And nucleus of a nation,

At least, a private station.

It is the saddest thought of all, that what we are to others, that we are much more to ourselves,—avaricious, mean, irascible, affected,—we are the victims of these faults. If our pride offends our humble neighbor, much more does it offend ourselves, though our lives are never so private and solitary.

If the Indian is somewhat of a stranger in nature, the gardener is too much a familiar. There is something vulgar and foul in the latter's closeness to his mistress, something noble and cleanly in the former's distance. Yet the hunter seems to have a property in the moon which even the farmer has not. Ah! the poet knows uses of plants which are not easily reported, though he cultivates no parterre. See how the sun smiles on him while he walks in the gardener's aisles, rather than on the gardener.

Not only has the foreground of a picture its glass of transparent crystal spread over it, but the picture itself is a glass or transparent medium to a remoter background. We demand only of all pictures that they be perspicuous, that the laws of perspective have been truly observed. It is not the fringed foreground of the desert nor the intermediate oases that detain the eye and the imagination, but the infinite, level, and roomy horizon, where the sky meets the sand, and heavens and earth, the ideal and actual, are coincident, the background into which leads the path of the pilgrim.

All things are in revolution; it is the one law of nature by which order is preserved, and time itself lapses and is measured. Yet some things men will do from age to age, and some things they will not do.

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DdMr. Saml Potter 2 qts W I 3/ 1 lb sugar 10d$0.64
One Cod line 5/84
April 8Qt W I 1/6 & 1 lb Sugar 10d & Brown Mug48
9Qt N E rum 1/ 10th Do. of Do 1/33
13Qt N E rum & 1 lb Sugar 15th 2 Qts N E rum 2/62
17Qt W I 1/6 Do N E 1/ lb Sugar 9d & Qt N E Rum71
22Qt N E rum 1/ lb sugar 9d & Qt N E rum 1/44½
23Qt N E rum 1/ Do of Do & sugar 5d39
24Qt N E rum 1/ lb sugar 9d28½
29Qt N E rum 1/ & lb sugar 9d—30th Rum 1/44½
May firstQt rum ½ lb Sugar 1/5d22
Qt N E rum 1/ & ½ lb Loaf Sugar 9d29
4Qt rum 1/ Sugar 5d22
6Qt N E rum 1/ & lb good sugar 11d31
7Qt N E rum 1/8th Qt N E rum 1/ & ½ lb Sugar 5d40
11Qt N E rum 11d lb Sugar 10d29
15Qt rum & lb Sugar 1/9 & Qt N E rum44
16To a Line for the Sceene 3/0.50
20To Qt N E rum 11d lb Sugar 10d0.29
21To Qt N E rum 11d & lb Sugar 10d0.29
27To Qt W I 1/6 & lb Sugar 10d0.39
June 5th1805 Settled this acct by Recev.g Cash in Full$8.82½

How many young finny contemporaries of various character and destiny, form and habits, we have even in this water! And it will not be forgotten by some memory that we were contemporaries. It is of some import. We shall be some time friends, I trust, and know each other better. Distrust is too prevalent now. We are so much alike! have so many faculties in common! I have not yet met with the philosopher who could, in a quite conclusive, undoubtful way, show me the, and, if not the, then how any, difference between man and a fish. We are so much alike! How much could a really tolerant, patient, humane, and truly great and natural man make of them, if he should try? For they are to be understood, surely, as all things else, by no other method than that of sympathy. It is easy to say what they are not to us, i. e., what we are not to them; but what we might and ought to be is another affair.

In the tributaries the brook minnow and the trout. Even in the rills emptying into the river, over which you stride at a step, you may see small trout not so large as your finger glide past or hide under the bank.

The character of this [the horned pout], as indeed of all fishes, depends directly upon that of the water it inhabits, those taken in clear and sandy water being of brighter hue and cleaner and of firmer and sweeter flesh. It makes a peculiar squeaking noise when drawn out, which has given it the name of the minister or preacher.