is one of the most celebrated rivers in the world. The Nile yearly overflows the country, and it is to those regular inundations that the Egyptians are indebted for the fertile produce of their lands. 353 Rhene. Or Rhenus, one of the largest rivers of Europe, which divides Germany from Gaul. It rises in the Rhetian Alps and falls into the German Ocean. The river Rhine was a long time a barrier between the Romans and the Germans, and on that account its banks were covered with strong castles. J. Cæsar was the first Roman who crossed it to invade Germany. In modern geography the Rhine is known as dividing itself into four large branches, the Waal, Leck, Issel, and the Rhine. That branch which still retains the name of Rhine, loses itself in the sands above modern Leyden; and is afterwards no longer known by its ancient appellation, since the year 860, A. D. when the inundations of the sea destroyed the regularity of its mouth. 355 Danaw when her barbarous sons. Danubus, a celebrated river, the greatest in Europe, which rises near the town Pyrene, in the country of the Celtae, and after flowing through the greatest part of Europe, falls into the Euxine Sea. The Greeks call it Ister; but the Romans distinguished it by the appellation of the Danube. It falls into the Euxine through seven mouths; but modern travellers speak only of two. The Danube was generally supposed to be andary of the Roman empire erefore several castles were which was composed of seventeen stars. Orion rises about the 9th of March, and sets about the 21st of June; his rising is generally accompanied with great rains and storms. 307 Busiris and his Memphian chivalry. A name of many of the Egyptian kings. The waters returned and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharoah. And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore. Exod. xiv. 28. 309 The sojourners of Goshen. And Pharoah spake unto Joseph, saying, the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy Father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell. Gen. xlvii. 5, 6. Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts; and the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, so that the land was darkened. Exod. x. 13, 15. 342 That o'er the realm of impious Pharoah hung. A title anciently belonging to the kings of Egypt. 343 And darkened all the land of Nile. A river of Egypt. gave his name to the Nilus, a king of Thebes, river which flows through the middle of Egypt, and falls into the Mediterranean sea; the Nile, anciently called Egyptus, is one of the most celebrated rivers in the world. The Nile yearly overflows the country, and it is to those regular inundations that the Egyptians are indebted for the fertile produce of their lands. 353 Rhene. Or Rhenus, one of the largest rivers of Europe, which divides Germany from Gaul. It rises in the Rhetian Alps and falls into the German Ocean. The river Rhine was a long time a barrier between the Romans and the Germans, and on that account its banks were covered with strong castles. J. Cæsar was the first Roman who crossed it to invade Germany. In modern geography the Rhine is known as dividing itself into four large branches, the Waal, Leck, Issel, and the Rhine. That branch which still retains the name of Rhine, loses itself in the sands above modern Leyden; and is afterwards no longer known by its ancient appellation, since the year 860, A. D. when the inundations of the sea destroyed the regularity of its mouth. 355 Danaw when her barbarous sons. Danubus, a celebrated river, the greatest in Europe, which rises near the town Pyrene, in the country of the Celtae, and after flowing through the greatest part of Europe, falls into the Euxine Sea. The Greeks call it Ister; but the Romans distinguished it by the appellation of the Danube. It falls into the Euxine through seven mouths; but modern travellers speak only of two. The Danube was generally supposed to be the northern boundary of the Roman empire in Europe; and therefore several castles were B continues to drive them from the garden-Adam obeys-Eve laments, but soon comforts Adamhe at length departs, animating himself with the idea, that to an intrepid heart, every region is a home. Scene 5. A cherub moralizing on the creation and fall of Adam, concludes the third and last act." But, notwithstanding the various speculations that have been made on the sources to which Milton has been indebted for the subject of his Poem, his name will stand unperishable on the scroll of fame, until the great globe itself shall perish. Bromley, Middlesex, BOOK I. Of Man's First Disobedience. In the first place we read that man was created "in the image of God after his likeness," but little lower than the Angels, and crowned with glory and honor.-One sole command seems to have been given as the test of obedience. But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Gen. ii. 17. 4 With Loss of Eden. The Garden of Eden is itself alluded to by the Prophets, as a place of spiritual knowledge, joy, and happiness. Isa. li. 3. To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called Trees of Righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified. Ezek. xxviii. 13. Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created, xxxvi. 35. And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the A |