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hl Isnt it /delightful thaéstheres one thing in the seas.

‘That the wise men havent measured, point for point ?
We may draw the bis sea serpent pretty much as we may please,
A\nd the critics can not say he’s out of: joint.

 

   
  

e can draw his mouth a-whistling. Or his horns of silded Lins
Or, with decorative buttons , spot - his ‘back.

We can place electric lishts upon his Fancy dorsal fin

With no fear of some wise critic on our track |

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L. J. Bridgman.

E ROME OR WiOs Ay a @©m CyAuleiiAgve

(Third Paper.)
ON THE SHORES OF CATHAY.

E can but regard the first voyage of Columbus as a combination of

favorable and fortunate events; for, barring the slight accident of the

Pinta, nothing occurred to baffle his plans until the first land was in sight.

The final departure may be said to have been taken from Gomera, in the Canary
Islands, and the last sight of land was off the island of Ferro.

It was about the first of October that they approached the region of the
trade-winds, and noticed the peculiarities of that vast weedy expanse known as
the Sargasso Sea. This seaweed found floating on the surface of the ocean bears
globules like small grapesin shape. The Spanish sailors, fancying a resemblance
between them and the grape grown in Portugal, called the sea-plant the sargasso,
and the name was also given to that portion of the ocean where the weed is
found. We know the astronomical knowledge of Columbus was imperfect,
and his nautical instruments crude. He had a compass and a rude instrument