During the sorrows of exile, we are happy to inform our readers, that both the poet and his friend Kyrnus had one source of consolation undisturbed :— Οὐδὲν, Κύρν', ἀγαθῆς. 1223. But these gentle influences availed not to allay resentment. The ferocious spirit of revenge which breathes at the close of the following extract shows the terrible effects of these feuds; the bloodthirsty passions which excited the Guelfs and Ghibellines of the old Grecian republics. May Jove assist me to discharge the debt Might make me deem'd almost a deity. O take my life or grant me some redress, My righteous hope-my just and hearty will!' As poetry, none of the verses are more beautiful than those in which Theognis deplores the mingled miseries of poverty and exile. We are glad to escape from the savage vehemence of the lines just quoted to the more gentle, contemplative, but affecting verses which follow : *A μáкap. 1002. (Bekker.) 'Happy the man, with worldly wealth and ease, Not Not yet reduced to wander as a stranger, Ανδρ ̓ ἀγαθὸν. Πάντων μεν μὴ φῦναι. 425. From these entanglements; with these in view The following fragment is perplexing. It appears to contain very distinct allusions to passing events, and to throw strong light on the character of the poet; but it is difficult to assign any probable period to which it relates. Mr. Frere considers it (very doubtfully) as belonging to the poet's residence in Sicily. It seems as if Theognis was engaged in the quarrels of some foreign city; for which he was not called upon, nor disposed to fight, and yet was ashamed to run away : : Εἰρήνη καὶ πλοῦτος. 881. 'Peace is my wish :-may peace and plenty crown May peace remain. And may we never miss Then never hurry forward! for we fight And with my own good horse-for very shame But brighter times were, at length, to arrive. At the close of his exile, the poet seems to have found an hospitable reception in Sparta, Sparta, the head quarters of the great Doric aristocracies. His way of life, however, does not seem very strictly Spartan; the laws of Lycurgus were, perhaps, not enforced upon strangers. τέρπεο μοι. 1067; and πῖν' οἴνον. 875. 'Enjoy your time, my soul! Another race I shall be dust the while, and crumbled earth. But think not of it! Drink the racy wine Of rich Taygetus, press'd from the vine (Old Theotimus, lov'd by gods and men) If The concluding extracts show us our poet restored to his native city, where the aristocratic party gained at length a final triumph. From an allusion in this, and in another passage, undoubtedly genuine, Theognis lived to the time of the Persian invasion. so, according to the usual chronology, he must have been above eighty years old when he composed these spirited verses. We wish his accomplished translator as long a life, and a happy return to his native country. Φοῖβε ἄναξ. 771; and Μήποτέ μοι. 787. In peace and health and wealth, cheerful and free. To broad Euboea's plentiful domain, Greeted Greeted and welcom'd there and every where The song, the dance, music and verse agreeing, (With good repute, and kindness, and good-will, Harmless and just with ev'ry rank of men, ART. VI.—1. First and Second Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of the Irish Fisheries. 1836. 2. A Bill to regulate the Irish Fisheries (prepared and brought in by Lord Eliot and Mr. Solicitor-General for Ireland), ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 6 April, 1842. Received the Royal Assent 10th August, 1842. A GLANCE at the map of Ireland will show the deep inden tations of the arms of the sea between many a beaked promontory on the south-westerly portion, where it is most exposed to the breaching battery of the Atlantic; and, indeed, the western coast generally is much indented, and loftily precipitous. The south abounds in harbours and bays, but the eastern shore is, for the most part, flat, and presents but few inlets. The central district is occupied, with small interruption, by the great plain of limestone, which extends from Dublin Bay on the east to the Bay of Galway on the west, and from Sligo and Fermanagh northward, to Cork and Waterford southward. We need not dwell on the principal mountain-groups, which rise either on the outside of this plain, or appear in ridges insulated near its borders but we may observe that the Wicklow and Mount Leinster granite-range commences from the sea at Dublin, and extends to the south from the borders of Dublin and Wicklow into Carlow, terminating near the confluence of the rivers Barrow and Nore: from the flanks of this chain the slate-rocks run on one side into the eastern part of Kildare, and on the other to the sea, forming those portions of Wicklow which are most favourable for for culture, and nearly the whole of Wexford, interspersed, in the latter locality, with protruded masses of greenstone and quartz. That extensive mountain-district forming the Gaultees of Tipperary is insulated by the limestone, which, northward from Dingle Bay, is again laved by the sea, although throughout western Limerick and Clare it is overlaid by the great Munster coal-formation, from beneath which it again peeps out on the south side of Galway Bay. This limestone plain comprises no less than six coal-fields: - on the south-east is the district of Leinster or Castlecomer; on the south, that of Slieve Arda or Tipperary; the great Munster district runs through portions of Cork, Kerry, Limerick, and Clare counties on the south-west; on the north-west the Lough Allen district embraces the Shannon at its source; on the north are the Monaghan and Tyrone districts, and a small one occurs in Antrim at its north-eastern extremity. The quality of the coal varies much; that from the south is anthracite, or, as it is vernacularly termed, blind coal; but the coal worked in the country north of Dublin is bituminous. The central district contains more than one million acres of bog, the greater portion of which lies west of the Shannon (Galway, Roscommon, Mayo), and the remainder, well known as the Bog of Allen, extends through various parts of King's County, Longford, Westmeath, and Kildare. One word with regard to these bogs; they are fringed by numerous ridges of limestone gravel, offering the unlimited means of improving and reclaiming them. Nor must it be concealed that the carboniferous limestone of this central plain is, in many places, buried under the upper splintery limestone, which generally gives a rugged, craggy surface, pierced with caverns and subterranean channels, through which the streams sink: but the greater part is unencumbered, and there the substratum of pure, carboniferous limestone supports a soil rich, racy, and sweet, spread over a surface whose gentle undulations give sure promise of fertility-fertility which is not confined to the central plain, but is shared by many of the districts lying beyond it. The external districts, as they may be termed, are drained by rivers whose course is, for the most part, short, as might be expected from the mountain-groups that border the central plain. The principal of these rivers are, in Cork the Blackwater and the Lee; in Donegal and Derry the Foyle; in Antrim and Down the Bann and the Lagan; and, in Wexford, the Slaney. But the rivers that drain the central district are longer in their course, flowing on till they pay a much more copious tribute to the sea. The central plain is divided by the Slieve Bloom chain and the Eskers longitudinally, and, of the two divisions, the western |