STUDY X. 43 



announces the temped to the mariner before it 

 overtakes him. 



Nature uniformly proportions the figns of de- 

 flruclion to the magnitude of the danger. Thus, 

 for example, the figns of tempeft off the Cape of 

 Good-Hope far exceed thofe on our coafts. The 

 celebrated Fernet, who has exhibited fo many ter- 

 rifying reprefentations of the Sea, is far from having 

 depicted all the horrors of the watery element. 

 Every ftorm has it's peculiar character, in every 

 particular latitude. Far different are the dorms off 

 the Cape of Good-Hope, from thofe off Cape 

 Horn i thofe of the Baltic from thofe of the Me- 

 diterranean , thofe on the banks of Newfoundland 

 from thofe on the coaft of Africa. They farther 

 differ, according to the feafon of the year, and 

 even according to the hour of the day. Thofe of 

 Summer are very unlike thofe of Winter; and 

 widely different is the fpectacle of an enraged fea, 

 mining at noon-day under the rays of the Sun, 

 and that of the fame fea illuminated, at the mid- 

 night hour, by a fingle flam of lightning. But 

 you perceive, in all, the clafhing oppofitions of 

 which I have made mention. 



I have remarked one thing, in the tempefts off 

 the Cape of Good-Hope, which ftrikingly fup- 

 ports all that I have hitherto advanced, refpe&ing 



the 



