The Ocean-Titan of the Silver Crown,--Teneriffe,--gradually falling beneath the horizon of the East, would suggest to the "wise men" of the Galleys, to note his bearing with the Stars of Night,--that the astral chart might guide them for a return voyage, should their expedition be prolonged beyond their means of sustenance: for amid all the desolation, misery, and ruin of their country, in which the savage Conqueror revelled during his slaughter-banquet, although he triumphed over the dead, he could not destroy the visionary minds of the living--their knowledge of Astronomy made each rescued Tyrian a Prophet of the deep! GOD'S handwriting on the wall of Heaven (where the dazzling Stars are His letters) was read correctly by these Ocean-Daniels of Tyrus. That nation was indeed like ancient Babylon, numbered and finished; weighed in the balances and found wanting, and the kingdom divided and given to the Conqueror; for her fate was sealed, and by the Macedonian Signet, whose owner solved the Gordian problem by the Sword alone! "MENE MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN" appeared not only to the chief Son of Babylon;--the "Daughter of Sidon" had it branded on her brow; and in vain she wandered through her streets, striking with trembling fingers the loosened chords of her once-loved harp, to remind the passer-by of her former beauties; the diapason of her heart could never more awake an echo,--for GOD had spoken to the Sea Queen--"I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard!"--but, the Chaldean language of the Skies was not learnt by her Daniels in vain: it had taught them in a former age, to guide their bold prows from Pharaoh's fatal Sea; and coasting around all Afric's burning land, enabled them to pass the Herculean boundary Pillars, and so homeward to the Nile and Tyrus, which after two score Moons received them: and now, when the remorseless Conqueror--not Science--drove their descendants forth upon "great waters" where "the _East-Wind_ could have broken them in the midst of the Seas,"--that constant gale from the Orient point, created with Time, and will only cease with his decay,--that earth-circling and never-varying gale from East to West,--_as if to_ COMPEL _Discovery of the other Hemisphere, and thence praise the works of_ GOD!--that onward breeze, which alone wafted the bold Genoese and turned the reported vision to reality;--when the Tyrian Sons were again upon these Seas, but now before that Orient gale;--still the star-tracery on the azure wall of the eternal Dome, and their Apollo daily sinking on his Western couch, and with his last glance, beckoning them, as it were, still to follow on his path,--this knowledge and their Religious adoration, directed them in safety to that Virgin land where the glorious Sun from Creation's dawn, had never beamed upon a human foot-print, until their own had kissed the untouched Floridian Shore! There Flora and her