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surprised to see the door shut, Alas!' cried he, 'the grave of which formerly was ever open. her honour was the grave of my He knocked at the door; a miser-peace.' Displeasure lowered on able Swiss opened it. 'Is your the Baron's forehead. 'Her homaster at home ??- 'Yes,' replied nour is it possible?-No: it the porter. "At home is he?' said the Baron, well so much the better..

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He entered no footman opened to articulate his words, he related the door; no lady's maid tripped to the friend of his youth, to the forth to meet him; no lap-dog brother of his still loved Emilia, barked; no parrot chattered; the adventure of that hateful eve all, all was dead, as in the habi- of All Saints, his anguish, his tation of a miser. He walked fury, his revenge.

into the Count's room, and found him sitting on a sofa, with his heavy eye rivetted on Emilia's picture, which hung opposite to him.

Starting, as if from an oppressive dream, he staggered towards the Baron, burst into his arms in speechless agony, and pressed him with fervour to his heart. At the same moment a flood of tears gushed from his eyes, for time had converted his rage into melancholy.

To be continued.

Travels.

An Abridgment of the Travels of a
Gentleman through France, Italy,
Turkey in Europe, the Holy Land,
'Arabia, Egypt, &c.

(Continued from Page 203.)

The chief Pagan temple remaining is the Pantheon, or temple of all the Gods, usually 'Brother,' exclaimed Baron called the Rotunda from its circuT, what means all this? lar figure, and now dedicated to the Your house is now no more the Blessed Virgin and All Saints. -samė, and you-scarce can I re- The roof is vaulted in form of a cognize you. Where is that man- dome or cupola, but is open at ly bloom, which onceadorned your the top, by which means, and no cheek those frightful looks other, the whole temple receives forebode some terrible calamity. its light. Nothing can be more -Where is my sister?' Ah!' majestic than the portico, which sighed the Count. The Baron is supported by sixteen tall co(started, and hastily demanded-lumns of Egyptian granite, each Is she dead ??- To me she is pillar being but one stone, of the dead?' returned Gustavus. Ex- Corinthian order, and about five plain yourself,' said her brother. yards in circumference. The tem

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ple is a hundred and forty feet mains of the ancient temple of high, and about the same in diame-Jupiter Stator. This was built ter; the walls are lined with mar- on account of a vow made by ble, even up to the very cornish Romulus, who, finding his troops that supports the roof. gave way in an engagement with

The Pantheon was built by the Sabines, promised to erect a Marcus Agrippa, son-in-law of Augustus Cæsar, third consulate, as appears from an inscription still remaining over the portico.

temple to the honour of Jupiter, if they stood their ground; which they did, and gained the victory. The name Stator was added, from sisto to stop, as supposing that Jupiter put a stop to the flight of the Roman army.

The frontispiece of the church, dedicated to St. Adrian, is part of the ancient temple of Saturn, which was a very strong building, Those who are lovers of antiand made use of by the Romans quity cannot fail of a particular for a public treasury. Here they pleasure in viewing the Columna also kept their records, among Rostrata, which was erected to which were the Tabulæ Elephan- the honour of Caius Duillius, tinæ, or great ivory-tables, con- when he gained a signal victory taining a list of all the tribes of over the Carthaginian and Siciof the city. This church stands lian fleets, above two hundred and near the foot of the Capitol.

The temple of Janus, in the Beast-market, is a building exactly square, with niches in each -front for twelve statues, representing the months of the year, over which Janus was supposed to pre-side, and from whom the month of January took its name. It is well known that the brazen gates of this temple were always kept open in time of war, and shut in time of peace.

Of the temple of Concord there are no remains but a portico, supported by eight marble pillars, -each of one stone. It stands on the ascent from the Forum Romanum to the Capitol.

In the Campo Vaccino there are three marble pillars, the re

fifty years before the birth of our Saviour. It was adorned with the beaks of the vessels taken in the engagement, from whence it has its name.

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The Thermæ, or baths, are one of the greatest instances of the magnificence, or rather luxury, of the ancient Romans. Considerable remains of these are to be seen at this day, particularly of Antonines bath, which lies at the foot of mount Aventine, and appears more like a town than a single fabric. It formerly contained sixteen hundred seats of polished marble, for so many persons to sit and bathe in separately. Some of these bathing-places were floored with silver, and had the water conveyed into them through pipes

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of the same metal. The furni- when the machine had ascended ture of these apartments was also to the height of about 1300 feet it extremely sumptuous, the walls went back towards the north, and being adorned with statues and in less than five minutes time it pictures, and enriched with pre-ascended to the height of above, 6000 feet. In less than ten miThe Aqueducts were undoubt-nutes it fell at the distance of nearedly some of the noblest and mostly four miles. useful designs of the ancient Ro- This experiment, and, indeed, mans, and evident tokens of the grandeur of their empire: nor does any thing contribute more to the beauty of modern Rome, than the great fountains we meet with almost in every part of it. The old Aqueduct, which Paul V. restored, brings the water along a vaulted channel from a collection of springs almost forty miles dis-method of guiding balloons would tant from the city, where it breaks out into five several fountains.

The finest and largest fountain is in the middle of the square called Novona. It is a large oval bason, lined with marble; in the midst of which rises a rock, with four grottos cut in it, and on the top stands an obelisk of Egyptian granite.

To be continued.

AIR BALLOONS.

(Continued from Page 141') On the 13th of January, 1784, an aerostatic machine of about 37 feet in height, and 20 in diameter, was launched from the castle De Pisancon, near Romans, in Dau

the similar success of many others, shews that there frequently are in the atmosphere currents of air in different, and sometimes quite opposite, directions; this, however, is far from being always the case. If different currents could always be met with at different heights above the surface of the earth, the

be extremely easy; for the aerial traveller would have nothing more to do than to place himself in the favourable current, which he might do by throwing out either some ballast or some inflammable gas, according as he wished to go higher or lower.

The first aerial voyage undertaken in England, with an inflammable air balloon of 33 feet in diameter, made of oiled silk, was performed by Mr. Lunardi, an Italian gentleman, on the 15th of September, 1784.

Varieties.

Shakspeare and Burbage.phiny. It rose with surprising One evening when Richard III. velocity, and as the wind was was to be performed, Shakspeare north, it went southward: but observed a young woman deliver

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ing a message to Burbage in so cautious a manner as excited his curiosity to listen to it. It imported that her master was gone out of town that morning, and her mistress would be glad of his

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Law.-Law is like a country dance, people are led up and down till they are tired. Law is like a book of surgery, there are a great many bad cases in it. It is also like physic, they that take least

company after the play; and to of it are best off. Law is like a homely gentle-woman, very wellto follow. Law is like a scolding wife, very bad when it follows us. Law is like a new fashion, people are bewitched to get into it; it is also like bad weather, most people are glad when they get out of it.

know what signal he would appoint for admittance. Burbage replied Three taps at the door, and it is I, Richard III."-She immediately withdrew, and Shakspeare followed till he observed her go into a house, in the city; and, enquiring in the neighbour- The essence of the law is alterhood, he was informed that a cation; for the law can altercate, young lady lived there, the favou- fulminate, deprecate, irritate, and rite of an old rich merchant. Near go on at any rate. Now the the appointed time of meeting, quintessence of the law has, acShakspeare thought proper to cording to its name five parts. anticipate Mr. Burbage, and was The first is the beginning, or inintroduced by the concerted sig-cipiendum; the second the unnal. The lady was much surprised certainty, or dubitandum; the at Shakspeare's presuming to act third delay, or puzzliendum ; Burbage's part; but as we may fourthly, replication without enbe certain that he who wrote Ro- dum; and fifthly, monstrumi et meo and Juliet did not want wit horrendum. or eloquence to apologise for the intrusion, she was soon pacified, and they were mutually happy till Ingenious Anagram.-The folBurbage came to the door and relowing anagram, on the wellpeated the same signal as his hap-known bibliographer, William Olpier rival: but Shakspeare, pop-dys, may claim a place among the ping his head out of the window, first productions of this class. It bade him begone, for that William was by Oldys himself, and was the Conquerer reigned before found by his executors in one of

Richard III.

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Musical Stones.-About three of St. Ives even a cloth laid for a

poor man. A singular feudal privilege appears in Du Cange, that of the lord being entitled to the table-cloth, towel, &c. &c. of the house where he dined. A father giving advice to his son, particularly recommends him, as one of

miles from Pottstown, in the United States, there is a place to which the name of the "Singing Valley" is given. There is in this valley a large and irregular mass of ill-shaped stones, which appear to have been thrown together by some terrible convul- the means of success, to have his sion of nature. From the appear-table covered with a clean cloth; ance of the stone it is judged that and there is a complaint made aat some former time a volcanic gainst the monks for putting be eruption must have occurred here. fore their visitors a dirty one. It By striking on these stones, the seems that table-cloths were made most varied sounds imaginable are for the use of the nobility and produced. The chime of the fin- gentry, of great value. One would est bells in the world, does not cost £18. Damask table-cloths exceed in variety the sounds pro- are ancient. La Brocquiere thus duced here, from the most sonor- describes some used abroad.ous bass to the most delicate tre- " They are (he says) four feet in ble, the gradations of which are diameter, and round, having rings exquisitely fine. We are not a-attached to them, so that they may ware of any similar phenomenon be drawn up like a purse. When existing in any other part of the world.

they are used they are spread out, and when the meal is over, they are drawn up, so that all which remains, even to a crumb, is pre

Exotics.-Cresses come from Crete, the Cauliflower from Cyprus, and Asparagus from Asia.

History of Table Cloths.-served."-Fosbrooke's AntiquiThe Romans began to cover the ties. tables with cloths in the time of the emperors. Some were striped with gold and purple. Montfaucon adds, that they were of linen, sometimes painted or worked with gold. D'Arcy says also, that ta- We are indebted to Italy, for the ble linen was very rare in Eng-Chevil, to Portugal and Spain, land about the thirteenth or four- for the Dill seed, to the Canary teenth centuries. It was certainly Islands, for Fennel, 'and to Egypt, not unusual. The Anglo-Saxons for Anniseed and Parsley. Gardined with a clean cloth, and they lic is a production of the East, called it reod sceat ; their succes- Shallots come from Siberia, and sors drapet. We find in the Life the Horse Raddish from China.

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