is mutinous crew; Sir Martin
Frobisher died of a wound received at Brest; Sir Humphrey Gilbert,
Raleigh's noble half-brother, "as near to God by sea as by land," sank
with the crew of the little Squirrel in the deep green surges of the
North Atlantic; Sir Francis Drake, "the terror of the Spanish Main," and
the explorer of the coast of California, died of disease near Puerto
Bello, in 1595. The frozen wilds of the North hold the bones of many an
intrepid explorer. Franklin and Bellot there sleep their last long
sleep. The bleak snow-clad _tundra_ of the Lena delta saw the last
moments of the gallant De Long. Afric's burning sands have witnessed
many a martyrdom to science and religion. Livingston, Hannington,
Gordon, Jamieson, and Barttelot are golden names on the ghastly roll.
Australia's scrub-oak and blue-gum plains have contributed their quota
of the sad and sudden deaths on the earth-explorers' roll.

Columbus and Columbia.

COLUMBIA.

Hail, Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!

_Joseph Hopkinson_, 1770-1842.

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves,
While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.

_Robert Treat Paine_, 1772-1811.

Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise.
The queen of the world, and child of the skies!
Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold
While ages on ages thy splendors unfold.

_Timothy Dwight_, 1752-1817.

COLUMBIA

AMERICAN FUTURITY.

JOHN ADAMS, second President of the United States. Born October 19,
1735; died July 4, 1826.

A prospect into futurity in America is like contemplating the heavens
through the telescopes of Herschel. Objects stupendous in their
magnitudes and motions strike us from all quarters, and fill us with
amazement.

AMERICA THE OLD WORLD.

LOUIS JEAN RODOLOPHE AGASSIZ, the distinguished naturalist. Born in
Motier, near the Lake of Neufchatel, Switzerland, in 1807; died at
Cambridge, Mass., December 14, 1873. From his "Geological
Sketches." By permission of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
Publishers, Boston.

First-born among the continents, though so much later in culture and
civilization than some of more recent birth, America, so far as her
physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the _New
World_. Hers was the first dry land lifted out of the waters, hers the
first shore washed by the ocean that enveloped all the ea