Camden gazette and mercantile advertiser. (Camden, S.C.) 1818-1822, September 27, 1821, Image 4
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f&OM Tfcfe SUBfclOiUff HAOAIWI.
THE HUNTED DOE.
? ^By a Lady. ?
The horns now sound,, and ail resort.
The cruel caust to know;
When, lo I to make the barb'rous sport*
Is loos'd the favorite doc*
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Alas! poor deer, I pity thee,
And moan ttyr hapless fate;
A lavoritc from annoyance
X bear thou wert oi late.
* She bean thejiunterscries ;
And to prevent her lite, in vain ,
??ai_ ;';r^R
fse does bendy
b sweet G*yba?*UBg,
no friend." 7 n
fainting with fatigue and fear,
? Liffej's Bank she rood;
tfe ofidespair.
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x ? k* 1 > ' f- 3
?fh! when y<
? Lie meek I
t? take its harmieaa IMpr) ?;*. ? - ?
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IWhire toalHter partM^p'd,
_ To thee, poor dpe,w? gav? J
Swiftness i but yet, alas ; "we find ,, '<
Thy Ufe it <&uldnot Save.
"by life it Wild'
*Tia for the giffthat nature gave,
"thy life is doom 'd a prey?
That which was surely meant to savfc
Doih take thy life away. '
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Can buriian minds such scenes delight?
"t ??
A brute that n?v4r dld??ffend>
J-adt^nrtoMBt and gay, f *
V3ta easy life did careless spend,
Until that fatal da)r<
jjjtow all 4?y Wjseries are o'er, HH
' i And ended is thy race ? ^ ?,*? t. w-u
No cruel hunters fright theejtfpTe,
M.W.
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from Score**?'* Accaimt the Arctic
IjjsS '
[ SplttbefgenJ extend*' farthest to
S iU,
' or Grtsenlnwl seaj and
ough tjtt occasional resort of per
Ikaw, drawn thither for purposes of
burning and fishing, Jgfe|jM?t a|
to trtWll^ir^en
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b?t?W
]&. but i
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80 deg. W and still farter towards
the east than the main land of Spits
bergen* The western part of this
country was discovered by Bavente,
Jieemskerke and Typ, in two Vessels
fitted out of Amsterdam, on the lyth
of June 16i)6, who from the riomer
ous peals and acuta mountains ob
served on the Cteet, gave" it the ap
propriate oatne of Spitsbergen, signi
fy ins sharp mountains. It was after
wards named Newland, and ' then!
Greenland, being aupposed to be a
t continuation tow ards the east of the
Country so called by the Icelanders.
It was re-discovered by Henry Mud-.
aut?> an English navigator, in 1007 J
and fourytars afterwards became the
resort or lite knglish, for the pl?
poiMot Diking v> hates, since wntch
period, its shores have annually been
visited by one or oiWr of (be nation*
of Kurojie, wilb ti*e snmt ol>jec^ tu]
thf |wfeeut uuic. And Utou^h (be
eotl of the whofoof Ibis rea ote coun
try does not produce vegetables suit?
able or sufficient for the sourubiueBl
nf a single human (mug, yet its coasts
and adjacent seas l*jp afforded rkh
m and indejjeodence to (hooulud^ J
The climate of SpiizbergM is, nc
doubt, more disagreeable, to human
feeling, (ban (hat of any country je(
discovered. "Extending to within
tea degrees of the pole^it is aefceraHy
intensely cold, and even in the three
warmest months, the temperature not
averaging more than 34 t-2fc degrees,
it is then subject to a cold occasion
ally of three, four, or more degrees
below-the freezing point. It has the
advantage, however, of being vicited
liy the son for an uninterrupted peri
od of four months in eaclryear ; Uius
having a sa miner's day> ff Bolong an
interval between the rising and set
ting ofJbe sun may be so denomina ?
ted,c0M?ting?f one third part of the
year. Bnt its winter is proportion
ally desolate ; the son in the north
ern part of 4he coafttry, remaining
perpetually below the borisoq, from
?boat the SSd of October to tm S9d
of February. This great winter
night though sufficiently dreary, Hi
by no means so dark Is might be ex
peeled, as the sun, even during Its
(greatest south declination, approach
es Within 18 t-S degrees of the bori
son, and affords a faint twilight foi
j bout one fourth part of^very twenty
(iM^.boufs. Added :to this{uilight,
'lie aurora Ifhrealis, w hich sometimes
exhibits ? brilliancy approacbing tn
a Idaze of fee, the stars, Which sfiim;
with an uncommon degree of brigthJ
ness?j-anJ the moon, which in nutih
declination, "appears for twelwnwi
fourteen days together, without set-:
ting ? altogether have an effect which
when heightened bytbe reflection u%i
constant surface of sbow, gerMnllQ
give sufficient light for going abroad,
but with tho light afforded by the
heavens, when thimoon is beloW the
horizon it is seldom possible -to read.
Moderate Wishes the trvte sourc&of
1 Mi Soppiness.
Iff manlrind, " tbe N. T.
I Commercial Jidixitlser,J ipstead of
koutinually grasping for ft?re than
[they can obtain, would set1 reasona
Ibie bounds to tfiStr desires. There
ItnusjSiecessarily be misfortune and
[distress in thewoflP'but the com
ports of life* tint always be made
greatly to apuilterbalanf* those cala.|
ami tbeir attendant evils.
Contenment renders a mess of pot
tage more aaVory to the palate of the
(cottage, than the richest viands are
to those who are rolling in wealth ;j
[but whose insatiable thirst for gain
will not Allow tbt& to think they
e enough. Our countrymen are
stantly murmuring. Turn which
ay wfe will, ye are sure to have
ears saluted with the cry of Hard
He*. And many paragraphs in
kmr country newspa|>e?, particularly
[those from the western Ktates, are of
puch a desponding and gloomy na
Iture^ that if they shoqfu chance to
id their way to Europe, they would'
ilieve us to be little if any better off,
lli the peasantry of the Emerald
le, or the half-starred manufac
tures of Manchester. Jf And what
cause have we thus to "murmtfr and
complain P? It is our happy lot to live
tinder an excellent government, id*
ministered by men of our own choice.
We have a fruitful country, with a
Varied, yet healthful climate, that
enables ue to produce of the necesss
ries, and many of the , luxuries of
life. True, our country, ha^ suffer
ed for two or three years past, from
S change in the commercial world,
and in consequence of our own ex
travagance. But have Wc not enough
to cat, to drink end to wear? Out
with luxuriant bui
into yield a r ich v
nut*.. AudifA,
alter geueratid? bave labor
td^fiud. The follofing
beautiful illustration of wh;
here ad vanced Theyoui
herd. Mpnalcus, being ia 1
stray lamb from his flock, i
is the recesses of the fore*!
ter, stretched at the fool
exhausted with fatigue
Alas! shepherd, he exc
cane liere yesterday io
game; and have titen un
trace tlie path by Which l ie
frightful solitude, or diacovi
of a human footstepMniin
ger ? give tnfr'reiief, or 1 di
(^supomtiaglbestrangeri
fed him with bread from
and afterwards conducted hi
tfie intricate mares of th?
safety. I^Menalctis : about
me to the city,
er dwell in a
inhabit a sup*
with lofty colu
LaefcT.ul
Jibe alx*le of
lis Cott?.*LC
~ ?i, aiiu
adversity <mly when
bowed dowu !jy I lie
??ad. Like (be lily
W nut' remain timed
bjrijiae our heads
us do our dut? 4s# en!
I.P..
' A: Domestic: once entering jn 1*
fright the study of bis master, who
was in ft deep thought nn?l contem
plation, told hint tbal (lie hotwe was
on firt? Well, said lie, irtfbrM trig*
wife of it} lib not interfere, in iht)
household nffitirft ? ? V
? Self /y.rc.? He (bat abuses bis
own profcmhvti, will not patiently
bear with ftny one else win) does so.
And tbis is one of litis most subtle ope-<
rations of self love. For when w?
abuse our own profession we tacitly
except ourselves; but when another
aebuss it, we are very far from being
certain that this is the case. yi' -~ $ y#
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Superstition.- A philosopher wise
ly observed, that superstition is Jo
religion, what astrology' ft to mifa
nomy ? the very foolish daughter M
a very wise mother. 4. ;? . ? . ?\2'