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Title: Forrester's pictorial miscellany for the family circle
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Forrester, Mark, ed Forrester, Mark
Subjects: Juvenile literature (American) Natural history Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) Aztec children
Publisher: Boston, F. & G.C. Rand

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carp, and we had oc-casion to observe it repeatedly, as Doctor Richardson occupied him-self in examining the structure of the different species of fish, andwas always, in the winter, obliged to thaw them before he could cutthem. We have seen a carp recover so far as to leap about withgreat vigor, after it had been frozen for thirty-six hours. If frozen fish are thawed in cold water, they live ultimately,though when brought to a fire they never thoroughly recover, butsoon die. This is because it is an unnatural way to thaw them.You know that when individuals freeze their ears, fingers, or toes,it is exceedingly dangerous to thaw them by a fire. But by puttingon snow or cold water, the extremities soon lose their numbness. But we must break off. Alexander Hamilton. WE present to our young patrons, in this article, a portrait andsketch of the life of one of the remarkable men of the Revolution.God, it would seem, raised up a class of men well fitted, by natural 212 PICTORIAL MISCELLANY.
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON. 213 gifts and endowments, for the special work of laying the foundationof this great republic. There was Washington, and Hancock, andAdams, (the father of John Quincy Adams,) and Otis, and Jay, andFranklin, and Jefferson, and Madison, and Hamilton, the subject ofthis sketch, who, though named last, was by no means least in thehost. While thinking of them, one cannot but think of that text ofScripture,--And there were giants in those days. Alexander Hamilton was born in the year 1757, on the llth ofJanuary. His birth-place was the Island of Nevis, then, as now, inthe possession of England. You will find it among the West In-dia Islands. He was a descendant of one of the great families ofthe old realm of old England, though, in our estimation, this con-fers no honor upon him, as greatness, we mean true greatness, isnot hereditary. His mother was of French descent. Alexander was the youngest son of the family. As his father wasunfortunate in business, Alexander was ea

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