En-large'ment, increase; knowl'edge, learning; de-sign', intention; en-gage'ment, employment; meth'od, manner; en-ter-tain', please.

LET the enlargement of your knowledge be one constant view and design in life; since there is no time or place, no transaction, occurrence, or engagement, which excludes us from this method of improving the mind.

When we are in the house, or in the city, wherever we turn our eyes, we see the works of men; but when we are in the country we behold more of the works of God. The skies above, and the ground beneath us, and the animal and vegetable world around us, may entertain our observation with ten thousand varieties.

From the observations of the day and night, the hours and the flying minutes, learn a wise improvement of time, and be watchful to seize every opportunity to increase in knowledge. From the vices and follies of others, observe what is hateful in them; consider how such a practice looks as ill, or worse, in yourself. From their virtues learn something worthy of your imitation. From your natural powers, sensation, judgment, memory, hands, feet, &c., make this inference, that they are not given you for nothing, but for some useful employment, for the good of your fellow-creatures, your own best interest and final happiness.

Thus, from every appearance in nature, and from every occurrence of life, you may derive natural, moral, and religious observations to entertain your mind, as well as rules of conduct in the affairs relating to this life, and that which is to come.

Watts.

Gen'er-al, usual; re'gions, countries; sa'vour-y, pleasing to the smell; at-tempt'ed, tried; ac-cus'tomed, used; bound' ing, leaping, jumping; a-void'ing, shunning; fre'quent-ly, very often; col'an-der, sieve; ant'lers, branches of horns.

This useful animal, the general height of which is about four feet and a half, is to be found in most of the northern regions of the old and new world. It has long, slender, branched horns; those of the male are much the largest In colour it is brown above, and white beneath; but it often becomes of a greyish white as it advances in age. It constitutes the whole wealth of the Laplanders, and supplies to them the place of the horse, the cow, the sheep, and the goat.

Alive or dead, the rein deer is equally subservient to their wants. When it ceases to live, spoons are made of its bones, glue of its horns, bow-strings and thread of its tendons, cloth. ing of its skin, and its flesh becomes a savoury food. During its life its milk is converted into cheese, and it is employed to convey its owner over the snowy wastes of his native country. Such is the swiftness of this race, that two of them yoked in a sledge, will travel a hundred and twelve English miles in a day. The sledge is of a curious construction, form

ed somewhat in the shape of a boat, in which the traveller is tied like a child, and which, if attempted to be guided by any person not accustomed to it, would instantly be overset. A Laplander, who is rich, has often more than a thousand rein deer.

The pace of the rein deer, which it can keep up for a whole day, is rather a trot than a bounding. Its hoofs are cloven and moveable, so that it spreads them abroad as it goes, to prevent its sinking in the snow; and as the animal moves along, they are heard to crack with a pretty loud noise.

In summer, these animals feed on various kinds of plants; and seek the highest hills, for the purpose of avoiding the gadfly, which at that period deposits its eggs in their skin;

and that to such an enormous extent, that skins are frequently found as full of holes as a colander. Many die from this cause. In winter, their food consists of the lichen, which they dig from beneath the snow with their antlers and feet. When the snow is too deep for them to obtain this plant, they resort to another species of it which hangs on pine trees; and, in severe seasons, the boors often cut down some thousands of these trees to furnish subsistence to their herds. Attempts have been made, but hitherto without success, to naturalize the rein deer in England. Trimmer.

capio | In-nu'mer-able, too
porto many to be counted
eo of-fen'ces, transgressions
sto con'fi-dence, trust
par in'fi-nite-ly, immensely

numerus

fendo

fides finis

Man'i-fest, plain; en-dowed', gifted; ac-count'a-ble, responsible; prin'ci-pal, chief; ne-glect'ed, not attended to; for-giv'en, pardoned.

Ir "the fear of the Lord be the beginning of wisdom," it is manifest, that life's earliest dawn ought to be occupied with this most important subject. It was not surely, that you might eat and drink, and sleep and wake, and run the round of this world's folly, that God gave you more understanding than the beasts that perish. If you have been endowed with reason, and constituted accountable beings, it is, beyond doubt, your duty to seek after the knowledge of God. Compared with this knowledge, all other objects are worthless and vain. This is "the one thing needful.". '-" Wisdom is the principal thing: therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting, get understanding."

Salvation, then, is the great business of youth. The first