Mr, Owen’s Establishment at New-Harmony. 189 
similarity of their directions seem to intimate an useful design 
in their formation, and mark them as controlled by some sys- 
tem. Still, as we often find, in regions of fertility, barren 
mountains ‘of. which no account can given, so in the 
heavenly spaces there may ne: ie whee existence can be 
explained in no other han ere casual result of 
Vay, 
those laws under ‘hich it <a ee Creme to place our 
system at its formation 
New-Haven, Aprii, 1826. 
INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES. 
1. Notice of Mr. Owen’s Establishment, in Tutiona—aea 
letter from William Maclure, Esq. to the Editor, dated 
New-Harmony, March 16, 1826. 
sry letter of the 18th of January is receive ed, "and 
agreeably to the request therein contained, I shall give you a 
sketch of the moral and physical state of this settlement. 
of some of the latest sand-stones and a few coal measures, 
covered by a rich and productive alluvial. ‘The plants have 
not yet passed within the reach of our observation, and 4 
genera, and about 25 to 30 species of fresh water shells, im 
the Wabash, are the only animals as yet enannipndd thas is and. 
any interest. 
We have been here sored two months, capkiog; a few ex- 
periments of the effects of the new system upon our species. 
From the obstinacy of old deep rooted habits, not much can 
be expected from theorizing for so short a time upon subjects, 
with respect to which, as regards. nine is. of mankind, 
only practice can produce conviction. Still every thing 
considered, (both the materials and opportunities,) we have 
have found that it is much easier to to assimilate a few, having 
e than many having different occupations,. 
