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maffes of light and fhade hovering in the 
‘ ¢aftern horizon, which were kindling 
anew in the murkey air, another ele¢tri- 
cal explofion? . The frequent heavy thun- 
der-ftorms, and prodigious falls of rain, 
in the American climate, are wonderfully 
awful to foreigners, but the natives, 
feemingly, regard them with indifference. 
On the following morning, we rofe with 
the dawn, and purfued our journey with | 
redoubled pleafure, for the preceding 
tempeft had cleared and cooled the air 
delicioufly, and all nature feemed to be 
revived. The novel appearance of hill 
and dale, and the uncommon beauty of 
the country through which we pafled, 
left an impreffion on my mind which can- 
not be effaced. The moft predominant 
foil was a light red mould, highly pro- 
duétive, as well in grain as grafs. In 
general, the crops looked healthy and 
clean: the tilth alfo denoted good huf- 
bandry. If the eye was delighted with a 
Jand{cape fo rich and diverfified, another 
fenfe was no lefs gratified, by the frequent 
odours exhaled from the clover-fields and 
new-mown hay. The rugged narrownels 
of the road proved likewife a fource of 
amufement, becaufe it compelled us to 
walk and examine more leifurely the adja- 
cent farms, and their rural economy. Hav- 
ing now left the dull level far behind, we 
found ourfelves gradually advancing intoa 
fine variegated country, agreeably uneven, 
without being mountainous. The land, in 
every direction, gently {welled into flopes 
and hillocks, pleafantly chequered with 
arable and pafture grounds, and enlivened 
here and there with hamlets and farm- 
houfes, peeping forth amidft orchards and 
gardens, or deeply embofomed in woods 
and vales. Numberlefs copfes and clumps 
of beautiful trees, in all their diverfity of 
vernal tints, interfperfed among the fal- 
lows and cultivated inclofures, gave a 
lively finith to the perfpective: whilft the 
mild ferenity of the blue expanfe threw an 
inexpreflible charm over the whole, leav- 
ing the fpeCtator nothing to with for, 
but the view of the Delaware, which 
lay concealed from fight only by the in- 
tervening hills. Such a fpecimen of the 
imterior of America, was really enchant- 
ing, when conrpared with the low lands 
and moiquito-fwamps which abound near 
othe fea. ‘ 
(To be continued } 

For the Monthly Magazine. 
The K1nc an ILLUMINEE. 
MONG tthe ridiculous trafh which 
Zé has been publilhed in Germany, 
Letters of the Illuminées. 
purporting to be the correfpondence of 
individuals and focieties involved in the 
intrigues of the Iluminées, it may, per- 
haps, be worth while to reprint two let- 
ters as a {pecimen, which are inferted in 
the 35 and 42 numbers of SCHLOTZER’s 
<¢ Staatfanzeigen.’ ‘They will terve to 
fhew that, if any reliance could be placed 
on fuch abfurd documents, the higheft 
perfonages in this country might be 
thought to have interfered in thefé com-~ 
binations. ; 
No. 4. 
-¢¢ Omnibus prefentes literas in- 
fpeturis falutem in domino fempiternam. 
Tenore prefentium notum facimus univerfis 
quod capitulum armigerorum militum & 
equitum, ordinis regii filentii jam dudum 
ex proprio motu membrorum ruptum eft. 
‘¢ Rationes funt multz. Nunquam nobis 
in votis erat dirigere principes ad religio- 
nem Rom, Cath. ficut calumniatores ver- 
bum noftrum, pro fide fervanda in alium 
fenfum torquerunt. Nunguam nobis in men- 
tem venit rempublicam condere, nec regia 
fecreta deferre. Abfit hoc de Ebelingio nof- 
tro defunéto magiftro cogitare. Sed quam 
maxime verum ef quod omnia templario- 
rum arcana in manibus noftris odium hujus 
ordinis excitaverint. 
<< In nos templarii milites Dei ficut draco- 
narli papze animo infenfe & inimico erant quia 
. infcripferunt expeditiones fceleri. Operta re= 
cludit ebrietas. Scala algebraica. ceconomica 
eorum eft omen deteftabile & ehenm princi- 
pes defenfores hujus ordinis inceditis per 
ignem cineri fuppofito dolofo. 
«¢ Securitas regni eft Wappam fociorum 
fempiternorum concordie Conftantini & fo- 
cietatis Thruelle non amplius fub fignis 
A. (). X. bibere. Melius eft dirimere pa- 
cem et conjunétionem cum iis. Difcedimus 
nunquam inter Colmopolitas—Equites filens 
tii adfunt & erunt. Gratiam tibi, o rex An- 
glie, fit pro bencfa€tis tuis. De patria de 
religione bene meritus es. O Cives, o Sena- 
tus valete favete nobis. 
s¢ Datum ex capitulo nofro regii filentii 
ETAT; 
No. 2. ‘* * * ® Societas de Porient ou regne 
le plus proford filence non nobifcum laboravit 
quia eunuchis hominibus defectuofis ditum 
concedebant quos regii ordinis leges femper 
excludunt. 
<« De virginis immactlate nativitate fo- 
lum modo inter theologos lis eft} ergo res 
quz.ad nos non attinet. 
<¢ Regum principamque numerus inter 
nos eminuit; é& brevi tempore preterlapfe 
regi Angliz folum tribuendum quod fic dicta 
focietas hesefaciens Londini in nibilum re- 
daéta fit. Maile herentes gradus fcale fem- 
per relinguimus. Ars regia & protocollum 
latine tra¢tantur quo per linguam hanc adi- 
tus non omnibus in focietatem noftram pa- 
teat. Myfteria illuminationis templorum 
nunguam nokram regionem perruperunt. 
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