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into the river, and dived under water, until he ar- 

 rived within a small distance of the place where the 

 snake lay, or floated, basking in the sun. Here 

 he ascended to the surface, and calling out to the 

 snake to receive him, he opened his mouth wide, 

 and drew him in, when, however, in an instant, 

 the snake was stabbed by him through both his 

 sides, with the spear, which wounded him so deadly, 

 that he gave a whirl, and being under great pain, 

 discharged his excrements, and with the same this 

 hero, who then swam again to shore, announcing 

 his victory, and congratulating the assembly on 

 the deliverance of the nation. 



" Thus (continued the old Munsee) were the In- 

 dians of those days Mannittoes. Nothing could re- 

 sist them. They knew nothing of drowning. Our 

 first Parents have sprung from the bottom of a lake." 



Botany. 



Vegetable Physiology. 



15. The flowing of Maple juice is a striking phe- 

 nomenon to an attentive mind, as it is as completely 

 locked up by continued warmth as by frost, and only 

 flows by the alternate operation of these agents. Yet 

 the same degrees of heat, even after frost, have not 

 always the same effect. Thus a warm south wind 

 stops the flowing more than a cool north-west wind. 

 To judge from sensations, generally a bracing wind 



