14 FAVOURITE FABLES.

outward beauty; but I may venture to say, that I make
amends by my intrinsic qualities. The great improvement
of navigation is entirely owing to me. By me the distant
parts of the world have been made known and are accessible
to each other; the remotest nations are connected together,
and all, as it were, united into one common society; by a
mutual intercourse they relieve one another’s wants, and all
enjoy the several blessings peculiar to each. The world is
indebted to me for its wealth, its splendour, and its power;
and the arts and sciences are, in a great measure, obliged to
me for their improvements, and their continual increase. All
these blessings Iam the origin of; for by my aid it is that
man is enable to construct that valuable instrument, the
Mariner’s Compass.”’

MORAL.

Let dazzling stones in splendour glare;
Utility’s the gem for wear.