The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-04-10 00:00:00, page 4

ETERNITY,
WHEN I was at Grand Cairo, I
picked up federal oriental
Ban ufcripts, which I have gill by me.
Among others I met with one entit,
' led, The Zifas of Mirzab, which I
• have read over with great pleasure.
lintend to give it to the public when
I have no other entertainment for
them; and (hall begin with the firft
Vision, which I have translated word
for word a# follows.
6 On the fifth day of the todon,
• which according re the custom of my
• forefathers, 1 always keep holy,
* after having walhed myfelr, and of
- * sered up my morning devotions, I
'afeended the high hilh of Bagdat,
' in order to pafi the rest of the day
*in meditation and prayer. As I was
* here airing myfeff cri the tops of the
4 mountains, I'fell into a profound
* contemplation of the vanity of he
6 man life ; paffihg from one thought
' to another, futely, said I, man is but
' a Ihadow and life a dream. Whilst
6 I was thus muling, 1 call my eyes
' towards the furomit of a rock that
•was not far from me, where I difco
* vered one in the habit of a Shepherd
* with a little musical instrument in
0 his hand. As I looked upon him he
'applied it to his lips, and began to
'play upon if. The found of it was
' exceeding sweet,f weet, and wrought into
' a variety cftunes that were inex
' prelfibly melodious, and altogether
'different from any thing I had ever
' heard: They put,me in mind of those
• heavenly airs that are played to the
'departed fouls of good men upon
• their fir ft arrival in paradife, to wear
tout the impressions of the left ago
• nies, ar id qualify them for the plea
• fures f,f that tfappy place. My heart
• melted away in secret raptures,
6 I 'nad been often told that the
• ro<K before me was the haunt of a
'genius ; and that several had been
'entertained with music who had
• passed by it, but never heard that
• the musician had before made him
•felf visible. When he had raised my
''thoughts by those transporting airs
' which he played, to taste the plea
• fares of his conversation, as I looked
"upon him like one astonished he
• beckoned to me, and by the waving
' of his hand directed me to approach
'the place where he fat. I drew
' near with that reverence which is
'due to a superior nature; and as my
'heart was entirely subdued by the
'captivating (trains I had heard, 1
' fell down at his feet and wept. The
' genius foiled upon me with a look
• of compassion and affability that fa
• miliarized him to my imagination,
* and apprehensions with which lap
' proached him. He lifted me from
• theground,&taking me by the hand,
• Mirzah, said he, I have heard thee
'in thy soliloquies; follow me.
6 He then led me to the highest
• pinacle of the rock, and placing me
• on the top of it, cast thy eyes east
• ward, said he, and tell me what thou
• feeft. 1 fee, said I, a huge valley,
'and prodigious tide of water rolling
'through it. The valley that thou
4 feeft, said he, is the vale of misery,
' and the tide of water that thou feed
• is part of the great tide of eternity.
• What is the reason, said I, that the
• tide ! fee rises out of a thick mill at
•one end, & lofesitfelf in a thick mist
• at the other? What thou feeft said he,
'is that portion of eternity which is
• called Time, measured out by the
ft fun, & reaching from the beginning
' of the world to its confammation.
• Examine now, said he, this lea that
'is bounded with darkness at both
'ends, and tell me what thou disco
• vereft in it. I fee a bridge, said I,
•fending in the midst of the tide.
< Th,fond row Am^ AMI AM h&n is
PROM THE BSAVTIBS OF THS
MtscELLANr.
SPECTATOR, &r.
GILES Jolt as Sleeping in his cart
[he lay,
Some waggilh pelf'rers stole his team
[away,
Giles wakes, & cries—What's here ?
[odfduckins! what!
Why how now ? am I Giles or am I
If he, I've loft fix geldings to my
[(mart;
If noteodlbudikins I have found ;,
'Upon a more leisurely survey of it,
' I found that if confided of three
' score and ten entire arches, with
' several broken arches, which added
' to those which were entire, made up
' the number about an hundred. As
' 1 was counting thfe arches, the ge
' nius told me that this bridge con
' lifted at firft of a thousand arches ;
' but that a great flood sweep away
'the rest, and left the bridge in the
' ruinous condition I now beheld it ;
' But tell me farther, said he, what
' thou difcov/reft on it. I fee mul
' titudes of people passing over it, said
'l, and a black cloud hanging on
' each end of it. As I looked more
' attentively, I saw several of the pas
' fengers dropping through the bridge
'into the great tide that flowed under
' neath it; and upon farther exami
' nation, perceived there were innu
'merable trap-doors that lay conceal.
' ed in the bridge, which the paffil
' gers no fenher trod upon, bat they
' fell through them into the tide, and
' immediately disappeared. These
' hidden pit-falls were set very thick
' at the entrance of the bridge, so that
'throngs of people no sooner broke
' through the cloud, but many of them
' fell into them. They grew thinner
'towards the middle but multiplied &
' lay closer together towards the end
'of the arches that were intire.
' There were indeed some persons,
'but their number was very small,
' that continued a kind of hobbing
'march on the broken arches, but
' fell through one after another, be
' ing quite tired and spent with so
' long a walk.
' 1 passed some time in the contem.
' plation of this wonderful ftruaure,
'and the great variety of objeds which
'it presented. My heart was filled
' with a deep melancholy to fee feve
'ral dropping unexpectedly in the
' midst of mirth and jollity, & catch
' ing at every thing that flood by
' them to save themselves. Some
' were looking up towards the heavens
' in a thoughtful posture, and in tQe
' midst of a (peculation tumbled and
' fell out of fight. Multitudes were
' very busy in the purfaits of bubbles
' that glittered in their eyes and
' danced before them ; but often when
6 they thought themselves within the
' reach of them, their footing failed
'and down they funk. In this con
' fufion of objeds, I observed some
' with feimetars in their hands, and
'others with urinals, who ran to and
6 fro upon the bridge, thrusting fe.
' veral persons on trap-doors which
' did not seem to lie in their way, and
'which they might have escaped had
6 they not been thus forced upon them.
[Remainder in our next.]
A ^-Gentleman, travelling thro'
a part of this State put up at a
certain Inn, and going to retire re
quested to have clean Jbeete put on bis
bed. The Landlady informed him
that the (heets were clean, for no one
had dept in them but the President of
the United States who was there the
proceeding night. The gentleman
declined keeping after the ?refident
or any one else ; and the lady not
chafing to change the (heets gave him
another bed. The next nighta,##f
lad, arriving at the fame Inn, (and be
ing told the dory of the nice gentle
man, who refufed to deep after the
President) declared fa <would fa, in
the faete, & if (he could not be where
he <was, was glad to be where he bad
been. [Maff. Centincl.}
ANECDOTE.
Giles Jolt.
HAVING Demands against the
estate of Nicholas Dolloff,
late of Brintwood, yeoman, deceased,
are requested to present them for set
tlement—and those indebted,to make
immediate payment, to
INdebted to the estate of
John Giddinge, laeot Exeter,
Esq. deceased, are informed, that
un efs they make immediate pay
ment, the demands against them will
be sued to Ma, Court—and those
having accounts open with said estate
are once more requested to exhibit them
for adjustment, to the fubferiber,
who will attend for that purpose every
Tuefday of this inst. April & in May
following, at the late dwelling house
of said deceaf'd from two to fix o'clock
F. M.
ALL PERSONS
rTAving demands against
Ithe eitate of the Rev, Natha
niel Trask, late of Brintwood. de
ceased, are requeued to exhibit them
—and those indebted to make imme
diate payment, to
SAMUEL ,AS K .&„ #
Jonath. Trask-J
Brintwood, 2d April. 1790.
EXCELLENT LAND
laid out in Lots, of 0 e and two
hundred acres. Said Land is un
doubtedly in quality and situation
equal, if not superior to any in the
Province Maine ; the said Plantation
of Wales, is so far fettled# as to be a
bout being Incorporated into a Town.
Any of said Lots will be fold, on rea
sonable Terms, and the time of pay
ment made very convenient to the
Purchaser. For further particulars
enquire of HENRY DEARBORN,
Esq. at Pittston, near said Land.
Feb. 2§, 17QO-
DROKEN open and stolen
out of the thop of the fubferiber,
on the night of the 23d instant—
One piece Corduroy, 32 yards.
One' doz. pair Cotton Hose.
Thirte n pair W riled ditto.
Two buff.coloured Shawls.
Some dark coloured ditto.
Several Shawls of other colours.
Several yards black Sattin.
Two small pieces black Mode.
One piece black Gauze.
A number gauze Handkerchiefs.
One piece Caliimanco.
Oue piece brown Shalloon.
A few red_border'd Gauze Hand
kerchiefs, and
One or two pounds of divers colour
ed Sewing Silk,
C Whoever will apprehend said
Thief or Thieves, so that the fubferi
ber may receive his Goods again, (hall
be handsomely rewarded and all ne-
Ceffary charges paid by me,
WILLIAM BELL.
Cbefter, March 24, 1790.
To be Sold, in the Plantation of Wales,
in the Count, of Lincoln, on the ft est.
fide of Kennebeck River, and near to
the Towns of Pittston and Hallowell,
(places of considerable trade and good
navigation,) A Large quantity of
Lands to be fold.
NAT. ROGERS, Adminifrater.
April 1, 1790
DAVID DOLLOFF 7 E „, m „
JOHN DOLLOFF,S '"'"'•
Stop Thief!
ALL PERSONS
ALL PERSONS
Cast given for Arm, Lands;
ANY Officer or Private of the
late Continental Army, that it
entitled to Bounty Lauds, and wifhee
to dispose of the fame, may hear of#
purchaser by applying within thirty
days to the Printer.,
Cilmantran, lyb March, 179°.
One half Lot, No. 25, in
rhe 9th Range, in the 3d Division, ia
Nottingham, (which Land is now ia
the town of Northwood) —being part
of the estate of JO4N Ggddinge,
Esq. deceased.
State of Newhampshiri,
Strafford—f.
ty' the fubferibers being
appointed Commissioners by
the Hon. Judge of Probate of
Wills, &c. for said county, to receive
and examine the claims of the several
creditors to the estate of JOHN '
EDWARDS, late of Gilmantown, in
said county, deceased, represented in
fol vent, give notice that we will ate
tend upon that hufinefs on the last
Tuefday of this and the five following
months, from 2 to 6 o'clock in the
afternoon on said days, at the house
of Capt. Noah Dow, in said Gilman,
town. Ebenezer Smith,
Joseph Badger, jot.
Noah Dow.
Also—About 38 Acres of
Pasture arid Woodland; on
the cross road leading from Exe er to
Brintwood, near Mr,Thomas DoHoff’s
—both in said Exeter. Alfo=
NAT. ROGERS. Admini,'r.
Newmarket, if April, 1790.
Mowing,pafture&woodjand
—lying on the road leading from Ex
eter to Newmarket.
*** Said Gilman wishes
to inform his customers, that he car
ries on the butinefs of making a vari
ety of falhiohable Buckles, plated
with silver, iedered on with hard or
foft foder, and in the belt manner,
which he will fell cheap for Ca(h,Old
Gold, Silver, Brass, Copper, Pewter,
Lead, or Country Produce,
He flatters himfelf, from the encou
ragement he has receiv'd in the bufi.
nefs of re&ifying Clocks and Watches
he has generally given fatisfaftion,—
Thinks his customers for past favors,
and engages to take all possible care
that watches left with him are pro,
perly secured from thieves, rectified
in the best manner, and at a reafona.
ble rate; Exeter, April 2, 1790.
DY licence from the Judge
°of Probate, will be fold, at Public
Vendue, on Tue - ay the 13th inst, at
3 o'clock p, m. at the house of Col.
Eliphalet Giddinge, in Exeter,
About 50 Acres of
AST Wednesday night
' the (hop of the fubferiber was
broken open and a number of articles
stolen, viz.—Silver and silver-plated,
(hoe, knee, and flock-buckles—Gold
rings, broaches, and nubs—Silver fu.
gar tongs—Silver hilt for a hanger
pair of men's (hoes and several other
articles, to the amount of about i8l„
$ Whoever will apprehend the
thief, that he may be brought to juf.
tee, and the above article recovered,
(ball be handsomely rewarded and all
necessary charges paid by
BENJA. CLARK GILMAN.
Stop Thief!
VENDUE.