tations from the face of the farmer, whom he then recognized, and had him conveyed to the nearest e nearest house in the village, where animation was soon restored.

The last instance which I give of this kind of sagacity, is abridged from the same work, and shows still more remarkable proofs of persevering attachment. Eric Runtson, an Iceland and fisherman, left his home early on a December morning, to visit a friend, accompanied only by his faithful dog, Castor. When he had proceeded about five miles, he fell into a deep chasm, and alighted, unhurt, on a shelving part of the rock, about sixty feet below the surface. Castor ran about in all directions, howling piteously. He even several times made as if he would leap down, but was prevented by his master scolding him. He then whined, and looked from the brink into the chasm, as anxious to receive his master's commands. After spending the whole day in fruitless endeavours to reach and extricate his master, a sudden thought seemed to seize him, and he darted off in the direction of home, which he reached about eleven o'clock. The inmates were asleep, but, by scratching violently at the door, he gained admittances At first, the family apprehended nothing, but that he had left his master, and returned; but, by his refusing food, and constantly continuing to scratch Eric's younger brother, Jon, with his paw, and then to run run to the door, and look back with with eager and anxious yells, he at last succeeded in exciting their alarm; and, when Jon and another man dressed and followed him, he began to bark and caper about with evident joy. At one time, the tempestuous weather led them to think of retracing their steps; but Castor, on their turning back, expressed the utmost dissatisfaction, and, by pulling them by the clothes, induced them to proceed. He conducted them to the chasm where poor Eric was entombed, and, beginning to scratch, signified, by the most expressive howl, that his master was below. Eric answered to Jon's call; and, a rope being procured, he was safely drawn up, when Castor rushed to his mas

ter, and received his caresses with all the marks of external triumph and joy.

Sir Walter Scott, in a poem written on a traveller who, some years ago, was 18 buds killed' falling over a precipice on Helvellyn, and whose faithful dog watched many days by his lifeless corpse, thus feelingly describes the attachment of that interesting sting' animal'!) un rout zine Pomsqmosos bort a fiery et .guirem rodш999Ɑ Dark green was that spot 'mid the brown mountain heather, Where, the pilgrim of Nature lay stretched in decay, odi Like the corpse of an outcast abandoned to weather .bs Till the mountain winds wasted the tenantless clay 7997 Nor yet quite deserted, though lonely extended, o -noit For faithful in death his dumb favourite attended, ti The much loved remains of her master defended,bloo

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Ere he faded before thee, the friend of thy heartofi sil Say, oh! was it meet that, no requiem read o'er him, oft No mother to weep, and no friend to deplore him, baodorq And thou, little guardian, alone stretched before him,

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The more we know of this wonderful species, the greater reason 'shall we find to praise that beneficent Being, who gave the dog to man as his companion and friend, and the greater indignation shall we feel against the worse than brutal human beings, beings, who, abusing the devotion of this most affectionate and docile creature, give to their half human attendants no return of kindness; but treat them with cruelty, and recompense their good offices with blows on M 1599039

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ACCOUNT OF THE CREATION.

THE existence of mountains, which, in the volume on Spring, will be shown to be a most beneficent arrangement, modern geology has proved to be owing to a ge neral disruption of the original crust of the earths On its first formation, the surfaces of our globe must have been a plain, or, at least, very heafly approaching to it. The rocks and minerals of which it is how composed, are, on good grounds, believed to have been originally in a liquid state; and, whether fire or water were the agents employed, or if what is more probable, i both of them were employed either separately or together, the strata of the earth must, by the law of gravitation, have been formed horizontally, and the surface must, then have been level. This introduces us to a most curious and interesting subject; and I intend to devote a few papers to a rapid view of the discoveries of the geologist; but before entering on this alluring field, it seems proper to advert to the attack which has been made by infidel writers on the Mosaic account of the creation; that this matter being put on its proper footing, we may be enabled to proceed with safety and freedoms of ylwols

These writers allege that there are incontrovertible proofs of the existence of other world before the era asi signed to the Mosaie creation; and that all geological appearances concur in bearing evidence, that many existences, both organized and unorganized, instead of bet ing created in six days, have been successively produced and remodelled in the course of many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of ages.e eti no dine odt to moitulovor s 10

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two ways by which these appearances have been attempted to be reconciled to the Mosaic account. The by supposing that the six days, mentioned by as the period in which Creative power was exerted, may be interpreted to mean so many ages of indefinite extent: And in support of this opinion there are not wanting plausible arguments. The word day is assuredly often taken in Scripture to signify an age or an era; thus, we read of an acceptable day," and a day of vengeance," and, still more distinctly, of "the latter day," the day of judgment," and “the day of salvation," all which expressions are evidently meant to indicate, not a natural day of twenty-four hours, but apeculiar period in the actings of God's providence. Again, it has been argued, that the various works assigned to each day, when taken for an era, correspond, with wonderful exactness, to the geological indications; the chaos, when all the elements were in a mixed and turbid state; the separation of the principle of light; the subsidence of the waters, and the appearance of dry ground; the creation of the vegetable kingdom; then of the inhabitants of the sea; then of the inhabitants of the land; and, last of all, of man,seem to follow in the precise order of succession which the various periods marked by the labours of the geologist appear very clearly to sanction. All this might appear to be satisfactory, were it not that the sacred writer seems anxiously to preclude the possibility of such an explanation, by ending the account of each day's operation in these words, "And the evening and the morning were the first (the second, the third, &c.)-day," a mode of expression which seems very emphatically to confine the duration of the work, in each instance, to a natural day, or a revolution of the earth on its axis, although this, doubtless, may then have been much more tardy than it is at present.

This method of getting quit of the difficulty, seeming, therefore, to be untenable, we are bound to receive the Mosaic account of the creation in the natural and un

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strained sense of the words, as an inspired, and therefore true representation of f the succession of visible appear ances on each of the six days of this first of time, as connected with the system in which man y was as brought into existence; but the inquiry is still open, whether or not the materials, of which which our present world is posed, might have been made use of by the Eternal Cre ator, at a period, or during a succession of periods, previous to that of the creation recorded by Moses mor

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In looking at the account contained in the first chapter of Genesis, with this inquiry in our minds, what do we see? First of all we have an affirmation, in -general terms, that God is the Creator of all things; for, I think it will be readily conceded, that nothing more than this is meant by the expression, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Then follows

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a declaration, that immediately before re the commencenent of the Mosaic creation, the materials of f which the new world was to be composed were already in existence, but in a chaotic state, "The earth was with out form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep." Nothing is said of the preceding state of this chaos; because the business of the sacred historian lay entirely with the world as it now exists; but, undoubtedly, there is here no assertion which precludes the previous use of the materials, on which the Almighty was now beginning to operate; on the contrary, the very existence of these materials, if it does not imply, at least renders plausible, the supposition, that they may at some still earlier period have been employed in some other manifestations of the Divine perfections. war to uzatt I

Now, if we are permitted to take this view, all the objections of the geologist, arising from the appearances which indicate the existence of organized and living beings long before the era of man, vanish at once. Should it be found, that for many thousands, or even millions of years, the matter of the earth was in existence before the creation of the human race, and that it had been made use of by Him whose being is from eternity, as