dart and sullen Exe, whose murmuring Envies the Dune and Rother, who have won The serge and kersie to their blanching streams; Through Towy, winding under Merlin's towers, And Usk, that frequent, among hoary rocks, On her deep waters paints the impending scene, Wild torrents, crags, and woods, and mountain

snows.

[wave

[side,

MEANS OF TRANSPORT IN GREAT BRITAIN; SMALL PONIES OF N. WALES; SHREWSBURY; SNEER AT THE LANGUEDOC CANAL.

The northern Cambrians, an industrious tribe, Carry their labors on pigmean steeds, Of size exceeding not Leicestrian sheep, Yet strong and sprightly over hill and dale They travel unfatigued, and lay their bales In Salop's streets, beneath whose lofty walls Pearly Sabrina waits them with her barks, And spreads the swelling sheet. For nowhere far From some transparent river's naval course Arise and fall our various hills and vales, Nowhere far distant from the masted wharf. We need not vex the strong laborious hand With toil enormous, as th' Egyptian king, Who joined the sable waters of the Nile From Memphis' towers to the Erythræan gulf; Or as the monarch of enfeebled Gaul, Whose will imperious forced an hundred streams Through many a forest, many a spacious wild, To stretch their scanty trains from sea to sea, That some unprofitable skiff might float Across irriguous dales and hollowed rocks.

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS; TRENT, SEVERN, AND THAMES,
JOINED BY A CANAL. CELEBRATION OF THE UNION.

Far easier pains may swell our gentler floods,
And through the centre of the isle conduct
To naval union. Trent and Severn's wave,
By plains alone disparted, woo to join
Majestic Thamis. With their silver urns
The nimble-footed Naiads of the springs
Await, upon the dewy lawn, to speed

And celebrate the union; and the light
Wood-nymphs, and those who o'er the grots pre-
Whose stores bituminous, with sparkling fires,
In summer's tedious absence, cheer the swains,
Long sitting at the loom; and those besides,
Who crown with yellow sheaves the farmer's hopes,
And all the genii of commercial toil :
These on the dewy lawns await to speed
And celebrate the union, that the fleece
And glossy web to every port around
May lightly glide along.

RIVER NAVIGATION; LONDON THE WORLD'S MART FOR THE

WOOLEN TRADE.

Even now behold

Adown a thousand floods the burdened barks,
With white sails glistening, through the gloomy
woods

Haste to their harbors. See the silver maze
Of stately Thamis, ever checkered o'er
With deeply-laden barges, gliding smooth
And constant as his stream: in growing pomp,
By Neptune still attended, slow he rolls
To great Augusta's mart, where lofty Trade,
Amid a thousand golden spires enthroned,
Gives audience to the world; the strand around
Close swarms with busy crowds of many a realm.
What bales, what wealth, what industry, what
fleets!

Lo, from the simple fleece how much proceeds!

NOTE.Book IV. (of The Fleece'), on Commerce, is omitted, as not according with the plan of this compilation.

J.

GREENE'S "SHEPHERD AND HIS WIFE."

Ir was near a thicky shade,

That broad leaves of beech had made,

Joining all their tops so nigh,
That scarce Phoebus in could pry;
Where sat the swain and his wife,
Sporting in that pleasing life,
That Corydon commendeth so,
All other lives to over-go.
He and she did sit and keep

Flocks of kids and flocks of sheep:

He upon his pipe did play,

She tuned voice unto his lay.

And for you might her housewife know,
Voice did sing and fingers sew.
He was young, his coat was green,
With welts of white seaméd between,
Turnéd over with a flap,

That breast and bosom in did wrap,
Skirts side and plighted free,
Seemly hanging to his knee,
A whittle with a silver chape;
Cloak was russet, and the cape
Servéd for a bonnet oft,

To shroud him from the wet aloft:

A leather scrip of color red,
With a button on the head;
A bottle full of country whig,
By the shepherd's side did lig;
And in a little bush hard by,
There the shepherd's dog did lie,
Who, while his master 'gan to sleep,
Well could watch both kids and sheep.
The shepherd was a frolic swain,
For though his 'parel was but plain,
Yet doon the authors soothly say,
His color was both fresh and gay;
And in their writs plainly discuss,
Fairer was not Tityrus,

Nor Menalcas, whom they call
The alderleefest swain of all!
Seeming him was his wife,
Both in line and in life.
Fair she was, as fair might be,
Like the roses on the tree;
Buxom, blithe, and young, I ween,
Beauteous, like a summer's queen;
For her cheeks were ruddy hued,
As if lilies were imbued

With drops of blood, to make the white

Please the eye with more delight.
Love did lie within her eyes,

In ambush for some wanton prize;
A leefer lass than this had been,
Corydon had never seen.
Nor was Phillis, that fair May,
Half so gaudy or so gay.

She wore a chaplet on her head;
Her cassock was of scarlet red,
Long and large, as straight as bent;
Her middle was both small and gent.
A neck as white as whales' bone,
Compact with a lace of stone;
Fine she was, and fair she was,
Brighter than the brightest gloss;
Such a shepherd's wife was she,
Was not more in Thessaly.

MILTON'S "GARDEN OF EDEN."
**EDEN, when delicious Paradise,
Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green,
As with a rural mound, the champaign head
Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides
With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild,
Access denied; and overhead up-grew
Insuperable height of loftiest shade,
Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm,
A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend,
Shade above shade, a woody theatre

Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops
The verd'rous wall of Paradise up-sprung:
Which to our general sire gave prospect large
Into his nether empire neighb'ring round.
And higher than that wall a circling row
Of goodliest trees, loaden with fairest fruit,
Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue
Appeared, with gay enamelled colors mixed,
Of which the sun more glad impressed his beams
That in fair evening cloud, or humid bow,
When God hath showered the earth, so lovely seemed
That landscape; and of pure, now purer air
Meets his approach, and to the heart inspires
Vernal delight and joy, able to drive
All sadness but despair; now gentle gales,
Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense
Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole
Those balmy spoils as when to them who sail
Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past
Mosambie, off at sea north-west winds blow
Sabean odors from the spicy shore