there is a circular table formed of the whitest marble, surrounded by a rich gold lattice-work with green silk fringe depending. This table is supported by a figure exquisitely carved, and in the attitude of kneeling. On the borders of the lake, between Tarbert and Luss, are public baths about a mile distant from each other, and connected in part by long colonnades of the Ionic order and by gravel walks. There are baths in each community, but to the public baths the members resort when they desire a change and wish to see friends of other societies.

"Upon the first, second, and sometimes the third ridges of the principal mountains, terraces are formed with light balustrades encircling the mountains ;upon some, from whence finer views can be obtained, they are found still higher. The waters which formerly

mind may work, and from which invention must originate. Nothing can come of nothing.

"Homer is supposed to be possessed of all the learning of his time; and we are certain that Michael Angelo and Raffaelle were equally possessed of all the knowledge in the art which had been discovered in the works of their predecessors.

"A mind enriched by an assemblage of all the treasures of ancient and modern art, will be more elevated and fruitful in resources, in proportion to the number of ideas which have been carefully collected and thoroughly digested."-6th Dis

course.

settled on the ridges and occasioned swamps, are now drained off, and descend in cascades variously constructed by the aid of fragments of the rock. Upon each terrace there are several huts and cottages furnished with a select number of books for the amusement of visitors: these cottages are all in the ornamented rural style with neat wicker gates in front, and are entwined with ivy and honeysuckle, or surrounded with laurel and other shrubs. In ascending from one ridge to another, there are occasional seats; some in the open air, others in rustic temples, which at a distance resemble fragments of rock, and are ornamented with shells and moss: there are also seats in excavations having the appearance of the openings of caverns. Upon the smaller mountains, observatories are placed, as also telegraphs communicating with other societies in various directions. In the groves and in various parts of the mountains are statues, of the most exquisite workmanship, of those who have been distinguished by extraordinary powers of body or of mind.

"But the morning-star announces the approach of day, and I perceive a troop of little children with their attendants ascending the side of the opposite mountain, in order to have a better view of the rising sun.

When they reach one of the resting

places, they will gather a herb possessing a healing quality, for the relief of some of the invalids, to whom they will themselves present it. This act will in itself prove grateful to their feelings; but as the principle of benevolence is of the highest importance to individual and general happiness, it cannot be associated with too many agreeable sensations."

At the earliest dawn the bugle was sounded, and answered successively by each community on the borders of the lake. The birds began their songs, as if to welcome the return of light; and the lowing of the cattle and the bleating of the sheep, together with the movements of innumerable animals, appeared as if all nature was reviving. As soon as the sun had ascended the horizon, a scene of varied and

"That the influence of early associations on the mind might be employed, in the most effectual manner, to aid our moral principles, appears evidently from the effects which we daily see it produce, in reconciling men to a course of action which their reason forces them to condemn: and it is no less obvious that, by means of it, the happiness of human life might be increased, and its pains diminished, if the agreeable ideas and feelings which children are so apt to connect with events and with situations which depend on the caprice of fortune, were firmly associated in their apprehensions with the duties of their stations, with the pursuits of science, and with those beauties of nature which are open to all."-Stewart's Phil. of Mind, vol. i, p. 395.

wonderful beauty was unfolded. The mountains, no longer presenting an aspect of solitary grandeur, with scarcely an inhabitant in the vicinity save here and there a lonely shepherd, now wore the appearance of presiding intelligence, and evinced that beings capable of appreciating the sublimity and loveliness of that highly favoured spot had become its fit inhabitants. Numerous flocks of sheep were browsing on the sides of the mountains, herds of deer were seen in various directions, and the cattle were grazing in the richest pastures. The meadows and fields resembled parks and gardens: care and attention had promoted the growth of trees new to the situation, and the plantations were tastefully disposed. The white stone of the buildings seen through the foliage of the trees; the various temples and colonnades, the hanging woods, the intermixture of knolls with crags of rock, and the elegant vessels and boats upon the lake, formed a picture surpassing description. At eight o'clock the bugles were again sounded, announcing the breakfast. About an hour after, the inhabitants came forth :-some repaired to the fields, others to the manufactories (which were invisible, from the buildings being surrounded by plantations, and at sufficient distance to prevent any noisy operation being heard); while

others resorted to the Athenæums and libraries as their various pursuits directed. In some parts of the mountains, in the colonnades and groves, groups were seen conversing, and many couples in friendly com

munion.

"Social friends

Attun'd to happy unison of soul;

To whose exalting eye a fairer world,

Of which the vulgar never had a glimpse,

Displays its charms; whose minds are richly fraught
With philosophic stores, superior light;

And in whose breast, enthusiastic, burns
Virtue, the sons of interest deem romance;

To Nature's vast Lyceum, forth they walk

By that kind school where no proud master reigns,
The full free converse of the friendly heart
Improving and improv'd."-Thomson.

The females and children were engaged as well as the men, in agriculture during the summer months; the fields were all cultivated in the garden style, which, together with the custom of having all the population more or less occupied in agricultural exercise, rendered the employment extremely light; nor were they engaged, unless they desired, for any longer time than was absolutely necessary to the preservation of health. During this avocation the instruction of the children was going on: for as the mode of teaching was chiefly verbal, and the various