And fiery caverns, roars beneath his feet.

The hills move lightly, and the mountains smoke, For he has touch'd them. From the extremest point Of elevation down into the abyss,

His wrath is busy, and his frown is felt,

The rocks fall headlong, and the valleys rise.
What solid was, by transformation strange,
Grows fluid; and the fix'd and rooted earth,
Tormented into billows, heaves and swells,
Or, with vortiginous and hideous whirl,
Sucks down its prey insatiate.-CowPER.

ATTRACTIONS OF HILO.

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CHAPTER XVI.

EARTHQUAKES, NATURE, ART, AND RELIGION AT HILO.

If in the field I meet a smiling flow'r,
Methinks it whispers, "God created me;
And I to Him devote my little hour
In lonely sweetness and humility."
If, where the forest's darkest shadows lower,
A serpent quick and venomous I see,

It seems to say, "I, too, extol the power

Of Him who caused me, at his will, to be."
The fountain purling, and the river strong,

The rocks, the trees, the mountains raise one song ;

Glory to God!" re-echoes in mine hear:

Faithless were I, in willful error blind,

Did I not Him in all his creatures find;

His voice through heaven, and earth, and ocean hear.
MONTGOMERY's Imitation from the Italian.

ALMOST every one that has visited Hilo once would like to go there again. Its salubrious climate, perpetual verdure, quiet walks and rural scenery, pleasant society, and its vicinity to the volcano of Kilauea, form a combination of attractions not found at any other place on the Islands. You may walk up to the ancient craters and cascade, or go over the other side of the river, where of old they used to hold fairs, or stroll along under the palm-trees by the beautiful mile-beach, or take a canoe and paddle over to Cocoa-nut Island for shell-hunting and bathing; or you may make your way through the bread-fruit and hala trees to the bord

ers of the lakes, and take a sail there, if you like, in a boat of bulrushes, such, very likely, as Moses was laid in by the Nile.

Or a ride of thirty-five miles will carry you closer to the phenomena of an active and changeful volcano than in all the world besides. If it be winter, while you are perspiring freely under a tropical sun at the beach or from any where in the bay, you may look up to the pure snow-capped summit of Mauna Kea, and let the enchanting sight do what it can to cool and invigorate you. A few evenings since the mountain presented a spectacle of great beauty-its base encircled with a rim of thin white mist, its sides sprinkled with light patches and delicate shadings of vapor, its peak flashing with sun-lit clouds and snow-banks, that gloriously reflected the declining sunbeans, like a dome of the purest alabaster.

If you are fond of earthquakes and desirous to take a shock, your curiosity will be likely to be gratified in the course of four or five weeks; but the shock will be so sudden and short, and take you so much by surprise, whether by night or day, that you will have no chance to examine the phenomenon, and can hardly help wishing it might be continued a little longer, if it were only to scrutinize it more closely and mark your own sensations.

The first time I felt a shock at these islands, it was in the house about noon, at Kohala; and I could not help going to the door, after such a commotion, to see if there were no signs of sympathy with the laboring earth in the other elements. But it was all sunny and still; the sky looked cheerful and serene; the fair face