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ly labored, and, when well fed, quick in its re- 

 turns — in close proximity, and with every mode 

 of communication by land and water, with half a 

 million of consumers every day, and every hour 

 increasing — with even a second farm in your 

 great Southern Bay, aifording seventy miles of 

 inland navigation, inhabited like the lake in the 

 happy valley of Abyssinia, with fish of every 

 species, and everj- bird that nature hath taught 

 to dip its wing in water ; and superadded to all 

 th.ese a climate of uncommon salubrity, what 

 more can you desire or deserve ? And then, 

 again, for moral stimulus, what community was 

 ever looked down upon by a more devout, a 

 braver, or a nobler ancestry? Ornaments of 

 the church — sages who kmdled and kept alive 

 the council -fires of the Revolution, and heroes 

 who bled in its battles by sea and land ! with your 

 own amiable and accomplished Historian to res- 

 cue their names from oblivion, until history itself 

 shall be buried in the ruins of time, and the 

 brightest and most lasting renown of the Hero 

 and Patriot shall fade avi^ay even as the halo of 

 the setting sun ! But though the genius of de- 

 stiniction shall obliterate from the records of 

 fame, even such names as Long Island's learned 

 and amiable Mitchell, her gallant Truxtou, and 

 no less gallant but less fortunate Woodlmll, who 

 scorned to save his life with one word of dis- 

 loyalty to his country — shall not the influence of 

 their virtues pass from father to son, while this 

 beautiful Island stands out from the bosom of 

 the ocean ? 



Gentlemen, — and now I address myself ex- 

 clusively to you — as I have already abused your 

 patience, let me detain you but a moment to ad- 

 vert to and express my humble approval of one 

 remarkable feature in your proceedings; you 

 have wisely manifested your sensibility to the 

 rights and influence of the softer sex, by ap- 

 pointing Lady Committees to award your pre- 

 miums for objects coming peculiarly witliin their 

 Xjrovince^persevere in this direction. It was 

 not a bad maxim of the eccentric and ill-fated 

 Crockett, to be sure you are right, and then go 

 ahead. But excuse me for suggesting that they 

 should command our respect and attention on 

 yet broader and higher and holier grounds. I 

 have alluded to the sortof education fitted to unite 

 the practical and the intellectual Farmer, and 

 thus secure a race of those " high-minded men," 

 who, after all, constitute a state. And shall I 

 tell you how such men are to be secured ? — 

 No ! gentlemen, you already anticipate me. It 

 is by sound, and solid, and u.seful, and virtuous 

 instruction to your daughters., who are to be the 

 future mothers of the Republic — mothers whose 

 holy office it will be to sow the fir,st seeds in 

 the virgin soil of youthful minds. They give 

 inclination to the twig, and the tree is bent ac- 

 cordingly. Fear not that solid instruction will 

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impair the delicacy, or blunt the nice moral 

 tact which is the proud attribute of their sex, 

 and the admiration of ours. Does not the flex- 

 ile vine bear as much pruning and culture as 

 the oak ? No, my friends, ignorance — ignorance 

 is the great fountain, ever teeming with corrup- 

 tion ! Knowledge at once strengfliens and re- 

 fines the soul, as art gives to " valor's steel " 

 all its virtue, its pliability, its tempei', and its 

 polish. But polished or unpolished — alike in the 

 palace or the hut — for all the good offices I 

 have named, an Indian or an African sun may 

 have burned upon her, still the heart of woman, 

 like the diamond in the mine, is substantially 

 the same ! Sensitive as the harp of iEolus, it 

 has chords responsive to the faintest cry when 

 distress is in the wind. \Vhen the gallant Capt. 

 Smith was bound for the stake, and the torch 

 was already lighted, whose tears molted at 

 once the heart of the savage and the chains of 

 tlie victim ? When the ill-fated Park was dying 

 in the African wilderness of exposure and 

 famine, shunned by his own sex, and threatened 

 by wild beasts not more savage in their na- 

 ture, who led him fainting to their hut, appeas- 

 ed his hunger and assuaged his thirst, and sent 

 him on his way refreshed and grateful ? 



In both cases untutored savages, but mark ! in 

 both cases Women ! 



"O, Woman! in our hours of ease, 

 Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, 

 And variable as the shade 

 Bj' the light quivering aspen made ; 

 WTien pain and anguish wring the brow, 

 A ministering angel thou." 



Wakefield. — Griano as a Manure. — At the 

 meeting of this Club on August 15, H. Briggs, 

 Esq. opened a discussion " On the beneficial ef 

 fects of Guano as a Manure." He began by ob- 

 serving — I shall make a few observations, which 

 I hope will provoke a discussion. Farm-yard 

 Manure is thought to be the best manure— but 

 this is certain, that that kind of manure is best 

 which has most of the nutritive properties of food 

 for plants in it. Now let us compare the analy- 

 zation of manure and guano : — 

 A ton of manure yields 2 lbs. 4 oz. of potash. 

 Do. guano do. 66 lbs. 8 oz. do. 

 1 lb. 10 oz. soda. 

 36 lbs. 15 oz. do. 

 5 lbs. loz phosphoric acid. 

 283 lbs. 9 oz. do. 



1 lb. 4 oz. sulphuric ncii 

 93 lbs. 8 oz. do. 

 1 lb. 9 oz. chlorine. 

 62 lbs. do. 



From which it will be seen that one ton of gu- 

 ano contains about as much potash as thirty tons 

 of manure. One ton of guano contains about as 

 much soda as 19 tons of manure. One ton of 

 guano contains about as much phosphoric acid 

 as 55 tons of manure. One ton of guano con- 

 tains about as much sulphuric acid as 80 tons of 

 manure. One ton of guano contains about as 

 much clorine as 45 tons of manure. Bones are 

 said to be a valuable manure -.—the principal fer- 

 tilizing ingredients in bones are jihosiihoric acid 

 and lime. Now, a ton of raw bones gives 080 



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