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S.- .-*» st1 tined him. On the contrary, ignorance contracts the understanding, degrades human nature, and levels man with an- much his inferior by nature. / TAe Greeks worshipped the winds and offered sacrifices to for the purpose of averting tlie of mankind ; against whom Jtbey considered an exterminating war ^ n d been waged through the agency of storms, tempests, and earthquakes, The winds were represented in differ- attitudes and forms. The four principal win<Js r;ere the southeast, ( Enr %$) who was represented as a young mfU), flying with impetuosity |and oflten in a wanton and playsome §i|tliner. Jlmter, the* south wigd gen- y appeared as an old man with haire,—a gloomy countenance— covered with clouds— a sable t and dusky wings. He was the dispenser of rain and «rs* Zephyrus is repre- ildest of all the winds— g * *ndgentle—his lap con- Aowera—Bi married Flo- jti -»*. * - « * iaf, with whom he enjoy- felicity. Borensf or the north appears always rough and ehivergjj^—he is the father of rain, bail, it# tempest, and is represented sununded with impenetrable There were other winds of te, as SofanuSj who appea- man holding fruit. Jlf- vtcus, dr south west wind, represen ted with black w igs, and a melan choly countenance, r, Corns , or north west, driving clouds of snow before him, and Jiquilo , the northeast, is e- qually dreadful in appearance. Some Mythologists, thc^ht that the winds were confined^** large cave, and tk*t JEolus had charge o f them, and that IjmwiiLtBiB precaution, they would l^¥.e^T^rturned the earth, and redu- GOLD B i B I E , NO. 6. There appears to be a great dis crepancy, in the stories told by the famous ‘three witnesses to the Gold _ -m ■ ^ Bible; and thes*e pious reprobates, in dividually, frequently give different versions of the ^ame transaction. In were divided ecui-distant. between ifo? , * - <*~ * ' - *- back & l edge,by cutting thejrfates in two party, and united again with solder, so that the front might be opened* were by a hinge, w~hile the back r remained stationary and immove. and in this manner remained to the first place, it was roundly asserted and the other witnesses a sealed Zh #■*/•, that the plates on which Mormon wrote j which would not be revealed for i - his history, (in the reformed Egyptianito come, and that even the pi-*j • 1 language) were of gold, and hence itsihimself was not as yet^ptfrin.:i u] name; gentlemen in this vicinity were'understand. On opening Ifhui pur:.«jn called on to estimate its \salue from its.o f the book which wras not secured by weight, (something more than 201bs.) the seals, he discovered incribed on Smith and Harris gave out that no'the aforesaid plates, divers anu won- mortal save Jo could look upon it and derful characters; some of them large live; and Harris declares, that when and some small,but beyond the wisdom he acted as amanuenses , and wrote of man to understand without i=uper- the translation, as Smith dictated, such natural aid. » w a s his fear of the Divine displeasure^ Some of the other apostks give that a screen (sheet) was suspended somewhat similar accounts, but vary- betvveen the prophet and hirn^elt. ingm many particulars, according to Whitmans description of the Book their various powers ol description, of Mormon, differs entirely from that Harris, however, gives the lie to a very given by Harris; both of whom it.important part of Whitmans 1 elation, would seem, have been of late permit-and declares that tlie leaves or pages ted, not only to see and handle it, but jof the book are not cut, and a part of to examine its contents. Whitmar re-;them sealed, but that it opens like a- lates that h e jp s led by Smith into anjny other book, from the edge to the open field, on his father’s farm near;back, the rings operating in the place Waterloo, when they found the book oi common binding. iying on the ground; Smith took it up As these details, under different and requested him to examine it,which modifications, (for it must be borne in he did for the space of half an hour or-mind, that these Mormonites have more, when he returned it to Smith,igiven versions of the same particu- w h o placed it in its former position, aklars,) are pretty well understood in ledging that the book wras in the cus-[this vicinity, we shall give our distant tody of another , intimating that someireaders, but small portions at a time Divine agent would have it in safe kee ping ced :% « t y thing to its origioal c h a o s . We have on hand a new edition of the prophet’s vision, at the time the Gold This witness describes the book as Bible wTas revealed to him by the bpi being something like 8 inches square ; rit, and the subsequent transactions, (our informant did not recollect pre- as related by JO’S father and his el cisely,) the leaves wrere plates of m e t - der brother ; also sundry money dig- al of a whitish yellow color, and of ging scenes in which the femiths acted the thickness of tin plate ; the back conspicuous parts, all of which will b e was secured with three small rings of giyen to ^ie public m due time, the same metal, passing through each The last news from the Mormonites leaf in succession ;—that the leaves'in the West, informs us. that the Rev.