in the day or night, it will come to pass sconer or later accordingly.

"If an object is seen early in a morning, which is not frequent, it will be accomplished in a few hours afterward: if at noon, it will probably be accomplished that very day; if in the evening, perhaps that night; If after candles be lighted, it will be accomplished that night; the latter always an accomplishment by weeks, months, and sometimes years, according to the time of the night the vision is seen.

"When a shroud is seen about one, it is a sure prognostic of death. The time is judged according to the height of it about the person; for if it is not seen above the middle, death is not to be expected for the space of a year, and perhaps some months longer: and as it is frequently seen to ascend higher towards the head, death is concluded to be at hand within a few days, if not hours, as daily experience confirms. Examples of this kind were shown me, when the person of whom the observations were then made was in perfect health.

"It is ordinary with them to see houses, gardens, and trees, in places void of all these, and this in process of time is wont to be accomplished; as at Mogslot, in the Isle of Skie, where there were but a few sorry low houses thatched with straw; yet in a few years the vision, which appeared often, was accomplished by the building of several good houses in the very spot represented to the seers, and by the planting of orchards there.

"To see a spark of fire is a forerunner of a dead child, to be seen in the arms of those persons; of which there are several instances. To see a seat empty at the time of sitting in it, is a presage of that person's death quickly after it.

"When a novice, or one that has lately obtained the second sight, sees a vision in the nighttime without doors, and comes near a fire, he presently falls into a swoon.

"Some find themselves, as it were, in a crowd of people, having a corpse, which they carry along with them; and after such visions the seers come in sweating, and describe the vision that appeared. If there oe any of their acquaintance among them, they give an account of their names, as also of the bearers; but they know nothing concerning the corpse."

Horses and cows (according to the same credu. lous author) have certainly sometimes the same faculty; and he endeavours to prove it by the signs of fear which the animals exhibit, when secondsighted persons see visions in the same place.

"The seers (he continues) are generally illiterate and well-meaning people, and altogether void of design; nor could I ever learn that any of them ever made the least gain by it; neither is it reputable among them to have that faculty. Besides, the people of the Isles are not so credulous as to believe implicitly before the thing predicted is accom. plished; but when it is actually accomplished af terward, it is not in their power to deny it, with. VOL 1.-10

out offering violence to their own sense and reason Besides, if the seers were deceivers, can it be rea. sonable to imagine that all the islanders who have not the second sight should combine together, and offer violence to their understandings and senses, to enforce themselves to believe a lie from age to age? There are several persons among them whose title and education raise them above the sus picion of concurring with an impostor, merely to gratify an illiterate, contemptible set of persons; nor can reasonable persons believe that children, horses, and cows, should be pre-engaged in a com. bination in favour of the second sight."-MARTIN'S Description of the Western Isles of Scotland, p & 11.

BATTLE OF THE BALTIC.

Or Nelson and the North,
Sing the glorious day's renown,
When to battle fierce came forth

All the might of Denmark's crown.

And her arms along the deep proudly shone;

By each gun the lighted brand,

In a bold determined hand,

And the prince of all the land

Led them on.

Lay their bulwarks on the brine;
While the sign of battle flew

On the lofty British line;

It was ten of April morn by the chime:

As they drifted on their path,

There was silence deep as death;
And the boldest held his breath,
For a time.-

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But the might of England flush'd
To anticipate the scene;

And her van the fleeter rush'd

O'er the deadly space between.

"Hearts of oak!" our captains cried; when each

gun

From its adamantine lips

Spread a death-shade round the ships,

Like the hurricane eclipse

And the havoc did not slack,

Till a feeble cheer the Dane

To our cheering sent us back;

Their shots along the deep slowly boom :-

Then ceased-and all is wail,

As they strike the shatter'd sail;

Or, in conflagration pale,

Light the gloom.

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Out spoke the victor then,

As he hail'd them o'er the wave;
"Ye are brothers! ye are men!
And we conquer but to save :-
So peace instead of death let us bring;
But yield, proud foe, thy fleet,

With the crews, at England's feet,