[Frontispiece.] [Epigraph.] “Ten thousand colours wafted through the air, In magic glances play upon the eye, Combining in their endless, fairy form A wild creation.” To Mrs. Martha Bradstreet, of New York.

That luminary is adored by the Hindûs, under the name of Surya, and the sect amongst them which is peculiarly addicted to his worship is called Saura.