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heave a sigh, while we take a mental survey of its 
coasts, that were the theatre of all the important ac- 
tions handed down to us by antiquity, whose know- 
ledge of the world was long confmed to the countries. 
wafhed by its gentle billows! 
- On our left is Italy, almost dividing it into two,— 
Italy, the nursery of those brave Romans, who, by 
the wisdom of their institution, and ‘the persevering 
bravery of their troops, extended their knowledge of 
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. the world by their victories ; Greeee, famous for its 
legislators, poets, statuaries ; Corinth; Athens, 
Thebes, and Sparta; Macedon for its Alexander ;. 
Troy, that employed for so many years the arms of 
Greece, [A young woman drefsed in a black ri- 
ding coat, pafied by riding on an afs. | Troy, be- 
fere whose walls so many heroes fell; Tyre, which 
sustained a thirteen years siege against the Babylo- 
nian king,—carried on all the commerce of the 
world,—dared to send her fhips beyond the pillars 
of Hercules,—and first braved the billows of thé 
Britifh seas ; the Holy Land, the scene of all those 
mighty acts recorded in the Bible, which, setting its 
religious use entirely aside, affords an interesting 
and valuable picture of ancient manners ; Egypt, the 
eradle of every liberal art and science, through whose 
fertile fields flow the waters of the muddy Nile; 
Carthage, the daughter of Tyre, enabled by her 
wealth and traffic to withstand for many years the 
power of Rome; the delightful and excellent coast 
of Africa, the native country of wheat, and the gra- 
nary of Rome; and lastly, the pillars of Hercules, 
esteemed for many ages the ne plus ultra ef the 
