winding foot-path, traversing cultivated fields, and uncultivated hills and valleys, and thick, tangled, and lofty bamboo jungles. They suffered from the burning heat, and were completely drenched by an unexpected shower of rain, which overtook them in an uninhabited spot, and beat upon them furiously. They were obliged to encamp in the open wilderness,-where they were again wet through by a storm that lasted till midnight.

'On the 6th they rose early, feeling grateful that they had not fallen a prey to the tigers, wild elephants, or other savage animals which haunt these forests. Their road this day lay over rough cliffs and precipices, across large streams, and along the rugged banks of mountain torrents.. They slept in the hut of a hospitable Karen.

On the 7th they met messengers from a Karen village, who came out to receive them with a warm and Christian-like hospitality, which cheered Mr. Boardman's heart. At three o'clock they reached the village, found a large house prepared for them, and were literally overwhelmed with presents of provisions and fruits. The faces of the villagers beamed with delight, and they exclaimed, “ah, you have come at last; we have long wanted to see you!" Mr. Boardman, notwithstanding his fatigue, preached to the natives who assembled this evening, and again he delivered three sermons on the day following. On the 9th he delivered several sermons, and spent the day (Sunday) in a manner to himself most delightful. As he intended to depart early next morning, nearly half the congregation remained in the zayat all night, so as to bid him farewell.

'On the 10th and 11th he preached in other villages, where, as before, he found attentive and eager listeners.

'On the 12th he travelled through the most difficult paths under circumstances of great discomfort; and at night, after going to bed, he was for the third time deluged with a rain so powerful that it penetrated the bamboo roof, and soaked through all his clothing, and drenched his baggage.

'On the 13th he returned to Tavoy,-having travelled more than a hundred miles, and preached seventeen sermons within the space of nine days, besides being exposed to the fury of storms in unsheltered places. By this journey Mr. Boardman was convinced that his doubts as to the sincerity of the Karen character were unjust. The hospitalities which he received, the joy created by his presence among the villagers, the earnest attention bestowed upon his preaching, were enough to satisfy him that the Karens were prepared to adopt his religion and become Christians.

On his return to Tavoy, his feelings were severely tried by discovering that some of the native members of his church had been guilty of gross misconduct, and were disgracing their pro

fession. Family trouble was soon added to his afflictions, by the illness of his wife. In May, he was obliged by her feebleness of health to abandon his labours for a time, for the purpose of giving her the benefit of a voyage. A fortnight's vacation restored her strength and spirits, and he returned to Tavoy.

66

In July, Mr. and Mrs. Boardman were called upon to mourn the death of their eldest child. "Our anxieties about her," says the weeping father, are now over; but Oh! how affection still clings to her, and often sets her ruddy, beauteous form before our eyes!" At the same time their only surviving child was apparently at the point of death, so that, while laying Sarah in her grave, they trembled at the probability of soon depositing George by her side. But he was spared.

During this month, Mr. Boardman prepared a record of the various afflictions by which his soul had been tried within the year these were, three successive losses of property by shipwreck; the apostasy of several of his church; two attacks of hemorrhage on the lungs; the illness of his wife, the death of one child, and the alarming illness of the other. "It grieves me," said he, to think that I was so sinful as to need such afflictions!"

66

'On Sunday morning, August 9th, our friends were roused from their sleep by the ringing of alarm bells, discharges of musketry, and the cries of their pupils, "master, teacher, Tavoy rebels." They rose in great alarm, and found that the city was in open revolt, and bullets were whistling around their heads. The rebel forces soon compelled them to desert their house, which stood without the city gates, and to take refuge within the walls. The English forces were small and feeble, and under the pressure of an immense host of insurgents, every moment becoming more numerous and violent, they were obliged in a few hours to evacuate the city, and retreat to the wharf. To this place, a wooden building of six rooms, were carried the arms and other military stores; and therein were huddled all the sepoys with their baggage, and hundreds of European women and children, all looking for protection to the English. In these narrow quarters, surrounded by casks of gunpowder, which were exposed to constant danger of explosion,-cut off from all communication with any other place,poorly furnished with provisions, and exhausted by fatigue and the diseases of the rainy season, the wretched Europeans awaited their approaching fate. Meantime the work of destruction went rapidly forward in the city, and fire and sword made terrible havoc. On Thursday morning an assault was made at day-break upon the wharf, by a party of five hundred insurgents, who set fire to several neighbouring houses and vessels. Providentially, a violent rain prevented the spread of the flames; and still more fortunately, a British steamer hove

in sight, bringing succour to the desponding garrison at the wharf. The steam vessel, after taking the females on board, returned for reinforcements to Maulmein. On Saturday an attack was made upon the town by the British, and the walls were again brought into their possession. On Sunday the city was completely restored to quiet, and the European inhabitants freed from all danger. Mr. Boardman describes the scene presented on his return within the walls, as one of utter and awful havoc and desolation. Everything destructible had been destroyed. His own house was cut to pieces," its contents burnt, or broken, or carried off,and nothing but a few fragments left to indicate his fate. But his wife and child were safe at Maulmein; his own life was preserved; and none of his church or scholars had been concerned in, or injured by, the insurrection; his strongest feeling, therefore, was gratitude. In about a month he and his family were once more at Tavoy, as though nothing had occurred.

66

To increase that pleasure which he had derived from a short visit at Maulmein with Messrs. Judson and Wade, he now found that his fate had been an object of intense interest to the Karens, and that his safety was a subject of devout thankfulness. These "wild-men " flocked around him from the remotest corners of Tavoy, in great numbers; and one old man of threescore and five years had traversed mountains, rocks, hills and streams, a distance of fifty miles, to solicit baptism.

'Encouraged by increasing attention among the natives, he now commenced a course of itinerary preaching in the scattered villages of Tavoy; visiting three or four of these villages each week, and teaching both publicly and from house to house. It is impossible for us to form adequate notions of the arduousness of this mode of labour, in the burning climate of India. Within two months he visited nearly thirty villages in this manner, being almost universally received willingly and with pleasure, though sometimes treated with unkindness. The Karen village Ts'heikkoo, the one in which he first preached in February, became wholly Christian in its character, paying a sacred regard to the Sabbath, and in other respects conforming to Christian customs and institutions. The schools became more full and flourishing than ever, the church increased in numbers, and a delightful prosperity seemed destined to follow the short reign of confusion and danger.

6

Early in 1830, Mr. Boardman's constitution began rapidly to break down under his enormous burden of care and labour; and the voice of approaching death was heard in his consumptive cough. Mrs. Boardman was also reduced to the very point of death by disease, and the whole system of Missionary operations was for several weeks suspended, while Mr. B. attended, as he thought, to the wants of his dying wife. "What will become of

my poor child," thought he; "what will become of the schools, of the poor native women,-and what will become of me, if she die?" On her recovery his thankfulness knew no bounds;—his letters are eloquent in their utterance of joy and praise.

'There are but few incidents to relate as occurring within the year 1830. Mrs. Boardman's health compelled her to leave Tavoy and go to Maulmein, where she and her husband were once more obliged to mourn over the death of a child,—an infant son. Mr. B. made a third and long excursion among the Karens, on the hills of Tavoy, where the Gospel was hailed as indeed glad tidings. By advice of his missionary brethren, he passed a few months in Maulmein;-but, their plan not being carried into full effect, he returned to the Tavoy station. At the close of the year, the Tavoy church included thirty-one native members, of whom eighteen Karens were baptized at once, in November. Mr. Boardman's health was now wretchedly bad,—and it was manifest to all, that he had but a brief period of labour or of life before him. But his heart beat joyfully even in prospect of death, and his spirits rose in anticipation of his heavenly rest.

The last record which has reached America, in Mr. Boardman's hand-writing, is dated January 1, 1831, and is an entry in his Journal. It announces the expected addition of one or two missionaries to the Tavoy station,-and of several Karens to the church.

'On the 23d of January, Rev. Mr. Mason and wife arrived at Tavoy, from America. They arrived in time to accompany Mr. Boardman in his last tour among the Karens, and to witness his death.

'Mr. Mason perceived on his arrival, that Boardman was “ a dying man ;" but as his heart was fixed on visiting the Karen villages once more, no objection was made to the journey,—although he was too much debilitated to walk. He was carried by his faithful Karens on a cot-bed the whole distance of a three days' journey, accompanied by Mr. Mason, and by his own affectionate wife, who would not remain behind. The journey was commenced on the 31st of January.

'On arriving at the zayat which had been prepared for his reception, the Karen converts who were anxious to be baptized came in for examination, and the worthy Missionary, reclining on his couch, devoted his failing breath to the agreeable duty. Of more than fifty who applied, thirty-four were deemed fit subjects of baptism. When the hour of performing this ceremony arrived, Mr. Boardman, at his own request, was carried to the water-side, though so weak that he could scarcely breathe without the use of the fan and smelling-bottle. His great desire was to behold the administration of the ordinance,-and he said that he could then die with the exclamation of Simeon on his lips,-" Lord, now

lettest thou thy servant depart in peace!" His emotions were almost too powerful for his frame. He afterwards addressed a few words to the natives around him, and offered a short prayer. The party attempted the following day to return;—they were overtaken by a violent shower of rain;-the dying man was again drenched with wet among those hills, where he had so often before been exposed to tempest;-he survived the night, but died at noon of February 12th, in the arms of the Karen attendants, who were bearing him homeward. The sorrow of wife and friends, who shall describe? The hand of God was recognised even through the cloud of death, and the grief of those who lamented the removal of a faithful servant in the midst of his labours, was assuaged by the reflection, that he had " entered into the joy of his Lord."

The whole Christian world were Boardman's mourners. The whole Karen nation wept bitterly over his grave. The station at Tavoy is now occupied by faithful Missionaries,--and the blessings of Christianity are rapidly spreading over that province; but Boardman is still unforgotten;-his name, who first preached salvation to the poor wildmen, is now whispered by hundreds of grateful voices at the even-tide circle of friends, and at the altar of simple and pure devotion.

The following Epitaph is intended to be inscribed on Boardman's tomb.

Sacred to the memory of George D. Boardman, American Missionary to Burmah. Born Feb. 8, 1801,-Died Feb. 11, 1831. His Epitaph is written in the adjoining forests. Ask in the Christian villages of yonder mountains-Who taught you to abandon the worship of demons?-Who raised you from vice to morality?-Who brought you your Bibles, your Sabbaths, and your words of prayer? Let the reply be his Eulogy! A cruce corona.'

Art. V.-Geology in 1835; a Popular Sketch of the Progress, leading Features, and latest Discoveries of this rising Science. By John Lawrance. 12mo. pp. 139. Price 4s. London, 1835.

E have, of late, been engaged in examining a rather extended series of elementary works on geological science, with the intention of laying before our readers a somewhat comprehensive view of the more facile and effective methods of gaining a satisfactory insight into its principles and their application. Among these publications we have found the volume which now lies before us; but although, like them, it is addressed to those who may be, as yet, uninformed on that interesting subject, it seems