THE POLE. 
AQUATIC BIRDS. 
THaT powerful fairy which endows man with most of 
his blessings and misfortunes, Imagination, sets herself to 
work to travestie nature for him in a hundred ways. 
In all which exceeds his energies or wounds his sensa- 
tions, in all the necessities which overrule the harmony of 
the world, he is tempted to see and to curse a maleficent 
will, One writer has made a book against the Alps; a 
— poet has foolishly placed the throne of evil among those 
beneficent glaciers which are the reservoir of the waters of Europe, 
which pour forth its rivers and make its fertility. Others, still more 
absurdly, have vented their wrath upon the ices of the Pole, misunder- 
