^05 Conclusion of a Morning's Walk from London to Kew. [Jan. 1 



water beinp; tlie medium tlnongh which 

 tlie vessel is to be moved, and by whicli 

 the lesistHMce is to be made, from wliich 

 the power is to act in impellins; the 

 vessel, it is evident that the resisting 

 muace must be greater than the sur- 

 face, that must yield to allow (lie vessel 

 to pass, or it will not be impelled at all ; 

 or, it' it acquires any motion, it will be 



For the Mmithly Magazine. 



CONCLUSION of a mokning's walk 



from LONDON to kf.w. 



POLICY so singular, manners so 

 difierent, and passions so varied, 

 have for so many ages characterized the 

 race of Gipsies, that the incident of 

 meeting with one of their little camps 

 agreeably awoke me from that reverie 



t)j a great waste of power and time, on Malter and its modifications, into 



Vt'hich are the very objects that it is wliich I had fallen. VV hat can bo more 



endeavoured to save by the adoption of strongly marked than the gipsy physiog- 



ihis in\ention. nomy ? Their lively jet-black eyes — 



That this is the radical principle that their small features— their tawny skins 



must be acted upon by any one who — (heir small bones — and their shrill 



may, hereal'tcr, attain to perfection in voices, bespeak them to be a distinct 



this art, will not be denied by those who tribe of the human race, as diderent 



are (•,om))ctent to form a judgment upon from the English nation as the Chinese, 



the subject ; that that perfection has not the North American Indian.':, or the 



5'et been attained, is perfectly notorious; woolly-head Africans. They seem, in 



that the attempts which have been made truth, as distinct in their bodies, and in 



in this country are much less perfect 

 than those which have been made in 

 America, is likewise true. Why it is so, 

 cannot be known to those who are en- 

 caged on this subject, or they would 

 Iiave made the fact very different from 

 what it is. As I have paid much atten- 

 tion to wliat has been done here, and 

 have obtained good information of what 

 tas been done in America, if you should 

 Oiink the subject deserving attention, I 



their instincts, from the inhabitants of 

 Ijigland and other countries in which 

 they live, as the spaniel from the grey- 

 hound, or as the cart-horse from the 

 Arabian. Our instincts, propensiticsj or 

 fit and necessary habits, seem to lead 

 us, like the ant, to lay up stores; thcir's^ 

 like the grasshopper, to depend on the 

 daily bounties of nature; — wc, with tbe 

 habits of the beaver, build fixed habi- 

 tations; and they, like the deer, range 



will hereafter trouble you with some of from pasture to pasture; — \»e, with an 



the observations which occur to me instinct all our own, cultivate arts; they 



upon the facts tliat have come to my toiiteat themselves with picking np our 



knowledge. ,j, sheldraki; superfluities; — we make laws and arrange 



JRichmond; Dec, Ct. ' " ' governments ; they know no laws but 



i* tiiDse of personal convenience, and no 



To the Editor of the Motdldy Matra-iiiu. gosernment beyond that of mus«-ular 



sill. force growing out of the habits of .se- 



MANY anecdotes arc related to niority; — and v*'e cherish passions of am- 



prove the extraordinary affoction billon and domination, consequent on 



which partridges have for tiieir voung ; our other arrangemenLs. to which they 



and I tliiuk (hetbllowJngeircumstaiKes, are utter strangers. Tdns, we indulge 



which came tliis year partly under my ourpropensifies, and they indulge t heir's. 



Own observation, too interesting to re- Which are the hap[iiest beings, might be 



main unknown. _ made a questiijn — but I am led to decide 



A countryman passing by some furze- in t'avoifr of the arts and comforts of ci- 



grouud with his dog, the dog caught a vilized life. This race. ap|iears to pos- 



nen-|)artridgc in her nest (which contain- sess the natural fi cbleness and delicacy 



ed fourteen cgg.s) : before the maii could gt man without the power of shielding 



come to her as.sistuHce, the dxi: had theinselvcs from the accidents of nature, 



broken her thigh-bone, close to hci tiody. If they are freed liom the torture felt by 



aiid very much bruised her. The man, civilized man, of having tho comforts he 



however, took (;arc to place the bird 

 near her nest ; and, when he passed by 

 it on the following day, he saw her sit- 

 ting on her eggs. Two days ai'icrwards 

 the young covey was hatched, and ran 

 away into an adjoining corn-fieiil ; but, 

 witiiiu a week, the poor old hcu-par- 

 tridgc was found dead near her ne.st. 

 Wivfrliscomlw, Sui)iei-iet. 3, W. 



enjoys torn from him by the sophistry 

 of law, or the tyranny of governments, 

 ihoy suffer from hour to hour the tor- 

 ments of want, and the apprehension of 

 not meeting with renewed supplies. If 

 they are gayer than civilized man, it is 

 because their wnnts are fewer, and 

 therefore fewer of them are unsatisfied f 

 and probablj the jjaicty nbidi they as- 



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