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rsian; and then the Grecian, who kept the &amc bitter waters upon Jcniflalem, whose land the rivera have wa!itDd, and then came the daughter of Da- bylon, (hat is, Rofne, tocatry ou (he work, whose atreaf^h fuilinj; her in those eastern parts, where her power became effete under the fourth trum- pet, the Lord, by the 6fth trumpet, brought up the Saiaccns to continue hia curse upon the land of Israel, as a firat visitation of woundm^ and severti ch^iKtisenieDt, from which (hey Ahould have learaed nrpenlaucc; but this ik*! U^iiig the ta*e» tbc Lord called to unloose the fourangcU, or mU nistcrs of de&lruotion, which be had bound upon Euphrates, until the time of the year and the montii and the day aod the hour had begun its ooune : and up they came swelling in their mighty as die Ansvrian had done at 6rat, to execute the 1000 me Dftritfo cr or me eortiiAm. [ ccmmandfnpol of the Lord, which wbs hirgcr ihe Aasymn't comnu&sion, bein; noc only to bHier the cane apon JeranleiOt mod the prom lanil, bvt to day the third part of men. and ri over the tAtB of their tomb. And thiu it tioaes, till. tiDdor tb« sixth Tial, i contrary date goetfa forth to the bolj angel of xhc vial, that he abould poor bis ml itpoo these ^w and cni^ty wide*spread wtten; which ho d and fi^tnugfatway they nbeidc, and are dried u that the desolate land may be cleared, aod wmy of his natioo of hiDg« may be prepared. retOTO and be blessed for crer, and no more again afflide^r The watrr 1% the nlrengih of :t river, i riches, its beauty; in Nliuit^ ever)' thinjr wbic makes it the most noble and bountifol of the tor's works ; which beinfi: romored, it beCDmea no barrier nor bulwark of city or land, no channel of fertility, no means of traffic, and high-way of wealth, but a standing pool, a sterile sand, or a putrescent marsh, unwhoWmme, unprofitable, and unsightly. And the country round deprived of its sap and moisture, decays away and decUnea from its fertility, and the parched wildemcic succecdeth to the welUwatered and fertile ^* den ; and witd-bcasta roaring in quest of tlieir prey, take the place of a peaceful happy people; and the towns, unfed by the conntry, are deserted,' and the cities fall into ruins, and the owl and the' bat succeed to the chambers of state, the balls of festivity and the soft retreats of beauty* if any one would understand this figure, he must travel in tlie grejit desert of Zaharra, and coutraat the verdure, andahade, and fre9.hne«s of those valleys Mikd Oases, which are nothing more than th