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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 23, 1826. 



iaXSCEI.I.ANIES. 



The following extract is taken from the Album 

 kept at Niagara Falls ; Mr Waterton is the cele- 

 brated traveller in South America and the West 

 Indies : 



" C. Waterton of Walton Hall, in the county of 

 York, England, arrived at the ftills of Niagara in 

 July, 1824, and begs leave to pen down the follow- 

 ing dreadful accident : 



He sprained his foot and hurt his toe 



On the rough road near Buffalo. 



It quite distresses him to stagger a- 



long the sharp rocks of famed Niagara." 



The solitary instances of longevity which are now 

 and then met with in hard drinkers, no more dis- 

 prove the deadly effects of ardent spirits, than the 

 solitary instances of recovery from apparent death 

 by drowning, prove that there is no danger to 

 life from a human body lying an hour or two under 

 water. Dr Rush. 



At Cambridge, last year, a gentleman planted 

 Sweet Corn the beginning of July — and had it f 

 use on his table during the season. 



Ftinale Socieh/. — Nothing is better adapted to 

 give the last polish to the education of a young 

 man than the conversation of virtuou.s and accom- 

 plished women. Tlicir society serves to sootiie 

 the rough edges of our character and to mellow 

 our tempers. In short the man who has never 

 been acquainted with females of cultivated minds 

 is not only deprived of many of the purest pleas- 

 ures, but also will have little success in social life; 

 and I should not like to be connected by the bonds 

 of friendship with a man that has a bad opinion 

 and speaks 111 of the female sex in general. 



A petition has been presented to the Legislature 

 of New Hampshire, for aid in cultivating the Mul- 

 berry Ttec. 



ROMA.K. An elegant, iuU blooded horse, a bright 

 Bay, with black legs, mane and tail, of high spirit and 

 good temper, will stand at the farm of Mr Stephen Wil- 

 liams in Northborough, (-Ms.) at $20 the season, to be 

 i paid before the mares are taken away. — See New Eng- 



A Conscientious Memher of Cons^ess ! — On 

 Sunday morning, the day before Congress adjourn- 

 ed, the sergeant-at-arms brought in several mem- 

 bers, in order to form a quorum, and they were re- 

 quired to make an apology for their absence. One 

 of them plead that he could not conscientiously ^ j^^j farmer, April 14 



transact public business on the sabbath. " This ; 



excuse was graciously received, though not with- j _ JLTST published, by VVelis & Lilly, the Quarterlv 

 out a smile, when the sergeant-at-arms mentioned ! 

 that he had brought the worthy gentleman out of 

 an oyster cellar." 



Female JVeatness and Taste. — In a female, par- 

 ticularly, they de.serve tlie name of virtues ; for 

 without them whatever may be her excellencies, 

 she has none that will he honored and acknowl- 

 edged. A woman may be industrious and eco- 

 nomical ; she may possess a well cultivated mind ; 

 but destitute of neatness and taste, she depresses 

 rather than elevates the character of her sex, and 

 poisons, instead of purifying, the fountain of do- 

 mestic and public happiness. 



•/I Sixth Continent. — An extraordinary phenom- 

 enon presented in the southern ocean may render 

 our settlements in New South Wales of still more 

 eminent importance. A sLxth continent is in the 

 very act of growth before our eyes ! The Pacific 

 is spotted w-ith islands through (lie immense .'space 

 of nearly fifty degrees of longitude, and as many 

 of latitude. Every one of these islands seems to 

 be merely a central spot for the formation of coral 

 banks, which, by a perpetual progress, arc rising 

 from the unfathomable depths of the sea. The 

 union of a few of these masses of rock shapes it- 

 self into an island ; the seeds of plants are carri- 

 ed to it by birds or by t!ie waves, and from the 

 moment that it overtops the waters, it is covered 

 with vegetation. The now island constitutes in its 

 turn a centre of growth to another circle. The 

 great powers of nature appear to be still in pecu- 

 liar activity in this region ; and to her tardier pro- 

 cess she soinctimes takes the assistance of the vol- 

 cano and the earthquake. From the south of New- 

 Zealand to the north of the Sandwich Islands, the 



Review for March 1826. 



CONTE.VTS. 



I. Memoirs of Samuel I'epys, Esq. F. R.S. secretary 

 to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. and 

 James 11. ; comprising his Diary from 1659 to 166&, 

 deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, A. B. of St John's 

 College, Cambridge from the original short-hand MP. 

 in the Pepysian Library and a Selection from his Pri- 

 vate Corrfspondenee. Edited by Richard, Lord Bray- 

 broke. 



II. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of 

 the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812. 

 1816,1820, and 1824. With original Instructions for 



„,.,.,, . . .1 • 1 tu 1 I the perfect preservation of Birds, ic. for Cabinets of 



of his children were going to their grandmother s ^^^^^^.^^^ ^^J^^^^ g^ ^,^^^^^^^ Waterton, Esq. 



in April last, on a visit, they for amusement, took j m ]. CEuvres Complete^ de Deraosthene et d'Es- 

 from the limbs or twigs of the Cedar trees, what i chine, eii Grec et en Francais. — 2. Comedies of Aris- 

 is generally called the Cedar Apple or Knot. One | tophanes. Vol. It. By Thomas Mitchell, late Fellow 

 of them who had been always very much afflicted \ •«; Sidney Sussex College Cambridge.-3. The Birds 



. , . ., J-i „ _ ( , 1 „ of \ristophanes. By the Kev. H. r. Cary. 



with worms since the age of two years (now be-, ... ,*^„ ,u w . j l^ ■ re ■ , 



'o . • 1 1 . 1\ • An Lssay on the -Nature .and Design of Scripture 



tweensixand seven) and every thing had been ! Sacrifices. By the late James Mqol, Minister of the 



IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. 

 Mr Aaron Hannuni, a respectable citizen of this 

 County, has discovered a sovereign remedy for the 

 expulsion of Worms from children — the remedy is 

 simple and one that can be obtained at all seasons 

 of the year. The following are a few of the par- 

 ticulars as related to us. He says, while several 



Parish o/Traquair, near Peebles. 



V. Vie et Revelations de la Soeur Xativitc, Reli- 

 gieuse converse au Convent des Urbanisfes de Fouger- 

 es ; ecrites sous sa Dictee ; suivies de sa Vie interieure, 

 ecrite au^id'apres elle-meme par le licdacteur de ses 

 Revelations, et poury servir de suite. 



VI. 1. Reflections upon the Value of the British 

 I West India Colonies, and of the British North American 



done for it in the pow-er of skilful physicians for 

 their expulsion, but all to no effect, it was in a 

 very delicate state of health, ate several of the 

 Apples — the consequence was that several Worms 

 were e.^pelled from lier — the remedy was again 

 administered, and in twelve hours three hinidred 

 and vpivards came from her. Rlr H. to be satis- 

 fied as to its efficacy, gave the Apples to five of: Provinces.— S.Observations upon the Importauce of the 

 his children, who were all in good health— it had 'N"i<b American Coloniesto Great Britain, by an old 

 ^, n- 1 ,1 ^~ » u 1 t „ . Inhabitant of British .\merica (HaliburtoD.) 



the same eftect as upon ho nrst— he also ate sev- ,^,„_ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^,^^ g^,^^^ Co,„„,ittee appointed t. 



eral of the apples himself, and the effect was the inquire into the Wages of Labour, 

 same. Thus, through the medium of mere chance, VIII. Minutes of Evidence taken before the Se« 

 perhaps one of the best remedies, and the most Icct Committee of the House of Lords appointed to in- 

 simple, has been discovered. Mr H. makes the ■ q"'i"e into the Stste of Ireland. 1825. 



, ,,• ■., it i„ 1 „Cf v,;„ <-„ii„„, "^- !• Treniaine ; or the Wan of Refinement. — 2. 



.ihovc public with the view to benefit his fellow- ,, ,,, ' , > r^ u mi 



. . r 1 r 1 T I iilatiUla ; a 1 ale of the l)av. — J. Granby ; a Novel, 



citizens. He recommends to those who feel dispos- x. 1. Six Months iu the \Vest Indies.— 2. The West 

 ■ed to try the experiment, that the apples should India Question practically considertd. 

 be eaten nine morninors in succession, fasting — if XI. Recent Discoveries in .Africa, made in the Years 



dry, to be pounded fine, and taken in molasses — 

 or eat them just as they come from off the tree. — 

 At this season of the year, the Apple or Knot are 

 to be found in great abundance on the Cedar trees. 



[Penn. paper.] 



We learn from a gentleman from the interior of 

 Pennsylvania, that there has been no drought in 

 waters absolutely teem with those future seats of that region the present season, and that the pros- 

 civilization. Still the coral insect, the diminutive jiects of the husbandman were never better than 

 builder of all these mighty piles is at work ; the i at the present time. [N. Y. Com.] 

 ocean is intersected with myriads of those lines of 



foundation ; and when the rocky substructure shall 

 have e.xcluded the sea, then will come the domin- 

 ion of man — London MonthI;/ Review. 



Danger of drinking Ardent Spirits Ardent 



spirits often bring on fatal diseases without pro- 

 ducing drunkenness. I have known many persons 

 destroyed by them, who were never completely in- 

 toxiottcd during the whole course of their lives. 



The Philadelphia Gazette states that flour is now 

 so cheap that it is used for horse-food from motives 

 of economy. It ought certainly to be put on rec- 

 ord, that while the manufacturers of Great Britain 

 are suffering for want of food, the people of Penn- 

 sylvania are feeding their horses witli fiour. 



U)23 and 1824, by .'Major Denhani, Captain CUpperton, 

 R..N'. and the late Hr. Oudney, extending across the 

 Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of No^then Latitude, 

 and from Kouka in Bornou to Sackatoo, the Capital of 

 the Soudan Empire. 



XII. A Letter to Sir Henry Halford, Bart. President 

 of the College of Physician?, proposing a Method of 

 Inoculating the Pmall-pox which deprives it of all its 

 Danger, but preserves all its Power of preventing a 

 Second Attack. By R. Ferguson, M.D. JVIomber of the 

 College of I'hvsicians of London and Edinbargh. 



XIU. 1. Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. R. B. Sheridan.— 

 By John Watkins, LL.D.— 2. Memoira of the Rt. Hon. 

 R. B. Sheridan. By Thomas Moure, Esq.— 3. Sheri- 

 daniana. 



The Warren, R. T. Star, says Lightning never 

 descends to the trunk of the Bircli. Tree. 



():5=Published €very Friday at Three Dollars per an- 

 num, payaDle at the end of the year — but those who 

 pay within sixty days from the lime of subscribing are 

 entitled to a deduction of Fifty Cents. 



Gentlemen who procure _/iw. responsible subscribers, 

 are entitled to a sixth voIud.^ gratis. 



New subscribers can be furnished wilh tlK preofd 

 ingnuabers of the current yolumc. 



