s proposal of altering our federal government most alarming nature. Make the best of our government-say it is composed by anything spiration—you ought to be extremely cautious, ful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of seyour rights, you may lose them forever. If ng step be now made, the republic may be lost r. If this new government will not come up expectation of the people, and they should be pointed, their liberty will be lost, and tyranny and will arise. I repeat it again, and beg genn to consider that a wrong step, made now, lunge us into misery, and our republic will be

HERODOTUS

OTUS, born in Asia Minor, 484 B.C.; died s field was history, in which much romance place of accurate information and stateHe wrote delightfully, and scholars will se to enjoy his pages in which he relates an invasion of Greece, with excursions rehis wide geographical and antiquarian

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INUNDATION OF THE NILE

APS after censuring all the opinions that been put forward, on this obscure subject, to prove some theory of one's own. I will proceed to explain what I think to be the the Nile's swelling in the summer time. e winter the sun is driven out of his usual the storms, and removes to the upper ibya. This is the whole secret in the fewe words; for it stands to reason that the ich the Sun-god approaches the nearest he passes most directly over, will be scanter, and that there the streams which feed ill shrink the most.

in, however, more at length, the case is un in his passage across the upper parts ffects them in the following way: As the regions is constantly clear, and the counthrough the absence of cold winds, the passage across them acts upon them he is wont to act elsewhere in summer, th is in the middle of heaven—that is, he

ce it naturally enough comes to pass that winds blow from this quarter-the south and south-are of all winds the most rainy. And my opinion is that the sun does not get rid of all the

which he draws year by year from the Nile, -etains some about him. When the winter beto soften, the sun goes back again to his old in the middle of the heaven, and proceeds to et water equally from all countries. Till then ther rivers run big from the quantity of rain

which they bring down from countries where uch moisture falls that all the land is cut into es; but in summer, when the showers fail, and un attracts their water, they become low. The on the contrary, not deriving any of its bulk rains, and being in the winter subject to the ction of the sun, naturally runs at that season, e all other streams, with a less burden of water in the summer time. For in summer it is ex1 to attraction equally with all other rivers, n winter it suffers alone.

is the sun, also, in my opinion, which, by heathe space through which it passes, makes the air gypt so dry. There is thus perpetual summer in pper parts of Libya. Were the position of the enly bodies reversed, so that the place where the north wind and the winter have their dwellecame the station of the south wind and of the lay, while on the other hand the station of the wind became that of the north, the consequence 1 be that the sun, driven from the mid-heaven e winter and the northern gales, would betake lf to the upper parts of Europe, as he now to those of Libya, and then I believe his passage s Europe would affect the Ister exactly as the

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very hot countries, for breezes love to blow ne cold quarter.

IE COURSE OF THE NILE

course of the Nile is known, not only throughEgypt, but to the extent of four months' either by land or water above the Egyptian ; for on calculation it will be found that that length of time to travel from Eleto the country of the "Deserters." There ion of the river is from west to east. Beone has any certain knowledge of its nce the country is uninhabited by reason cessive heat.

ear, indeed, what I will now relate, from tives of Cyrené. Once upon a time, they were on a visit to the oracular shrine of when it chanced that in the course of conwith Etearchus, the Ammonian king, the pon the Nile, how that its sources were unall men. Etearchus upon this mentioned Nasimonians had come over to his court, asked if they could give any information the uninhabited parts of Libya, had told ng tale. (The Nasimonians are a Libyan ccupy the Syrtis and a tract of no great 1 the east.)

d there had grown up among them some men, the sons of certain chiefs, who, came to man's estate, indulged in all manavagances, and among other things drew e of their number to go and explore the ; of Libya, and try if they could not pene

Soloris, which is its farthest, is inhabited by ans of many distinct tribes, who possess the e tract except certain portions which belong to Phoenicians and the Greeks. Above the coastand the country inhabited by the maritime 5, Libya is full of wild beasts; while beyond the beast region there is a tract which is wholly very scant of water, and utterly and cntirely a

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e young men therefore despatched on this erby their comrades, with a plentiful supply of and provisions, traveled at first through the ited region, passing which they came to the beast tract, whence they finally entered upon the t, which they proceeded to cross in a direction east to west. After journeying for many over a wide extent of sands they came at last plain where they observed trees growing; apching them, and seeing fruit on them, they proed to gather it. While they were thus engaged, came upon them some dwarfish men, under the le height, who seized them and carried them The Nasimonians could not understand a word eir language, nor had they any acquaintance the language of the Nasimonians. They were cross extensive marshes, and finally came to a where all the men were of the height of their ictors, and black-complexioned. A great river d by the town, running from west to east, and ining crocodiles. Here let me dismiss Etearthe Ammonian, and his story, only adding that ording to the Cyrenæans) he declared that the nonians got safe back to the country, and that en whose city they had reached were sorcerers. th respect to the river which ran by their town,