HERE IS THE ANSWER TO FREDERICK'S ENIGMA. His 5, 8, 11, 4, 2 and 9, is Hector, a cape on a large island. His 6, 3, 11, 4, 10 and 11, is Arctic—a large circle. His 5, 12, 3 and 8, is Hard-the tribe of Indians that inhabit British America. His 5, 2, 9 and 1, is Cape Horn, of South America. His 7, 12, 9, 7, 2, 3 and 12, is Marmora, a sea between Europe and Asia. His 1, 8, 10, 7 and 10, is Niemen, a river in Europe. His 11, 3, 10, 7, 8 and 12, is Crimea, a portion of Russia. His 8, 4, 1 and 12 is Etna, a burning mountain. His 11, 5, 10, 1 and 12, is China, a country in Asia. His 5, 8, 3, 12 and 4, is Herat, the capital of a country in Asia. His 12, 11, 5, 8, 8 and 1, is Achun, a town on a large island. His whole is North America-a large portion of the globe. PUZZLE. My whole consists of ten letters. My 9, 8, 5 and 6, is very useful to fur traders. My 5, 6 and 10, is an animal. My 10, 9, 4 and 7, is a burning mountain in Europe. My 9, 5 and 8, is manufactured in large quantities in the Southern States. My 1, 7 and 9, is an animal that goes out only at night. My 10, 2, 3, 6 and 10, is a part of the Eastern Continent. My whole is the name of a distinguished Emperor. A. C. C. The Lily. MUSIC COMPOSED BY GEORGE J. WEBB. Two Voices. By cool Siloam's shady rill,How sweet the lily grows!How sweet the breath be b neath the hill Of Sharon's dewy rose! Lo, such the child whose early feet The ROBERT MERRY'S MUSEUM. EDITED BY S. G. GOODRICH, AUTHOR OF PETER PARLEY'S TALES. VOLUME VIII. BOSTON: BRADBURY, SODEN & CO., No. 12, SCHOOL STREET. 1844. Stereotyped by George A. Curtis, New England Type and Stereotype Foundry. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by S. G. GOODRICH, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. 179 180 66 181 182 8፡፡ 183 184 185 187 189 "Now comes JULY, and with his fervid noon Unsinews labor. The swinkt mower sleeps; The weary maid walks feebly; the warm swain Pitches his load reluctant; the faint steer, Lashing his sides, draws sulkily along The slow, encumbered wain in midday heat." UCH is the picture of this month, drawn by an old English poet. With us the heat is still greater than in England; yet the farmers keep busily at work in the fields; and, to say truth, it is about as comfortable to be at work, as to be idle. Leigh Hunt, speaking of this month in England, says, "The heat in this month 1 VOL. VIII. There is a sense of heat and quiet all is greatest on account of its duration. over nature. The birds are silent. The little brooks are dried up. The earth is parched. The shadows of the trees are particularly grateful, heavy and still. The oaks, which are freshest, because latest in leaf, form noble, clumpy canopies, looking, as you lie under them, of a strong emulous green, against the blue sky. The traveller delights to cut across the country, through the fields and the leafy lanes, where nevertheless the flints sparkle with heat. The cattle get into the shade, or stand in the water. The |