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N E W E N G L A N D K A !l M K R . 



IviNTER AND SPRING. 



BY MISS H. V. GOULD. 



"Adieu!" Father Winter sadly said 



Tothe world, when about withdrawing. 



With his old white wig half off his head, 

 And his iciele fingera thawing. 



" Adieu! I am going to rocks and caves. 



And must leave all here behind me; 

 Or, perhaps I shall sink in the Northern waves. 



So deep that none can find me." 

 .. Good luck! good luck, to your hoary locks!" 



Said the gay young Spring, advancing; 

 You may take your rest 'mid 



While I o'er the earth i 

 " But there is not a spot where you foot hath trod, 



You liaril and clumsy old fellow, 

 Not a hill, nor a field, nor a single sod. 

 But I must make haste to mellow. 



" And then I shall carpet them o'er with grass, 



Which will look so bright and cheering, 

 That none will regret they let you pass 



Far out of sight and of hearing. 

 " The fountains that you locked up so tight, 



When I shall give them a sunning. 

 Will sparkle and play with my warmth and light, 



And the streams will set to running. 



lid the caves and rocks 

 1 dancing. 



" I'll speak in the earth to the palsied root. 



That under your reign was sleeping; 

 I'll teach it the way in the dark to shoot, 



And draws out the vine to creeping. 



" The boughs that you cased so close in ice 



It was chilling e'en to behold them. 

 I'll deck all over with buds so nice, 



My breath alone can unfold them. 

 " And when all the trees are with blossoms dressed, 



And the bird with her song so merry. 

 Will come to the branches to build her nest, 



With a view to the future cherry. 

 " The earth will show her loveliness. 



The wonders I am doing, 

 While the skies look down, with a smile, to bless 



The way that I'm pursuing!" 

 Said Winter, " Then I would have you learn 



By me, my gay new-comer. 

 To push off too, when it comes yonr turn, 



And yield your place to Summer!" 



Discovery of an Englishman, icho has resided 

 for thirty years among the Savages at Port Philip. 

 — T!ie fo!lov\'iiig is abridged from the Van Die- 

 man's Land Magazine. Tlio circumstances ap- 

 pear to have excited the greatest interest in the 

 colony, and are the subject of a leading article in 

 the Hobart Town Courier, obligingly forwarded 



ces for the purpose of catching fish at the fall of 

 the title. Several of the bark shelters or wig- 

 wams were form.-d in a superior aud comfortable 

 manner, tolerably well thatclied, with a narrow 

 opening for the door way, and fire place in fr< nt. 

 1-ieces of wood were hollowed or scooped out to 

 serve as calabashes or buckets to carry water, aud 

 the kangaroo skins were neatly joined together 

 with regular stitches, and cut away so as to foini 

 a convenient vesture. The settlers, however, had 

 not domiciled themselves in their new position 

 manv days when these and various other indica- 

 tions' of ingenuity were satisfactorily explained by 

 the appearance o( a white man, clothed in a kan- 

 garoo-skin cloak. He was at first rather timid 

 in his approaches; but when spoken to kindly, 

 and nftered a piece of bread, he threw ofl" his re- 

 servo, and afttr eating with apparent relish, and 

 looking at it as if endeavoring to bring something 

 to his recollection, he exclaimed, with symptoms of 

 delitiht glowing in his face, "bread !" 



Other English words soon returned to his mem- 

 ory, and he "was at last enabled to communicate, 

 that his natne was William Buckley, that he had 

 been one of those who escaped from the encamp- 

 ment of the prisoners by the ship Ocean, formed 

 by the late Col. Collins, in attempting agreeably 

 to the instructions of the British Government, to 

 form a settlement at Port Philip in 1803 — that he 

 had lived ever since with the tribe of the aborigi- 

 nes, whom he then met with in the busli, and 

 over whom he had long exercised the rule of a 

 chief. He is a very tall man, having served as a 

 grenadier in Holland under the late Duke of York, 

 is from 58 to 60 years of age, and in excellent 

 health. Through the assistance of ti.e new set- 

 tlers, lie has forwarded a petition to the Lieutenant 

 Governor, [iraying for a pardon, mainly with a 

 view we presume, to enable him to remain 

 where he is, and to rommunicate the result 

 of his intimacy with that interesting country, and 

 the many valuable discoveiies which he had made 

 in it. This, we are glad to learn, his Excellency 

 has been kindly pleased to grant, impressing at the 

 same time upon him the exiiectation that he will 

 continue to do all in his power to maintain amia- 

 able intercourse between the tdiorigines and the 

 whites, for he had already been the means of pre- 

 venting a sanguinary attack of his tribe, through 

 misapprehensisn, on the little party already settled 

 there. In a philosophical point o( view, this dis- 

 covery is truly interesting, aud a narrative of his 

 various vicissitudes, during his long sojourn, well 

 told, would rival the classic work of Robinson 

 Crusoe. Two other prisoners from the Ocean 

 absconded with him, but he had never seen nor 

 heard of them since the end of the first twelve 

 months when he joined the Blacks. 



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" Mr Bateman and others had removed from 

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 Edward Cruft, 

 Samuei, May, Esq'rs. 

 Rochester, N. Y. March 5. 3m. 



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