Thine eye doth nature's process heed,
Expands, and vivifies the seed:

Thou call'st each embryo member forth,
And, having harden'd, gives it birth;
Thus inidwife-nature speaks of thee,
→ love! and points to deity.

Thou hear'st the infant,s feeble cries,
And from the breast their food supplies;
Rear'd by thy care, they upward grow,
Yet seldom thee their parent know;
Thine offspring flee thy tender cares,
Their folly future pangs prepares:

The seed of vice themselves have sown,
Of quickest growth, it shoots, and fruit soon bears.
They eat! and for this madness groan.
In proud self-will, they search for peace,
In vain! Till they from self-wil! cease.
Daily thy tender providence,
Shews them joys 'bove carnal sense;
And strives to raise their thoughts on high,

That they may from their sorrows fly,

And drink, by faith, a savior's blood;

And imitate, like Christ, their God.

IV.

Dire crosses, now, exerted oft in vain,

Call on thy love, to give severer pain;

Drawn is thy bow, the arrow flies in haste,

Strikes home, and makes him all death's horrors taste.
Now conscience raves, the trembling sinner feels

The awful terrors of chastising hells:

O! how he wreathes! whilst howling groans arise,
With loud despairing curses to the skies—
"O! could existence cease with life to be!

Why was man form'd for immortality?
Why did my soul unask'd for being have?
Great tyrant, take what thou unsought for gave."
Should then some friendly voice, as sent from heav'n,
Show all his past misdeeds, thro' Christ forgiv'n.

And point a father's providential care,

His sins to crush, and save from errors snare;

Behold how curses, groans, and sorrow fails;
Thee love! in extacy the sinner hails!

He views his savior's cross, his groans, his blood,
And seizes on the pardon of his God';

Resign'd he smiles, and dies, and soars away,
To paradise, and uncreated day.

V.

Happy the man whose healthy days,
Follow the savior's perfect ways;
He seeks to know his Father's word;
He grows in wisdom like his Lord.
What tho' he can't on fancy's wing,
O'er falsehood's regions fly and sing,
Or with imagination stray,

A pleasing, wild, but devious way :
Yet, TRUTH is his; with her sublime,
He soars beyond the bounds of time;
Flies o'er the earth-born school boy's place,
And views creation's act of grace.
His pride subdu'd, his will resign'd,
His temper's even, calm his mind;
His pow'rs all active to fulfil,
His great Creator's sov'reign will;
Through faith upon a savior's blood,
He presses on to all that's good;
His language and his actions prove,
Self is absorb'd in general love :

The savior o'er his heart his sceptre sways,
The man thro' love and habit now obeys.

VI.

View him now with gasping breath,
Struggling in the arms of death:
Hope sits smiling in his face,
Tunes his song to truth and grace,
Hark! he bids us cease to moan,
But behold his radiant crown:
By faith to see his glorious prize,
Seize, like him, millenial joys.
Earth no longer has its charms,
To keep him from his savior's arms;
See his spirit tow'r on high,

How bold his flight!

To the throne of deity.

Sinners, view it with amaze,

Saints, with holy rapture gaze.

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VII.

Who the o'erflowing joys can tell,
That now th' enraptur'd, bosom swell!
His mind enlarg'd, with active pow'rs,
Before the eternal throne adores;
With glowing hopes his soul elate,
Views Messiah's prosp❜rous state;
Where Isr'els son's in Canaan's land,
Shall all obey God's high command.
See now his soul with love o'erflow,
He longs to make the nations know
The goodness of Jehovah's word,
Till all the savior's love record,

And bow the knee to Christ their Lord.
Faith rises, till the time he see,

When Jesus shall the conq'ror prove;
And earth, and heav'n, and hell agree,
To own that God is ONLY love,

A FRAGMENT,

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From a Serious Musical Entertainment, composed for the late Dr. Arne.

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RECITATIVE.

souls just perishing on the stormy deep,

Not land more welcome; nor to traveller's ears

Fainting with thirst, midst Lybia's burning sands,
The sound of gushing rill at distance heard
More joy inspires, than to the burden'd mind
The voice of pardon, when high heaven reprieves
The forfeit life, and sin's great debt forgives.

AIR.

How beautiful the feet that go

O'er mountains, like the fleetest roe!
To Zion's gates with haste repair,
And loudly this blest news declare.
Herald of love and peace, I bring
This message from your God and king.
Thy sins are pardon'd; raise thy head,
Let sacred joys thy heart o'erspread;
Awake, cry out, salvation's near,
No longer death or vengeance fear.
Thy crimes as crimson colour'd deep,
In mercy's breast forever sleep;
Wash'd in one blood, now whiter grow,
Than purest flakes of purest snow:
See the blest fount from his pierc'd side;
For you, for all, he bled he died.

R. CLARKE.

WE have already briefly described the tides. We go on to observe that the fluctuation of the tides produces another and more constant rotation of the waters of the ocean, from east to west, in this respect following the course of the moon. This may be considered as one great and general current of the waters of the sea; and although it be not every where perceptible, it is nevertheless every where existent, except when opposed by some particular current or eddy, produced by partial and local causes. This tendency of the sea towards the west is plainly perceivable in all the great straits of the ocean; as, for instance, in those of Magellan, where the tide, running in from the east, rises twenty feet high, and continues flowing six hours; whereas the ebb continues but two hours, and the current is directed to the west. This proves that the flux is not equal to the reflux; and that from both results a motion of the sea westward, which is more powerful during the time of the flux than he reflux.

This motion westward has been sensibly observed by navigators in their passage back from India to Madagascar, and so on to Africa. In the great Pacific Ocean, also, it is very perceivable: but the places where it is most obvious are those straits which join one sea to another. In the straits between the Maldivia Islands; in the gulph of Mexico between Cuba, and Jucatan, In the straits of Paria, the motion is so violent, that it has received the name of the Dragon's Mouth. It is observed northward also, in the sea of Canada, in Waigat's straits, in the straits of Java, and in short, in every strait where the ocean on one part pours into the ocean on the other. In this manner therefore is the sea carried with an unceasing circulation round the globe; and at the same time that its VOL. IV.

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waters are pushed back and forward with the tide, they have thus a progressive current to the west, which though less observable, is not the less real.

But besides this general motion of the sea from east to west, there are many other currents which are confined to particular parts of it. These are found to run in all directions, east, west, north, and south; being formed by various causes; the prominence of the shores, the narrowness of the straits, the variations of the wind, and the inequalities of the bottom. These are of the greatest consequence to the mariner, and a knowledge of them is absolutely necessary to their safety and success. It has often happened, that when a ship has unknownly got into one of these, every thing seems to go forward with success, the mariners suppose themselves every hour approaching their wished for port, the wind fills their sails, and the ship's prow seems to divide the waters; but at last, by sad experience, they find, that instead of going forward, they have been all the time receding. Currents, therefore, make a considerable article in the business of navigation; and the direction of their streams, and their rapidity have been carefully noticed. This has been done in different manners; as, by observation on the surface of the current; or by the driving of the froth along the shore; or by throwing out what is called the log-line, with a buoy made for that purpose, and by the direction and motion of this, they judge of the motion, and the rapidity of the current.

The setting of a current, or its progressive motion, may be either quite down to the bottom, or to a certain determinate depth. As the knowledge of their direction and velocity is of great importance in navigation, it is highly necessary to discover both in order to ascertain the ship's situation and course with as much accuracy as possible. The most successful method which has hitherto been practised by mariners for this purpose is as follows. A common iron pot, which may contain four or five gallons, is suspended by a small rope fastened to its ears or handles, so as to hang directly upright, as when placed upon the fire. This rope, which may be from seventy to an hundred fathoms in length, being prepared for the purpose, is coiled in the boat, which is hoisted out of the ship at a proper opportunity, when there is little or no wind to ruffle the surface of the sea. The pot being then thrown overboard into the water, and immediately sinking, the line is slackened till about seventy or eighty fathoms of it are run out; after which it is fastened to the stern of the boat, by which she is restrained, and resides as at an anchor. The velocity of the current is then easily tried by the log and half-minute glass, the usual method of discovering a ship sailing at sea. The course of the stream is next determined by the compass provided for that operation. Having thus found the setting and drifting of the current, it remains to apply the whole to the purposes of navigation.

Currents are generally found to be most violent under the equator, where, indeed, all the motions of the ocean are most perceivable. Along the coast of Guinea, if a ship happens to overshoot the mouth of any river it is bound to, the current prevents its return; so that it is obliged to steer out to sea, and take a very large compass, in order to correct the