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whose all-pervading sight reads the unspoken language of the 

 heart ! And in the bursting thander, and the fearful earthquake, 

 he hears with awe, the accents of " the voice that shakes all 

 nature's frame." 



The volume of nature is wide spread before him ; and what- 

 ever may be the dogmas, which men may have derived from 

 other sources, respecting the character of the Creator, he here 

 reads in this " elder scripture," the impressive and all-subduing 

 lesson, that God is good; that his paternal care is extended 

 to every creature, and that all, from man to the humblest insect, 

 are the monuments of his exhaustless love. 



The Difficulties axd Obstacles to be encountered in Agri- 

 culture. 



\_ Extracts from an Address hy Yio^ . John C. Gkky, at the last Fair of the 

 Middlesex Society of Husbandmen and Manufacturers.] 



The first difficulties, in the way of our farmers, which I shall 

 notice, are those resulting from our climate. This has been 

 well described by Washington Irving, as fierce in all its ex- 

 tremes, but splendid in all its vicissitudes. So frequently, and 

 so suddenly, do these vicissitudes occur, as to set all anticipa- 

 tion at defiance. We are tempted to think that the laws, which 

 govern the changes of temperature in other regions of the globe, 

 are entirely suspended here ; and had Shakspeare ever visited 

 our shores, we might suppose that it was from our climate that 

 he drew his beautiful picture of the disordered seasons. 



"And thorough this distemperature, we see 

 The seasons alter. Hoary-headed frosts 

 Fan in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, 

 And on old Winter's chin and icy crown 

 An odorous chaplet of sweet Summer buds 

 Is as in mockery set. The Spring-, the Summer, 

 The chiding Autumn, angry Winter, change 

 Their wonted liveries, and the amazed world 

 Through their increase, now knows not which is which." 



