The bulk of this planet is about a thousand times that of the earth, and his orbit is nine hundred millions of miles distant from the sun; to accomplish his revolution round that great luminary, requires thirty years, although he moves with a velocity of twenty-one thousand miles an hour.

Saturn is considered a most interesting planet, on account of the number of his moons, and the splendid rings which encircle his body; his moons are seven in number, and the one nearest to him, will appear to the inhabitants ten times as large as our moon does to us.

Two immense luminous rings entirely encircle this planet, the one being within the other; the inner one of these rings is thirty thousand miles distant from his body, and its breadth is about seventeen thousand; the breadth of the outer ring is about ten thousand miles, and the space between is supposed to be three thousand.

These rings are dark bodies, the same as Saturn himself, and they shine upon his surface with the reflected light of the sun, the same as our moon does upon the earth; they accompany the planet in his revolution round the sun, and they also revolve round him in the same time that he turns round upon his axis.

Although Saturn is at such an immense distance, he may be seen with the unaided eye, but he appears small, and shines with a feeble light; his moons and rings can only be seen by the aid of a telescope.

Saturn is more than eight hundred millions of miles distant from the earth, and he has only the ninetieth part of the light and heat of the sun that our world has, but in the nights his moons and rings must have a splendid appearance to the inhabitants.

The planet Ura'nus comes next in order after Saturn,

and is frequently called Herschel, in honour of Sir William, a most distinguished philosopher and astronomer, who first discovered this planet, in the year 1781.

This distant planet revolves round the sun, at the enormous distance of eighteen hundred millions of miles, and it takes him eighty-four years to make his vast circuit, moving at the rate of fifteen thousand miles an hour.

Uranus is about eighty-one times larger than the earth, and he can only be very dimly seen without the assistance of the telescope; the light that he receives from the sun, will only be a three hundred and sixtieth part of what the earth enjoys, yet the sun's rays are so brilliant, that the light will be fully equal to that received by the earth on a cloudy day.

One would imagine that this planet would be intensely cold, on account of his immense distance from the sun; but this may not be the case, for the heat of the sun is not entirely regulated by his distance.

Thus we have our warmest season, when we are most distant from him, and even in the hottest parts of the earth, there is perpetual snow on mountains three miles above the level of the sea.

Uranus has six sat'ellites or moons, the size of which has not been ascertained, but it is thought that they are considerably larger than our moon.

The orbit of Neptune is still farther from the sun than that of Saturn, but as this planet has only been discovered within these late years, much is not known respecting him.

LESSON XLVIII.

A LAW REPORT.-THE SPIDER AND THE FLY.

Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose,
The spectacles set them unhappily wrong;
The point in dispute was, as all the world knows,
To which the said spectacles ought to belong.
So the tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause
With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning,
While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws,

So famed for his talent in nicely discerning.

"In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship," he said, "will undoubtedly find, That Nose has had spectacles always in wear,

Which amounts to possession, time out of mind." Then holding the spectacles up to the court"Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle, As wide as the ridge of the nose is; in short, Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.Again, would your lordship a moment suppose, ('Tis a case that has happen'd, and may do again,) That the visage or countenance had not a Nose, Pray who would, or who could, wear spectacles then? On the whole it appears, and my argument shows, With a reasoning the court will not ever condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the nose was as plainly intended for them.”. Then shifting his side, (as a lawyer knows how,) He pleaded again in hehalf of the Eyes; But what were his arguments, few people know,

For the court did not think they were equally wide.

So his lordship decreed, with a grave, solemn tone,
Decisive and clear, without one if or but-
That, "whenever the Nose put his spectacles on,
By day-light or candle-light-Eyes should be shut.'

Fresh was the breath of morn; the busy breeze,
As poets tell us, whispered through the trees,

Cowper.

And swept the dew-clad blooms with wings so light; Phoebus* got up and made a blazing fire,

That gilded every country house and spire,
And, smiling, put on his best looks so bright.

On this fair morn, a spider, who had set,
To catch a breakfast, his old waving net
With curious art, upon a spangled thorn;
At length, with gravely-squinting, longing eye,
Near him beheld a pretty, plump, young fly,
Humming her little orisons to morn.

"Good morrow, dear Miss Fly!" (quoth gallant Grim ;)
"Good morrow, Sir!" (replied Miss Fly to him ;)
"Walk in Miss, pray, and see what I am about ;"
"I'm much obliged to you, Sir," (Miss Fly rejoined.)
"My eyes are both very good, I find,

That I can plainly see the whole without."

"Fine weather Miss," "Yes very, very fine" Quoth Miss, "prodigious fine, indeed!"

"But why so coy (quoth Grim) that you decline To put within my bower your pretty head ?" ,"Tis simply this," quoth cautious Miss,

"I fear you'd like my pretty head so well," You'd keep it for yourself, Sir,-who can tell ?"

• The Sun.

"Then let me squeeze your lovely hand, my dear, And prove that all your fears are foolish, vain,' "I've a sore finger, Sir, nay more, I fear

You really would not let it go again."

"Poh, poh! child, pray dismiss your idle dread, I would not hurt a hair of that sweet head: Well then, with one kind kiss of friendship meet me." "La, Sir," (quoth Miss with seeming artless tongue,) "I fear our salutation would be long;

So loving, too, I fear that you would eat me." So saying, with a smile she left the rogue,

To weave more lines of death, and plan for prog.

Dr. Wolcot.

LESSON XLIX.

WHEAT.-OATS.-BARLEY.-RYE.

Every thing that has life requires support, and among the rest man; our bodies are continually wasting away, and if we did not take food, we should soon be in the grave.

Our skins are full of little apertures or openings called pores, so small that they cannot be seen with the naked eye; through these pores a watery humour, that was once blood, is continually passing, and this process used by nature is called perspiration.

To fill up the void, caused by perspiration, we take food, the nourishing parts of which, are, by wonderful contrivances changed into a white liquid called chyle,* which, after undergoing other processes, is conducted to the blood with which it mixes.

The different productions which constitute our diet,

* Kile.