circling round, after the little æronaut had returned from the unaccustomed element with a plunge so gentle that it scarcely reached my ear, until the vibration ceased, and the surface was again left in unruffled : placidity. In the foreground of the prospect were the lake's dark wooded sides, variegated with a thousand shades of green, where the intermingling foliage of the pine, the sycamore, the chesnut in all its flowering beauty, the willow-and one of them wept near me, beside a grave where reposed in peace two infants whom a summer-torrent had carried to an immature but happy tomb -the rowan-tree, the oak, and the pendent branches of the birch, combined with that of innumerable others to charm the beholder, and soothe every sense of suffering. The far off mountains, here, covered with their fair and ever-during wreath; there, gloomy even in the distance, where the unwonted warmth had stolen away thus early their snowy, mantle from some rocky· ravines, down whose precipitous declivities

the muddy waters were dashing, though I heard them not, alike regardless of me and mine-closed the landscape, and though they confined in some degree the view, gave a wild, but commanding sublimity to the scene.

"Eliza," I said, and my heart overflowed as I spoke; "how lovely, how beautiful, is the country you inhabit!"

"Not over the wide world," she replied, with all the enthusiasm indigenous to the soil of her nativity, and, it may be remarked, natural to her temperament:"Not over the wide world," and she repeated it with a smile, which imparted an additional delicacy to her crimsoned cheek " is a spot to be found so fair!"

"Yes," I continued, " and how calculated to exalt and purify the affections, and, through divine teaching, to direct the mind to the contemplation of that land of unsullied delight, where rise the everlasting hills, and where the rivers of pleasure flow!"Eliza sighed; and during the deep pause

that ensued, I observed a few tears falling, which she endeavoured to conceal.

Winding up the path that conducted from the lake, along the margin of which our rambles had hitherto led us, we had insensibly reached the eminence from whence the prospect presented itself, which I have attempted faintly to delineate. A seat had been constructed on its summit, for which purpose a spiral rock had been excavated, and a kind of bench or form chiselled in it, capacious enough to receive several persons. We had remained for some time, silently musing on the scenery that surrounded us, and enabled amply to enjoy it from the height which we had attained, and where we now were seated. I felt at the moment an unusual sadness, and in the sighs which I heard at intervals escaping from the bosom of her who was at my side, it was not difficult to read, as in a mirror, the emotions which were agitating my own. Nor was it surprising that my heart should thus participate in the melancholy of my

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young and lovely companion. travelled in loneliness-and many an hour is lonely to the traveller, advance he by night or day-and oftentimes in sickness, for several months; and, if I had at length found a resting-place in the retreat, which to me was consecrated by the residence of the widow and orphan of my father's friend, I yet was conscious that there was but too much to awaken, even in the midst of its tranquil retirement, many a painful recollection.

Circumstances, unnecessary here to notice more particularly, had occurred to induce Mr. St. Evremond to remove to Switzerland. He had accordingly disposed of his property in England, and after wandering for a year or two from place to place, had finally settled towards the commencement of the Revolution, on the banks of the lake of Zurich. His income, even in his own country, had furnished him with the comforts, and even with the luxuries, too frequently considered indispensable to com

fort, of a genteel independence :—where he now resided, he was, consequently, regarded as a favourite of fortune, and possessed of a large portion of this world's good. His constitution, however, was broken. Though he had scarcely reached the middle stage of life, the vigour of manhood had long left his limbs, and at an age, when thousands of others are still rejoicing in their strength, he was summoned to pay the last debt of nature. But, though destined thus early to be withdrawn from the embraces of a wife whom he tenderly loved, and to relinquish the fond hope which he had anxiously cherished of training up his infant yet unborn in those paths, which he had personally experienced to be of pleasantness and peace, he had not forgotten the duties which devolved on him. As soon as he understood that there was a probability of his becoming a father, an event quite unexpected, as he had already been married several years without offspring, he had pleaded with many a secret and fervent in