irregularities and squanders his wealth. He at length gets a wife and becomes the father of children. The husk of his rice even he refuses to part with, and his wish is to enjoy them all. He thinks, by living cheaply, by refusing to support charities, or to dispense favors, he is of all men the most happy. His youth now passes away and old age creeps on; his hair gets grey, his teeth drop, his sight fails, his body becomes dry, his back bends, he has recourse to a walking stick and is gazed at by the young with derision. While in this predicament the ministers of Yama* with their shaggy hair and frightful countenance approach him, aud seize and bear away his life in the midst of the screams of his wife and children. His kinsfolk and friends then assemble, talk of his good or evil deeds, convey his body to the burning ground with the sound of tom toms, and commit it to the fire, which consumes and reduces it to a handful of ashes." 28. Pattanattupillei. The popular belief is that this philosopher was by caste a chetty, and lived at Kaveripoompatnam, in the Carnatic. He was possessed of great riches, but imbibing an opinion, that they were merely the illusions of the world, he parted with them all, and passed the remainder of his life, subsisting wholly on alms and esteeming & potsherd and pure gold alike. His sister ashamed of his conduct attempted to poison him, but with out success. He lived to a great age and died in a wood near Tiruválankúda, where a Samáde, or monument was afterwards erected by his kinsfolk to perpetuate his memory. The verses which he ejaculated extempore as he wandered up and down the country have been carefully preserved, and they contain the opinions which he held. He represented man as a puppet whose motion stood only upon the pleasure of God' and therefore he was incapable of doing either good, or evil by himself. 29. Pattilakiri. This philosopher is said to have been originally a king, but of what place is not known. He was a contemporary of Pattanattupillei, and in imitation of him, abandoned his worldly possessions and adopted the life of a Sanniyasi, begging his bread from door to door and enduring the privation of all that could in any way have served to gratify his senses. He has left a number of exclamatory verses, called Pulambel, in one of which he expresses himself as follows: "When shall the time come that the Shasters shall be burnt, the four Vedas manifested to be a lie, and I be made whole, through the knowledge of the Mystery?" Tam. Dict. * The god of death. (To be Continued) POETICAL SKETCHES of THE INTERIOR OF THE ISLAND OF CEYLON, BY THE REV, B. BAILEY.—(Continued.) XXV. THE MOUNTAIN TARN. That Tree, shaped like a glittering coronet, top Of the Indian Bird ;* low as the streams that roll XXVI. THE STREAMLET, Tired with upgazing at the range of hills, To one of those sequestered tinkling tills, And, fretted, murmurs that it hath not sped The Peacock Mountain. XXVII. BLACK FOREST. The Hartz of Germany I have not seen : XXVHI. BREAK IN THE FOREST. As on the lonely traveller through the night And revel in the distance. Hills are blended XXIX. OPEN COUNTRY. I breathe more freely in this open space, And all around me. Now let fancy soar, Nor stoop her wing, save in some pleasant place; And captivate the not unwilling mind XXX. CASTELLATED ROCK. Upon a mountain summit stands a Rock: XXXI. AFTER SUNSET. If in the orbs that glimmer from afar Poetical Sketches, &c. &c. XXVII. The Black Forest is appropriately named. It is a dark, lonely, melancholy place. A solitary bird now and then sends up his clear voice from the low deep dells, darkened with tall perpendicular trees,-the height and depth of which are imperceptible. He is answered by innumerable insects, like a chorus of crickets, ringing their shrill and tuneless cries in changes, like a set of bells, though without their melody, and sometimes answering each other's cries from remoter parts of this most gloomy wood. The cry is discordant and painful. This insect is doubtless the Cicada. We meet with it in the South of Europe,In every part of this island,—and in all warm climates. But in this wood they are more numerous, and their cry is more loud and discordant, yet with a certain kind |