slavery, all jingle again in beautiful succession. "We have a story about a ladj^ and a 

 " Britisher," and our unfortunate politics continue to annoy his chemico-agricultural 

 head until he leaves the capitol, and again addresses himself to the north. 



Arrived at New-York on the 5th February, our author adjusts himself to the settlement 

 of the conflicting pretensions, between his own country and ours, to skill and superiority 

 in the construction of Atlantic steamers, the commerce, manufactures, population, and 

 prosperity of our great emporium, and makes up his mind that after all it is only a 

 British town, manned and worked by British labor, supplied by British capital, and kept 

 in this breathing woi-ld by British influence! Here the old tiles of statistics are unfolded, 

 and their subjects again canvassed, during his six days stay, in which his agricultural re- 

 searches are extended into the American Institute, and back into Mr. Pell's apple or- 

 chard, the only one he appears yet to have heard of on this side the Atlantic. 



February 11th. Back to Boston. His stay here, oft' and on, was now six wrecks, hav- 

 ing been engaged in giving a course of lectures at the Lowell Institute, on the " Relations 

 of Science to Agriculture," — a repetition of those delivered at Albany. Ilis mind here 

 seems to have been sorely exercised in comparing the Service and Liturgy of the Established 

 Church in England with that of the United States, and especially in its application to the 

 Unitarian faith, as if the latter doctrines were solely American, and had not been impor- 

 ted a century ago from England. The Mormons and their polygamy, again haunt his peace, 

 and he is sadly puzzled to ascertain whether " their Senators and Representatives would 

 bring their harems to Washington with impunity; and if one of their wives eloped to Bos- 

 ton, the husband could reclaim her without doubt, as he now does his slave — [the Mor- 

 mons do not hold slaves, we believe,] all the laws of New-England against bigamy, not- 

 withstanding.-'" 



It were bootless to follow our erudite Professor through all the various topics which 

 engage the remaining part of his time while in and around Boston. In the dead of win- 

 ter, when he could make few or no personal observations upon the geology, or soils of the 

 neighborhood, he draws upon the various surveys, and authors, which he found in abun- 

 dant number around him; and his various disquisitions, and dissertations, of which we 

 have many, are still taken from the statistics, and official reports of the Commonwealth, 

 to neither of which does he give the slightest credit. In the large amount of this material 

 which he has so unblushingly appropriated, we are reminded of that prince of critics, old 

 John Drtdkn, who, finding a plagiarist of remarkable dimensions, exclaimed in his in- 

 dignation, " that instead of picking here, and stealing there, like a common literary mouser, 

 he pounced down and appropriated the spoils of others with all the audacitj- of a conque- 

 ror!" Indeed, we think he shows a better taste in the selection of his subjects while at 

 Boston, than at any other point in his travels ; and possibly, had he remained some months 

 longer, he might have informed himself into quite a tolerable train of extract. But we 

 doubt whether, after all, they could have indicated other than the researches and notices 

 of a remarkably small man. Had nature favored him with a modicum of the discrimina- 

 tion and modesty of a Lyell, and his own judgment furnished him with an equal dispo- 

 sition to investigate for himself upon the broad surface of our country, and to an equal 

 extent that his own vanity and self-complacency permitted him to appropriate the not ex- 

 ceedingly well selected subjects from the toils of others, his own countrymen Avould be 

 better instructed, and our respect for his rectitude of motive bo enhanced. 



His stories, by way of illustrating his conclusions, are absurd and pointless; his pick- 

 ings, of matter poured forth in the bitterness of party feeling, out of newspapers 

 malicious and false; and the occasional anecdotes which he chronicles, as told him 



