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Wreck Reef.] 
discovery or investigation to these parts ; but it is from having suf- 
fered ourselves that we learn to appreciate the misfortunes and wants 
of others, and become doubly interested in preventing or relieving 
them. “ The human heart/’ as an elegant author observes, “ re- 
“ sembles certain medicinal trees, which yield not their healing balm 
“ until they have themselves been wounded.”* 
* Le cosur est comme ces sortes d’arbres, qui ne donnent leur baume pour les blessures 
des homines que lorsque le fer les a blesses eux-memes. Chatcaubriant’s Genie do 
Christianisme, Episode d’ Attala, 
1803 . 
October. 
