STUDIES OF NATURE. 



on Earth, to render us miferable, it is flie who 

 burfls afunder the chains by -which we are held 

 captive. How many calamities has flie foothed ! 



how 



*' it, I made the fign ofthecrofs. O! how glad I am, fays 



" flie, that you are a Chriftian ! We had fome doubt of it. Oa 



*' this I pulled from my bofom the crofs which I wore : The 



" wom.an, quite tranfported with joy, exclaimed, Why fliould 



" we any longer call in queftion his being a good Catholic, 



*' feeing he worfliips the crofs ! After her, another ap- 



*' plied to me, of whom I afked, whether fhe had a mind to 



** confefs. How ! replied Ihe, would it not be a fin to confefs 



'• to fuch gentlemen as you ? No, faid I, for though I am 



*' French, I confefs in Greek. 1 will go, replied fhe, and alk 



*' our Bifliop. In a little while flie returned, perfectly de- 



" lighted at having obtained his permiffion. After confeffion, 



" I gave her an Agnus Dei, which flie went about and fhewed 



*' to every one, as a curiofity which they had never feen before. 



*' I was prefently befet by a multitude of women and children, 



*' who prefled me to give them fome. I anfwered, that thofe 



*' Agnnfcs were given only to fiich as had confefTed. In or- 



" der to gain their point, they inftantly offered to confefs, 



" and wanted to do fo by pairs ; that is to fay, a young girl 



*' with her female confident, a young man with his bofom- 



*' friend, whom they denominate «SsXipoTjs/ôo», Adclphopeithon, 



*' confidential brother, alleging as a reafon, that they had but 



*' one heart ; and that, therefore, there oiight to be nothing fe- 



" cret between them.. It was with difficulty I could feparate 



*' them ; however they were under the neceflity of fubmit- 



" ting." 



Some years ago, I happened to be at Dieppe, about the time 

 of the autumnal Equinox; and a gale of wind having fprung 

 up, as is common at that feafon, I went to look at it's effefts 



on 



