that it really is, what tradition calls it, the self same well, whence the water was borne to the governor of the feast.' I saw with pleasure several waterpots' of an antique shape, with which the Arab women come to fetch water: they are of brown clay, and about two feet high; small at the bottom, with a narrow neck and a wide mouth; there are two circular handles fixed to the neck. Our route continued to lead us through a country generally mountainous; and when we were within five miles of Tiberias, we visited the spot where our Saviour is said to have delivered his 'Sermon on the Mount.' There is a granite rock rising four feet above the summit of a sloping hill, against which tradition asserts that He leaned his back as He spoke. If it be true, He must have faced the North, with ancient Bethulia towering on an opposite mountain; and to the East He commanded a beautiful prospect of the Galilean sea, and the mountains which environ it. From the West and South, the ground descends as far as the rock, with so gentle an inclination as to be almost a plain; and there is much grass in the place;" so much so, that it is to the neighbourhood of this very spot that the modern Pachas of Acre annually send their horses to graze. The place pointed out as the scene where the 'five thousand' were miraculously fed, is only a few yards further on towards Tiberias." (P. 292–294.)

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The simple devotion which breathes through the following sentence, is a beautiful contrast to the mummery of Romish and Greek, as well as Mahometan pilgrimages.

"I have knelt down and kissed the spot where He once lay, and that, where I hope my sins are for ever laid...... the foot of His Cross! The places where indeed there, but all around was confusion. Greeks, Arme. nians and Roman Catholics, all singing their masses in the same Church, at the same moment: Turks walking among them, and eyeing all with supercilious derision: hundreds of poor ignorant Christians assisting at their several rites, some, I should hope, with that humble heart, and spark of true faith, which a merciful and gracious Saviour will not disdain." (P $15.)

As nothing is added in this tour or sought to be added to our topographical asquaintance with these consecrated spots, we content ourselves with the foregoing specimens of the feeling, with which they were visited, and close our quotation with the very gratifying account of the meeting between the field-officer and Mr. Wolf, to which we have already alluded,

"After a long privation of the blessings of real Christian communion and conversation, I have to thank my God for the valued privilege of meeting here with a Christian friend, whose history and character demand a more than common interest. Born a Jew, and brought up in the religion of his fathers, it has pleased the Almighty to single him out as a monument of mercy from the thousands of his perishing nation. He has embraced from the heart the truths of Christianity, and is now a zealous Ambassador from Heaven to beseech mankind that they would be reconciled to their offended God. His name is the Rev. J seph Wolf. He is going to Jerusalem, and I am coming from it: he arrived by sea, and I by land; and we have met together, without any previous concert or knowledge of each other, on the same day, in the same city, and at the house of Simon the Tanner! And how truly precious a day I have passed in his society! We remained together during the whole of it, and slept in the same room at night. So many uninterrupted hours of conversation fully developed before me a character, which is in itself thoroughly open and JANUARY, 1824.--xo. 261. 77

undisguised. I found him a child in the world, but a giant in the cause of
his God. He is going as a sheep among wolves; but the Great Shepherd
of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. He is going alone, but it is with
a firm reliance on that Arm, which can alone protect him, to preach the
Gospel of Jesus. There is something in his mere pronunciation of the
name of his Saviour; something which bespeaks a mind more tenderly
alive to the value of the sacrifice made for him, something which denotes
a more peculiar personal appropriation of the Messiah to him, as being a
Jew, than ordinary Christians appear to feel. He never utters the name
of Jesus, without seeming to imply, in voice and manner, that his heart
"Jesus is mine." (P.
whispers at the same time, from its inmost core,

330-332.)

May the labours of this zealous missionary and of his coadjutors be abundantly blessed in awakening attention among the members of the Jewish synagogue to the proofs, that he, whom their fathers crucified in that very spot, was their own Messiah! Of the preparation which the minds of many in that remarkable nation are undergoing for the eventual reception of the gospel among them, the following authentic account of one of the Jews of Cochin, affords an acceptable specimen.

"Moses Azarphati, an eminent Jew, met us, and conducted us immediately, at our request, to a Synagogue, in which, it being Saturday, the principal Jews were assembled to hear the law of Moses. (P. 92.)

little. The sum "I had a long and interesting conversation with Moses, in the Portuguese language, of which, fortunately, he understood of what he told me was, that the Jews, those at least who had studied the Sacred Writings, all agreed, that the 53d chapter of Isaiah related to the Messiah; that the accounts given of Jesus of Nazareth, exactly correspond with the description of him given therein; but that there is one material point, in which he fails; which is, that, having publicly declared He came to fulfil the law of Moses, He nevertheless permitted his followers to dispense with the rite of circumcision, and to change the day of the Sabbath;-acts which positively violated the law of Moses; and such, therefore, as the true Messiah would never have allowed. This was, he said, the common opinion of the Jews; but he admitted that, for his own part, the undeniable conformity of Jesus to the predicted Messiah, the long and dreadful dispersion and sufferings of the Jews, and the present returning kindness of the nations towards them, in seeming conformity with the time pointed out in the prophecies of the 1260 days: all combined to throw his mind into an indiscribable state of ferment. He almost believed -but then the unaccountable change of the most holy Sabbath-day! He allowed the total confusion of tribes, so that, if Messiah were yet to come, He could not be known to be of the tribe of Judah, unless by a miracle. Still, he thought, God would perhaps vouchsafe a miracle to restore the identity of families and tribes; and that this was a general belief among his brethren. He says he has read the New Testament with attention, and thinks it a most excellent work: but if its accounts had been true, how was it possible that so many thousands of Israelites, living witnesses of the miracles therein related, could yet refuse to believe, and even punish the supposed Messiah with death? I have purposely abstained from recapitulating the arguments usually employed against what Moses Azarphati advanced, as they are well known to every Christian of common intelligence, who has at all studied the grounds of his own belief; but I thought it might not be uninteresting to know from the fountain head, what the Jews think and say for themselves; and Moses is really a fair specimen of the most liberal among them; being also a man of considerable

natural abilities, improved by study, and free from violent prejudices. Before he left me, he presented me with a printed Hebrew almanac, and some manuscripts in Hebrew, of a trifling nature; one of which, however, kindly written by himself on purpose for me, contains an account of all that is known concerning the settlement and subsequent history of the Jews at Cochin. On shaking hands with him, I told him I should earnestly pray that God would enlighten his mind, so that he might see the truth: he squeezed my hand with warmth, and said he sincerely hoped it might be so." (P. 103-110.)

The simultaneous abatement of those prejudices against Christianity, which had long prevailed with the force of a second nature in the breasts of Jews and heathens in various parts of the world, coupled with the present expectations of both Jews and Mahometans, forms together one of the most awakening signs of the times, and affords the highest encouragement to those efforts of the Christian church, which, however feebly concerted and weakly supported, must continue to increase and to prevail till the day, when it shall be seen through the blessing of him, who refuses not to reward a cup of cold water, given in the name of a disciple, that no pious endeavour of any Christian missionary has ever been made in vain.

TO NANCY.

The following words by Mr. J. Richardson, to the well known tune of "Fy gar rub her o'er wi strae," are transcribed from "The Select Melodies of Scotland," an admirable union of music and poetry, in which we recognize the names of Scott, Campbell, Miss Baillie, Mrs. Grant, Thompson, Smollett, Macneil, Hogg, &c.

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THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT are,

1. Jesus Christ, the Head of the Church; whose genealogy, birth, life,
doctrine, miracles, death, resurrection, and ascension are record-
ed by the four evangelists

these Epistles were, viz.

General
Particular

I. John.
II. John.
III. John.
Jude.

The Revelations.

Intelligence in Literature, Science, and the Arts.

INTELLIGENCE IN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND
THE ARTS.

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A paper on the compressibility of water, air, and other fluids, and on the chrystalization of liquids, and the liquefaction of aeriform fluids, by simple pressure, was prepared by Mr. Perkins, our countryman for the purpose of submitting it to the Royal Society at their last meeting It contained a minute description, accompanied with figures, of his compressing apparatus; a diagram, showing the ratio of the compressibility of water, beginning at the pressure of ten atmospheres, and proceeding regularly to that of two thousand; and some experiments on the compression of atmospheric air, which appears by them to follow a law varying from that generally assigned to it by philosophers. Mr. Perkins intended to announce, also, in this paper, that he had affected the liquefaction of atmospheric air, and other gaseous substances, by a pressure equal to that of about 1100 atmospheres; and that he had succeeded in chrystalizing several liquids by simple pressure.

Illustrations of the Works of Washington Irving, Esq.-We transcribe the following criticism from the London Literary Gazette, because we hope to be able, in the course of the year, to introduce some of the engravings in our work.

Mr. Murray has, this season, published an unusual number of these fine illustrations of books, thus combining the beauties of art with the attractions of literature in a way which has not of late years been very prevalent. Among the causes of the disunion, we may mention the great expense of such embellishments, and still more the delays which the procrastination of artists too frequently occasioned. The latter evil induced booksellers to do without their assistance altogether, or to employ labours of an inferior style: thus crudities or lithography came to be substituted for finish and copperplate; and the refinements of the burin yielded to the facilities of scraping, wood, or stone. The engravings before us are of a high character, and renew our acquaintance with the truly admirable in art. A fine frontispiece portrait of the best writer in polite literature which America has produced, does credit to the pencil of G. S. Newton, and the needle of E. Scriven. It is followed by ten designs by Leslie, and engraved by C. Heath, C. Rolls, J. Romney, and W. and E. Finden, and A. W. Warren, from various parts of the Sketch Book and Knickerbocker's History, all of which are honourable to the state of our National School. Rip Van Winkle is an exceedingly clever and characteristic subject-his dog exquisite-and the engraving by Rolls doing justice to the conception of the painter. The legend of the Sleepy Hollow is equally humorous, and still better engraved by the same hand. Wouter Van Twiller deciding the lawsuit, (the only piece drawn by W. Allston,) is inclined to the caricatura, and there are some slight flaws in our copy of the plate. The Dutch Fire Side is a delightful engraving, by W. Finden, in which a mastery of light and shadow is displayed-a