The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-07 00:00:00

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uleridg, a s, ant otho rs. in proof of this, but my
race f,rhills. I.'ne song of toe nightingale is, in fact, full
f both joy and sorrow. The words of Milton, and the
rrecian .ble of the orian of the nightingale, have im-
-,td 11:e idea of the melancholy of this n Ale bird's
•-- mind of wets. lin, the general character of
-,‘tur ,us, and full of an extacy uncon-
It is like a mountain stream,
heauty and riotous gladness.
full rower and spirit. But,

s song is j ,yous, f
rollibte ovr,fl

ncl kap

on in i

hen the

rces the he .rt n. exp, c.t ttly, and goes down to the
het ic effect. It is just as if
s .ong by a sense of resist-

3west c

with a r

.11, e i f past sorrow, the memory
that an never be long altogether
wd exults, and seems to feel all
mon, and to express it as no
ems to exclaim—" Oh,
! but 3, t I am miserable ! but yet
o ul bephtstion, that inextinguish-
wk !" In another moment it
n into the midst of the present, and
g woodland, or the moonlight copse,
,n-g with its triumphant inuve.—People's Journal.
SAND. 4 OF PERU.— Ihe wt.ole extent of the Peruvian
oast, from Os oorihern t, it+ southern extremity, pre-

me tra,ie cv
tten. While

can exprtss It, it

tat old hotmr. t
ale grivf, will co

ents neatly the st
ty fruitful valley?.

, valid

wort town% tiler
uroged iht ir tour

here 1

....ges and plantations;
. ure or commerce has en-
...on ; mate insupportable heat
arcity of Int 11 ; crumbling monuments
In the sandy plains
travellers to love their way
at fervent and unhealthy
Lives way before want of

nd gr• alum.

1823, a transport, carrying
hundred and twenty strong,
'.sco. The soldiers got on
,ed for thirty-six hours through the
wh'ch !he) were unable to find their
)f that tiny, they were met by a DUM-
iti, water arid food, who had been sent

I water. in the y

bore, and wit
and-waste, ou

er of horern:ro
ut front t

_ ek thew, but already one hundred
f rbe tmforturintr is had died of thirst and weari-
I fif y er,pir d upon the fellowing day.
!tit hour's %and, rir ff in those arid deserts, de-

drink, is certain death to the strongest
scarce. and even where the bf d of a
r.str,
is in many instances dry during the

riced of rued a
non. R,vers a

rater part of t!ie year. The traveller's danger is in•
eased
,by the shifting DIV ure f the sand, which the wind
tars in r,,,,, moos clouds, Hied in columns eighty to one
undred fet high. The meilanoa are another strange
bennmenno of these (141. g rous wilds. They are sand-
tills in the foto, of a crereet.i• ten or twenty feet high,
tnd aid) a Shaqi cies,. Their base is moveable, and
vben impelled by A 1010 rat h strong wind, they wander
4dly ovt r the d. Bert ; the smaller ones, more easily
,i,d, preceding the loge. The latter, however, after
gee nt the cursent of air from reaching the for-
ter—take the w.nd 011 f of their sails, it may be said—
nd then run over and crab them, themselves breaking
1p at the tanse time. In a few hours, what was previously
level, ;It o'ien covered wit h ranges of hillocks, hindering
view of the Itorir.n, and bewildering the most expe.
61)00 wenderers tliroagh these perilous regions.—von
rchudi's Travels in Per ts.