This again divided by 25000 = 34,0885 the verfed fine of the ark, which fubtracted from 3979 the radius of the earth, leaves a remainder of 39449115. Whence, as 3944.9115: 3979 3979: 4013. 31 miles, the altitude required. Subtract Remain 3979. 34.31 or 34 Note, if in the apparent motion our Saviour fhould be vifible two hours to each place, his altitude will be 1301⁄2 miles pearly. Poet:y. SPRING. AN IMITATION OF THOMSON. Infcribed to Aary-Ann T——. NOW walk we forth, my dearest An, to view Flush'd from the radiant chambers of the Eaft, That car which heathen fons have thought pent up On ether hay regal'd. -Shall we o'er realms On t'other fide the Sun that feem to be, Caft an enquiring eye? No fun-beams there In the full midst of Spring. Grim Zembla scarce Perceives Perceives the change, nor does Ardanger's top; Light we on Iceland's fhore, where Hecla ftill Make the bold traveller think himfelf in clouds. Why forget'ft thou th' eternal cause of all, Repay ft th' all-creating Benefactor? Now while gay Spring bedecks the fatt'ning foil, Oh turn thee, turn from thy corrupted ways, With me the general good. Let us not mount on chilling Wrekin's top, Freeze me with Cambrian scenes, while my fond heart A fullen look cafts back, yet loth to quit the scene So even now does warring Winter cease And yields to gentle Spring thofe dreary fcenes. Rifes in modeft growth, a virgin tinge, And the round bud peeps thro' the knotted bough, Here let my Mufe lead me with joyous hand The gladden'd eye beholds with fresh delight, His rougher eye views them as things of course; And thanks not Him by whofe command they were, Whose frown could kill, whose breath could blast the whole. Stray in the well-known field, by softest notes Of the glad feather'd race that joy the scene, Glad the fweet primrose 'mongst the mole hills, See Nature now affume a blissful mien : The once cramp'd heart, of now strong, grateful Mani. JUVENIS. MONTHLY MONTHLY OCCURRENCES. March 26. ed immediately to quit the dominion BY the German papers, it appears of the Republic, that orders were if to be the intention of France and the Emperor to fecularize the ecclefiaftical states, and many of the ec. clefiaftics, alarmed at the unexpected changes which are daily taking place, have began to fell their timber, and convert all their moveable property into fpecie. fued to arrest all Americans who had taken up their abode in France fince the year 1792, and their property, which is fuppofed to be worth three millions sterling, to be confifcated, to abide the determination of the differences between the two Go. vernments. APRIL 4. The whole of the Swiss Cantons have now declared, that they are willing to accept the plan of a conftitution proposed for them at Paris. 27. A letter from Waterford, dated the 20th, ftates, that notwithstanding 20 men a day, on the average were fent from the prifons to Duncanon fort, and to the tender for the navy, the two gaols were crowd- 9. An encampment is to be formed with perfons accufed of defen-ed in Windfor Forest; Gen. Harderifm. 28. A requifition of every third man able to bear arms is expected to take place in Holland; the object feems to be to raife a fufficient number of men to man their fleet, intended to co-operate in the descent upon this country. 29. The French Government at | Mentz have prohibited the monks from wearing their usual habits, and fuch as are incapable of fubfifting by their literary talents have been given to understand they may go and work in the vineyards up the Rhine. court is nominated to the command. A mutiny having broke out on board one of the homeward-bound Indiamen, in which the gunner ftruck a mate, the captain, who was prefent, inftantly fhot him dead. 12. The Porte is threatened with a new storm; a dangerous rebellion has broken out in the Morea, and the greater part of the Greeks in that country have joined the infur, gents. 19. The Duke of York, a few days fince, by way of example, difmiffed a General Officer, commanding an important poft in Hampshire, on account of his frequent inebriety, observing on the occafion, that these were not times for either officers or foldiers to be unguarded, or neglectful of their duty. 30. By the last Irish papers we have fome particulars from the South, which fhew that part of the kingdom in its true colours. Some months ago we fhuddered at the fituation of the North, but that was peace and happiness compared with the prefent ftate of the South. Not a day paffes without fome outrage, and the imprifonment of fome perfons. The city of Cork is filled with families who have abandoned the country through fear, and every one 24. A courier extraordinary arlooks with anxiety and difmay to rived at Paris on the 29th of Gerthe termination of the prefent un-minal, who brought intelligence happy state of affairs. 31. It was currently reported yefterday on 'Change, that the American Commiffioners, appointed to adjuft the differences between their -country and France have been order 23. Lord Briftol, an Irish Bishop, has been feized by the French, on the charge of being a spy; he had many papers about him relative to the ftate of France, their fleets, &c. and is to be tried by a Council of War at Ferrara. from Raftadt to the Directory, that the deputation of the empire had accepted all the conditions of peace proposed on the part of the French Republic. THE Univerfalist's Mifcellany For MAY, 1798. A NATURAL HISTORY. Continued from Page 479 of the first Volume. Great influx of temporary matter has prevented us from attending to this pleafing article, in feveral of our preceding numbers. We now refume the fubje&. In our laft effay, we endeavoured to prove that Mofes has given a rational and philosophical account of the fubfiding of the waters of the Deluge, and the re-formation of the earth. Various have been the conjectures of modern philofophers concerning the internal ftructure of our orb. The lively Buffon fancied it to be a globe of glafs. Whifton thought it was a sphere of heated iron. Kircher faid it was one great dreadful volcano. Burnet, who seems to have taken his idea from Mofes, fupposes it to be a great mafs of waters. Indeed, we can know nothing of the matter by experience; and if Revelation has faid nothing about it, we must be for ever ignorant. Our inquiries have been carried but to a very little depth below the furface. The deepest mine, which, perhaps, is that at Cottenberg, in Hungary, is little more than than three thousand feet in depth; but what proportion does that bear to the diameter of the earth, which is near eight thousand miles? So far as human curiofity or avarice have carried their researches, the globe has been found to confift of different layers or beds of earth; thefe, in general, lie horizontally one over another, like the leaves of a book, and each of them is compofed of materials that increase in weight as they lie deeper; but this order is fometimes inverted, probably from accidental Vor. II. caufes, S |