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can now hardly support itself, and in a few months 

 more it will have fallen into the water. 



Put thy foot on that large trunk thou seest to the 

 left. It seems entire amid the surrounding fragments. * 

 Mere outward appearance, delusive phantom of what it 

 once was ! Tread on it, and, like the fuss-ball, it will 

 break into dust. 



Sad and silent mementos to the giddy traveller as he 

 wanders on ! Prostrate remnants of vegetable nature, 

 hov incontestably ye prove Avhat we must all at last 

 come to, and how plain your mouldering ruins show 

 that the lirmest texture avails us nought when Heaven 

 wills that we should cease to be ! — 



" The cloud-capt tov/ers, the gorgeous palaces. 

 The solemn temples, the great globe itself, 

 Yea, all which it inhabit, shall dissolve, 

 And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, 

 Leave not a wreck behind." 



Cast thine eye around thee, and see the thousands 

 ol nature's productions. Take a view of them from 

 tte opening seed on the surface, sending a downward 

 sloot, to the loftiest and the largest trees, rising up 

 aid blooming in wild luxuriance j some side by side, 

 otiers separate ; some curved and knotty, others straight 

 as lances ; all, in beautiful gradation, fulfilling the 

 mmdates they had received from Heaven, and though 

 coidemned to die, still never failing to keep up their 

 spcies till time shall be no more. 



Eeader, canst thou not be induced to dedicate a few 

 m)nths to the good of the public, and examine with 

 thy^ scientific eye the productions which the vast and 

 wll-stored colony of Demerara presents to thee ^ 



What an immense range of forest is there from the 



