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Irish Sea, below Drog- Course very sinuous. heda.

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Chapel.

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German Ocean at Sun- The course of this river is very winderland.

Ouse; near Barnby Course very winding.

Course sinuous, receives numerous streams. Navigated to Sheffield.

Bristol Channel below Course winding between hills, almost

ding.

Navigated to Durham.

from Trecastle.

Newport.

universally beautiful.

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Cornwall.

Termination.

English Channel Ply- Pursues a very sinuous course, forms

Character, Remarks, &c.

mouth souud.

at its Plymouth.

mouth the noble harbour of

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Yorkshire, N. Riding, Ouse below Borobridge Course very meandring, and for the

near Hellbeck.

most part beautiful.

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Pursues an eccentric and sinuous course Navigable nearly to Torrington.

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Findorn

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German Ocean mouth Course winding through rich vales and of the Thames. fine country. Navigated to Maidstone.

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Elginshire, from Car- Murray Frith at Fin- Course meandring. ryuragan mountains.

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Rivers.

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Exmoor.

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Perthshire, from the Firth of Forth.

foot of Ben Lomond.

Character, Remarks, &c.

Course very meandring, very broad below Throsk. The firth of Forth forms Ja noble harbour.

Devonshire, a pool in Bristol Channel below Course winding, mostly beautiful, wide

Barnstaple.

towards the mouth.

Somersetshire, from English Channel at Course very winding, through a very

fine country, forms a large estuary at its

mouth.

Liffy

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County of Wicklow, Irish Sea. Dublin harnear Blessed Rock.

Course meandring.

bour.

Tivy

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mouth.

Cardiganshire, from Cardigan Bay, 2 miles Llyn-Tivy, near Ystrad- and a half over at the

The other Rivers of Great Britain and Ireland, all or most of them of great local convenience, and familiar to those who reside in their vicinity, may be ranked as under 60 miles in length, and are of little geographical consideration.

Course meandring and beautiful.

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SECTION V.

The Lover's Catechism.

AN IMITATION FROM THE ITALIAN.

Tell me, my heart, with anxious cares oppressed
What doubtful passion labours in my breast?
Tell me, dost thou inveterate hate approve,
Or wilt thou rather yield to gentle love?
A pensive ramble o'er the flowery plains
May ease the load of care my soul sustains,
That path we'll try-in yonder valley green
Love's kind God delights his votaries seen.
Let's go, my heart-yet something whispers there
She's beautiful-yea as the stars she's fair!
Allowed-but will my love less cruel be?
Alas! ungrateful girl, thour't not to me!
Shall I then hate, when once I loved so true?
Hate, hate, my heart-nor think she lives for you.
Gods! can no prayers, no tears of anguish move
Thy hardened soul, to feel the shaft of love!
Cans't thou behold me languishingly fond
Yet scorn, O cruel, scorn the tender bond!
Cruel thou art, yet how divinely fair
They only know, who've seen thee light as air
Trip o'er the green, or thread the mazy vale,
Thine auburn ringlets waving in the gale.
Love, love, my heart, the tide of joy flows high,
And tears of fondness tremble in mine eye.

O'er

O'er every rival she supremely shines;
To her my heart with fluttering hope inclines.
Graceful her step, her form to love disposed,
Nature with her the work of beauty closed!
Love on, my heart, good fortune now implore,
Cupid commands-and doubt exists no more.

APPROACH OF WINTER.

Spring gone-and Summer's fleeting sunshine blaze
Faded in Autumns lowering skies;
Winter no more the coming blast delays,
But stands confest to human eyes.

The hoary Monarch, in his mien severe,
Wrapt in Arctic fùrs appears;
Scatters the falling trophies of the year,
And fills the heart with numerous fears.

To swell the lengthened list and dismal train
Of dire ills, his track attending,

The stormy wind, the pattering hail and rain
Fast in forceful streams descending.

Followed by cold intense and falling snows
And ices crusted o'er the pools,

The fast approach of brumal horror shews,
And plainly tells that winter rules.

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