unspeakable beauty of her habitation, and ravished with the
fragrancy that came from every part of it, Yaratilda told him that
she was preparing this bower for his reception, as well knowing that
his piety to his God, and his faithful dealing towards men, would
certainly bring him to that happy place whenever his life should be
at an end. She then brought two of her children to him, who died
some years before, and resided with her in the same delightful
bower, advising him to breed up those others which were still with
him in such a manner that they might hereafter all of them meet
together in this happy place.

The tradition tells us further that he had afterwards a sight of
those dismal habitations which are the portion of ill men after
death; and mentions several molten seas of gold, in which were
plunged the souls of barbarous Europeans, who put to the sword so
many thousands of poor Indians for the sake of that precious metal.
But having already touched upon the chief points of this tradition,
and exceeded the measure of my paper, I shall not give any further
account of it.



SIX PAPERS ON WIT.



Ut pictura poesis erit -
HOR., Ars Poet. 361.

Poems like pictures are.