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; The Church Warder; The Settle-
-Irf the Poor considered ; The neces-
' statistics of food considered; lifaudes-

—After making herself
k up a book which

Lady Constance t

was at hand, and

said, Do you know this ?' And Tan-
(Ted, opening a volume which he had never seen, and then
turning to its titlepage, found it was The Revelations of
Chaos,' a Startling work iust published, and of which a
rumour hail ' No." -‘lied, ' I 1-

reached him. , ne reps. _ save not
seen it.' I will lend it you, if you like ;it is one of those
books one must read. It explains everything, and is writ-
ten in a very agreeable style.' It explains everything !'

MONUMENTAL FLOWERS.—The flowers which the
Chinese plant on or among their tombs are simple and
beautiful in their kind. No expensive camellians, mou-
tans, or other of the finer ornaments of the garden, are
chosen for this purpose. Sometimes the conical mound
of earth—When the grave is of this kind—is crowned with
a large plant of fine, tall, waving grass ; at Ning-po wild
roses are planted, which soon spread themselves over the
grave, and, when their flowers expand in spring, cover it
with a sheet of pure white. At Shangliae, a pretty bul-
bdus plant, a species of Lycoris, covers the graves in au-
tumn with masses of brilliant purple. When I first dis-
covered the Anemone Japonica, it was in full flower
amongst the graves of the natives, which are around the
ramparts of Shanghae : it blooms in November, when

nament to the last restin,
Wanderings in China.

-places of the deid

-Fortunes

IMMENSE EXTENT OF ANCIENT NINEVETI.—For the
space of thirteen or fourteen centuries, we cease to have
the guiding light of the Scriptures respecting the locality,
nor does profane history supply any; but in the time of
the prophet Jonah, about 800 8.C., Nineveh had reached
her high and palmy state, and become the seat of regal

power. - emphatic indication o,
its general pre-enainence in the narrative of the Divine
" exceeding great city of

That great c

messenger'l
three days

particularly define
ey on foot to be intended, or a caravan

its extent

will range from forty-fly(
ted whether

) Sixty

.e to apply this dis-
! city from one ex-

tremity to the °flier, or to the compass of its walls ; but
sta the former supposition gives incredible dimensions,
and the latter only an extent equal to that assigned by
profane authorities, its circuit is no doubt meant. The
statement, that the prophet " began to enter into the
.city a day's journey," and delivered his message, has
been thought an objection to this idea, for it has been
understood to signify that it took him that time to reach

le place of public resort, appropriate for the
discharge of his mission. But granting this, the site in
question, perhaps the neighbourhood of the imperial re-
sidence, for the proclaimed danger of the city was speed-
ily brought under the monarch's notice, may have been
at the extremity opposite to that at which he entered, so
that he paSsed through it from end to end in the period
seeeified. It is true that if it had been built as a square
like Babylon, then, taking its length at one day's journey,
its compass would have been equal to a journey of four;
but, as we are expressly informed the city was oblong in
shape, the two sides parallel to the Tigris being nearly
twice the length of the two others, we may clearly con-
sider the one day's journey to describe the length, and
the three days' journey the circuit. The walls of Nine-
veh circumscribed an area equal to that of Babylon.
Diodorus Siculus states its dimensions at 150 stadia long,
90 broad, and 480 in circumference. Assuming, as is
brobable, Olympic stadia to be meant, or the distance
etween the two ends of the foot-race at Olympia, the
principal Greek measure, the circuit of the city would
amount to about fifty-five miles. Now, Xenophon, in
the retreat of the Ten Thousand, twice states the Greeks
to have made twenty parasangs in a march of four days,
or five daily.; and as a parasang is equal to 30 stadia,
their day's journey amounted to 150 stadia. Herodotus,
also, in measuring the royal road from Sardis to Susa,
allows 150 stadia for a day's journey. This is the length
ascribed to Nineveh, the distance compassed, according
to the view given, in the day's journey of Jonah ; and the
representation of it, as a city of three days' journey in
circuit, and its assigned circumference to 480 stadia, are
closely coincident, especially when we remember that the
Greeks, in estimating distances, allowed a certain number
of stadia to every day, independent of the casual hin-
drances or facilities that might arise to progress. In the
regions of civilizaiion, no parallel case exists, or what may
bo deemed an approximation to it, of a city occupying
such an extent of ground.—Lowe'a Edinburgh May.