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had been for years undermining, his brow, too, was slightly scath

was hurled down with a horrible crash, and the spray of its fall came beating against the windows of the light-house.

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ed; whether it was the electric shock, or the force of imagination, a single drop of blood did, indeed, fall slowly from his dilated nos

Did you see him?' shouted trils. It is impossible to calcu

Lucy.

'See whom?' said Ellis, pale and motionless from terror, though without any distinct cause of that

terror.

late the power of fancy on such occasions; it is neither to be estimated, nor controuled by reason. The old man was almost frantic with terror, and dashed out of the

some external agency; while the

'Did you hear hin?' echoed light-house, as if impelled by the maniac. 'Hear whom?' replied the maniac quietly installed herself father. So, you neither saw, nor heard, window, with all the pride of a

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him.'

Whom? whom, ? exclaimed Ellis, almost frantic with the impatience of fear.

in a large oak chair before the

queen just restored to her lawful throne by the expulsion of its usurper.

'So, so; the old boy is gone,

The Devil! The arch-fiend! and I am his heir-his lawful heir. The fisherman of souls! He has -This house is mine and all that you, father; he has marked you is in it; I am the lord of the with his mark, and signed you castle now;-but what do you with his sign. His broad light-here?'-it was a large Newfoundning wings covered you as he land dog, that had caught her spoke over you the baptism of eye,-'What do you here, I say? -Your name and calling ?--quick the-Why how now! Can't you speak and with that large tongue, too, licking your paws? -Sirrah, Sirrah, I shall find means to make you answer.'

hell:

One drop of thy blood where

stream is red!

One lock of the hair from thy

chas'd head!

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One touch of baptizing flame to plough
The mark of your Christ from out your

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The dog for a moment looked her in the face and wagged his tail, in token of recognition; but

Hisses and dries 'neath this touch of he did not choose to leave his

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and hurled a wooden dish at his [ations best adapted for the purposes head; on which the animal, set-they are intended for: the teeth ting up a long and pitious howl, are situated where alone they. slunk into the farthest corner of could serve the purpose of mastithe chamber. But even this cation: the throat, or more prowould not have saved him from perly the oesophagus beneath them her wrath, had not her attention to convey the food, mixed with been suddenly drawn away by the saliva, to the stomach, and thus appearance of a small brig, that prepared for digestion. The large was visible in the flashes of light-bone of the neck and back, comning, as it tossed and pitched and struggled with the waters, like a drowning man.

'He comes! He comes! My own dear Richard !-Missed many a day and come at last!'-The poor thing knew not how truly she was speaking.-Blow, blow, my gentle wind, blow him to me, my bridegroom, my husband! Oh how slow the bark moves towards the shore. 'Tis my cruel father holds him back.'

To be continued in our next.

THE HUMAN BODY.

monly called the spine, is intended to support the body in an erect posture, and to defend the spinal marrow contained in it, so essential to life, through orifices in the vertebra, of which it is composed, to permit the nerves to pass and give sensation to every part of the body. To the upper part of the spine are affixed the ribs, to protect the heart and lungs contained in the thorax; the heart is situated in that position, with respect to the lungs, arteries, and veins, in which it communicates to them, through the whole body, in the most advantageous manner,

The body of man is a system of the blood, which is the great inparts, very numerous and diver-strument of sustaining life. The sified, admirably arranged, and lungs are in the same wise manner calculated to answer the best of connected with the throat by the purposes, every part is regularly trachea, so as to receive the air to be met with in the human after it is admitted into the nosbody, alike, and in its own place. trils. The hands are situated so The skull is intended to protect as to answer their various purthat vital and tender substance, poses, where alone they could be called the brain, from various in- employed in their innumerable juries, to which, otherwise, it uses, and the feet, where alone would be liable; from the brain they could enable us to stand or proceeds the nerves of all our walk. This wonderful mechanism The eyes and ears are of the body has attracted the atplaced, near to the brain, in situ- tention of some of the wisest

senses.

men: Galen, it is said, was con-mouth, there is an odious harmony verted from atheism at the sight of a human skeleton; and afterwards observed that he would give a man a hundred years study to discover a more commodious situation for any one member of the body.

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between his glossy garment and his smooth senseless phiz; a disgusting keeping in the portrait. Of all vile exhibitions defend me from a fool in a new coat with brass buttons! avaunt then new coat, hence horrible substance; broadcloth mockery hence! But come thou old coat fair and free, be thou my muse, be thou my Cha

To the Editor of the Oxford Enter-ron: conduct me to the Elysium taining Miscellany.

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of threadbare essayists, battered beaux and jobbing tailors, where the genius of shreds and patches dwells in some fairy Monmouth Street, while eternal cabbage springs beneath his feet.

An old coat is like an old acquaintance: however stiff you may have felt with either at first introduction, time makes you perfectly easy with both; with both you take equal liberties; you treat neither with much ceremony: an accidental breach with either is soon repaired. An old coat is favourable to retirement and study. When your coat is old, you feel no tendency to flaunting abroad, or to dissipation. Buffon, they tell us, used to sit down and write in his dress wig; and Haydn, to compose in a new coat and ruffles. I cannot conceive how they could manage it. I could no more write an article in a new coat than in

I hate a new coat; it is like a troublesome stranger that sticks to you most impertinently whereever you go, embarrasses all your motions, and entirely confounds your self-possession. A man with a new coat on is not at home even in his own house, abroad he is uneasy; he can neither sit, stand, nor go like a reasonable mortal. All men of sense hate, but a fool rejoiceth in, a new coat. With- a strait waistcoat. A happy out looking at his person you can thought, by the way, just strikes tell if he has one on. New coat is me. You may tell by the manner It hangs of an author how he is usually like a label out of his gaping dressed when composing. I am

written on his face.

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coat are the armpits, the elbows, and the skirts, of these you must be cautious. I remember a friend who was rather attached to emphatic gesticulations, and used to elevate his arms to an indiscreet height, long after his coat had

convinced that Sir W. Scott writes in an old coat. The late Lord Byron must have written without ány coat at all; Geoffrey Crayon writes in the ordinary dress of a gentleman, neither new nor old; Cobbett in a coat very often turned; Anacreon Moore in a hand-passed its grand climacteric, some brown frock and nankeen this should be avoided. I recoltrowsers; Croly in full dress; lect another, an old brother solLeigh Hunt in a night-gown of a dier, who Joseph-like, left his fantastic pattern and somewhat skirts in his washerwoman's hands shabby. Wordsworth in a frieze one morning, and went to parade jacket and leather gaiters. The in a short jacket, though not belate Mr. Shelly wrote in a dread- longing to the light infantry. I nought. Coleridge in a careless have seen an old coat appear to dress, half lay half clerical. Your monstrous advantage on the body old coat is a moralist, it recals of a great buck: as thus, he was your mind from external pomps and vanities, and bids you look within. No man ever thinks of drawing the eyes of the ladies in an old coat, their flattery is not likely to turn his head, so long as his coat remains unturned. A friend asked me the other night to go to the concert: I consulted my old coat and stayed at home to study for the benefit of posterity. I cannot say that I have so great an attachment to other aged artieles of dress as to an old coat: an eld waistcoat is well enough, but old breeches are treacherous friends too apt to desert you on a pinch; their friendship rests on a very slight foundation, and they often fail those who are in need. Not so

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well dressed in all other respects, immaculate waistcoat, unexceptionable inexpressibles, silk-stockings, in perfect health, but coat old as Adam. Thus attired he used to caper at a ball with immense applause. Next morning he visited his partners in a suit that Sir R. Steele would call fire-new. The indifference with which you enter all sorts of company, places, and adventures, when your coat is old, your gallant independence of the weather, your boundless scorn of coaches and umbrellas, the courage with which you brave every accident by flood and field, are all conspicuous advantages of an old coat. The last benefit I shall notice of an old coat is the exercise it affords to the genius of the wearer; judgment, taste, and fancy

an old coat, it sticks by you to the last with a little care you may wear it for years, nay, for life.-are equally strengthened by the The vulnerable parts of an old patching, disguising, and setting

it off to the best advantage. I standing upright and entire, this found a friend the other day busi-pit having been but lately opened. ly engaged on a blue coat, that to These Coffins, or Mummy-Chests, all seeming, was in the very last are very thick, and made of a stage of decrepitude. First he kind of Sycamore, by the Egyppatched the elbows, &c. and tians called Pharaoh's Fig-tree, strengthened the tottering but-which, though spongy and porous tons. Next came brushing and to appearance, will continue sound dusting, a ticklish operation, let above three thousand years, for me tell you. Then came water-so long has it laid in these subtering, 'your water is a sore refresher raneous apartments. The top of of your whoreson old coat;' then the coffin is usual y cut into the came a second brushing with a shape of a head, with a face paintsoft piece of cloth. He then tooked on it resembling a woman; the a sponge, dipped in ink mixed rest is one continued trunk, and with vinegar, and rubbed the at the end of it is a broad pedesseams of the garment withal.- tal to set it upright upon the reLastly he polished the buttons conditory. Round the pedestals of with a piece of soft leather. After the coffins are sometimes ranged all this the coat was not to be re- a number of little images of vacognised by its most intimate rious colours, as if they were defriends. There was as much dif- signed for so many guardian ference between it and its former Genii and attendants. Most of self, as between an old beau of 60 the coffins are adorned with heiwhen he first rises in the morn-roglyphics, and some of them ing, bald, grizzled, rough, and toothless, and the same beau, shaved and dressed, with his false teeth, painted eye-brows, and new black wig.

Travels.

CLIO.

[Extracted from the Travels of Chas. Thomson, Esq. in Egypt.]

EGYPTIAN MUMMIES.

"The second pit into which we were let at Saccara, we had the satisfaction to find several coffins

richly guilt and painted, either with the figure of some tutelar deity, or that of the deceased.

ters.

The bodies usually appear in this manner they are wrapt up in a shroud of linen, upon which are fastened divers scrolls of linen, also painted with sacred characThese scrolls generally run down the belly and sides, or else are placed on the knees and legs. The face is covered with a kind of head-piece of linen-cloth fitted with plaister, on which the countenance of the person is represented in gold; and the feet have also a cover of the same, fashioned like

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