Kosciusko chronicle., 1846-02-21
vi M0rvelIOllS.

L.
night, quite exhausted 10 bed, after lon,
and vain efforts 10 make out the sense d
a passage in a Greek poet. On fallns
asleep, he seemed TO himself to be trans
ported in spirit To Stockholm, where he
was conducted INTO the palace Of Queer
Chris,ana, nshered' inlu the royal libra,
Try, and placed before compartment ii
which he distinguished small volume
,ha. bore title new 10 him. He opened
the volume, and found in il the sulutior
nf the grammatical difficulty which had
so perplexed him. The joy which he
felt AZ this discovery awaking him, he
struck light and made a memorandum
nf what he had seen in his dream.-
| The dark passage he now f und perfect
y cleared up. The adventure. however,
was too strange 10 suffer him to rest sat.
isfed without taxi & some steps to as.
cerliin how far the impression Of his
nocturnal Journal correspunded with the
reality. Desrarles was At that time at
Slockholm, and our sauant wrote to
Chapul, the French Ambassador to the
Swedish Court. with whom he was ac-
qnainled, requesting him to ask The
philosopher whether the royal library
had such and such peculiarilies, (which
h. described, and whether, in cerain
compartm'nt, certain volume of such
a size and FORM was not to he found, on
such and such page Of which stood ten
Greek verses, copy Of which the sa-
cant suhjnined. Descartes answered
the ambassador that unless lhr querist
had been in the habit Of visiting the H.
brary for the las! twenty years he could
scarcely have described its arrangement
more accurately The compartment. the
Volume, the ten Greek verses, all tailed
exactly with the description. A coun-
ierparI TO this story is related by Wan.
genheim.
The son of Wirtemberg inrist was
studying al Gnllingen, and having occa-
sion for book which he could moi iind
IN the library there, and whirh he re-
memhered to have seen al home. wrote
to request his father TO send him III.
same. The father searched his library
tor the book in vain !; il was not 10 be |
found, and he wrote to his son 10 ,hs ef. |
iecl. Some time after. as he was d,
work in his library, and rose fom his
seat To replace a book which he had
lone with on lis shelf, he beheld his son
standing NOT far from him. and in the
act, as It seemed, of reaching down
book, which stood at considerable
height, and on which the oulslret he'd
hand of the figure was already laid -
my son!" cried the astoni,h he'd father
'how came you here p As he spoke
nc apParltlon vanished. The father,
whose presence of mind was not dslur.
'ed, immediately took down the book
N whI' h the hand Of The figure had
ecmed to be laid, and, behold. il was .
ne very one his son had written for
lie senl il. by that days post. to Got
nngcn, but soon after received letter
rom bis son, written on the very morn (
~ on which he had seen the n, partition,
nd stating the exari spo, where the
'r!er was confident the book was to be ,
'und. II is unnecessary to say that II :
'as the very spot which the appari,on !
al already indicated.
Dublin University Magazine. 6
>---~>~~ -~>~r>~, ~>-0~~E 4
DREADFUL SHIPwREcK.-The New 9
ork EIpress has papers from Vande- ;
ian ; Laird as late as the 23t Of Sep EN-. !
nr. The Melbourne Herald, OF the a
5'h, gives the particulars of one of lhe y
osl Horrible shipwrecks on record. by =
hlch 4O6 lives were lost. The Caia- y
'qM. Capt. G. w. FinIy, (emigrant y
mp Of 800 ,ons,) 800 emIgranls. and =
ew, including two doctors, of forty .sixVL
'uls. The emigranls were principally u
ON BedIordshire, Yorkshire, and Not I"
lghamsfiire. Abon, one hundred and to
,enly OF the passengers were married, 81
I'm families, and in all sevenly-,hree o'
'IIdren. Nothing occurred worthy of 10
'tice until The 4lh Of August, on which W
y the ship w,nt ashore in violent al
le, on n reef, SitnatPd on The west coast pr