ifgsS 
Sabbath and feast clays. The Samaritans 
have adopted the Pentateuch alone of all 
the Biblical books, their Book of Joshua 
being a very different work from ours. The 
first printed edition of the Pentateuch dales 
Boulogne, 1432, and is an object of no little 
curiosity to those interested in ancient tomes. 
The names of commentators and writers on 
the whole of the Pentateuch is legion. 
the harbor Disco. It was a perpendicular 
wall of ice, a hundred feet high at either 
end, with a depression in the center. It was 
less than nine hundred feet from the ship. 
Loading a sixty-pound Parrott with a coni¬ 
cal shot, the captain fired at the icy target. 
The first shot fell short 5 the second entered 
the berg well up, leaving a well-defined cir¬ 
cular hole, without proditctiug any other 
“ The next day the captain and myself took 
a small boat to ascertain, by a closer view, 
wlmt effect our shot had had. We could see 
where the shot had made an impression but 
there stood the berg in all its icy grandeur 
and solemn defiance. One ball had entered 
so far as to force the ice out on (ho opposite 
side, where it remained in a hugh mass. It. 
required ten minutes for the hardy sailors and 
BEADING THE PENTATEUCH. 
STORY OF FIAMETTA; 
OR, WHAT MADE GUISEPPE A BRIGAND. 
Cuaki.es D. Warner, the author of my 
‘Summer in a Garden" is contributing to 
" < >ld. and New ” some 
We have, in the accompanying spirited 
engraving, a line representation of the Jew¬ 
ish priesthood of ancient times. In the ear¬ 
lier history of mankind, 
the functions of the 
priest were commonly 
discharged by the bead 
of each family; but on 
the expansion of the lat- 
ter into the State, the 
office of priest became a ^ 
public one, which nb- 
sorbed the duties as well 
as the privileges previ- 
ously belonging to the ^ ^| ||r|l| || 
heads of the separate 
families or communities. ^ 
Moses appointed his 
elder brother, 
his assistant and spokes- 
of the Mosaic Law lie 
conferred upon him and 
his descendants the he- ^ 
redilary dignity of the 
priesthood. Aaron con- 
tinned to assist his broth- 
cr in the management of 
public affairs until one 
hundred aim twenty? 
three years of age, when 
lie died on Mount Hur. 
His third son, Eleazer, |§p lggj||s|^ 
succeeded him as High 
Priest. Eeeazer was 
followed by others until ||i .. 
the destrucUou of the t^s| 
The High Priest tv as 
assisted by inferior min- 
isters, distributed into i ■ 
twenty-four classes, each VS-u f 
of which was subject to f?£l M }v||y^£’ 
slaying and offering vie- 
titns; in preparing the fil 
shew bread, burning the |j 
incense and tending the 
sanctuary. Outside, they 
were employed in in- : 
structing the people, at- : 
offerings, enforcing the 
cleanness, &c. Offerings ^ j feFsg jpj 
and other gifts were set ||6 
aside for their mainle- jH 
nance. The}' wore a i = ij. 
distinguishing dress, tlic f ( w ' 
cliief characteristics of 1® 
which were a white iBlfiPifiH 
tunic, an embroidered . jitp< 
cincture and a turban- ! GjjJy ^ 
shaped head dress. |J 
Tlic High Priest rep- |fi 1 Cgf 
resented in the engrav- : jp W 
ing is supposed to be r j r LrA 
reading the Pentateuch, f ' | i; y 
or first five books nf < r 
Old Testament, to the ! If | 
people siandiug below I 
him. The vellum or | |Bp 
manuscript rests on a 11 h ki- te 3 
richly carved frame- : 
work, studded with pre- f|= _ 
cions stones, gilded with '. B 
gold and crowned with life - i^|if|||jg 
ft bell and other orua- I Pgjj g 
materials, is thrown over l t |1 
the High Priest’s head, . V- 
as was the custom, and Jij fillllHiy 
his feet are shoeless. dl 
The High Priest did not JSp 
necessarily appear bare- ;I|,~ \ 
footed^before the people, 
inner temple in that con- |g^Dl§jll8|p 
dilion. Tiie priests geu- 
erally wore long flowing ^jl|t|t§: 
beards, as is represented gSjs ^ gfjfffllj 
in the picture. In the 
background are seen - 
Hebrew characters and — — ■— 
various devices drawn ~ r - ■ 
on cloth, which arc full ^ ~_ i^= 
of meaning to the wor- - = 
shipersgathered in front. — 
The Pentateuch was 
preserved in the Ark of 
the Covenant. Every 
seventh year it was read to the people, and 
doubtless the school of prophets, instituted 
ftt the time of Samuel, propagated its use 
by copies. Every Jewish Synagogue is, ac¬ 
cording to the traditional law, to possess a 
roll of the Pentateuch, on parchment, out 
effect; the third shot was a shell which 
struck, scattered the ice, but did not enter; 
the fourth was another shell, which left a 
circular mark, but did not explode. This 
experiment proved the solidity of an iceberg; 
and wlmt. a formidable obstacle it must be 
to encounter! 
ourselves to pull around its immense base. 
“ We approached its very base, and looked 
up its lofty and beautiful side ; but wc had 
scarcely returned to the ship, when, with 
the loud booming of a thousand cannon, the 
berg split in the center, and one of its lofty 
peaks rolled over just where we had been." 
