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It was also a part of my design to have shewn how this church, in connection with the mother church in Europe, is designed to open the way for the second advent of our Lord Jesus Christ, by unfolding the wonderful exertions that are now making, through the medium of the numerous Bible Societies, Missionary Societies, and Sunday Schools; together with the extensive out-pourings of the Divine Spirit, as they are now displayed in various parts of the United States; but I have already so far exceeded the limits prescribed for this work that I must omit the whole, and refer the reader, for the first, to the various Bible Soeiety any Missionary Society reports, so common in our country; and for the latter, to a work, upon the revivals of religion in the the United States, now about to be published by the Rev. Dr. Mc Cawley, of Schenectady. I can

Wheeling. It is between fifteen and twenty rods diameter, at the base; its perpendicular height seventy feet, and on the summit nearly sixty feet diameter, in the centre of which is a regular cavity, consisting of about 3000 cubical feet, on which is a green white-oak tree, three feet in diameter, and more than seventy feet high; within a few rods stand five other smaller mounds. (Quere. What analogy may there be between these mounds, and the pyramids of Egypt, in their original design.)

The most remarkable mounds, or pyramids, in the western country, are on the Mississippi, consisting of two groups. The one about ten miles above the Kahokia, which empties near St. Louis; and the other nearly the same distance below it; which in all exceed one hundred and fifty. The largest of these mounds is a stupendous pile of earth, to form which must have required the labours of thousands, for years. It stands immediately on the banks of the Kahokia; the form is a parallelogram, from north to south; on the south is a broad apron, about half way down, and from this another projection, nearly fifteen feet wide; the whole circumference 800 yards, and the height of the mound about 90 feet. The Monks of La Trappe have settled near it, who have made the apron into a kitchen garden, and sowed the top with wheat

Near St. Louis is a curious work called the Fallen Garden. It suggests to the spectator the idea of a situation for assembling the people for public councils."

Numerous other similar ruins are noticed by the same author, extending from the lakes of Canada to the confines of Mexico.

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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

only add, that within the period of nine months past (since I commenced this work,) the most powerful, as well as most extensive revival of religion that has ever been recorded, has sprung up, and diffused itself over more than one half of the towns in the State of Connecticut; and in this parish of Wethersfield, in which I now write, more than one hundred and fifty converts have been added to the visible church of our Lord Jesus Christ, the three months past, and the work is still progressing, not only in this parish; but throughout the state.

Who, that examines with attention this vast field of instruction, can fail to see, that the days are fast approaching, "when the stone that was cut out of the mountain without hands, shall become a great mountain, and fill the whole earth." And when "the mountain of the Lord's House shall be exalted upon the tops of the mountains, and all nations shall flow unto it and be saved."

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New-York commences a system of non-importation,

Association of New-York and Connecticut,

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Became general throughout the Colonies,

1766 Stamp Act repealed,

CHAP. II.

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1771 Riots in New-York,

1772 Gaspee schooner burnt near Providence,

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1773 Town-meetings become general in the colonies,

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Causes that led to the American Revolution continued,

1772 Tea sent out to America under a special act of Parliament,

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