gi chow An Historical Portrait.» - 
ovo. Jo'SHence-reign’d around 
Through allsthe void of darkness.1'°There he! paus'd;2 <1 
List’ning‘the deathful stillness’ forawhiley 
And holding commune with it}'as°@ thing? 
iv .j0a if 
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Familiamwith the couneils of despair : i Ie, 
But paus’dnot‘long." Reflection could not: chlah-oa of. 
It could-not come? the chaos ofthe soub)o1g-o0" eat) . 
Admittednot a beam’ 
’*T was uproar all sq od T 
A storm-wreck of disjomted fantasies,’ Ligesi es W 
That with its billowy heavings stunn'd the sense, 
But not allay*dethe pang. 
Vital ; 
His state had nought 
unless the writhe of agony,— 
The lingering tortures of protracting death, 
Be vital call’d sand reason was not now,’ ik 
Nor guidance of the’will. 
Wild—not resolv’d—-) 29.4 
Scarce sentient to the impulse, or the’ act ; 
With burning brain and bursting heart, he rear’d 
The self&deéstroying hand,—and was'no more!‘ 
Tf she surviv’d, and if the habitudes 
Of custom and occasion, and the pride 
That conibats with the world’s i inquiring ye 
To hide the'bosom’s secret agony, 
Restor’d her seeming calm, to float again 
On the world’s vanities j—think’st thou (unskilP ay» TA 
Her spirit sunk not? Think’st thou, in her breast: dm 
She nurs’d no scorpion thought that made her hours! 
Of solitude, her pillow’s waking dreams, 19H 
And visions of her slumber, worse to endure 
Than the still tomb, and loathsome worm that feeds» 
Upor the reliques of that form she lov’ d, 
But lov’d too late, with all a mother’s care? ?* Bhai 
* For a less tragic anecdote of the protracted beauty of Ninon, see ‘Correspondence 
in the first number of our 59th volume to be published Feb. 1, 1825. ; 
EXTRACTS FROM Sareea AND 
bis SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS. 
et 
Pant of a Memoir on the Mik of the 
’ Cow-Trez, By Marrano ve Ri- 
vero, and T. B.: Bousstncautr. 
Translated from the Spanish. 
[From the Edinb. Phil. Journ.] 
R. LAET appears to be the first 
who has made known, in Europe, 
one of the most curious vegetable pro- 
ductions of the equinoctial regions,—a 
tree which gives a kind of milk entirely 
analogous to that of the cow, and 
which, for that reason, has been called 
Cow-Tree. This singular juice, on ac- 
count of its similitude to the milk of 
animals, in the place of which, Mr. 
Humboldt has seen it used for every 
domestic purpose, on the farm: of Bar- 
bula,—has been admired by. every” trae 
veller. 
“ On the barren declivities of arock 
grows a tree, whose. leayes are dry and 
coriaceous. 
searcely enter the rock; for, several 
enrsliz 
Its thick -ligneous roots. 
months in the year, rain n scarcely waters 
its fan-shaped ‘leaves..\The branches 
appear -dry and dead. «But when an 
incision is made in thetrunk, a sweet 
and nutritious milk flows from it. It 
is at the rising of the sun that the 
vegetable liquid runs mast abundantly. 
Then the natives and hegroes are seen 
to come from all parts, rovided with 
vessels, to receive the viii, which be- 
comes yellow, and thickens at the sur- 
face. Some empty their. vessels under 
the same tree; others - carry them. to 
their children. It is like a shepherd 
distributing to his family the milk of 
his flock.”— Humboldt, Yo yage aux Ré- 
gions Equinoviales du. Nouveau Conti- 
nent, lib, 5, chap X¥1,, page 263 et 264. 
if those who possess, these precious 
trees near their habitatic nm, drink with 
so much pleasure their beneficent juice, 
with what delight willthe traveller, 
who penetrates in these high mountains, 
appease with it BS 8 APE and ste 
