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it is generally accompanied by hail or cold rain ! 

 Beasts and birds retire to cover, and keep a 

 mournful silence, or utter notes of distress. 

 Comparing the two, the birds of England, 

 and Ceylon, may I not say that they are 

 as differently affected by the thunder storm, as 

 the sailor on the ocean apprehensive of, and the 

 traveller in the desert welcoming, its effects ? 

 And may it not be inferred, that birds -as well 

 as men are taught by experience, have the same 

 confidence in the uniformity and constancy of 

 nature, and are under the influence of associated 

 impressions ? " 



AMICUS. The incident is an interesting one, 

 and I thank you for the relation so precisely 

 given. It brings to my recollection one nowise, 

 like yours, of a poetical kind ; but belonging, 

 I think you will agree with me, to the same 

 category. When in the West Indies, officially 

 employed, every morning, on week days, I had 

 to drive to my office. Near my house were 

 many negro huts, and poultry, not a few, the 

 property of their inmates. No sooner did 

 my carriage pass into the common road, than 

 the fowls gave chase ; it was a regular occur- 

 rence. Questioning my intelligent native driver 



