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ran as high as before the line was made use of. The line 

 ■was kept out the remainder of the voyage, when scud-« 

 ding. I have had frequent trials of the line in pafsages 

 from Jamaica, in the depth of winter, without ever ma- 

 king use of dead lights, unlefs sometimes in the quarter 

 windows, and in a small vefscl, and cold r.eather, whil? , 

 scudding." ("Signed^) John Kennedy. 



REVIEW. 

 Sir John Sinclair'' s staiisiicaJ account of Scotland. 



't is with pleasure we anounce the publication of the se-» 

 eond volume of Sir John Sinclair's statistical account of 

 Scotland, and that we have it in our power to add^ 

 that it seems to improve as it advances, and that the 

 clergy discover a laudable alacrity, in furnilliing each his 

 quota of useful information. There can now no longer 

 remain a doubt that the whole will be completed before- 

 it can be got printed off 5 and that it will then afford a 

 much, more autlientrc and satisfactory account of the pre- 

 sent state of Scotland, than ever before was given of any 

 other country on the globe. What would we now give 

 for a similar account of the ancient state of the kingdom* 

 of Solomon or Cyrus, — of Egypt under the Ptolomies, — of 

 Greece under Pericles, — cf Rome, at the commence-. 

 ment, and at the end of the commonwealth, — of Carthage, 

 Syracuse, and the dominions of the Caliphs, at the most 

 interesting periods of their respective liistories ! From such 

 Sources of information we are now for ever excluded j. 

 and our posterity will have an advantage in this respect 

 above us, which we can only regret but never attain. 



Among the variety of important facts which here pre- 

 sent themselves, almost in ' every page, that will furnifh 

 mattvr for interesting reilecUotis to the attentive reader,-. 



