city, and sixty or seventy churches attest that the chil are content to walk in the good old ways of their fathers

Connected with the city by eight bridges, avenues ferries, you behold a range of towns, most of them mun pally distinct, but all of them in reality forming, with Bos one vast metropolis, animated by one commercial 1 Shading off from these, you see that most lovely backgrou a succession of happy settlements, spotted with villas, far houses, and cottages, united to Boston by a consta intercourse, sustaining the capital from their fields a gardens, and prosperous in the reflux of the city's wealth.

Of the social life included within this circuit, and of a that in times past has adorned and ennobled it, commercia industry has been an active element, and has exalted itsel by its intimate association with every thing else we hol dear. Within this circuit what memorials strike the eye! what recollections - what institutions - what patriotic treas ures and names that cannot die!

There lie the canonized precincts of Lexington and Concord; there rise the sacred heights of Dorchester and Charlestown; there is Harvard, the ancient and venerable, foster-child of public and private liberality in every part of the state; to whose existence Charlestown gave the first impulse, to whose growth and usefulness the opulence of Boston has at all times ministered with open hand.

Still farther on than the eye can reach, four lines of communication by railroad and steam have, within our own day, united with the capital, by bands of iron, a still broader circuit of towns and villages. Hark to the voice of life and business which sounds along the lines!

While we speak, one of them is shooting onward to the limitable west, and all are uniting with the other kindred Derprises, to form one harmonious and prosperous whole, in which town and country, agriculture and manufactures,

labor and capital, art and nature-wrought and compacted into one grand system are constantly gathering and diffusing, concentrating and radiating the economical, the social, the moral blessings of a liberal and diffusive commerce.

EDWARD EVERETT.

TOPOGRAPHICAL; descriptive of a place. DELINEATED; sketched, painted, described. MOORED; fastened. INFIRMARY; a place where the sick are lodged and nursed. METROPOLIS; the chief city or the capital of a country. COMPACTED; pressed closely together, consolidated.

And, differing thus from other stars,
He readily is shown.

Then JUPITER and four large moons
A brilliant scene display;

They make his night resplendent shine,
And give him constant day.

Next SATURN, which, with wondrous rings
And seven fair moons, is graced;
HERSCHEL, with his six moons, appears
Last in the system placed.

How great must God be, who has made
So many worlds on high!

And yet how kind! - for he looks down,
And marks a sparrow fly.

Though Lord of countless worlds unknown,
He makes that child his care

Who asks his favor, and who breathes
To him the fervent prayer.

STORY OF LA ROCHE.

MORE than forty years ago, an English philosopher, whose works have since been read and admired by all Europe, resided at a little town in France. Some disappointments in his native country had first driven him abroad, and he was afterwards induced to remain there, from having found, in this retreat, where the connections even of nation and language were avoided, a perfect seclusion and retire

ment highly favorable to the development of abstract subjects, in which he excelled all writers of his age.

His humanity had induced him to offer his house to a sick stranger and his daughter. His guest proved to be a Protestant clergyman, of Switzerland, called La Roche, a widower, who had lately buried his wife after a long and lingering illness, for which travelling had been prescribed, and was now returning home, after an ineffectual and melancholy journey, with his only child.

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"I have been thanking God," said the good La Roche, "for my recovery." "That is right," replied his host. "I would not wish," continued the old man, hesitatingly, "to think otherwise. Did I not look up with gratitude to that Being, I should barely be satisfied with my recovery as a continuation of life, which, it may be, is not a real good. “Alas! I may live to wish I had died that you had left me to die, sir, instead of kindly relieving me. But when I look on this renovated being as the gift of the Almighty, I feel a far different sentiment; my heart dilates with gratitude and love to him; it is prepared for doing his will, not as a duty, but as a pleasure; and regards every breach of it, not with disapprobation, but with horror." " You say

right, my dear sir," replied the philosopher; "but you are not yet reëstablished enough to talk much; you must take care of your health, and neither study nor preach for some time.

"I have been thinking over a scheme that struck me to-day when you mentioned your intended departure. I never was in Switzerland; I have a great mind to accompany your daughter and you into that country. I will help to take care of you by the road; for, as I was your first physician, I hold myself responsible for your cure." La Rocne's eyes glistened at the proposal; his daughter was called in and told of it. She was equally pleased with her father; for they really loved their host.

They travelled by short stages; for the philosopher was as good as his word in taking care that the old man should not be fatigued. The party had time to be well acquainted with one another, and their friendship was increased by acquaintance. La Roche found a degree of simplicity and gentleness in his companion which is not always annexed to the character of a learned or a wise man. There was no appearance of that self-importance which superior parts, or great cultivation of them, is apt to confer.

He seemed to enjoy every pleasure and amusement of ordinary life, and to be interested in the most common topics of discourse; when his knowledge or learning at any time appeared, it was delivered with the utmost plainness, and without the least shadow of dogmatism. On his part he was charmed with the society of the good clergyman and his lovely daughter. He found in them the guileless manner of the earliest times, with the culture and accomplishment of the most refined ones; every better feeling warm and vivid, every ungentle one repressed or overcome. He felt himself happy in being the friend of Mademoiselle La Roche, and sometimes envied her father the possession of such a child.

After a journey of eleven days, they arrived at the dwelling of La Roche. It was situated in one of those valleys of the canton of Berne, where Nature seems to repose, as it were, in quiet, and has enclosed her retreat with mountains inaccessible. A stream, that spent its fury in the hills above, ran in front of the house, and a broken waterfall was seen through the wood that covered its sides; below, it circled round a tufted plain, and formed a little lake in front of a village, at the end of which appeared the spire of La Roche's church, rising above a clump of beeches.

Mr. enjoyed the beauty of the scene; but to his companions it recalled the memory of a wife and parent they had lost. The old man's sorrow was silent-his