4 BERTHA'S VISIT TO HER 



the people whom he had so long and so anxiously ' 

 governed, were expressed in a hymn that is pre- 

 eminent for the beauty and strength of its com- 

 position. It briefly but pathetically reiterates 

 his warning exhortations, and ends with a repeti- 

 tion of the particular blessings promised to each 

 tribe. His race being now run, we are told by 

 the writer who finished this book, that Moses 

 retired to the top of Mount Nebo, from whence 

 he was permitted to behold the land which the 

 Lord had declared the seed of Abraham should 

 inherit; and he there died in the 120th year of 

 his age, and in the year 2552 of the world." 



The coming of Messiah is more explicitly 

 foretold in Deuteronomy, my uncle says, than in 

 any other book of the Pentateuch ; and the pro- 

 phecies of that great event, as well as of many 

 other circumstances in the history of the Jews, 

 have been so fully and minutely realized, that 

 they completely demonstrate the divine inspiration 

 of Moses. 



3d. Besides the rocks which compose our 

 five grand formations, there is another series, the 

 trap formation, or overlying rocks ; so called, 

 because they are found in various .places lying 

 on almost every rock, from granite even to chalk. 

 They sometimes traverse the other rocks in veins 

 or dykes, and are sometimes found in immense 

 shapeless masses, but never regularly stratified. 



