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ined might be properly represented by placing Peter on a fiery steed, 

 which he is supposed to have taught, by skill, management, and 

 perseverance, to rush up a steep and precipitous rock, to the very 

 brink of a precipice, over which the animal and the imperial rider 

 pause without fear, and in an attitude of triumph. The horse rears 

 with his fore-feet in the air, and seems to be impatient of restraint ; 

 while the sovereign, turned towards the island, surveys with calm 

 and serene countenance his capital rising out of the waters, over 

 which he extends the hand of protection. The bold manner in which 

 the group has been made to rest on the hind legs of the horse only, 

 is not more surprising than the skill with which advantage has been 

 taken of the allegorical figure of the serpent of envy spurned by the 

 horse, to assist in upholding so gigantic a mass. This monument 

 of bronze is said to have been cast at a single jet. The height of the 

 figure of the emperor is 11 feet, that of the horse 17 feet. The 

 bronze is, in the thinnest parts, only the fourth of an inch, and one 

 inch in the thickest part ; the general weight of metal in the group 

 is equal to 36,636 English pounds. 



Forrester's Evenings at Home. 



MOUNTAINS. 



M. F. I am very glad to see a larger company at every succeed- 

 ing meeting. So it should be. Knowledge should be eagerly sought, 

 and at every opportunity. How much better to lay aside our amuse- 

 ments occasionally, and inquire who, and what we are, what phe- 

 nomena surround us, how we may live so as to be a blessing to man- 

 kind, as well as happy ourselves ! If the girls were always skipping 

 ropes, and the boys trundling their hoops, they would soon become 

 tired of the exertion, and there would be no pleasure at all in it. 

 Change requires change. A moderate amount of play is required 

 and useful, both to boys and girls. It is not well to abstain from it. 

 Yet how soon we learn to shun those who do nothing else but play ! 

 They are wasting the most precious part of their existence. 



