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the storm of battle raged in its wildest fury , and the engines of destruction dealt out death on every side—when foemen fought hand to hand and sunk in deadly embrace , a young man belonging to the " 3 nd Kentucky Infantry , was still struggling in the more than decimated ranks of that ill-fated regiment ; and there where McKee , and Clay , and Vaughn , and Willis fell , he bravely fought , and finally wounded , but apparently not mortallyhe too fell prostrate by the side of his officers . And there
, , as he lay helpless on the bloody earth , a score of burnished lances pointed to his heart , aud were ready to drink the last drop of his blood . This young man was a Mason , made in the Lodge to which I belonged ; and at that trying moment he threw himself upon that faith which never fails . He made the sign , and the next instant a Mexican , having caught the sign , rushed to the fallen soldier , dashed back the gleaming instruments'of deathand raised his prostrate / oenow his Brotherand
, ., , bore him off ' . But I regret to add that they had not progressed twenty paces , e ' er the Mexican lost his life in attempting to save his Brother . This incident was witnessed by Masons , and related to me by the father of the young man referred to , himself a Mason of high order ; and although the youth ultimately perished with his protector , the act itself lives a memento of the force and purity of the Masonic ties . "Ibid .
NOAH ' ARK . —Mount Ararat is 6000 feet higher than iEtna , and 1528 feet higher than Mont Blanc—the latter the point of the greatest elevation in Europe . It is detached from the other mountains of Armenia , and is divided into two conical peaks . Sir Robert Porter paints in glowing colors the magnificence of the spectacle when he first came in sight of Ararat , majestically rising from a widely-extended green plain , fertilized by the clear waters of the Aras ( the ancient Araxes ) , and
covered with Armenian villages . In various points of view the summit has a striking resemblance to a ship , a fact which has been recorded by all travellers to the spot ; and the whole country around is full of traditionary stories relative to Noah ' s ark and the flood , lt is a common belief amongst Armenians and Persians , that the remains of the ark still exist on the summit . Several attempts have heen made to reach the top of the mountain , even by the Turks , in order to ascertain the fact ;
but no one has ever yet got beyond the snowy limit . Moving sands which threaten to overwhelm the traveller , flinty rocks which cut his shoes to shreds , and terrible precipices with overhanging rocks , and above all , vast nests of tigers , have constantly struck terror into the stoutest hearts ; and the inquiry has necessarily been abandoned . At Erivan the Armenians show tfie spot , where Noah first planted the vine ; and the town , of Nakhdjovan ( place of descent ) is believed to mark the spot where the patriarch first settled on quitting the ark . — Prince ' s Parallel History .
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Collectanea.
the storm of battle raged in its wildest fury , and the engines of destruction dealt out death on every side—when foemen fought hand to hand and sunk in deadly embrace , a young man belonging to the " 3 nd Kentucky Infantry , was still struggling in the more than decimated ranks of that ill-fated regiment ; and there where McKee , and Clay , and Vaughn , and Willis fell , he bravely fought , and finally wounded , but apparently not mortallyhe too fell prostrate by the side of his officers . And there
, , as he lay helpless on the bloody earth , a score of burnished lances pointed to his heart , aud were ready to drink the last drop of his blood . This young man was a Mason , made in the Lodge to which I belonged ; and at that trying moment he threw himself upon that faith which never fails . He made the sign , and the next instant a Mexican , having caught the sign , rushed to the fallen soldier , dashed back the gleaming instruments'of deathand raised his prostrate / oenow his Brotherand
, ., , bore him off ' . But I regret to add that they had not progressed twenty paces , e ' er the Mexican lost his life in attempting to save his Brother . This incident was witnessed by Masons , and related to me by the father of the young man referred to , himself a Mason of high order ; and although the youth ultimately perished with his protector , the act itself lives a memento of the force and purity of the Masonic ties . "Ibid .
NOAH ' ARK . —Mount Ararat is 6000 feet higher than iEtna , and 1528 feet higher than Mont Blanc—the latter the point of the greatest elevation in Europe . It is detached from the other mountains of Armenia , and is divided into two conical peaks . Sir Robert Porter paints in glowing colors the magnificence of the spectacle when he first came in sight of Ararat , majestically rising from a widely-extended green plain , fertilized by the clear waters of the Aras ( the ancient Araxes ) , and
covered with Armenian villages . In various points of view the summit has a striking resemblance to a ship , a fact which has been recorded by all travellers to the spot ; and the whole country around is full of traditionary stories relative to Noah ' s ark and the flood , lt is a common belief amongst Armenians and Persians , that the remains of the ark still exist on the summit . Several attempts have heen made to reach the top of the mountain , even by the Turks , in order to ascertain the fact ;
but no one has ever yet got beyond the snowy limit . Moving sands which threaten to overwhelm the traveller , flinty rocks which cut his shoes to shreds , and terrible precipices with overhanging rocks , and above all , vast nests of tigers , have constantly struck terror into the stoutest hearts ; and the inquiry has necessarily been abandoned . At Erivan the Armenians show tfie spot , where Noah first planted the vine ; and the town , of Nakhdjovan ( place of descent ) is believed to mark the spot where the patriarch first settled on quitting the ark . — Prince ' s Parallel History .