Sketches from a Celestial Sea - Hilt Finds Water

Only this morning, before even any fake "investigation" can start, France is sending more battleships to help conquer and wrest Syria from the Syrians based ostensibly on "fighting ISIS". We'd all be living in Spain" January 09, posting January 05, posting January 04, posting January 02, posting December 30, posting December 29, posting December 27, posting December 20, posting December 16, posting December 11, posting December 09, posting November 30, posting November 28, posting November 23, posting November 15, posting November 14, posting ALL the results clearly prove two things November 09, posting November 01, posting October 30, posting October 25, posting October 11, posting October 05, posting October 03, posting NO ONE as they all left long ago September 26, posting September 19, posting India is sending a mission to Mars???

September 04, posting August 30, posting August 22, posting August 15, posting August 08, posting August 01, posting July 26, posting July 25, posting July 18, posting July 10, posting July 03, posting November 02, update US gives aid to cuba after Hurricane Wilma that manipulated storm that sat for 3 days off the west end of cuba June 27, posting Belgium has effectively passed a law that will prohibit wind electric generators from installation in that small northern european country June 21, posting June 13, posting June 05, posting June 02, posting Obama care with its collection arm that goes to the IRS when you can not pay your bills you ain't seen nothing yet folks May 30, posting May 23, posting Frank who died this past week May 17, posting May 15, posting US elections keep the public mis-directed into somehow thinking their vote will bring about a change May 09, posting May 03, posting The objective in a society based on consumption is to keep individuals confused.

When people are confused they are easy to manipulate. April 30, posting April 29, posting April 24, posting Clive Bundy was "bushwacked" by a New York Times reporter as they set him up in an interview and took his comments out of context calling him a racist April 19, posting April 11, posting March 28, posting March 25, posting Einstein never published in peer review journals and openly distained them especially in the USA for their snobbery and misuse of this system to monopolize various fields his two peer reviewed publications were before he came to the USA March 21, posting March 14, posting PLUS a complete line of replacement water filter elements available with bulk pricing March 08, posting February 27, posting PS as promised on my radio show the new product offering of the HDPE plastic water filter now available with the 7" name branded water filter elements with internal fluoride arsenic filtration on the secure web ordering page February 23, posting February 21, posting February 10, posting February 09, posting Paul McCartney took to singing "silly love songs" and lived on February 07, posting February 06, posting February 04, posting NOW add in the mil boys game of slipping someone a flu "mickey" and they begin to spread health terror like the woman who recently came from china but had not contacted anyone to get her version the the H1N5 "flu" the mil lab engineered flu just like SARS and other mil versions of the "flu" virus Velikovsky and the fact that venus was a massive comet thousands of years ago PLUS we had a new moon passing AND an alignment with Jupiter so small wonder that we are finally seeing some solar activity approaching earth BUT there has been world wide blanket coverage of this with amazing hype regarding solar damage to earth and earthlings "to brace" BUT the world leaders would lose their grip and they are power maniacs out of control BUT what causes and maintains this circuit???

WOW boys and girls these people are seriously devious and do they ever not like me YOUTUBE is a garbage pit of misinformation and they are doing everything in their bag of tricks to ruin my good name and replace my work with distorted nonsense YOUTUBE has become a collection pit for every no name anonymous imposter wanna be and government disinformation agent BUT the misinformation specialists have every trick in their bag and they are using them WOW boys and girls ISON is not going to hit earth and we are NOT going to pass through a debris field nor its tail and NO we are not going to be hit by an EMP from ISON and comet ISON does NOT have a mini solar system surrounding it and NO to all the internet baloney and once again the gov disinfo agents are busy all over the internet posting false references to me some using old radio clips cut and pasted into youtube videos or in other postings NASA has taken this data and is hiding it NASA continues to stall releasing the SOHO data which had the best view and is at least 6 hours behind on releasing this critical data The ancients have transmitted this even through stories.

One of the better known one, as you well know, is of the mythological Phoenix that is born out of fire or from the Sun as this event was only visible when the comet in question was near the Sun and comes reeks havoc an destroys all life on whatever planet it passes near too, and thus allowed for life to begin again or regenerate. Take a look at this very recent photo of ISON and compare it to typical illustrations of the legendary Phoenix with its body aflame and a long fiery tail, which the last you think would represent the comet's very long tail.

Now tell me that those pics don't strongly resemble each other! This event alone will probably cause serious weather anomalies around the planet ie: Earth will be smack in the middle of this alignment and if ISON is in the mood to discharge itself onto Earth at this point then who knows how the weather will behave like. There are numerous efforts to post around the internet that i am saying something about "military contacts and comet ISON has a mini solar system etc etc " NASA is playing stupid stating they have no idea why the comet is doing this but their tier 3 mouthpiece spaceweather web site is suggesting ala dirty snow ball comet model that a "new vein of ice and show must have found its way around to the sun" BUT just to cover their behinds Velikovsky never undertood the damage they were doing to his good name as he was not like that at all being a very reserved and conscientious researcher NASA already had its money in hand and there is no reason to shut down operational servers NASA hiding Mars data confirmed It is surely related to the new water discovery that was recently made in that country.

And it appears that they are using the same group of paid terrorists that they used when they went into Somalia not to long ago. This is plainly obvious to see". ALL the indicators are pointing to this coming during the time of the passage of comet ISON and already HUGE misinformation campaigns are raging from gov disinfo agents to falsify information Eisenhower's prophesy has been fulfilled Eisenhower's precautions are here totally engrained and the death of the USA including the uncapped spending now based on phony science such as global climate change are imminent NASA has not presented any real evidence that would suggest this comet should be the comet of the century Dear Listener - name removed to protect listener BUT the woman then added that she was watching the national weather service and they said that was an old "myth" and was not true once again implying that it is the WIND that destroys the houses completely ignoring the vacuum concept or component of tornados!!!

BUT this does not explain the real properties of tornados especially the vacuum produced and the electrical discharges observed in the central part of the tornado and WHAT SUSTAINS this energy system plus the fact that there is not enough energy to create a tornado from solar energy sources AND there is no way to "organize" this energy into small composite units like tornados NASA and their mouthpiece front web pages foiled again NASA is fudging and changing the data Dear Jim, Interesting, your post that Saturn was the only player in town I regularly use a gov web page to find where to look for planets and alignments.

So, Saturday night, we still had lots of clouds--but enough holes to verify the local news story: We could see the Northern Lights! I last saw them here in ? Somewhere in that time frame. Generally, only in winter would we expect to see them, well, how was April 13 winter again! Oh, sorry, that is all coincidence! Sincerely, [name withheld to protect listener]. PS the following pic is of the cloud cover for the entire USA and has been like this and will be like this for the entire viewing period of Comet Lemmon Saturn is the apparent culprit National Weather Service cannot predict the weather even one day out anymore Comet ISON may look underwhelming, but that is only because it is so far away, more than million miles from the sun.

In fact, it is already an active comet with considerable promise. Recent measurements by NASA's Swift spacecraft shows that the comet's nucleus is spewing more than , pounds 51, kg of dust, or about two-thirds the mass of an unfueled space shuttle, every minute. To produce so much dust, the comet's nucleus is probably about 5 km wide. For comparison, the nucleus of bright sungrazing Comet Lovejoy, which wowed observers in , was only about one-tenth as large. Comet ISON could put on quite a show when it approaches the sun later this year.

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Earth is in such a position that we will see this event both comet and planet Mercury in the pre-dawn sky NASA is posting 2 month old photos of this comet taken with regular cameras PPS this comet crosses earth's orbit when it crosses the ecliptic plane but earth will be nowhere near this time Other than being able to see the comet move from a far far distance from Earth telescopes, I don't believe that there has been any satellites that has been sent towards it close enough to explored and analyze it for inner content.

Did I miss something here Unless they know what you know And right about now, size is the only sure thing that NASA has been able to scientifically measure from Earth given the short amount of time since it was discovered, or perhaps rediscovered by humans on Earth. NONE show any trace of water or ice or snow and none show any water escaping from the nucleus BUT the eBooks seem to be freaking them out especially the accessibility to the public and my success at reaching you March 07, posting March 04, posting February 14, posting February 08, posting January 24, posting Comet of the Century" a total misinformation piece designed to do damage control to keep the public from understanding the true nature of this huge incoming comet January 23, posting January 20, posting McCanney does not know how to distinguish hot pixels and camera noise from real objects, and does not know how to identify known asteroids in an image.

Where is his astrometric data on these "companions? A real scientist would have produced such data and shown it before jumping to conclusions like this. Instead we have here a popular pseudoscientist latching onto absolute nonsense that he doesn't understand, which will only further proliferate the false rumor of "companions" with this comet.

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This is quite similar to how the comet Hale-Bopp hysteria got started, and we all know how that ended They were so anxious to entrap me and send blame my way note the reference to the hale bopp incident trying to suggest that i was the one invoking hysteria when in fact spaceweather. January 19, posting January 17, posting January 15, posting NASA cannot put a mouse into space ALL of my topics cut at the heart of the international control that is overtaking the world today January 14, posting January 11, posting NASA cannot put a mouse into space so how is it supposed to send 2 massive secret missions to an asteroid and in bruce willis fashion save the world???

December 28, posting D's in rows and columns all babbling the same thing December 21, posting December 14, posting December 06, posting AND the issue of suicidal people in the planet X issue but this time the twist is to feature suicidal youth and not the standard nut case survivalist cult image December 04, posting November 29, posting November 22, posting Thanks Giving Day Special NASA and the astronomy boys are trying their hardest to ignore the inevitable show this comet is about to put on November 07, posting November 05, posting Nostradamus predicts that two events will be concurrent November 03, posting Geo Political Socio Engineering During the fight with Atlas, Riptide becomes incredibly heavy and Percy is unable to use it.

He then remembers Ares' curse, that his weapon would fail him when he needed it most. Percy couldn't defend himself and instead holds up the sky to allow Artemis to fight Atlas. Due to the line " The hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap " in the Great Prophecy , Percy thought that the mentioned blade was his own sword, due to Ares placing a curse on Riptide - to fail Percy in his time of need, which it did during his battle with Atlas.

The cursed blade turned out to be Annabeth's Knife , which had been given to her by Luke. It was cursed because Luke had broken his promise and betrayed his friends. Percy , the sword's current owner. Percy wakes up with Riptide at the Wolf House. He is said to have used it to try to kill the Gorgons , but they stayed alive. Reyna says that they used to have a few Celestial Bronze weapons in the armory at Camp Jupiter. For a short time upon entering New Rome , it was taken care of by Terminus , who was able to keep it from returning to Percy's pocket, but how he did so is unknown.

Riptide is used as a light , both in the war games and when they first see the army heading toward Camp Jupiter. Riptide almost got frozen on Thanatos 's chains until Frank helped Percy pull it free. It is revealed that, when touching the handle of the sword with a cap, Riptide can transform into working ballpoint pen with ink glowing like Celestial Bronze.

Magnus Chase 's talking sword, Sumarbrander who prefers to be called Jack, sniffs around Percy Jackson and finds Riptide disguised as a pen. This makes Jack tell Magnus that he told him a pen sword wasn't a stupid idea, causing Magnus to briefly argue that he said it was stupid. This is a reference to The Sword of Summer , where Magnus suggested Sumarbrander turns into a pen for him to carry only for Jack to say it's the stupidest thing he ever heard.

Jack reveals that Riptide is a female and flirts with "her". When Percy leaves with Annabeth to take care of his newborn sister , he takes Riptide with him leaving Jack depressed. In its dormant form, it's a disposable ballpoint pen that reads Anaklusmos on the side when not in use. Once the pen is uncapped, it transforms into its true sword form. The sunshine had a singular effect. The clouds would interpose in such a manner that some objects were shaded from it, while others were strongly illuminated.

Some of the islands lay in the shade, dark and gloomy, while others were bright and favored spots. The white lighthouse was sometimes very cheerfully marked. There was a schooner about a mile from the shore, at anchor, laden apparently with lumber. The sea all about her had the black, iron aspect which I have described; but the vessel herself was alight. Hull, masts, and spars were all gilded, and the rigging was made of golden threads. A small white streak of foam breaking around the bows, which were towards the wind. The shadowiness of the clouds overhead made the effect of the sunlight strange, where it fell.

As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so of the cavern and mound; the Chinese, of the tent; the Gothic, of overarching trees; the Greek, of a cabin. In old times it must have been much less customary than now to drink pure water. Kirby, author of a work on the History, Habits, and Instincts of Animals, questions whether there may not be an abyss of waters within the globe, communicating with the ocean, and whether the huge animals of the Saurian tribe — great reptiles, supposed to be exclusively antediluvian, and now extinct — may not be inhabitants of it.

He quotes a passage from Revelation, where the creatures under the earth are spoken of as distinct from those of the sea, and speaks of a Saurian fossil that has been found deep in the subterranean regions. He thinks, or suggests, that these may be the dragons of Scripture. The elephant is not particularly sagacious in the wild state, but becomes so when tamed.

The fox directly the contrary, and likewise the wolf. It is said of the eagle, that, in however long a flight, he is never seen to clap his wings to his sides. He seems to govern his movements by the inclination of his wings and tail to the wind, as a ship is propelled by the action of the wind on her sails. In old country-houses in England, instead of glass for windows, they used wicker, or fine strips of oak disposed checkerwise.

Horn was also used. The windows of princes and great noblemen were of crystal; those of Studley Castle, Holinshed says, of beryl. There were seldom chimneys; and they cooked their meats by a fire made against an iron back in the great hall. Houses, often of gentry, were built of a heavy timber frame, filled up with lath and plaster.

People slept on rough mats or straw pallets, with a round log for a pillow; seldom better beds than a mattress, with a sack of chaff for a pillow. Landscape now wholly autumnal.

Saw an elderly man laden with two dry, yellow, rustling bundles of Indian corn-stalks — a good personification of Autumn. Another man hoeing up potatoes. Rows of white cabbages lay ripening. Fields of dry Indian corn. The grass has still considerable greenness. Wild rose-bushes devoid of leaves, with their deep, bright red seed-vessels. Meeting-house in Danvers seen at a distance, with the sun shining through the windows of its belfry. Barberry-bushes — the leaves now of a brown red, still juicy and healthy; very few berries remaining, mostly frost-bitten and wilted.

All among the yet green grass, dry stalks of weeds. The down of thistles occasionally seen flying through the sunny air. A council of the passengers in a street: Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respects, whether he chooses to be so or not. All the miserable on earth are to be invited, — as the drunkard, the bereaved parent, the ruined merchant, the broken-hearted lover, the poor widow, the old man and woman who have outlived their generation, the disappointed author, the wounded, sick, and broken soldier, the diseased person, the infidel, the man with an evil conscience, little orphan children or children of neglectful parents, shall be admitted to the table, and many others.

The giver of the feast goes out to deliver his invitations. Some of the guests he meets in the streets, some he knocks for at the doors of their houses. The description must be rapid. But who must be the giver of the feast, and what his claims to preside? A man who has never found out what he is fit for, who has unsettled aims or objects in life, and whose mind gnaws him, making him the sufferer of many kinds of misery.

He should meet some pious, old, sorrowful person, with more outward calamities than any other, and invite him, with a reflection that piety would make all that miserable company truly thankful.

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In an old London newspaper, , there is an advertisement, among other goods at auction, of a black girl, about fifteen years old, to be sold. We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: The race of mankind to be swept away, leaving all their cities and works. Then another human pair to be placed in the world, with native intelligence like Adam and Eve, but knowing nothing of their predecessors or of their own nature and destiny.

They, perhaps, to be described as working out this knowledge by their sympathy with what they saw, and by their own feelings.

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Memorials of the family of Hawthorne in the church of the village of Dundry, Somersetshire, England. The church is ancient and small, and has a prodigiously high tower of more modern date, being erected in the time of Edward IV. It serves as a landmark for an amazing extent of country. A type of envy or some other evil passion. A sketch illustrating the imperfect compensations which time makes for its devastations on the person — giving a wreath of laurel while it causes baldness, honors for infirmities, wealth for a broken constitution — and at last, when a man has everything that seems desirable, death seizes him.

To contrast the man who has thus reached the summit of ambition with the ambitious youth. Walking along the track of the railroad, I observed a place where the workmen had bored a hole through the solid rock, in order to blast it; but, striking a spring of water beneath the rock, it gushed up through the hole. It looked as if the water were contained within the rock. A new classification of society to be instituted.

Instead of rich and poor, high and low, they are to be classed — First, by their sorrows: Secondly, all who have the same maladies, whether they lie under damask canopies or on straw pallets or in the wards of hospitals, they are to form one class. Thirdly, all who are guilty of the same sins, whether the world knows them or not; whether they languish in prison, looking forward to the gallows, or walk honored among men, they also form a class. Then proceed to generalize and classify the whole world together, as none can claim utter exemption from either sorrow, sin, or disease; and if they could, yet Death, like a great parent, comes and sweeps them all through one darksome portal — all his children.

Fortune to come like a pedler with his goods — as wreaths of laurel, diamonds, crowns; selling them, but asking for them the sacrifice of health, of integrity, perhaps of life in the battle-field, and of the real pleasures of existence. Who would buy, if the price were to be paid down? A veil may be needful, but never a mask. Instances of people who wear masks in all classes of society, and never take them off even in the most familiar moments, though sometimes they may chance to slip aside. The various guises under which Ruin makes his approaches to his victims: He must have been taken for a pedler travelling with his pack.

To think, as the sun goes down, what events have happened in the course of the day — events of ordinary occurrence: Curious to imagine what murmurings and discontent would be excited, if any of the great so-called calamities of human beings were to be abolished — as, for instance, death. Trifles to one are matters of life and death to another.

As, for instance, a farmer desires a brisk breeze to winnow his grain; and mariners, to blow them out of the reach of pirates. A recluse, like myself, or a prisoner, to measure time by the progress of sunshine through his chamber. Would it not be wiser for people to rejoice at all that they now sorrow for, and vice versa? To put on bridal garments at funerals, and mourning at weddings?

For their friends to condole with them when they attained riches and honor, as only so much care added? If in a village it were a custom to hang a funeral garland or other token of death on a house where some one had died, and there to let it remain till a death occurred elsewhere, and then to hang that same garland over the other house, it would have, methinks, a strong effect. Some very humble persons in a town may be said to possess it — as, the penny-post, the town-crier, the constable — and they are known to everybody; while many richer, more intellectual, worthier persons are unknown by the majority of their fellow-citizens.

Something analogous in the world at large. The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere. Two lovers to plan the building of a pleasure-house on a certain spot of ground, but various seeming accidents prevent it. Once they find a group of miserable children there; once it is the scene where crime is plotted; at last the dead body of one of the lovers or of a dear friend is found there; and, instead of a pleasure-house, they build a marble tomb.

The moral — that there is no place on earth fit for the site of a pleasure-house, because there is no spot that may not have been saddened by human grief, stained by crime, or hallowed by death. It might be three friends who plan it, instead of two lovers; and the dearest one dies. Comfort for childless people. A married couple with ten children have been the means of bringing about ten funerals. A blind man on a dark night carried a torch, in order that people might see him, and not run against him, and direct him how to avoid dangers.

To picture a virtuous family, the different members examples of virtuous dispositions in their way; then introduce a vicious person, and trace out the relations that arise between him and them, and the manner in which all are affected. A man to flatter himself with the idea that he would not be guilty of some certain wickedness — — as, for instance, to yield to the personal temptations of the Devil — yet to find, ultimately, that he was at that very time committing that same wickedness.

What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude? That particular spot, which she happens to plant with some peculiar variety of flowers, produces them of admirable splendor, beauty, and perfume; and she delights, with an indescribable impulse, to wear them in her bosom, and scent her chamber with them. Thus the classic fantasy would be realized, of dead people transformed to flowers. Objects seen by a magic-lantern reversed. A street, or other location, might be presented, where there would be opportunity to bring forward all objects of worldly interest, and thus much pleasant satire might be the result.

The Abyssinians, after dressing their hair, sleep with their heads in a forked stick, in order not to discompose it. Was this the Virginian Smith? Stephen Gowans supposed that the bodies of Adam and Eve were clothed in robes of light, which vanished after their sin. Lord Chancellor Clare, towards the close of his life, went to a village church, where he might not be known, to partake of the Sacrament.

A missionary to the heathen in a great city, to describe his labors in the manner of a foreign mission. In the tenth century, mechanism of organs so clumsy, that one in Westminster Abbey, with four hundred pipes, required twenty-six bellows and seventy stout men. Water boiling was kept in a reservoir under the pipes; and, the keys being struck, the valves opened, and steam rushed through with noise. The secret of working them thus is now lost.

Then came bellows organs, first used by Louis le Debonnaire. After the siege of Antwerp, the children played marbles in the streets with grape and cannon shot. A shell, in falling, buries itself in the earth, and, when it explodes, a large pit is made by the earth being blown about in all directions — large enough, sometimes, to hold three or four cart-loads of earth.

The holes are circular. A French artillery-man being buried in his military cloak on the ramparts, a shell exploded, and unburied him. In the Netherlands, to form hedges, young trees are interwoven into a sort of lattice-work; and, in time, they grow together at the point of junction, so that the fence is all of one piece. To show the effect of gratified revenge.

As an instance, merely, suppose a woman sues her lover for breach of promise, and gets the money by instalments, through a long series of years. At last, when the miserable victim were utterly trodden down, the triumpher would have become a very devil of evil passions — they having overgrown his whole nature; so that a far greater evil would have come upon himself than on his victim. Anciently, when long-buried bodies were found undecayed in the grave, a species of sanctity was attributed to them.

The buff and blue of the Union were adopted by Fox and the Whig party in England. The Prince of Wales wore them.

In , a Mr. Copinger left a certain charity, an almshouse, of which four poor persons were to partake, after the death of his eldest son and his wife. It was a tenement and yard. The parson, head-boroughs, and his five other sons were to appoint the persons. At the time specified, however, all but one of his sons were dead; and he was in such poor circumstances that he obtained the benefit of the charity for himself, as one of the four.

To make a story from Robert Raikes seeing dirty children at play, in the streets of London, and inquiring of a woman about them. She tells him that on Sundays, when they were not employed, they were a great deal worse, making the streets like hell; playing at church, etc. He was therefore induced to employ women at a shilling to teach them on Sundays, and thus Sunday schools were established.

To represent the different departments of the United States government by village functionaries. The War Department by watchmen, the law by constables, the merchants by a variety store, etc. At the accession of Bloody Mary, a man, coming into a house, sounded three times with his mouth, as with a trumpet, and then made proclamation to the family. A bonfire was built, and little children were made to carry wood to it, that they might remember the circumstance in old age. Meat and drink were provided at the bonfires. To describe a boyish combat with snowballs, and the victorious leader to have a statue of snow erected to him.

A satire on ambition and fame to be made out of this idea. Our body to be possessed by two different spirits; so that half of the visage shall express one mood, and the other half another. An old English sea-captain desires to have a fast-sailing ship, to keep a good table, and to sail between the tropics without making land.

A rich man left by will his mansion and estate to a poor couple. They remove into it, and find there a darksome servant, whom they are forbidden by will to turn away. He becomes a torment to them; and, in the finale, he turns out to be the former master of the estate. Two persons to be expecting some occurrence, and watching for the two principal actors in it, and to find that the occurrence is even then passing, and that they themselves are the two actors.

There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity. To imagine such circumstances. A woman, tempted to be false to her husband, apparently through mere whim — or a young man to feel an instinctive thirst for blood, and to commit murder.

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This appetite may be traced in the popularity of criminal trials. The appetite might be observed first in a child, and then traced upwards, manifesting itself in crimes suited to every stage of life. The good deeds in an evil life — the generous, noble, and excellent actions done by people habitually wicked — to ask what is to become of them. The idea to be wrought out and extended.

Perhaps it might be the museum of a deceased old man. An article might be made respecting various kinds of ruin — ruin as regards property — ruin of health — ruin of habits, as drunkenness and all kinds of debauchery — ruin of character, while prosperous in other respects — ruin of the soul. Ruin, perhaps, might be personified as a demon, seizing its victims by various holds. An article on fire, on smoke. Diseases of the mind and soul — even more common than bodily diseases.

Some authorities, however, have represented him as ungainly in person and rough in manners. Tarleton was originally bred to the law, but quitted law for the army early in life. He was son to a mayor of Liverpool, born in , of ancient family. He wrote his own memoirs after returning from America.

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Never afterwards distinguished in arms. Created baronet in , and died childless in Thought he was not sufficiently honored among more modern heroes. Lost part of his right hand in battle of Guilford Court House. A man of pleasure in England. It would be a good idea for a painter to paint a picture of a great actor, representing him in several different characters of one scene — Iago and Othello, for instance.

Maine, July 5th, He provides his own breakfast and supper, and occasionally his dinner; though this is oftener, I believe, taken at the hotel, or an eating-house, or with some of his relatives. I am his guest, and my presence makes no alteration in his way of life. Our fare, thus far, has consisted of bread, butter, and cheese, crackers, herrings, boiled eggs, coffee, milk, and claret wine. He has another inmate, in the person of a queer little Frenchman, who has his breakfast, tea, and lodging here, and finds his dinner elsewhere.

Monsieur S——— does not appear to be more than twenty-one years old — a diminutive figure, with eyes askew, and otherwise of an ungainly physiognomy; he is ill-dressed also, in a coarse blue coat, thin cotton pantaloons, and unbrushed boots; altogether with as little of French coxcombry as can well be imagined, though with something of the monkey aspect inseparable from a little Frenchman.

He is, nevertheless, an intelligent and well-informed man, apparently of extensive reading in his own language — a philosopher, B——— tells me, and an infidel. His insignificant personal appearance stands in the way of his success, and prevents him from receiving the respect which is really due to his talents and acquirements; wherefore he is bitterly dissatisfied with the country and its inhabitants, and often expresses his feelings to B——— who has gained his confidence to a certain degree in very strong terms.

Thus here are three characters, each with something out of the common way, living together somewhat like monks. B—— — our host, combines more high and admirable qualities, of that sort which make up a gentleman, than any other that I have met with. Polished, yet natural, frank, open, and straightforward, yet with a delicate feeling for the sensitiveness of his companions; of excellent temper and warm heart; well acquainted with the world, with a keen faculty of observation, which he has had many opportunities of exercising, and never varying from a code of honor and principle which is really nice and rigid in its way.

There is a sort of philosophy developing itself in him which will not impossibly cause him to settle down in this or some other equally singular course of life. He seems almost to have made up his mind never to be married, which I wonder at; for he has strong affections, and is fond both of women and children. In the morning I hear him getting up early, at sunrise or before, humming to himself, scuffling about his chamber with his thick boots, and at last taking his departure for a solitary ramble till breakfast.

Then he comes in, cheerful and vivacious enough, eats pretty heartily, and is off again, singing French chansons as he goes down the gravel-walk. The poor fellow has nobody to sympathize with him but B—— — and thus a singular connection is established between two utterly different characters. Then here is myself, who am likewise a queer character in my way, and have come to spend a week or two with my friend of half a lifetime — the longest space, probably, that we are ever destined to spend together; for Fate seems preparing changes for both of us.

My circumstances, at least, cannot long continue as they are and have been; and B—— — too, stands between high prosperity and utter ruin. I think I should soon become strongly attached to our way of life, so independent and untroubled by the forms and restrictions of society.

The house is very pleasantly situated — half a mile distant from where the town begins to be thickly settled, and on a swell of land, with the road running at a distance of fifty yards, and a grassy tract and a gravel-walk between. Beyond the road rolls the Kennebec, here two or three hundred yards wide.

Putting my head out of the window, I can see it flowing steadily along straightway between wooded banks; but arriving nearly opposite the house, there is a large and level sand island in the middle of the stream; and just below the island the current is further interrupted by the works of the mill-dam, which is perhaps half finished, yet still in so rude a state that it looks as much like the ruins of a dam destroyed by the spring freshets as like the foundations of a dam yet to be.

Irishmen and Canadians toil at work on it, and the echoes of their hammering and of the voices come across the river and up to this window. Then there is a sound of the wind among the trees round the house; and, when that is silent, the calm, full, distant voice of the river becomes audible. Looking downward thither, I see the rush of the current, and mark the different eddies, with here and there white specks or streaks of foam; and often a log comes floating on, glistening in the sun, as it rolls over among the eddies, having voyaged, for aught I know, hundreds of miles from the wild upper sources of the river, passing down, down, between lines of forest, and sometimes a rough clearing, till here it floats by cultivated banks, and will soon pass by the village.

Sometimes a long raft of boards comes along, requiring the nicest skill in navigating it through the narrow passage left by the mill-dam. Chaises and wagons occasionally go over the road, the riders all giving a passing glance at the dam, or perhaps alighting to examine it more fully, and at last departing with ominous shakes of the head as to the result of the enterprise. My position is so far retired from the river and mill-dam, that, though the latter is really rather a scene, yet a sort of quiet seems to be diffused over the whole.

Two or three times a day this quiet is broken by the sudden thunder from a quarry, where the workmen are blasting rocks; and a peal of thunder sounds strangely in such a green, sunny, and quiet landscape, with the blue sky brightening the river. I have not seen much of the people. There have been, however, several incidents which amused me, though scarcely worth telling. A passionate tavern-keeper, quick as a flash of gunpowder, a nervous man, and showing in his demeanor, it seems, a consciousness of his infirmity of temper. I was a witness of a scuffle of his with a drunken guest.

The tavern-keeper, after they were separated, raved like a madman, and in a tone of voice having a drolly pathetic or lamentable sound mingled with its rage, as if he were lifting up his voice to weep. Then he jumped into a chaise which was standing by, whipped up the horse, and drove off rapidly, as if to give his fury vent in that way. B——— seems to be considerably of a favorite with the lower orders, especially with the Irishmen and French Canadians — the latter accosting him in the street, and asking his assistance as an interpreter in making their bargains for work.

I meant to dine at the hotel with B——— today; but having returned to the house, leaving him to do some business in the village, I found myself unwilling to move when the dinner-hour approached, and therefore dined very well on bread, cheese, and eggs. Nothing of much interest takes place. We live very comfortably in our bachelor establishment on a cold shoulder of mutton, with ham and smoked beef and boiled eggs; and as to drinkables, we had both claret and brown sherry on the dinner-table today.

Last evening we had along literary and philosophical conversation with Monsieur S———. He is rather remarkably well-informed for a man of his age, and seems to have very just notions on ethics, etc. It is strange to hear philosophy of any sort from such a boyish figure. One of his oddities is, that, while steadfastly maintaining an opinion that he is a very small and slow eater, and that we, in common with other Yankees, eat immensely and fast, he actually eats both faster and longer than we do, and devours, as B——— avers, more victuals than both of us together. The brook runs through a valley, on one side bordered by a high and precipitous bank; on the other there is an interval, and then the bank rises upward and upward into a high hill with gorges and ravines separating one summit from another, and here and there are bare places, where the rain-streams have washed away the grass.

The brook is bestrewn with stones, some bare, some partially moss-grown, and sometimes so huge as — once at least — to occupy almost the whole breadth of the current. It sings along, sometimes smooth, with the pebbles visible beneath, sometimes rushing dark and swift, eddying and whitening past some rock, or underneath the hither or the farther bank; and at these places B——— cast his line, and sometimes drew out a trout, small, not more than five or six inches long. The farther we went up the brook, the wilder it grew. The opposite bank was covered with pines and hemlocks, ascending high upwards, black and solemn.

One knew that there must be almost a precipice behind, yet we could not see it. At the foot you could spy, a little way within the darksome shade, the roots and branches of the trees; but soon all sight was obstructed amidst the trunks. On the hither side, at first the bank was bare, then fringed with alder-bushes, bending and dipping into the stream, which, farther on, flowed through the midst of a forest of maple, beech, and other trees, its course growing wilder and wilder as we proceeded.

For a considerable distance there was a causeway, built long ago of logs, to drag lumber upon; it was now decayed and rotten, a red decay, sometimes sunken down in the midst, here and there a knotty trunk stretching across, apparently sound. At last we came to where a dam had been built across the brook many years ago, and was now gone to ruin, so as to make the spot look more solitary and wilder than if man had never left vestiges of his toil there. It was a framework of logs with a covering of plank sufficient to obstruct the onward flow of the brook; but it found its way past the side, and came foaming and struggling along among scattered rocks.

Above the dam there was a broad and deep pool, one side of which was bordered by a precipitous wall of rocks, as smooth as if hewn out and squared, and piled one upon another, above which rose the forest. On the other side there was still a gently shelving bank, and the shore was covered with tall trees, among which I particularly remarked a stately pine, wholly devoid of bark, rising white in aged and majestic ruin, thrusting out its barkless arms. It must have stood there in death many years, its own ghost. Above the dam the brook flowed through the forest, a glistening and babbling water-path, illuminated by the sun, which sent its rays almost straight along its course.

It was as lovely and wild and peaceful as it could possibly have been a hundred years ago; and the traces of labors of men long departed added a deeper peace to it. I bathed in the pool, and then pursued my way down beside the brook, growing dark with a pleasant gloom, as the sun sank and the water became more shadowy. B——— says that there was formerly a tradition that the Indians used to go up this brook, and return, after a brief absence, with large masses of lead, which they sold at the trading-stations in Augusta; whence there has always been an idea that there is a lead-mine hereabouts.

Great toadstools were under the trees, and some small ones as yellow and almost the size of a half-broiled yolk of an egg. Strawberries were scattered along the brookside. Dined at the hotel or Mansion House today. Men were playing checkers in the parlor. The Marshal of Maine, a corpulent, jolly fellow, famed for humor. A passenger left by the stage, hiring an express onward. A bottle of champagne was quaffed at the bar. He says that they sell and exchange these small houses among themselves continually. They may be built in three or four days, and are valued at four or five dollars.

When the turf that is piled against the walls of some of them becomes covered with grass, it makes quite a picturesque object. It was almost dusk — just candle-lighting time — when we visited them. A young Frenchwoman, with a baby in her arms, came to the door of one of them, smiling, and looking pretty and happy. Her husband, a dark, black-haired, lively little fellow, caressed the child, laughing and singing to it; and there was a red-bearded Irishman, who likewise fondled the little brat. Then we could hear them within the hut, gabbling merrily, and could see them moving about briskly in the candlelight, through the window and open door.

An old Irishwoman sat in the door of another hut, under the influence of an extra dose of rum — she being an old lady of somewhat dissipated habits. She called to B—— — and began to talk to him about her resolution not to give up her house: She is a true virago, and, though somewhat restrained by respect for him, she evinced a sturdy design to remain here through the winter, or at least for a considerable time longer.

He persisting, she took her stand in the doorway of the hut, and stretched out her fist in a very Amazonian attitude. Meanwhile her husband stood by very quiet, occasionally trying to still her; but it is to be presumed, that, after our departure, they came to blows, it being a custom with the Irish husbands and wives to settle their disputes with blows; and it is said the woman often proves the better man.

The different families also have battles, and occasionally the Irish fight with the Canadians. The latter, however, are much the more peaceable, never quarrelling among themselves, and seldom with their neighbors. They are frugal, and often go back to Canada with considerable sums of money. B——— has gained much influence both with the Irish and the French — with the latter, by dint of speaking to them in their own language. He is the umpire in their disputes, and their adviser, and they look up to him as a protector and patron-friend.

I have been struck to see with what careful integrity and wisdom he manages matters among them, hitherto having known him only as a free and gay young man. He appears perfectly to understand their general character, of which he gives no very flattering description. In these huts, less than twenty feet square, he tells me that upwards of twenty people have sometimes been lodged. A description of a young lady who had formerly been insane, and now felt the approach of a new fit of madness. She had been out to ride, had exerted herself much, and had been very vivacious.

On her return, she sat down in a thoughtful and despondent attitude, looking very sad, but one of the loveliest objects that ever were seen. The family spoke to her, but she made no answer, nor took the least notice; but still sat like a statue in her chair — a statue of melancholy and beauty. At last they led her away to her chamber.