Whit-Sunday Island

(-sun'de,) a coral island of the S. Pacific Ocean, in S. Lat. 19° 24', W. Lon. 138°36′. Whittier, JOHN GREEN LEAF, (hwit'te-ur,) a popular American poet, B. at Haver hill, Ma ., in 1808. Reared in the religious tenets of the Society of Friends, and debarred from the advantages of a cla ical education, he yet early identified himself with literature, and in 1830 undertook the editorship of the " New England Weekly Review," and in 1838 that of the " Pennsylvania Freeman," a prominent anti-slavery organ. He has since been editorially connected with the Washington "National Era." Among his numerous poetical works are anti-slavery lyrics of high excellence, Songs of Labour and other Poems, Home Ballads and Poems, National Lyrics, and Ballads of New England. [s. 960]