was one of helplessness, confusion, awe, almost terror. One is afraid at first to venture in fifty yards. Without a compass, or the landmark of some opening, to or from which he can look, a man must be lost in the first ten minutes, such a sameness is there in the infinite variety. That sameness and variety make it impossible to give any general sketch of a forest. Once inside, "you cannot see the wood for the trees."

You can only wander on as far as you dare, letting each object impress itself on your mind as it may, and carrying away a confused recollection of innumerable perpendicular lines, all straining upwards, in fierce competition, towards the lightfood far above; and next of a green cloud, or rather mist, which hovers round your head, and rises, thickening and thickening, to an unknown height.

The upward lines are of every possible thickness, and of almost every possible hue; what leaves they bear, being for the most part on the tips of the twigs, give a scattered, mist-like appearance to the under foliage.

For the first moment, therefore, the forest seems more open than an ordinary wood. But try to walk through it, and ten steps undeceive you. Around your knees are probably Mamures, with creeping stems and fan-shaped leaves, something like those of a young cocoa-nut palm. You try to brush through them, and are caught up instantly by a string or wire belonging to some other plant.

You look up and round; and then you find that the air is full of wires-that you are hung up in a net-work of fine branches belonging to half a dozen different sorts of young trees, and intermixed with as many different species of slender creepers.

You then run against the huge leaf-stalk of a young Cocorite palm. This leaf is five-and-twenty feet long, and springs from a huge ostrich plume, which is sprawling out of the ground and up above your head a few yards off.

Cutting through this leaf-stalk, you are again suddenly stopped by a gray lichen-covered bar as thick as your ankle. This entwines itself with three or four other bars, rolling over with them in great knots and festoons and loops twenty feet high, and then vanishing into the green cloud overhead, as if a giant had thrown a ship's cable into the tree tops.

At one of these loops, nearly as thick as your arm, your companion, if you have a forester with you, will spring joyfully. With a few blows of his cutlass he will sever it as high as he can reach, and again below, some three feet down; and while you are wondering at this seemingly wanton destruction, he lifts the bar on high, throws his head back, and pours down his thirsty throat a pint or more of pure cold water.

This hidden treasure is, strange as it may seem, the ascending sap, or rather the ascending pure rain-water, which has been taken up by the roots, and is hurrying aloft, to be elaborated into sap, and leaf, and flower, and fruit, and fresh tissue for the very stem up which it originally climbed; and therefore it is that the woodman cuts the watervine through just at the top of the piece which he wants, and not at the bottom; for so rapid is the ascent of the sap that if he cut the stem below, the water would have all fled upwards before he could cut it off above.

Meanwhile the old story of "Jack and the Bean

stalk" comes into your mind. In such a forest was the old dame's hut; and up such a bean-stalk Jack climbed, to find a giant and a castle high above. The monkeys and the parrots, and the hummingbirds and the flowers, and all the beauty, are up above the green cloud. You are in "the empty nave of the cathedral," and "the service is being celebrated aloft in the blazing roof.”

C. KINGSLEY.

Spell and pronounce : — courtesies, long-legged, condescended, tramway, ditches, mist, well-hoed, stifling, utterly, tropic, chimneys, phenomenon, umbrella, palmiste, vermilion, coral, fifty-three, datura, accustomed, foliage, and wanton.

Give synonyms of illusion, warning, desolate, ornaments, intense, splash, continuous, longed, jutted, depot, delicious, refreshing, aware, tract, luxuriant, tenor, hue, undeceive, intermixed, and slender.

Columbus, who

Trinidad is one of the West India Islands. discovered it in 1498, gave it this name, from a Spanish word for Trinity. The British took possession of it in 1797.

LESSON LXXIII.

kěnénel, home or house for dogs. eŎn'sti tüte, make up; form; establish.

văg'a bond, a wanderer; a vagrant.

do mãin', territory; place.

DOGS OF CONSTANTINOPLE.

Constantinople is an immense dog kennel; every one makes the remark as soon as he arrives. The dogs constitute a second population of the city, less numerous, but not less strange than the first. Everybody knows how the Turks love and protect them; and many provide for them in their wills, as they do for the birds.

Not one of the innumerable dogs of Constantinople has a master. They, therefore, form a great vagabond republic, collarless, nameless, houseless, and lawless. The street is their abode; there they dig little dens, where they sleep, eat, and die. No one thinks of disturbing their occupations or their repose.

They are masters of the highways. While in our cities it is the dog that makes way for the horseman or the foot passenger, there it is the people, the horses, the camels, and the donkeys that make way for the dogs.

In the most frequented part of Stamboul, four or five dogs, curled up asleep in the middle of the road, will cause the entire population of a quarter to turn out of the way for half a day. They are with difficulty disturbed even when in a crowded street a carriage with four horses is seen coming like the wind; then, at the very last moment, they rise and transport their lazy bones a foot or two out of the way -just enough to save their lives.

Laziness is the distinctive trait of the dogs of Constantinople. They lie down in the middle of the road, five, six, ten in a line, or in a ring, curled up so that they look more like tow-mats than animals, and there they sleep the whole day through, among throngs of people coming and going, and neither cold, nor heat, nor sunshine can move them. When it snows, they stay under the snow; when it rains, they lie down in the mud up to their ears.

The canine population of Constantinople is divided into quarters, or wards. Every quarter, every street is inhabited, or rather possessed, by a certain

number of dogs, which never go away from it, and never allow strangers to reside in it.

They exercise a kind of service of police. They have their guards, their advance posts, their sentinels; they go the rounds and make explorations.

Woe to any dog of another quarter which, pushed by hunger, shall risk himself within the territory of his neighbors! A crowd of curs fall upon him at once, and if they catch him, it is all over with him; if they cannot catch him, they chase him furiously as far as his own domain, watching carefully, however, not to venture a single step beyond the understood boundary line.

These dogs act as scavengers in the city. There are no underground sewer-pipes in the city.

LESSON LXXIV.

di vĕr'si fied, distinguished by many forms.

mi erðs'eō pist, one skilled in

microscopy.

ē qui lib'ri ŭm, a state of rest.

ab rā'şion, the act of wearing off.

sub ma rïne', being under wa

ter in the ocean.
veered, changed direction.

THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AND THE TELEGRAPH. The Atlantic Ocean stretches from the Arctic Circle on the north to the Antarctic Circle on the south, a distance of nine thousand miles. Its breadth varies from one thousand two hundred miles, between the coasts of Greenland and Norway, to three thousand five hundred miles, from the peninsula of Florida to Cape Verd, on the western coast of Africa. Humboldt compares the bed of