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Show 32 S'l'. CIIRIS'l'OPHSR'S. From side to side she still can roll, And bid old Ocenn bubble, But lost her rudder's firm control, Useless her seamen's trouble. Patience grown sullen, drops her wing, And senseless Contemplation, Of every brighter, better thing Seems to usurp the station. But let me for the mind propose A worthier employment, That as each tardy minute flows, May minister enjoyment. Draw from tho circumstance and scene, A lesson worth the learning, For so, yc best may prove, I ween, Your gift of true discerning. The ship of science, sails of art, And rudder of man's reason, Play but a miserable part, Without heaven's breeze in season. Vain are the puny powers of man, And vain his restless actiOnOnly the good old gospel plnn ·Can yield us satisfaction. But grace resisted, all is death, E'en where the gospel's given; Only the Spirit's vital breoth, Can waft the soul to heaven. This is a scene, and these are verses, which might be better fitted for a page in Pilgrim's Progress-nevertheless the sentiments here expressed are true. As we passed along on our voyage our bait was talwn by a noble dolphin-one of the handso:nest creatures I have seen-bright azure, with dark spots above, and white below. We caught a good view of him as sailor Sam, our intelligent negro, was drawing him out of the water; when he gave himself a cmmiug twist, and escaped. At another time, our fisherman pulled up a baracoota, a noble fish, of the appearance of a pike, and when grown to 1ts full size, as voracious and dangerous as a shark. Fresh fish ST. CHRISTOPHER'S. 33 for dinner was a luxury which we enjoyed on the occasion; but for my own, part I paid dearly for our entertainment, which was the probable cause of an indisposition of three weeks' continuance, and not to be controled by medicine. I afterwards found that these creatures are often poisonous, a circumstance ascribed to their feeding on some of the copper-banks, below the waters, which are said to be frequent among some of these islands. During the course of this voyage, we were within sight at once, of several islands, Saba, already described; Anguilla, a small island, deriving its name, I presume, from its snake-like appearance; St. Martin's, St. Bartholomew, St. Eustatia, and in the distance, St. Christopher's. We were sorry to learn, that Anguilla is not in so prosperous a condition as many of the neighboring British islands. How it fares with the laborers, I know not; but as it is a poor island, it is probable that many of them have been induced to quit it, under the inducement of higher wages in other colonies. With regard to the white inhabitants, we were told that they had expended their compensation money somewhat too easily, and were reduced to a state of no small poverty and distress. I believe there is some view entertained of converting it into a penal settlement. St. Martin's, belonging partly to the French :md partly to the Dutch, and St. Bart's, a Swedish island, once a place of much resort as a free port, but now little frequented, present to the eye, as one passes by, a picturesque outline. This remark, however, applies with greater force to St. Eustatin, which rises to a great height, and has all the appearance of an extinct volcru10. I am told that it is so, in fact : the plain at the bottom of the mountain, of small extent, appeared, in the distrult view, to be green with sugar cultivation. The approach to St. Christopher's from the north west, is highly interesting. 'l'he northern part of the island is mountainous ru1d clothed with forest; and as we drew near to the coast, it was delightful to observe the brows of the hills ru1d plains below, bright and verd,mt -with the sugar cane-the settlements of the planters looking neat ru1d prosperous-some |