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Enveloped? flow and tedious progrefs up. Here we ftopped to take breath and look up, with curious defires to the fmoke enveloped fummit, which we were about to gain.

Aturdy?

guide. pompous?

volcanoe?

deluge?

cavity?

warm.

precipice?

perpendicu

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10. At laft we fet off, and with the help of flaves and a furdy guide to each of us, which by holding to handkerchiefs tied round their bodies affifted us confiderably, we reached the rim of this dangerous crater.

11. And now, to use the pompous stile of BRUCE who can describe our emotions, when ftanding on the fummit of this fo-long famed volcanoe, and from its fteep edge peeping down into the crater, whence fuch floods of flaming matter have been poured out as to deluge towns and cities below.

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12. I was not content with looking down this cavity; but wifhed to defcend into it. Accordingly two or three of us, with one guide, went down. It was very warm, and the smoke, every few minutes, would rise out and envelope us fo as to hide us entirely from our companions on the top.

13. After we had defcended two hundred and fifty, or three hundred yards, our further progrefs was prevented by a steep precipice, upon the brink of which we ftood and looked down forty or fifty feet further which was perpendicular.

14. The fmoke iffued from a great number · of crevices in the crater; and by digging away a little of the outfide earth, in many places we found it fo hot we could not bear our hands in it.

circumference? 15. The circumference of this crater may be more than half a mile, and the infide prefents a view like the ruin of brick buildings deftroyed by fire. The ftones and calcined matter are of different colours,and heaped up by the explofions, in irregular piles. Some part of the crater appeared frosted over with fulphurious matter. There

16. There appeared to be one cavity towards Iued? the center of the crater, out of which iffued a great deal of fmoke. As this was guarded all around with precipices, we could not come to look into it.

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17. This crater was much enlarged by the terminated. eruption in 1794. The mountain before that time was much higher, and terminated in a fmaller peak, but during that eruption it fell peak? in, and left the enlarged cavity which now remains.

18. After amufing ourselves here a while, defcend. and refting a little upon the top, from which we had a very commanding profpect of the fea, and country around, we began to de- fatigued. fcend,and reachedNaples late in the afternoon, very much fatigued, but highly gratified in

having vifited and explored the volcanic re- explored? gions of Mount Vesuvius.

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Paul's Defence.

HEN Agrippa faid unto Paul, thou Permitted. art permitted to fpeak for thyself.

Then Paul ftretched for h the hand, and an-" fwered for himself. I think myself happy, king Agrippa, becaufe 1 fhall anfwer for myfelf this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews.

fretched.

touching.

expert?

beseech.

2. Efpecially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and queftions which are among the Jews; wherefore I befeech thee to hear me patiently. My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation, at Jerufalem, know all the Jews patiently. who knew me from the beginning (if they would teftify) that afte: the ftraite fect of our religion, I lived a Pharifee.

3. And now I ftand, and am judged for

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pharifee.

Promife.

accufed?

incredible?

thought.

the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers, unto which promise our twelve tribes,inftantly ferving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's fake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.

4. Why fhould it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God fhould raise the dead? I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name Nazareth. of Jefus of Nazareth.

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5. Which thing I alfo did in Jerufalem: Jerufalem. and many of the faints did I fhut up in prifon, having received authority from the chief Synagogue. priests; and when they were put to death, I. gave my voice against them. And I punished blafpheme? them oft in every fynagogue, and compelled them to blafpheme; and being exceedingly perfecuted? mad against them, I perfecuted them even unto ftrange cities.

6. Whereupon, as I went to Damafcus commiffion. with authority and commiffion from the chief priests, at mid-day, O king, I faw in the way a light from heaven,above the brightnefs of the fun, fhining round about me, and them which journeyed with me.

journeyed.

Saul.

purpose.

appear.

people..

7. And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and faying in the hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why perfecuteft thou me? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And I faid; Who art thou Lord; And he faid I am Jefus, whom thou perfecuteft.

8. But rife, and ftand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minifter and a witnefs both of there things, which thou haft feen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee.

9. Delivering thee from the people,and from the Gentiles, unto wh om now I fend thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness

darkness to light, and from the power of Satan Inheritance? unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of fins, and inheritance among them who are fanctified by faith that is in me.

10. Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not difobedient unto the heavenly vifion; but hewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerufalem, and throughout all the coats of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.

fan&ified?

difobedient.

vifion?

herved.

caught.

11. For thefe caufes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me. Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to fmall and great, faying none other things than those which the prophets and Mofes did prophets? fay fhould come.

12. That Chrift fhould fuffer, and that he

fhould be the first that thould rife from the

dead, and fhould fhew light unto the people, fuffer?
and to the Gentiles. And as he thus fpake
for himself, Feftus faid with a loud voice,
Paul, thou art befide thyfelf; much learning
doth make thee mad.

13. But he faid, I am not mad, moft noble knoweth, Feftus; but fpeak forth the words of truth and fobernefs. For the king knoweth of thefe things, before whom also I speak freely. For I am perfuaded that none of these things are hidden. hidden from him; for this thing was not done

in a corner.

14. King Agrippa, believeft thou the proph ets? I know that thou believeft. Then Agrippa faid unto Paul, Almoft thou perfuadeft me to be a Christian.

15. And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this

believest.

perfuadeft.

day, were both almost, and altogether fuch as altogether. I am, except these bonds. And when he had

thus

Governor.

talked.

appealed?

thus fpoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that fat with them.

16. And when they were gone afide, they talked between themselves, faying, This man doth nothing worthy of death, or of bonds. Then faid Agrippa unto Feftus, This man might have been fet at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Cæfar.

The beauty of the Northern Lights in Lapland.

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HOUGH in this climate the earth is horrible, the heavens prefent moft beautiful profpects. The fhort days are no fooner clofed, than fires of a thousand colours and figures light up the fky, as if defigned to compenfate for the abfence of the

fun in this feafon.

2. Thefe fires have not here, as in the more foutherly climates, any conftant fituz-hemifphere? tion. Tho a luminous arch is often feen fixed towards the north, they feem more frequently to poffefs the whole extent of the hemifphere.

extremities?

horizon?

meridian?

preludes?

zenith?

fummits?

oppofite?

3. Sometimes they begin in the form of a great fearf of bright light, with its extremities upon, the horizon, which with a motion refembling that of a fishing net, glides swiftly up the fky, preferving in this motion a direction nearly perpendicular to the meridian; and most commonly after thofe preludes, all the lights unite at the zenith, and form the top of a kind of crown.

4. Arcs, like thofe feen in France towards the north, are here frequently fituated towards the fouth, and often towards both the north and fouth, at once. Their fummits approach each other, and the diftance of their extremities widens towards the horizon.

5. I have feen fome of the oppofite arcs, whofe fummits almost join at the zenith; and

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