{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
"While, with mind thus occupied, you
pass on through this wilderness, the desola-
ting judgments on other renowned cities, so
solcmnly foretold SO dreadfully fulfilled,
rise naturally to your recollection. Now,
as you tread, the wild peacock, with
startling whr, rises in your path; now,
you disturb the basking snake; and here,
as the rustling of thickct attracts your
eye, are reminded that these ruins are
the haunts of the hyena and the panther;
that the small and frequent patches OF su-
gar~cane give shelter to the wild boar,
and the wolves are common i'll the rocky
hills above you'll climbed the very LOT
tiest rock at day-break and ON the NOR
row Of my first visit to the ruins. by rude
and broken steps, winding between them,
and over i'm nense and detached masses
of stone and seated myself near small
pagoda, at the very summit From hence
/ commanded the whole extent OF what
was once city, described by Cesar Fred
erck as twcnty-four miles in crcumfer-
ence. Not above eight or nine pagados
are standing, but there are choultrles III
numerable Fallen columns, arches, piaz-
zas, and fragments of all shapes for miles.
Can there have been streets and roads
! in these choakcd up valliese Has the war
horse prarced, the palfrey ambled theref--
| Have jewelled turbans once glittcred where
those dew. drops now sparkle on the thick
growing bambooss Have the delicate small
feet of female dancers practised thei. grace
full steps where that rugged and thorn n-cove-
ed ruin bars up the paths Have their soft
voices, and the Indian guitar, and the gold
bells on their ankles, ever made music IN so
lone and silent spot. They have; but
other sights, and other sounds, have been
seen and heard among these ruins-There,
near that beautiful banyantree, whole fam
lilies, at the will of a mcrciless prince; have
been thrown to tramplng elephants kept
for work SO savage that they learn il with
reluctance, and must be taught by savage
man.-Where those cocoas wave, once
stood vast seraligo, filled at the expense
OF tears and crimes; there, within that re-
treat of voluptuousness, have poison, or the
creese, obeycd, often anticipated the sove-
reign's wish. BY those green banks, neal
which the sacred water of the Toombudra


Aow, many aged parents have been carried
forth and exposed to perish by those whose
infancy they fostered.'


'better, thought ], better that the wilder.
ness should lie fallow a 7ceek Of centuries
than be fertile only in errors and crimes
than bring forth nothing but the bitter fruits
. of mans apostacy