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sons of the Trinity; and that it has a strictly 

 parallel signification to the form of baptism which 

 our Saviour established in 'the name of the 

 Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.' 

 " The three parts of this benediction, they 

 say, will be found to agree respectively with the 

 attributes of Three Persons. The Father being 

 the source of all blessings and preservation, 

 temporal and eternal. Grace and illumination 

 coming from the Son, through whom we have 

 the light of all true knowledge. And Peace, 

 that is, the peace of conscience and inward tran- 

 quillity of mind, being essentially the gift of 

 the Spirit, whose name, St. John says, is the 

 Comforter." 



13th. Every thing relating to the interior of 

 Africa is so interesting now that such efforts 

 are making to explore it, that I think you will 

 be amused by a few lines from Mollien's Travels 

 about a kingdom called Fonta-diallon. 



He says, that the villages are like camps ; 

 there are but few cattle, and those of diminutive 

 size ; horses are unknown, and the ass on which 

 Mollien rode, spread terror through the country. 

 There is not sufficient prey to invite the lion ; 

 and the surrounding mountains have never been 

 crossed by the elephant : but hyenas and 

 panthers are abundant ; and monkeys people 

 the woods. 



