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AN APRIL FOOL. 



The First of April's All-fools' Day, 



Vou'U grant me this fact ? — nay, sir, nay. 



The first of every month's the same, 



Ditto the last — the mere's the ihame. 



Each year, past or to come's fools' year — 



Folly ne'er halts in her career; 



When time is o'er ami worlds have fled. 



Then — only then, is folly dead. Tom Brown 



Go look for truth in deism, or sense in absenteeism. 

 Or discouragement to theism, in a Cambridge school, 



Court an author for his pence, read Shelley for his sense, 

 And dub yourself from hence — forth an April fool. 



Believe that rebel Brougham, with Bennet and with Hume, 

 Hath caused our present gloom, like an envious goule. 



Or that Canning in his station has delivered to the nation 

 An exceeding ilull oration — oh, you April fool ! 



Believe that Irving preaches in a pair of shooting breeches. 

 And that Mrs. Coutts enriches each aspiring tool. 



Or that holy Theodore Hook (who will soon be made a duke) 

 Hath writ a pious book — oh, you April fool ! 



Believe that the Lord Mayor (oh wondrous !) had a share 

 In tlie writing of that ere " Paul Pry " witli Poole, 



And that Alderman Sir Billy, most shamefully called silly, 

 Composed " Sir Andrew Willy" — oh, you April fool ! 



Believe that of Blackwood the editor is Packwood, 

 Whose razors will hack wood, and by the same rule 



That our very famous hero Duke Wellington, like Nero,* 

 Danced in Berlin a bolero— oh, you April fool ! 



Believe, sir, moreover, that Coleridge sailed over 



From Calais to Dover on a witch's stool. 

 Believe, too, which is oddest, (or in Latin mirum quod est) 



That Cobbett has turned modest — oh, you April fool ! 



Believe, if you please, that the moon is made of cheese 

 And that lawyers pocket fees as a novel rule ; 



That Billingsgate's fair frys no longer d— n your eyes, 

 But are elegant and wise — oh, you April fool ! 



Believe all this, I pray, set forth in my lay, 



(Dont you think it witty, eh ?) and you'll need no school- 

 ing to tell you that this song is as humorous as long. 



And as sensible as strong — oh, you April fool ! 



AN ACCOUNT OF THE MINES AND THE PROVINCE OF MINAS GERAES, 

 IN THE EMPIRE OF BRAZIL, INCLUDING A VIEW OF THE MANNER 

 OF MINING METALS AND PRECIOUS STONES : BY A MINE PRO- 

 PRIETOR. 



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The province is throughout mountainous, and a plain of two leagues in 

 extent is scarcely to be found in it. 



There is a Cordilheira, or chain of mountains, which cuts the province from 

 the south to the north. It is found in some parts of granite, in others of iron 

 mine, and then again of flint. It is more apparent in Mantiqueira, in Abacthe, 

 Andaya grande, Tejuco, Serra do St. Antonio, do gram Mogol, Morro da 

 gar9a, and in several other places. It is ramified into many branches, and the 

 chain of Oiro branco (near Oiro preto) is supposed to be a link of this Cor- 

 dilheira, not only from its configuration and productions, but because there 



* The rhyme obliges me to this — sometimes 

 Kings are not more inaperative than rhymes. Byron. 



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