SH • Epigrams, FragmerrtSyiffCf from the. Greek. [Nov. I, 



go out with his rifle in one hand and h'n 

 axe in the other, fo that he may either cut 

 down trees or nioot game if any come in 

 h.s way i but in the interior ot the coun- 

 try I never heard hunting locked upon as 

 a diver fion, but a« a laborious exercife, 

 and lb expeniive are the articles of powder 

 and (hot, that they would think a direr 

 bought at a high pi ice if (hey fliould not 

 h;ippen to kill it at the firlf thot. 



[To he concluded iKour next.} 



. The bladeS'of the Indian corn plant fur- 

 uifli hII the winier-f. dder for the catile, 

 and the wo.ids preient them with their 

 buds, ihoots, plarts, and herbs, in the 

 fuinmer. • Were it not for this remark- 

 able pi duftion of maize, which thrives 

 in a ibil r, pugn:int to all other grains, 

 ■ the United St^itts could not fubfift its pre- 

 sent pi'pulaiion.* 



It may be aflced here, how the United 

 Slates, which export fo much whcateu- 

 flour, can be faid to be unfarourable to 

 the growth of wheat ? I anfwer, that the 

 Amnicans evp nt all they grow, hecaufe 

 either trom habit they prefer and ufe only 

 thut i>t Ifidi.m c.rn, or becaufe wheat, 

 which IS lu: e of a foreign market, is the 

 lame to the Ameiican as calh, of whiw'h 

 ihcy have a very Imali Ifock ; beildef, 

 weft- the qtiantities ot whe^t grown in the 

 United Slate* compared wiih tijeir extent 

 and the p >puluio)), iiineienihs of whom 

 are agiicuituriits, ir would apptar vc;y 

 JnconfiJeiabl; indeed. A fun her proof 

 that wheat does not thrive is, that they 

 h:ive not ftiaw enough to Inter their 

 cattle; and the quantify ot ftiaiv U);onlhe 

 laigeli ciiltivatid citate in the 'Jnited 

 Stales will not afford enough oi it to ma- 

 r.ure hall an acre of giiiden-giound j^and 

 this want ot maiiuic it cne realbn why 

 the innds will not rtcver their vigour in-a 

 Cell. If y afttr they hiive been th^rcughly 

 impoveri.'hcd by the cuitivaiion of lobac- 

 fo. Indian corn, liRic'oie, which re- 

 quires Very Jitile manure, bfcaule lefs 

 than a (i'ovcl-full will do for a fmgle 

 plant, and there aie only a thoufand or 

 twelve bundled Joan acre, furniliies all the 

 b;i.'.<d ufcu in tiie United Sta e>, except in 

 tie citits, where the -conlumpti. n of 

 wlieat flour is too inconliderable to de- 

 f=ivc notice, and, with filtei pork, many 

 of iluni c.t nothing tile during the whole 

 year, unlclj they lluiuld hsippen to be in a 

 luu-ition pi-i.per for hunting or fllhing, 

 and even then thelt; are employment* to 

 wiiicii tliey can very leldom i'pare that 

 time which the cultivation of their lands 

 require. It is ufual indeed. to fee a man 



* !n t!i^ V ear 1791 t,h(? population of the 

 Unitea itatrs was afcerCiintd from cfficiil 

 fla:ement6 to he nearly 4,0017,000 of fouls j 

 and in I7';i, in a itat^m^-ni of thtir exports 

 f.ir thiit year, as niaiie out by 'Vhonias [cf- 

 lerliin, Hf^. tlICl^ .Secretdty of State, the 

 whole of the br^ad-grains, ine.ils, and' 

 bread, exportcl, arODunted to 7,649,887 t>ol- 

 lais, w'nich, Jt the aveu^i: of th^t article, 

 would li<ive given a bulhel of ^uur tc each 

 ^erlo.n and no QiMe. 



For the Monlhlj Magazine. 



EPIGRAMS, FRAGMtNTS, and FUfft' 

 TIVE PIECES, /row the GREtC. 



[CvitinuedJ'rom />. J 1 5 of our laftNun.ber ] 



Ti'f Ji /Jt's;, Ti Je Tij-TTVOV aTsp j^pua'iijj 'Ac}>^«- 



T£9»ii>i>, 4Ti lAOi /A,tiy.sTt raZra //.iXoi. 



MlMNERM, 



Monet aetatis fpecie, duin florcat, uti ; 

 Conceini>i Tpinam cum cecidcre rofae. 



Ovid Fujf. 



THAT clifs of poems on which I 

 now pri.piife to entfr, affords, per- 

 h..p>, leli of vaiie^y th:in may be expect- 

 ed froni a fubjecl fo feitileand founivei- 

 fal as that of love. But the greateft 

 number of thole which are to be intro- 

 duv'ed in this place are either in celebra- 

 tion of perlonal charms, or delcriptive of 

 the mere pallion of love, without any or 

 very little mixture of thole peculiar ele- 

 gances and thofe refined li.ntiments, the 

 produce of iTtodsrn notions and modem 

 manners, and which may be peihaps en- 

 tirely rittributed to that lingular I'yheni of 

 g.illantrj introduced arftong us by the 

 pi.r; a .d eiev.r!ed doctrines of our Gothic 

 chivalry. This fpirit was unknown to the 

 Greeks j and bo'h the natiiie of the pal- 

 fion which they felt and ihe poetry which 

 thit pailion infpired may perhaps bear a 

 clolcr coiriparilbn to Allatic luxury than 

 to Euiopean delicacy and refinement. 



<' Can yon fuppofe (lays the tragedian 

 Amphis) or will any one ever peiluade me 

 that thee has exifted a man whom the ele- 

 gant mii.d alone of his rftittref* has altrat^- 

 ed and not the charms of her perlbn ?" 



Yet nature is the lam? in all ages and 

 countries. By its fiift great law bep.uty 

 is every where felt and acknowledged r.$ 

 the Itrongelt aitraiSfion, the ii'ort nrefifa 

 libleimpuhc of our dcfires and alfeflions } 

 and hence it is that many of thofe f-ng* 

 an<l lighter amatory effofiors both of our 

 own a'ld other countries whicli are melt 

 univerfHlIy known and admired. ha*» 

 ihtjr diisi;i4l»> or at }aaft theli Itrong re.. 



