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rice much
ion. ThE

,sion of the Penin-

and bloody contests, pro-

ainating in the

some noble

mixture with the natives.

of the counti!,;

pted, a

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listenin

Oh, leave in

and yet

:hat sweet harms

ri, pride

,n the shore

le reeds before the mighty wi
a soft enchantment in the lay

THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS

ghty God

er on the wave

ler armies fort
anted them

t England c

rget the
Ls Lord !

Family Retain,

Dught up.

;he manner

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i to coun-

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tone, and

ntroducec

mably, within

speL truths

Mr. Graham observes
of Rom(

.nd dis

r.om he

weigh its

We can

portion of

at the remarks on the chapter
stry," appear peculiarly sound

as a hod

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the crc

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before us, are they to

rior order, or as if

them and ti

Select Tales from the Arabian Nights
rces. London : James Burns.

his elegant little volume—the first of a
red up many of the most delightful
our boyhord. The collection, as is

tated in the preface, lays no claim to o►igi

is_simply a collection of the best tales se-

Arabian Nights

Entertainment;

,se text is

,d. They now
to the young.

growth,"
The editor

mparable tales are not to

zory with modern popular

sibility

minds of met

stimulus to tt

Who that

I Sinbad the Sailor, 'I
Three 1

Razdad. and Th, Royal Mendicants
; Hassan ; Alladdeen, or the
(all and many others in this
--ged their

r and the

Wicked -Devic
erful Lamp, &

me,) but

having

hen seated

id the social hearth, reckless of the storm that per-
ice roared without ! The volume, which is a small-
I bbt thick duodecimo, is beautifully printed on fine

and to each tale is prefixed a I

ation, in the best and

to sty']

s a similarly appropriate tail

onciusion
Ap-
rn habits

ng scholars than this

ameles:

r leadi

ment in the

without im

New Statistical Account of Scotland. Blackwood

Edinburgh and I

ave received No. XLV. of this useful work. It
ly occupied in describing part of the county of

[ the most interests

wheth(

end the `most

age exploits.,
wed under t

ture has

nded

reat fidelity ;
kable objects pointed out ; and

supplied, bearing- on its

.ucient

and desperate conflicts of the
The lochs (or lakes), some of

resh and some of salt water, with their surrounding
raaparts of hoary-headed mountains, at the bases of
l'hich are rich and sunny valleys or ravines, are inte-
lastingly depicted, and induce a desire in the reader to
risit the picturesque, beautiful, and generally magnifi-
:ent portions of the Western Highlands. We give as a
opeeimen the following description of " Loch Shiel," in
tte large parish of Ardnamurchan (in which it is said

Of the inland lakes

vhich abound in all parts of the
this is, in every respect, the most important. It

.e lower part of the entire Vail

which di;ides Sunart

;bad Moidart, Is computed at twenty-five to twenty-seven
miles in length, varies from 200 yards to three-quarters of
a mile in breadth, but in the greater part from a quarter
to half a-mile. At its west end, it is shallower, and re-
-poses on a bed of fine sand (as do the great moss flats
coatiguous,) similar to that of the sea-shore, about two

miles distant. About six miles to the eastward, it becomes
seep, and, from the character of the country, retains, it
s probable, great depth on to its eastern end. Its water
ss the usual dark-brown colour of lakes similiarly situa-
I, but is clear and pellucid in a glass vessel, pare and
Asant to the taste. Its elevation abova the sea cannot
Teat, for the river by which it flows into the Western
is navigable, except during great drought, for open
'rom its eastern end, it discharges its waters, in
Annie, by a stream a few miles long,
rich of Kilmalie into Locheil, a branch of ,

lerable vc

lake almost connecting the
to which the Caledonian Canal opens to

ance of

west with th

Rae,. attractec
iia lais report
iaa of this I

f Mr:Telford, and is
iledonian Cana

oticed

Lrding the C

f communicatic

greatll

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