Remarks on Dr. Enfield’s Institutes, &c. 125 - 
produced no sensible result. This gentleman is afflicted 
with chronic rheumatism, and has always obtained decided 
relief from the long continued use of the waters, both inter- 
nally and externally. Upon the record book of the estab- 
lishment, there are sundry interesting cases of benefit, im- - 
parted to persons labouring under rheumatism, palsy, or loss 
of motion from other causes. I am inclined to believe that 
long continued bathing in water of such an elevated and. 
constant temperature, must produce some effect in such ca- 
ses as have been alluded to, independent of the mineral in- 
gredients, and conjoined with them, it will probably be still 
more efficacious. The healthy, cheap and plentiful country, 
in which the Buncome Springs are situated, the novel and 
mountainous scenery, variety of company, &c. present m ny 
attractions to the invalid, the idler and the curious, and will 
no doubt, make this watering place, if properly attended to, 
an increasing source of profit to its proprietors. 
South-Carolina College, March 1819. 
Art. XX.—Remarks on Dr. Exvirin’s Institutes of Nat- 
ural Philosophy.—Third American edition—1820. 
For more than twenty years past, the compilation of En- 
field has been extensively employed in this country asa text- 
book in Natural Philosophy ; and at present, we believe, is 
used for this purpose by nearly all the higher seminaries of 
learning in New-England. The want of an elementary sys- 
tem more select and better digested in its materials, more 
free from erroneous statementsand reasonings, and exhibit- 
ing amore faithful outline of the existing state of physical 
science, is beginning to be generally felt ; but as the work of 
nfield will probably be retained in our seminaries for some 
years to come, we have embraced the occasion furnishe 
by the appearance of a new edition, to make a few such 
comments on it as may perhaps add somewhat to its value 
with the student, and at the same time prove not wholly un- 
interesting to those teachers who have but limited access to 
other authorities. pe ieee 
The Institutes of Natural Philosophy will be found on 
examination to be little more than an abridgement, without 
much alteration either in language or form, from different 
