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Travels between the Tropics: 



[Sept. 1, 



ene inattention Implies contempt, and the- 

 other. only indifTeience. 



Refcue my poor remains from vile negledl. 



,11. The Lafin linquere anfwers the 

 Englifli Verb to leatie : the fyllahle re is 

 in (his co;npouf!d iiifign'.fic^nt : fo that /» 

 relinquijh imy \)eft be coiidrued by ' to 

 leave behind.' The fenfible idc.i exprei's- 

 td by the pan-nt lubitantivc wh-.nce this 

 verb is rferivrd, beng; unknown, one can- 

 not confidently decide on the propriety of 

 its habitual employment. It 5s iifed for 



• to q'lit relii(Jbntiy,' ' to cede with re- 

 gret,' ' to forfake unwiUingly.' The 

 acceflbry idei of difmclination accompa- 

 nies the Englifli ufe of the word, but not 

 always the Latin ufe of it : the purity of 

 thofc: idiomatic phrafes in which it occurs 

 jmay therefore be ful'pefted : and the 

 word i;ielf is in fome danger of being re- 

 linquiftied for uninielligibility. I fulpeft 

 lingua to b; the root of the verb lii:jucre ; 

 and that it oris^inally meant • to leave off 

 tafting.'* ' That child was eafily wean- 

 ed : it relinquilTifd the brealt without 

 frai\ioufnefs.' * We rtlinquifli wine dur- 

 ing ficknefs, when we need it mjll. 



12. From the Latin reddere, to give 

 again, comts tlie French rendre, to redore ; 

 and from the Fiench reciprocal verb fe 

 rendri {p dedrre, fe tradcre') may be de- 

 duced, in its niiiiiary fenCe at Icalf, the 

 Englidi Verb ' to fiirrrnder.' 



' Toulon fmrendered to the invader.' — 

 •The mighty Archimedes, too, furrendeis 



DOW.' 



The • furrender' of the lawyers is de- 

 rived fiom furfum redditio, a giving up 

 again, or rendering back. ' CopyholJ 

 eitaies are furrendercd by the tcnint into 

 the hands of the lord'tor fuch purpofes as 

 in the furrtndcr are exprefled.' 



* Surrender' is the auihen'ic term to 



* releafe.' A releafe operates by the 

 greater eftatr's defcenciing upon the lels ; 

 a furrender is the tailing of a lefs eOate 

 into a greater : the furrenderer mull be 

 in pofftfiion, and the furrenderee muft 

 have a higher eftate in which the efiate 

 furrendercd ni.iy merge. 



* A bankrupt niuil furrend.r himrdf 

 perfoiially to the C'ommiirioners, which 

 furrender pnteils him from arreft, till his 

 final examination is palt.' 



* Our verb to lack has an analogous ori- 

 gin : it is etymologically connefted with to 

 ;.,:/t, and with the German lech^n, to fmack 

 the tongue from thirft. ' The lions do lack, 

 and fufter hunger.' 



There are traces of an intermediate 

 French veibfitrrendre. 



The following expredions, although 

 conform to ufage, thwart diametrically 

 the definitions of Dr. Truder : > 



* The righteous abandon the acquain- 

 tance of the depraved. — We leave Lon- 

 don to morrow.— I am comptllrd to tor- 

 fake ifty old walk ; for the foot-path is 

 put by.— -This is the thing they require 

 in us, the uttei relinquifhment of ail things 

 popifii. — What 18 it that h(dds and keeps 

 the orbs in fixed ftations and interval*, 

 againft an incefiant and inherent tendency 

 to defert them ?— Sure John and I are 

 more than quit.' 



The following expredions are alfo con- 

 form to ufage, and corroborate the fore- 

 going definitions inferred from etymo. 

 logy : 



' Thofe men are left, who love later 

 hours than their companions ; thoCe are 

 foifaken, who neglc6f to cultivate the arts 

 of pleafing ; thole are given up, whom we 

 dcfpair of rcformi ig ; and thofe abandon- 

 ed, who perfevcre in difgraceful conduct. 

 — Efforts to fatisty the morol'e are gradu- 

 ally relinquiflied. The old-age of the 

 ch'.Kiiefs is commonly dcferttd ' 



• He is ur.willing to refign the orchard, 

 it yields Co weil : but he mull yiehl to ne- 

 cefTity, and quit h at Mich.icimas ; unlefs 

 he will pay for his whim, and fhould get 

 the le^fe ceded, or the fee fimple furren- 

 dered.' 



(To be continued.) 



For the Monthly Magazine. 

 ACCOUNT o/ //;? TRAVELS between the 



TROPICS of MESSKS. HUMBOLDT 



and EONPLANI), in 1799, '800, iSoi, 

 1802, 1803, and 1804. By j. c. de- 

 lame therie. {Concluded from page 

 17 of our lafl Number.) 



DURING his refidence at Quito, M. 

 Himiboldt received a letter from the 

 French National Inilitute, informing him 

 that Captain Baudin had let out for- New 

 Holland, purfuing an eafterly courfe by 

 the Cape of Good Hope. He lound it "I 

 recrflfary, therefore, to give up all idea of 

 joining him, though our travellers had 

 entertained this hope for thirteen months, 

 by which means they loft the advantage 

 cf an eafy-paffage from the Havannah to 

 Mexico and the Philippines, It had made 

 thfm travel by lea and by land more than 

 athoufand leagues to the iouth, expofed to 

 every extreme of temperature, from fum- 

 miis covered with perpetual fnow to the 

 bottom 



