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PERSONIFICATIO,N.,...,;..UNIVERSE ONE VAST GIANT. 53channel deified, and ideas symbolized; so things, as for instance mountains,are personified. This procedure, so obvious and general, is trace..able throughout etymology.Bence are the opponents of the conquer.ing or incursive Hercules; the sons of Neptune; the fraternity Bergionand Albion on the Rhone ; Riphreus, an ominous sound to mariners,­and vaTious others through tbe diversities of language. .But we mustreco11ect, Whatis the universe but one vast giant? Such it presented it...self to ancient ideas.notto presentendless subject,of fable.These Straits were too frequently in rt'currenceThus,too, ancient denominations,termsfounded in the remotest radicals oflanguage, remain locallyaffix:ed tothe;present day, for such as choose to bestow time on theseinvestigations.'But this number is few; for it is easier to coin newmatter than re.cast the old : and as to authenticity, that is a quality,ofsmaH weight with mankind at large: research must be its own reward.. ~"Quaramtine is indispensabJy to be complied with Qn crossing to Eu- 'fope from Africa. The negligent habits of the Moors are too weIl known•.These people give a specimen on the subject, which proves that logic'and truth are not ex:actly the same.To the inquietudes of the Europeansat 'l'angier,, the reply was,-" Here are three thousand of us, and,ten individnals oryou. Do you imagine our lives are not as valuable tous, in OUT estimations, as yours are to you?'> Yet no cautionary mea­SUfe was taken. At Tariifa, an indulgence was first' granted to quitthe island, and i ' ,go through the period of confinement in a solitaryguard-house on the main. At the end of six: daJs the examination tookplaee. It was conductedwithperfect politencss; but much, deeper ltll-, pres$ions of commiseration and sympath~ were excited in the minds ofQUI' inspectors, in considering the bopeless future state orour wretchedrenegade, than anytbat could have heen wrought by symptoms of themost tnorbid corporeal malignity.