seen adjoining the churchyard of Wrington; it is now divided into two tenements, one of which is inhabited by the sexton of the parish. Under the same roof, although in a separate part, is the Girl's National School. The house is in a ruinous condition, but such is the reverence manifested for this great man, that it is kept in as diligent repair as is consistent with the preservation of the sameness of the building. The entry of Locke's baptism stile remains in the Parish Register of Wrington. It is as follows :— Anno Dõi. 1637, Julie, 16. John the Sonne of Jeremy Locke, and Elizabeth his wife. THUS I THINK. From Locke's Miscellaneous papers, published in his life by Lord King, Ir is a man's proper business to seek happiness and avoid misery. Happiness consists in what delights and contents the mind; misery in what disturbs, discomposes, or torments it. I will therefore make it my business to seek satisfaction and delight, and avoid uneasiness and disquiet; to have as much of the one and as little of the other as may be. But here I must have a care I mistake not; for if I prefer a short pleasure to a lasting one, it is plain I cross my own happiness. Let me then see wherein consists the most lasting pleasure of this life, and that, as far as I can observe, is in these things: 1st. Health, without which no sensual pleasure can have any relish. 2d. Reputation, for that I find every body is pleased with, and the want of it is a constant torment. 3d. Knowledge,—for the little knowledge I have, I find I would not sell at any rate, nor part with for any other pleasure. • As opposed to intellectual. 4th. Doing good, for I find the well-cooked meat I eat to-day does now no more delight me, nay, I am diseased after a full meal; the perfumes I smelt yesterday now no more affect me with any pleasure: but the good-turn I did yesterday, a year, seven years since, continues still to please and delight me as often as I reflect on it. 5th. The expectation of eternal and incomprehensible happiness in another world is that also which carries a constant pleasure with it. If, then, I will faithfully pursue that happiness I propose to myself, whatever pleasure offers itself to me, I must carefully look that it cross not any of those five great and constant pleasures above mentioned. For example, the fruit I see tempts me with the taste of it that I love; but if it endanger my health, I part with a constant and lasting for a very short and transient pleasure, and so foolishly make myself unhappy, and am not true to my own interest. Innocent diversions delight me: if I make use of them to refresh myself after study and business, they preserve my health, restore the vigour of my mind, and increase my pleasure; but if I spend all or the greater part of my time in them, they hinder my improvement in knowledge and useful arts, they blast my credit, and give me up to the uneasy state of shame, ignorance and contempt, in which I cannot but be very unhappy. Drinking, gaming, and vicious delights will do me this mischief, not only by wasting my time, but by a positive injury endanger my health, impair my parts, imprint ill habits, lessen my esteem, and leave a constant lasting torment on my conscience; therefore all vicious and unlawful pleasure I will always avoid, because such a mastery of my passions will afford me a constant pleasure greater than any such enjoyments, and also deliver me from the certain evil of several kinds, that by indulging myself in a present temptation I shall certainly afterwards suffer. All innocent diversions and delights, as far as they will contribute to my health, and consist with my im provement, condition, and my other more solid pleasures of knowledge and reputation, I will enjoy, but no farther; and this I will carefully watch and examine, that I may not be deceived by the flattery of a present pleasure to lose a greater. HENRY JENKINS, of the parish of Bolton, in Yorkshire, being produced as a witness, at the assizes there to prove a right of way over a man's ground, he swore to nearly 150 years memory; for at that time, he said, he well remembered a way over the ground. And being cautioned by the judge to beware what he swore, because there were two men in court of above 80 years of age each, who had sworn they remembered no such way, he replied, "That those men were boys to him." Upon which the judge asked the men how old they took Jenkins to be? who answered, they knew him very well, but not his age, and that he was a very old man when they were boys. Dr. Tancred Robinson, fellow of the college of Physicians, adds further, concerning this Henry Jenkins, that upon his coming into his sister's kitchen to beg alms, he asked him how old he was? who after a little pausing, said, he was about a hundred and sixtytwo or three. The Doctor asked him what kings he remembered? he said, Henry VIII. What public event he could longest remember? He said, the fight of Flodden-field. Whether the king was there? He said no, he was in France, and the Earl of Surry was general. How old he was then? He said about twelve years old. The Doctor looked into an old chronicle that was in the house, and found that the battle of Flodden-field was 152 years before that the earl he named was general, and that Henry VIII. was at Tournay. Jenkins was a poor man, and could neither read nor write. There were also four or five in the same parish, reputed to be 100 years old, or near it, who all said he was an elderly man ever since they knew him. This remarkable man died on the 8th of December, 1670, at Ellerton-upon-swale, at the amazing age of 169 years. What a multitude of events, says an ingenious author, have crowded into the period of this man's life! He was born when the Roman Catholic religion was established by law; he saw the supremacy of the Pope overturned; the dissolution of the monasteries; popery established again; and at last, the Protestant religion securely fixed on a rock of adamant. In his time the Invincible Armada was destroyed; the republic of Holland formed; three queens beheaded, Anne Boleyn, Catharine Howard, and Mary Queen of Scots: a king of Spain seated upon the throne of England; a king of Scotland crowned king of England at Westminster, and his son beheaded before his own palace, his family being proscribed as traitors; and, last of all, the great fire in London, which happened in 1666, toward the close of his wonderful life. He was buried in Bolton church-yard, near Catterick and Richmond, in Yorkshire, where a small pillar was erected to his memory, on which is the following epitaph composed by Dr. Thomas Chapman, Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge, from 1746 to 1760; Blush not, marble, he was enriched with the goods of Nature, and happy in the duration, if not the variety of his enjoyments: with a Patriarch's health those blessings are entailed on a life of labour, and a mind at ease. TOPOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. RUINS OF THE THEATRE AT TAORMINA WITH A DISTANT VIEW OF MOUNT ETNA. ture. It THE Island of Sicily abounds with ruins of ancient edifices, some of which are the most picturesque in the world. We have selected a view of those of a theatre at Taormina, beautifully situated on the side of a high mountain, and commanding a fine view of the sea. is almost too disparaging to call them ruins, considering the remarkable preservation of a great part of the strucThere are five distinct platforms of seats, attached to which are convenient galleries ingeniously planned; and, above the whole, two apartments which are supposed to have been places of storage for the tropœa and moveable decorations of the stage. The theatre being constructed on the sloping side of the mountain, the seats are all cut from the original rock. All along the front of one of the rows, there are inscriptions on every compartment, in large Greek characters. They were so well chiselled that some of them have completely resisted the tooth of time. It is presumed that they designate the persons to whom the seats were especially appropri ated |