SYMPTOMS OF CIVILIZATION.

WALKING STUART, being cast away on an unknown shore, where, after he and

his companions had proceeded a long way without seeing a creature, at

length, to their great delight, they descried _a man hanging on a

gibbet_. "The joy," says he, "which this _cheering sight_ excited,

cannot be described; for it convinced us that we were in a _civilized

country_."