NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 18, 183J. 



Miscellany 



From Ibe Lowell Journal. 



The following ailmirable stanzas are translated from 

 the Portuguese of Lewis Camons. 



I SAW the virtuous man contend 



With life's unnumbered woes, 

 And he was poor, without a friend, 



Prest by a thousand foes. 



I saw the Passions' pliant slave 



In gallant trim and gay ; 

 His course was J*leasure's placid wave, 



His life a summer's day. 



And I was caught in Folly's snare. 



And joined her giddy train, 

 But found her soon the nurse of care. 



And punishment and pain. 



There surely is some guiding power, 



That rightly suffers wrong ; 

 Gives vice to bloom her littlf hour. 



But virtue late and long. 



begins to be overpowered at an early step of the 

 comparison ; for there are, it is probable, a hun- 

 dred million of such bodies as the sun within 

 the scope of our modern instruments, each indi- 

 vidual of which may be as vast as our solar orb ; 

 and if all these were congregated into one mass it 

 would probably be but as nothing, when compared 

 with the material creation that lies beyond the hu- 

 man research. — Timers Telescope. 



BIRDS. 



The great mortality among birds in many parts 

 of the country, lias generally been attributed to the 

 unprecedented coldness of llie present season. 

 This is probably the primary cause, but the more 

 immediate one, we believe to be the great scarcity 

 of insects on which they feed. We are led to 

 adopt the latter opinion, because tlie greatest mor- 

 tality lias been observed to prevail among that 

 species which live principally upon insects, as 

 swallows, martins, &c. In Sweden and Norway, 

 ■wallows survive the winter ; and it is said, that 

 in this country they have been taken in a torpid 

 state from hollow trees, during the severe cold of 

 winter. If such be the fact respecting the liabits 

 of the swallow, is it not unreasonable to suppose, 

 that the weather has been the sole cause of the 

 death of such immense numbers ? 



The account which we gave a few weeks since, 

 respecting the great depredations which the birds are 

 making in the cornfields in this vicinity, shows 

 that they iiud great difficuhy in obtaining food. 

 The boldness with which they commit their r.iva- 

 ges is surprising ; in some instances they have 

 pulled up whole fields, in despite of scarecrows, 

 dressed as fantastically as Petrnchio for his wed- 

 ning. Some of the birds which commit these dep- 

 redations are not of tlie species of Avliich farmers 

 usually complain. — Barnstable Journal. 



GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Silliman's Journal for Ajnil contains an article 

 of seventy pages on the Geology of Massachusetts, 

 accompanied with a map ; by Professor Hitchcock, 

 of Amherst college. It was drawn up in fulfil- 

 Hient of his commission from the Legislature, to 

 make a geological examination of the State ; and 

 embraces only one out of the four parts into which 

 the work will be divided. He remarks, that he 

 has collected specimens of every variety of rock 

 and of all the ores within the Commouwealth, and 

 that his collection for the use of the government 

 comprises seven hundred and eighty individual 

 pieces. He has also, agreeably to his instructions, 

 collected a cabinet for all the colleges in the State. 

 A vast deal of information is contained in lliis ar- 

 ticle, on the subject to which it relates, some of 

 which may be turned to practical account. It 

 were to be wished that a similar enterprise might 

 be set on foot in every State in the Union. The 

 cost is comparatively small ; the advantages in a 

 scientific point of view are great, and may be still 

 more so in an economical point of view, by lead- 

 ing to important discoveries of coals and minerals. 



MR AUDUBON. 



Mr Audubon has just returned to Philadelphia 

 in excellent health. His arduous excursions du- 

 ring the last nine mwiths, in the Carolinas, Geor- 

 gia, East Florida, and the Torlugas, have been 

 richly repaid. During this comparatively short 

 period, Mr Audubon has, by his own gun, acquir- 

 ed nine species of birds, altogether new to the 

 United Slates. We have seen these rare birds ; 

 it has been our good fortune, also, to sec the inim- 

 if able drawings he has made of them, with the in- 

 tVesting landscapes so peculiar to the southern 

 country, and which vie with them in beauty and 

 intcrrst. Besides these, Mr Audubon has brought 

 with him about two thousand specimens of rare 

 southern birds, in the highest state of lu-eservation, 

 together with an immense quantity of shells and 

 l)laiits. It is impossible to say too much in praise, 

 either of the talents or perseverance of this unri- 

 valled naturalist. — U. S. Gazelle. 



Pedigree. — One of the prosecutors at the Lew- 

 is Assizes, whose name is " Mutton," hves upon 

 a stnall freehold estate in this county, which has 

 been in the uninterrupted possession of his family 

 for no le.^s than seven hundred years. The name 

 was originally " Mouton," his ancestcrs having 

 come over to this cotintry from France ; and the 

 estate is to this day called "Norman's." — Brigh- 

 ton Gazette, Eng. 



TO APPRENTICES. 



The only way for a young man to prepare liim- 

 self for usefulness, is to devote himself to study 

 during all his leisure hours. First, be industrious 

 in your business ; never complain that you are 

 obliged to work, go to it with alacrity and cheer- 

 fulness, and it will become a habit which will 

 make you respected and beloved by your master 

 or employer ; make it your business to .see and 

 promote his interest, by taking care of his you W'ill 

 learn to take care of your own. 



Young men of the present day are too fond of 

 getting rid of work, tiny seek for easy and lazy 

 employments, and frequently turn out to be poor 

 miserable vagabonds. You must avoid all wishes 

 to live without labor ; labor is a blessing rather 

 than a curse, it makes men healthy, and procures 

 them food, clothing, and every other necessary, 

 nd frees them from temptations to be dishonest. 



Cholera. — It is remarked on- with the greatest 

 sur))rise by the Parisian.s, that the English escaped 

 the cholera, for with them it is compaiati\ely 

 harmless. Superior cleanliness, probably, ex- 

 plains the mysteiy. 



.MAGNITUDE. 



To acquire a correct idea of magnitude, we 

 must learn to ascend some elevation from whence 

 a prospect might be obtained of an uninterrupted 

 horizon ; hero would be displayed an extent of 

 view, stretching forty miles in each direction, form- 

 ing a circle eighty miles in diameter, consequently 

 two hundred and fifty in circumference, and an 

 area of five thousand square miles. This, then, 

 would be one of the largest objects that the eye 

 could grasp at one time ; but, large as it is, it 

 would require forty thousand such prospects to 

 constitute the whole surface of the earth. But 

 this is comparatively nothing, for one of those glit- 

 tering points which ornament the celestial canopy 

 (Jupiter,) is fourteen thousand times larger than 

 our earth, and the sun 1,384,480 times larger than 

 our terrestrial globe. Here then the imagination 



VALUABLE HABIT. 



One of the most valuable habits in life is that 

 of contemplating every undertaking. The men- 

 tal dissipation in which persons of talents often in- 

 dulge, and to which they are perhaps more prone 

 than others, is destructive beyond what can be ini-* 

 agined. A man who has lost the power of prose- 

 cuting a task the moment its novelty is gone, or it 

 becomes encumbered with difficulty, has reduced 

 his mind into a state of lamentable and wretched 

 imbecility. His life will inevitably be one of 

 shreds and patches. The consciousness of not 

 having persevered to the end of any special un- 

 dertaking, will hang over him like a spell and will 

 paralyze all his energies, and he will at last be- 

 lieve, that, however feasible his plans, he is fated 



never to succeed. The habit of finishing ought 



o be formed in early youth. 



A little neglect may breed a great mischief; for 

 want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a 

 shoe the horse was lost, ami for want of a horse 

 tliP rider was lost. — Franklin. 



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