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Franklin.

beard.

once.

embrace.

13. You have all of you, my young friends, heard of the name of Franklin, you have heard your fathers fpeak of him, as a great, and a useful man. Remember that he was once as young as you are, and his advantages for learning no better than yours.

14. When at your age, Franklin was no wifer, or richer, than you, and nothing but perfevering his love of learning, which induced him to

eminence? attained?

anxious?

talents.

diligence.

country. grateful?

expenfe. or; expence.

capable.?

embrace every opportunity in his power to increase his knowledge, and a diligent and perfevering attention to bufinefs, ever acquired him that eminence, which he has fa jufly attained.

15. Would you be as eminent and useful as Franklin, be as anxious to improve your time and talents to the beft advantage. Believe me, my young friends, it is not only for your intereft, to attend, with dili gence to your Audies, but it is a facred duty, which you owe to yourselves, your parents, your Country, and your God.

16. To yourfelves, as it will increase your happiness, to your parents, as it will be the moft grateful return you can make them for the pains and expenfe they beflow on your education, do your Country, as it will enable you to reward her for the protection fhe affords you, and to your God, as it will render you more capable of fulfilling the grand objects of your creation.

Conceited.

I.

tour?

The Camelon.*

FT has it been my lot to mark
A proud, conceited, talking ipark,
Returning from his finifh'd tour, Grown

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*This animal is faid to live on air, it is allo faid frequently to change es colour, very often three or four times, in half an hour,

Grown ten times perter than before :
Whatever word you chance to drop,
The travell'd fool your mouth will stop-
"Sir, if my judgment you'll allow-
I've seen—and fure I ought to know.”.
So begs you'd pay a due fubmiffion,
And acquiefce in his decifion.

2. Two travellers of fuch a caft,
As o'er Arabia's wilds they paff'd,
And on their way, in friendly chat,
Now talk'd of this, and then of that;
Diicours'd a while, 'mongst other matter,
Of the Camelon's form and nature.

3. "A ftranger animal," cries one,
"Sure never liv'd beneath the fun :
A lizard's body, lean and long,
A fith's head, a ferpent's tongue,
Its tooth with triple claw disjoin'd;
And what a length of tail behind!
How flow its pace! and then its hue-
Who ever faw fo fine a blue !”

4. "Hold there," the other quick replies,

perter?

travelled.

acquiefce?

travellers.

wilds?

Camelon.

triple? difjoined?

tail.

bue?

"Tis green: I saw it with these eyes,

funny.

As late with open mouth it lay,
And warm'd it in the funny ray,

fretched

Stretch'd at its eafe the beast I view'd,
And faw it eat the air for food."

5. "I've feen it, fir, as well as you, And must again affim it blue.

At leifure I the beaft furvey'd,

furveyed?

extended?

6. ""Tis green, 'tis green, fir, I affure ye" green.

Extended in the cooling fhade."

"Green!" cries the other in a fury

"Why, fir, d'ye think I've loft my eyes?"

""Twere no great lofs," the friend replies;
"For if they always ufe you thus,
You'll find them of but little ufe."
7. So high at laft the conteft rofe,
From words they almoft came to blows;
When, luckily, came by a third;

replies.

conteft?

Te

Referred?

begged. umpire?

ccafe.

caught..

produce.

blue

reptile ?

doult.

replies.

Bears.

preying.

build.

trees.

ere?

cabins.

To him the queftion they referr'd; And begg'd he'd tell them, if he knew, Whether the thing was green or blue. 8." Sirs," cries the umpire, "ceafe your

pother,

The creature's-neither one nor t’other.
I caught the animal last night,
And view'd it o'er by candle light;
I mark'd it well-'twas black as as jet---
You ftare- but, firs, I've got it yet,
And can produce it."-" Pray, fir, do;
I'll lay my life the thing is blue."

9."And I'll be fworn, that when you've

feen

The reptile, you'll pronounce it green."
"Well then, at once to end the doubt,"
Replies the man," I'll turn him out:
And, when before your eyes I've fet him,
If you don't frd him black, I'll eat him.'
He faid; then full before their fight
Produc'd the beafi; and lo!—'twas white.

I.

Greenland.

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REENLAND is the fartheft north, and one of the coldeft countries in the known. world. The ground there is covered with eternal fnows, which never melt even in the fummer. There are fcarcely any animals to be found excepting bears, that live by preying upon fifh.

2. There are no trees growing upon any part of the country, fo that the inhabitants have nothing to build their houses with excepting the planks and the trees which the fea wathes away from other countries, and leaves upon their coaft.

3. With these they erect large cabins, where feveral families live together. The fides of thefe huts are compofed of earth and ftones,

and

and the top fecured with turf; in a fhort time the whole is fo cemented with froft, that it is impenetrable to the weather during the whole

winter.

Cemented?

impenetrable?

partitions.

means.

4. Along the fides of the building are made feveral partitions, in each of which a greenlander lives with his family. Each of thefe families has a fmall lamp continually burning before them, by means of which they cook warmth. their food and light themfelves, and what is equally neceffary in fo cold a country, keep up an agreeable warmth throughout their apartment.

deflitute?

vegetables.

5. They have a few deer which fometimes catch. vifit them in the fummer, and which theGreenlanders kill whenever they can catch them; but they are almost entirely deftitute of all the vegetables, which ferve as nourishment to man. 6. Such is the extreme cold in this quarter of the world, that the feas about Greenland immenfe. are filled with immenfe quantities of ice, which is faid to remain,even years, undiffolv- pieces. ed. Huge pieces are often feen Boating, which

are not only as big as the largest houses, but floating. even resemble fmall mountains.

exceeds.

enormous.

7. Thefe are fometimes dailed against each other by the winds, with fuch immenfe force, that they would crufh the strongest ship to pieces, and with a noife that exceeds the report of a cannon. Upon these pieces of ice are fraggled. frequently feen white bears of an

enormous

fize; which have either fallen afleep upon them, and fo been carried away, or have ftraggled over thefe icy hills in fearch of fish.

peculiar.

8. The people in this country live altogether by hunting and fifhing. The feas about Greenland afford a peculiar fpecies of animal, call- Species. ed a Seal. He is nine or ten feet long, and has two small feet before, on which he is able feal. to walk a little upon the fhore; for he frequent

ly

Amules?

prey.

wants.

clamate?

composes?

ly comes out of the fea, and fleeps, or amufes himself upon the land or ice.

9. His body is very large and full of oil, and he has two legs which refemble ins, with which he fwims in the water. This animal is the conftant prey of the Greenlander, and furnishes him with all he wants. The flesh he eats, the fat ferves him to feed his lamp, which is almost as neceflary as food itself in that cold climate.

As

10. With the skin he compofes clothes that are impenetrable to the water, or lines the inimpenetrable? fide of his hut to keep out the weather. this animal is fo neceffary to the existence of a Greenlander, it is his greatest glory to chafe and take him.

chafe.

boat.

exclude?

incredible?

roughest.

harpoon?

javelin. perceives.

burries.

carries.

thong?

11. For this purpofe, he places himself in a fmall narrow boat, the top of which is covered over with the fkins of feals,and clofes round the middle of the fifher fo tight as entirely to exclude the water. He has a long oar, or paddle, broad at both ends, which he dips firft on one fide, then on the other, and rows along with incredible swiftnefs, over the rougheft feas.

12. He carries with him a harpoon, which is a kind of lance or javelin, tied to a long thong, at the end of which is fixed a bladder or fome other light thing that finks with difficulty. When the fisherman is thus prepared, he fkims lightly along the waters, till he perceives at a diftance one of these animals floating upon the furface.

13. The Greenlander then approaches him as foftly as he is able, and, if poffible, contrives that the animal fhall have the wind and fun in his eyes. When he is fufficiently near, he throws his harpoon, and generally wounds the creature; in which cafe he inftantly hurries away, and carries with him the thong and bladder.

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