"In magic spells I trust?

"Liar! let witness this!"

And he drew off Abdaldar's Ring,

And cast it in the gulph.

A skinny hand came up,

And caught it as it fell,

And peals of devilish laughter shook the Cave.

Then joy suffus'd Mohareb's cheek,
And Thalaba beheld

The blue blade gleam, descending to destroy.

The undefended youth

Sprung forward, and he seiz'd

Mohareb in his grasp,

And grappled with him breast to breast. Sinewy and large of limb Mohareb was,

Broad-shoulder'd, and his joints

Knit firm, and in the strife

Of danger practis'd well.

Time had not thus matur'd young

Thalaba:

But now the enthusiast mind,

The inspiration of his soul

Pour'd vigour like the strength
Of madness through his frame.
Mohareb reels before him! he right on,
With knee, with breast, with arm,
Presses the staggering foe!

And now upon the brink

Of that tremendous spring,..

There with fresh impulse, and a rush of force,
He thrust him from his hold.

The upwhirling flood receiv'd
Mohareb, then, absorb'd,
Engulph'd him in the abyss.

Thalaba's breath came fast,
And, panting, he breath'd out
A broken prayer of thankfulness.
At length he spake, and said,

"Haruth and Maruth! are ye here? "Or has that evil guide misled my search?

"I, Thalaba, the Servant of the Lord,

"Invoke you. Hear me, Angels! so may Heaven

"Accept and mitigate your penitence.

"I go to root from earth the Sorcerer brood, "Tell me the needful Talisman !"

Thus as he spake, recumbent on the rock

Beyond the black abyss,

Their forms grew visible.

A settled sorrow sate upon their brows,
Sorrow alone, for trace of guilt and shame
Now nought remained; and gradual as by prayer
The sin was purged away,

Their robe of glory, purified of stain,
Resum'd the lustre of its native light.

In awe the youth receiv'd the answering voice, "Son of Hodeirah! thou hast prov'd it here; "The Talisman is Faith."

NOTES TO BOOK V.

Laps the cool wave, &c.-P. 221.

The Pelican makes choice of dry and desert places to lay her eggs; when her young are hatched, she is obliged to bring water to them from great distances. To enable her to perform this necessary office, Nature has provided her with a large sack, which extends from the tip of the under mandible of her bill to the throat, and holds as much water as will supply her brood for several days. This water she pours into the nest, to cool her young, to allay their thirst, and to teach them to swim. Lions, Tygers, and other rapacious animals, resort to these nests, and drink the water, and are said not to injure the young. Smellie's Philosophy of Natural History.

It is perhaps from this power of carrying a supply of water that the pelican is called Jimmel el Bahar, the Camel of the River. Bruce notices a curious blunder upon this subject in the translation of Norden's Travels. On looking into Mr Norden's Voyage, says he, I was struck at first sight with this paragraph: "We saw, this day, abundance of camels; but they did not come near