command, and their sin has introduced disorder, misery, and death into the world.

Amelia.-I perfectly well recollect the account, but I did not expect to see it thus represented. Where are Adam and Eve supposed now to be, Sir-are they hidden among the trees of the garden?

D.-Not at present; they have been called from thence, arraigned for their crime, and sentence has been pronounced upon them for their offence: you may view them if you look again into the Camera.

Harriot.-I see them; they are going hastily across the scene, clothed in coats of skin.

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D.-The coats with which they are clothed were made, (it is supposed,) of the skins of those animals which the Lord had directed Adam to sacrifice; thus typically pointing out the atonement for sin, which, in the fulness of time, would be made by the Son of God: the knowledge of this gracious design preserved them from despair, and supported them under the justly deserved punishment which their sin had brought upon themselves, and entailed upon their whole posterity.

Amelia.-What deep distress is depicted on their countenances! How they look behind them! while they run as if impelled by an invisible power— they hasten their pace-they are gone!

Harriot.-O what a blaze of light! Mrs. N.-What do you suppose. it

represents?

Harriot.-I think it is intended to represent the guard which was placed at the east of the garden, but it turns round with such velocity, that I cannot see the sword.

Mrs. N. Have you, Amelia, understood this scene?

Amelia.-I think I have, Mamma; for not only the entire change in the appearance of the garden, but the distress of Adam and Eve, and their having been driven out of Eden, certainly signify that they had eaten of the forbidden fruit.

D.-Perfectly correct, Miss; I hope.

you will ever remember that sin is the baneful source of human misery; we all feel its effects, but the cause is generally overlooked.-Another scene is prepared; please to favour me with your remarks.

Amelia.-I do not know what to make of this scene; it is very different from the others. Thistles and thorns in the fore ground are very abundant, and nearly the whole view appears uncultivated. Near the distant trees I can see two altars; from one of them smoke arises. Two men are coming this way-they meet; one of them looks placid, the other very angry; how dark the countenance of

the latter!

What passion does his

action indicate! how infuriated he strikes the other with his club!-he falls.-Oh! the unmerciful creature repeats his blows! See how the fallen man struggles! he is now still-surely he is dead.

Harriot.-Are they not brothers, Sir? I think I know something of their history. Is not this a representation of Cain killing his brother? Mr. Davenport replied in the affirmative, and requested the young ladies to look again into the Camera. The scene is the same as the former, said Amelia, but Cain is now retiring from the corpse of his brother, and looks upward, as if hearkening to an unwelcome voice. He does so, said the