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na, and his usual reference to statistical tables, geological reports, speeches of legislators, 

 and pamphlets, he makes up sundry sage commentaries and conclusions on American gov- 

 ernment, institutions, religion, life, and manners; some of which are sensible enough 

 when simple of solution, and others ridiculously absurd, as touching the true results 

 which a fair mode of reasoning would draw from his premises. Here is a specimen: He 

 attended the annual meeting of the State Agiicultural Society, at which the usual busi- 

 ness of the Society was transacted. " I was struck with the gravity and decorum with 

 which the discussion was carried on, and with the apparent self-possession of the speak- 

 ers. R is partly to the general acknowledgment of no higher rank than his own, that 

 the absence of our insular nervousness in the American speaker, is to be ascribed; but 

 partl}'^, also, to the undisciplined and uncontrolled way in which children are brought 

 up-'XO He also coins another story, in which a lady is brought in, to prove (to us,) 

 the utter emptiness of his conclusion. Our professor is also great on American slavery, 

 which he discusses with about the same amplitude of reasoning, that certain other foreign 

 philanthropists indulge, and reads us frequent lectures on the astounding benefits oi free- 

 trade, as exhibited in the recent striking and disinterested examples of the English gov- 

 ernment, for our " trans-atlantic" imitation I 



Jan. 26, at Philadelphia. Along the railway route, and in the depth ofiointer, another 

 geological notice of the country — original in hims'lf, no doubt! In this city he' was in- 

 vited by Professor Hare to attend a " very agreeable whister(^!) party," — a new social in- 

 vention we fanc}^ — probably chemical or geological, as we do not know that name in any 

 other of the sciences. We are happy to learn that the green sands and phosphates of 

 lime of New-Jersey, have struck his attention — for his skill in such subjects We have a 

 true respect — and that his examinations confirm the opinions of our own cheiiiiists as to 

 their permanent and great value to agriculture. At the Eutaw House — " EUtaw's Ho- 

 tel," — Baltimore, our Pbofkssor gives us an inkling into his gastronomic atifd' Convivial 

 propensities, in the discussion of " Canvass-backs," and " Apple-toddy." ^A highly 

 wrought recipe for making the latter is given, in which the virtues of a " red-sf reafc ■^pple, 

 roasted before a slow fire, on a China plate," are a part of the process; but whether the 

 compound is to be stirred with a sharp stick or a blunt one, we are not informed. This, 

 he has discovered, although a winter, is not a very " slow" drink, and also that mint-ju- 

 leps are a summer beverage, which the "jovial middle ' states men,' " and not the strait- 

 laced temperance Yankees, had discovered to him I 



Washington. Here again the guide books and the scribblings of foreign tourists, are 

 emptied out upon his groaning table, for scissoring, clipping, and pasting. " Magnificent 

 distances," tlie President, Congress, the Supreme Court, the public buildings. Southern 

 Nullification, tariff, free-trade, as taught us by English policy, slavery, the public lands, 

 and Smithsonian Institute, each, every, and all of them came under his emasculating pen, 

 and are discussed with a self-complacency and decision from which there is no appeal. 

 The only new subject of discussion is that of the Agricultural Bureau, in which, we re- 

 gret to say, no new idea is advanced. But he is quite clear that two or three Republics, 

 made out of our existing one, would be a wholesome improvement upon our present sys- 

 tem; and the annexation of Cuba and Canada, he fears, would be embarrassing to our 

 President and his Cabinet! 



While in Washington, our friend made a detour down into " Old Virginia," where he 

 " steamed" it- — (what an inveterate toper the Professor has got to be!) — eight miles on 

 Potomac to Alexandria! And here the statistics again rattle like a hail shower about 

 ocious goose quill. Slang words, political economy, rise, progress, and increase of 



