JElJC 
tagp, too, each succeeding century, in Rome, has 
done its best to ruin the very ruins, so far as their 
picturesque elTect is concerned, by stealing away 
the marble and hewn stone, and leaving only yel¬ 
low bricks, which can never look venerable.— 
Marole Faun. 
THE SPIDER’S THREAD. 
by mixing two or more, and laying it on with a 
small brush, imitating nature as near as possible. 
When the bird is perfectly dry, cut off the wire on 
the top of the head with cutting pliers. 
MAKING EYKS. 
It i3 often difficult to procure glass eyes. I 
have obtained largo colored eyes at Baunum’s 
Museum in New York city. The instruments for 
making them aro a glass-blower's table lamp and 
bellows, round pincers six inches in length, 
closed by a ring to hold the wire forming the sup¬ 
port of the eye. They arc made from cylinders 
of glass, such as glass-blowers use, of the required 
colors. After the wick has been scattered so as 
to procure a clear blue (lame, the bellows iB 
directed to the nriddlo of tho wick. Then apply 
the cylinder to the extremity of the flame, and 
when a portion iB melted apply a piece of small 
iron wire to the melted glass of the color you 
wish the eye. Take the quantity necessary for the 
size of the oyc, turn it in the flame and it will form 
a globe. After it. becomes round, a speck of 
blact glass is placed in the eeoter for the pupil. 
Expflse it again to the flame, and when properly 
blen|led take a glass cylinder and put on enough 
clear transparent glass to cover the whole. A pply 
it toithc flame, keep it burning till it Is melted, 
and forms a perfect globe, when it may cool 
slowly. The black glass eyes which most small 
birds and quadrupeds require, are easily made. 
Procure a Jeweler’s blow pipe, a lamp with an 
half-inch tube for the wick, filled with good sperm 
oil, and get a piece of charcoal that yon can con¬ 
veniently hold in your hand, scoop out a small 
round hole, and with an awl bore a hole through 
the center of it. Procure some small black glass 
bends, and a piece of iron wire four inches long, 
one end of which flic to a sharp point- Then, lay 
fotir or live heads in the hollow of tho charcoal, 
and apply tho blow pipe to the flame of tho lamp, 
holding it hack a little at first, or the full beat of 
tho flame will snap them. In a few seconds they 
will unite and form a round globo; keep your eye 
steadily on while melting to discover any air- 
bladders—and if so, continue the heat—It will 
expand the air and burst tho gluss, which will 
again assume its globular form. In an instant, 
take up your pointed wlro and insert it in the 
globe. When cooled a little, put tho other end of 
the wire through the hole in the charcoal, hut 
keep the glass from touching it. Again apply 
the heat, carefully as at first, then bring it near 
the end of tho flame, and In a short time it will be 
completed. But, should you discover any parti¬ 
cles of charcoal taken up by inserting the wire, 
keep it in the flame a little longer, and they will 
disappear. When cool, cat off the wire, leaving 
the eighth of an inch on the eye. Use more 
beads for larger sizes, and with a little practice 
you can make any Bize required. 
INSECTS. 
Insects of the Beetle tribe may be killed by 
putting them in a tin box with a little camphor, 
and holding them over tho flame of a lamp for 
a short time. A correspondent recommends a 
method of killing insects, &c., which he considers 
more merciful than the above. It is to drop ether 
or chloroform on the head and thorax, which will 
set them to sleep in a second, from which they 
will never awake. They are set by putting a pin 
through tho body near tho thorax, which should 
pass underneath, beneath the first pair of logs. 
The antennae and feet arc put in position by tho 
setting needle and secured by pins. If the wings 
are to be displayed, braces must he placed as 
required. These braces and pins aro so plainly 
shown in the accompanying engraving that all 
can understand the operation, yet, in this, as in 
most other things, experience must he the guide. 
That any creature could be found to fabricate 
a net, not less ingenious than (hat of the Uslier- 
man, for tho capture of its prey; that it should flx 
it in the right place, and then patiently await the 
result, is a proceeding so strange that if we did 
not see it done daily before Cur eyes by the com¬ 
mon house-spider and garden-spider, it would 
seem wonderful. But how much is our won¬ 
der increased when we think of the complex 
fabric of each single thread, and then of tho 
mathematical precision ami rapidity with which, 
in certain cases, the net itself is constructed; and 
to add to all this, as an example of the wonders 
which the most common things exhibit when 
carefully examined, the net of tho gaiden-apider 
consists of two distinct kinds of silk. The 
threads forming the concentric circles arc com¬ 
posed of a silk much more elastic than that of tho 
rays, and are studded over with minute globules 
of a viscid gum, snlliciently adhesive to retain 
any unwary fly which conies in contact with it. 
A net of average dimensions is estimated by Mr. 
Blackwell to contain 87,1180 of these globules, and 
a largo net of I t or Ifl inches in diameter, 120,000; 
andyctsucha net will be completed by one species 
— F.penn apnclica —in about 10 minutes, ou an av¬ 
erage, if no interruption occurs .—Introduction to 
Zoology. 
ranilla — Sabbath service — Change of Temperature— 
Coasting- of Colima—Gulf of California—fVhaling 
Expedition —Crossing the “/for" —Entrance of the 
“ Golden Gate" — Anchorage, farewells, greetings, 
partings, and to i/uarters. 
San Francisco, Febroar> inti, isiio. 
There is much simplicity in the habits of the 
natives here, yet they are not altogether without 
claim to pretensions. They have a church, a day 
school, and a theatre. The play acted on the eve¬ 
ning of our visit was founded on scenes in rural 
life, a piping and jolly shepherd being the hero 
of the comedy. The actresses were flsuntingly 
dressed, and, no doubt, are the envy of all tho 
Flora McFlimsry's in the town, who can almost 
literally sing we've "nothing to wear,— nothing 
to wear.” 
A Fort, built in the 17th century, now in good 
fighting order, situated on a high hill, commands 
the entrance to the harbor. It is in the occupancy 
of (Jen. Alvarez and bis troops. We had several 
hundred tuns of merchandise on board, destined 
for Manranilln,—a Mexican port further up the 
const,—hut owing to the belligerent and disturbed 
condition of affairs, it was feared that the prop¬ 
erty, if left there, might be Heized and confiscated, 
and hence it was put off at Acapulco. 
The Becond morning out of tho latter port, and 
the third Sabbath since leaving New York, dawned 
gloriously fair. At 11 o'clock, we had Episcopal 
service iu the upper saloon, and an excellent ser¬ 
mon, founded on Deut. vili, 2d, by Rev. Mr. 
Maples. The heat began to abate, and on Mon¬ 
day the change was very perceptiblo. For over 
two weeks we had taxed our wits with ingenious 
devices, with thin clothing, and fans, to cool the 
exterior, and our pockets for ice-water, to allay 
the lurking thirst that wnred upon the interior 
man. Now, fans are tossed overboard, ice is at a 
discount, and shawls and warm clothing are in 
demand, and you can enjoy tbc luxury of cutting 
your tmtter with a knife, instead of dipping it 
from a quart bowl with a teaspoon. 
All day of Monday we were coasting off Colima, 
and straining our vision and imagination to catch 
a view of a volcano of the same name, which is 
somewhat remote from tho coast, but is 12,000 
feet in height. Scores saw it in imagination, but 
our conclusion was, that all we Haw, or imagined 
wo saw, would but shabbily atone lor the supera¬ 
bundant strain and woar of eyesight and guessing 
faculties. At 5 o’clock we steamed into the Gulf 
of California, somn 300 miles across. Our notions 
of gulfs were any thing but favoiablc. The very 
name smelt foul. It was associated with perilous 
gales, panic and fright, sickness and gloom, sharks 
and death. Bnt thanks to Him who bolds the 
winds in liis fists and rules the raging seas, we 
rounded Cape St. Lucas with but a modicum of 
rough sailing. Fine skies, a hold and picturesque 
coast range, refreshing islands, all united to ren- 
tlor the ballance of our trip exceedingly pleasant 
ami agreeable. 
Friday morning (21 days out from New York,) 
dawned clear and cool, and overcoats were a 
luxury. A stiff breeze had been encountered for 
21 hours. Scores had not fully settled their ac¬ 
counts with old ocean, and she was calling on the 
sensitive to strike balance-sheets, and square up. 
Flocks of pelicans and gulls followed our wake, 
skimming, and diving, and soaring aloft, affording 
amusement, at tho expense of tho sea-sick, head 
and heart-sick passengers. I must not fail t,o 
mention that yesterday morning, the captain 
changed his programme and entered on a short 
whaling voyage, giving to hundreds a first experi¬ 
ence in that kind of nautical pursuit. About!) 
o’clock an object was descried miles ot)' the star¬ 
board side, floating upon the sea. Immediately 
the ship was pat in that direction, to ascertain 
whether or not it was a human being buffeting 
tho waves for life. After running some four miles- 
out of our course, it was discovered to he a 
dead u hftle, who, from sea-sickness, or other cause, 
had given up the ghost, concluding to practice 
tricks of deception for the remainder of his sea¬ 
faring exploits. Fishes are wont to act from 
mire pasional instincts. This chap, I really 
think, was playing his pranks in cold blood. To¬ 
day’s bulletin indicated that we were within half 
a day’s steaming of the long-desired port. At 8 
o’clock in the evening the ship crossed the "bar” 
swaggering, and rolling, and dashing her furni¬ 
ture about the cabins and saloon, as is customary 
at "bars.” Soon we sailed through the “Golden 
Gate,’’ and at half-past nine the Golden Age 
rounded to at her dock, in the harbor of San 
Francisco, safely moored from the wrathful sea, 
Faiewells of sea-voyage attachments,—the greet¬ 
ing* of friends long seperated,—the din and con¬ 
fusion of a hundred hotel runners and cabmen, 
clamoring with stentorian voices for patronage, 
closed the scene, as the seven or eight hundred 
passengers parted, no dozen of which will, prob¬ 
ably, ever meet again on earth. s. b. r. 
[Special Correspondence of Moore's Rural New-Yorker.] 
A TRIP TO CALIFORNIA, 
[Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker.] 
MAY-DAY FOR TREE-PLANTING. 
The custom of making a Jest a of this sort, is 
already introduced iu many quarters, and needs 
but to be extended to enlist all the rural popula¬ 
tion in one general plan of landscape gardening. 
The town of Shorcham, in Vermont, will tie recog¬ 
nized by tho traveler as one of those which lie 
so placidly at the border of Luke Champlain, anil 
touching, at its eastern shore, the legendary 
region of Ticonderogn, where the votary of the 
picturesque leaves the varied and extended sail- 
iug-water for the more romantic basin of Lake 
George. Four miles from ibis point (Lavrabee’s) 
is the center of Shoreham, a pleasant village, 
with handsome local public buildings, hut only 
such display of business, or residences, as belong 
to a strictly farming town. The principal advan¬ 
tage of this location lay In the open swell of 
ground upon which the public buildings are situ¬ 
ated, in tho midst of an open common, extended 
by two or three privato enclosures. Hero wero 
the churches and a respectuble academy. A walk 
had been laid to them from the village below, 
bnt Nature, except that her place had been 
usurped and appropriated, seemed to have been 
studiously and defiantly excluded from the scene. 
The May-Day movement brought Its suggestion 
of a remedy for so deplorable a state of things, 
and received a response in the bosoms of 
those with whom a pleasant word is a welcome 
hint to a pleasant duty. The ladies conferred 
together and enlisted in the enterprise. Meetings 
were held, and a definite plan was adopted, by 
which, on a certain day, as near the first of May 
as the season permitted last year, those interested, 
from each district of the town, should rally, with 
all the needful means, to plant the vacant grounds 
with ornamental trees, protect them, and then, at 
the ladies’ call, as the work was completed, “go 
from labor to refreshment.” It was a busy, and 
at the same time it was a joyous holiday, and 
planted its good designs to rise and wave with 
pleasant memories In years to come. 
Every school district,— every country town, 
almost,—every happy neighborhood, hus its place 
and time for sach a holiday, if it have the will. 
The chartered towns may make the same day 
grateful to their populations, by commencing 
their ornamental planting upon it, and calling 
the attention of those who wait for a movement 
to an opportunity to work in unison. The chil¬ 
dren will watch the aflair, and observe it in some 
way. And so, for one, The Teacher. 
Middlebury, Vt., 1860. 
One hold feature,—that of “magnificent dis¬ 
tances’’— has marked our halt3 from Vermont to 
this place. A sea voiage of over 2,000 miles, 
gave us harbor at Aspinwall and Panama, and one 
of 1,500 miles enables us to cast, anchor in this 
delightful mooring ground. Here we took in 
coal, water, and fresh boat-stores. The [dace is 
destitute of a wharf, and barges are used to con¬ 
vey the requisite supplies to the steamers. 
Acapulco contains about 3,000 inhabitants. 
The houses aro mostly adobe, and built low, the 
belter to contend with earthquakes, which, at 
times, admonish that there is a safely valve in 
humble architectural pretensions. The coal is 
brought on sail vessels from New York and Penn¬ 
sylvania, around Cape Horn, and stored here for 
use. The slow moving approach of the coal- 
barge, with thousands of sacks of coal, scores of 
natives, and torch-lights of candle-wood gleaming 
in the evening’s dusk, creaied a novel spectacle 
and much merriment. Then might be seen, all 
the way from the steamer to the shore, more than 
fifty canoes, loaded with natives and fruit, stream¬ 
ing with torch-lights, vicing in the race, each 
pulling to shoot their length ahead, thus reaching 
first the goal, and driving the first bargain with 
the fruit-hungTy passengers. 
The Binging of the natives who backed the sacks 
of coal on board from the barge alongside, and the 
din of scores of Mexicans in their canoes, calling, 
each more earnestly and lustily than the other, to 
buy their fruits, waked echoes on tho shore and 
confusion in your ears, quite aurpassiDg the two 
guns which are fired as you come Into port. Each 
canoe was illumined by a long, erect torch of 
candle-wood. When you saw and made the native 
understand the fruit you wanted, he threw you up 
a line. Pull it up and with it a basket. Deposit 
yoursilverand loweraway. The yellow merchant 
fills the basket tp your order, us he understands 
it, pots in the wrong change in Mexican coin, and 
up you do the elevatiug. You reject his bad 
change and half his invoice, scold him, and insist 
on being righted. Patience and pcrsevcronceare 
rewarded at last, and the fruit is delicious. 
Beautiful baskets, filled with morn beautiful coral, 
and all 1'or fifty cents, tempt scores of ladies to 
embark in the traffic. 
If you desire to step once more on terra firma, 
a good way is to take one of the neatly cushioned 
omnibus boats on the other side of the ship, out 
of which the oarsmeu are clamoring fur you al¬ 
most as deafeningly as cabmen at steamboat land¬ 
ings. For half a dollar you are set on shore, 
where, by torch light, squatting iu the sand, sit 
whole families noiselessly awaiting your corning. 
He is lucky who has a roll of dimes in his pocket. 
They can seldom change dollars, and two dimes 
are a quarter in this market. For a dime you get 
a large pine apple,—a meal for an epicure. For 
another dime you are possessed of 20 delicious 
oranges, and for fifty cents you get a bunch of 
bananas, worth three dollars in Fulton market. 
Those who have paid ten and fifteen cents each 
for cigars ori the steamer, rejoice lu fined here 
just as good, and at the low rate of thirty for a 
quarter, or one cent each in smaller quantities. 
Y'ou walk round the town, buy coral and shells of 
pretty Mexican girls, and for another half dollar 
you are rowed back to the steamer, quite satisfied 
with “ seeing the Lions.” 
As morning dawns, a new entertainment begins. 
The merchants of the canoes douse their torches, 
and strip to the skin. They take to the water and 
cry out “Me ketchee dime,” and for each dime 
thrown into the sea, a dozen swarthy Christians 
dive for it. Ere it reaches half way to the bot¬ 
tom, it is seized, the successful one comes up with 
it in his teeth; and the more agile have both 
cheeks distended with their earnings, before the 
gun announces that the steamer is off again. 
At this port, the steamer takes in fresh supplies 
of cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, turtles, &o. The 
natives have a curious way of getting their cattle 
from the shore to the steamer. They manage to 
tie their heads to the sides of the canoe, and then 
row away, and compel them to swim or float off to 
market. Here, unless the steamer is ready to re¬ 
ceive them, they remain hanging by their heads 
in the water for hours, manifesting their suffer¬ 
ings by lowing and flouncing, and struggling 
sharply for relief. They are hauled upon board 
by tackle-ropes fastened around their horns. They 
are small, and poor enough to claim relationship 
to Pharaoh's lean kino. The swine are small, 
and lantern-jawed; the sheep coarse as New 
Fouudland dogs; the fowls, no idea of aldermanic 
rotundity and fatnesg,—’twould subject them to 
inconvenience in so hot a climate. Their thin, 
shadowy appearance, is a disgrace to the hen 
family, and their ghostly condition at the dinner- 
table is well calculated to disarm one of a fit of 
the gout. Really, the Mexicans, so far as flesh- 
eating goes, are hut sorry disciples of the epicu¬ 
rean philosophy—poor pandereis to an English¬ 
man’s gustatory notions. Eleven large turtles, 
■weighing from 150 to 200 pounds, finished out our 
complement of meats. They afforded us much 
good living. When caught napping, the natives 
come slyly up, turn them quickly and suddenly 
on their backs, in which position they are utterly 
helpless and are easily captured. Of vegetables, 
and tropical fruits, such as oranges, pine apples 
tig?, prunes, olives and raisins, the boat was moat 
generously supplied. s. b. r. 
MRS. GRAMMAR’S BALL. 
Mrs. Grammar she gave a ball 
To tho Niue different parts of speech,— 
To the big atid the tall, 
The short and the Hmall,— 
There were pies, plums, and puddings for each. 
And drat, little Articles came, 
Iu a hurry to make themselves known,— 
Fat A, An. and The, 
But none of the three 
Could stand for a minute alone. 
Then Adjectives came to announce 
That their dear friends, the Nouns, were at hand— 
Bough, Rougher, and Roughest, 
Tough, Tougher, and Toughest, 
Fat, Merry, Good-natured, ami Grand. 
The Nouns were, indeed, on their way,— 
Ten thousand and more, 1 should think; 
For each namo that we utter,— 
Shop, Shoulder, and Shutter,— 
Is a Noun; l.ady, Lyon, and Link. 
The Pronouns wern following fust 
To push the Nouns out of their places,— 
I, Thou, You, and Mo, 
Wo, They, He, and She, 
With theic merry, good-humored old faces. 
Some cried out—“ Make way for the Verbs!” 
A great crowd is coming in view,— 
To Bile and to Smite,/ 
Aud to Light and to Fight, 
To Be, aud to Have, and to Do. 
The Adverbs attend on the Verbs, 
Behind them as footmen they run; 
As thus—" To fight Badly, 
They run away Gladly," 
Shows how fighting and running were done. 
Prepositions came—In, By and Near, 
With Conjunctions, a poor little band, 
As—“ Elthor you Or me, 
But ueitber them Nor he— 
They held their great friends by tho hand. 
Then, with a Hip, Hip, Hurra! 
Rushed Interjections uproarous,— 
“ Oh, dear! Well n-dny!” 
When they saw the display, 
“ Ha! ha!” they all shouted out, “Glorious!” 
Hat, alaB! what misfortunes were nigh! 
While the fun aud (eastings pleased each, 
There pounced in at once 
A monster—a Dunce, 
Aud confounded the Nine parts of Speech! 
Help, friends! to the rescue! on you 
For aid, Noun and Article call,— 
Oh, give your protection 
To poor Interjection, 
Verb, Adverb, Conjunction, and all! 
The above might he repeated by every child, 
night and morning, beneficially. Nor would it do 
any hurt for many of the “children of a larger 
growth” to follow suit! Wo shall have a few 
words t,o say about this latter at another time.— 
Materials for Thinking. 
THE LOST ARTS. 
phagi which contain its inventors. The earth de¬ 
prives itself of its richest elements to furnish us 
with bodies, and when we are done with them, 
common honesty dictates that we should repay 
the loan gracefully, without resorting to circum¬ 
locution aud stay acts. 
Practical and beneficial utility is the true test 
of value for all arts and all discoveries. Tried 
by this test, the attainments of the ancients iu all 
departments of 3kill and research, with the excep¬ 
tion of their contributions to the science of math¬ 
ematics, were extremely insignificant And it 
does seem to appear that the legacy we have re¬ 
ceived from them would be greatly augmented, 
hud none of the inheritance been dissipated in its 
transfer to ns. It is true, philosophers of marvel¬ 
ous wisdom spake and wrote, and formed schools, 
but they did not find it in their philosophy to 
found common schools. 
Science and art achieved wonders in the erec¬ 
tion of triumphal arches to human butchers.— 
Their lofty conceptions were inspired iu the con¬ 
struction of temples to god3 of questionable hon¬ 
esty, and goddesses of questionable virtue. 
They were prodigious upon engines of war, 
but very bumble upon steam engines. They 
could devise to preserve a despot's gold from 
being alloyed by bis jeweller, but they could not 
discover an atmospheric medium. 
A Bingle fine printing press in the world, from 
the time of Pythagoras, would have conferred 
more benefits upon succeeding generations than 
all that was attained in science and art for the 
whole two thousand years down to the period of 
its discovery. 
We have no tears to shed for the lost arts; we 
would hardly barter the discovery of lucifer 
matches for them all.— Artisan. 
PRESERVATION OF BIRDS, fisc.-NO. Ill, 
MOD3 OR FASTENING INSECTS TO THE SETTING BOARD. 
After setting, give them a coat of the corrosive 
sublimate preparation previously described, ap¬ 
plied carefully with a camel-hair brush. This 
must be liberally applied to insects, as they aro 
particularly liable to the attacks of tho mite. 
Butterflies and moths require careful handling. 
The easiest way to kill them is to point u quill and 
dip it into prussic acid and make an incision with 
it between the shoulders, which produces instant 
death. This acid must he used with great caution, 
as its effects are about as instantaneous on the 
human subject as ou the insect. They are set by 
pins and braces, but these must not touch tho 
wings, hut be ready to act as required. It is usual 
to take two of the same species and set one with 
tho winga expanded, the other closed. In the 
large species of the insects, the contcuts of the 
abdomen must be extracted at the vent, and filled 
with chopped cotton wet with arsenical soap, or 
they will cause discoloration. The corrosive sub¬ 
limate must he applied by pressing it from your 
pencil on the edge of the wings. See that it 
extends over every part. Small insects require 
nothing but a little gum water to stick them to 
your setting board. Caterpillars can be preserved 
in spirits and placed in phials. By following the 
above directions, your ingenuity can apply them 
to any insect The operation is shown in the 
i engraving. 
A very simple arrangement of the wires for 
beginners, especially for small birds, is to make a 
body of tow or flax, by winding it on a bent wire 
in the way of No. 1, imitating the shape of t.lie bird, 
by drawing it with a string to the form desired. 
Introduce this into the skin, passing the wire up 
the neck and out of tho mouth, or the top of the 
head. Take two straight wires for tho legs, and 
after passing them through, bend a small hook on 
the upper end, force it hack into the body, and 
with a stout thread tie it securely. 
AN ITALIAN CLIMATE, 
The Italian climate robs age of reverence, and 
makes it look newer than it is. Not the Coliseum, 
nor the tombs of the Appiau Way, nor the oldest 
pillar in the Forum, nor any other Roman ruin, 
be it as dilapidated as it may, ever give the im¬ 
pression of venerable antiquity which we gather, 
along with the ivy, from the grey walls of an Eng¬ 
lish abbey or castle. And yet, every brick or 
stone, which we pick up among the former, Las 
fallen ages before the foundation of the latter was 
begun. This is owing to the kindness with which 
nature takes an English ruin to her heart, cover¬ 
ing it with ivy, as tenderly as Robin Redbreast 
covered the dead babies with forest leaves. She 
strives to make it a part of herBelf, gradually 
obliterating the handiwork of man and supplant¬ 
ing it with her own mosses and trailing verdure, 
till she has won the whole structure back. But in 
Italy, whenever man has once hewn a stone, 
Nature forthwith relinquishes her right to it, and 
never lays her finger on it again. Age after age 
finds it bare and naked in the barren sunshine, 
and leaves it so. Besides this natural disadvan- 
Anothej^.^ a y i B > to P°i n t a wire at both ends’ 
form a ring on it like No. 2, pass it down the leg 
from the inside and up the neck through the 
mouth. Take a straight wire and pass down the 
leg, put the other end through the ring, and twist 
round No. 1. In this way the skin must be stuffed 
with cut cotton or flax. 
COLORING THE LEGS. 
The feet aud bills of some kind3 of birds, as 
ducks, geese, &c., lose their color in drying. This 
mast be remedied by coloring them with scaling 
wax dissolved in alcohol, of the color required, or 
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let 
a man stand with his face in what direction he 
will, he must necessarily turn his back upon half 
the world. 
