26 WANDERINGS IN 



JOURNEY. 



FIRST to millions of insects, which are busily employed 



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in destroying them. One branch of it still looks 

 healthy ! Will it recover 1 No, it cannot ; nature 

 has already run her course, and that healthy-look- 

 ing branch is only as a fallacious good symptom 

 in him who is just about to die of a mortification 

 when he feels no more pain, and fancies his dis- 

 temper has left him ; it is as the momentary 

 gleam of a wintry sun's ray close to the western 

 horizon. See! while we are speaking a gust of 

 wind has brought the tree to the ground, and 

 made room for its successor. 



Come further on, and examine that apparently 

 luxuriant tauronira on thy right hand. It boasts 

 a verdure not its own ; they are false ornaments 

 it wears ; the bush-rope and bird-vines have clothed 

 it from the root to its topmost branch. The 

 succession of fruit which it hath borne, like good 

 cheer in the houses of the great, has invited the 

 birds to resort to it, and they have dissemi- 

 nated beautiful, though destructive, plants on its 

 branches, which, like the distempers vice brings 

 into the human frame, rob it of all its health and 

 vigour ; they have shortened its days, and proba- 

 bly in another year they will finally kill it, long 

 before nature intended that it should die. 



Ere thou leavest this interesting scene, look on 

 the ground around thee, and see what every thing 

 here below must come to. 



Behold that newly fallen wallaba ! The whirl- 



