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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Rural Sounds as -well as Sights ddighiful. 

 Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds 

 Exhilarate the spirit, and restore 

 The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds, 

 That sweeji the skirt of some far-spreading wood 

 Of ancient growth, make music not unlike 

 The dash of ocean on its winding shore, 

 And lull the spirit while they fill the mind, 

 Unnumber'd branches waving in the blast, 

 And all their leaves fast flutt'ring all at once. 

 Nor less composure waits upon tlie roar 

 Of distant floods, or on the softer voice 

 Of ncighb'ring fountain, or of rills that slip 

 Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall 

 Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length 

 In matted grass, that with a livelier green 

 Betrays the secret of their silent course. 

 Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds, 

 But animated nature svreeter still. 

 To sooth and satisfy the human ear. 

 Ten thousand warblers cheer the day, and one 

 The live-long night : nor these alone, whose notes 

 Nice-fingerM art must emulate in vain, 

 But cawing rooks, and kites Ihit swim sublime 

 In still repeated circles, screaming loud, 

 The jay, the pye, and even the boding owl 

 That hails the rising moon, have charms for me. 

 Sounds inharmonious in tliemselves and harsh. 

 Yet heard in scenes where peace for ever reigns, 

 And only there, please highly for their sake. 



CoWPER. 



From the Upper Canada Weekly Regi.-ter. 

 NATURAL HISTORY. 



Sir, — I beg leave to send you the following 

 account of a very extraonlinary j)hcnomenon 

 which lately occurred in the waters of Lake 

 Erie, which you are at liberty lo use iu any way 

 you think proper. 1 am, &c. 



A. H. BURWELL. 



Port Talbot, June 20, 1G23. 



On or about the 30th of May last, a little af- 

 ter sunset, lake Erie tvas observed to take a 

 sudden and extraordinary rise, the weather be- 

 ing fine and clear, and the lake calm and smooth. 

 It was principally noticed at the mouths of Ot- 

 ter and Kettle creeks, which are 20 miles apart. 

 At Otter Creek it came in without the least pre- 

 vious intimation, in a. swell of nine feet perpen- 

 dicular height, as was afterwards ascertained, 



flat, and grounded upon a small eminence until 

 the water subsided. There were three succes- 

 sive swells as at Otter creek, and the efl'ects up 

 the creek were the same, with this difference, 

 the water only rose seven feet. In both cases, 

 the lake, after the three swells had spent their 

 force, gradually subsided, and in about twenty 

 minutes was at its usual height and tranquility. 

 It was observed at other places along the shore, 

 but the high steep banks did not admit of the 

 same observation. In all however, there was a 

 general correspondence as to the height of the 

 rise. 



Conjecture will doubtless be awake as to the 

 cause of this most remarkable phenomenon : 

 hut it must only be conjectured, for it was unat- 

 tended with any circumstance that could re- 

 motely hint at a probable cause. — But such was 

 the fact, and it must furnish its own comment 



REINDEER IN GREAT BRITAIN. 

 Mr. Bullock's attempt to introduce Reindeer 

 into Great Britain is likely to be completely 

 successful. A herd of these fine animals is now 

 in Ireland, on the lands of Sir W. M'Mahon; 

 and in Scotland, on the hills to the west of Ed- 

 inburgh, a herd has not only been naturalized 

 on the soil and food, but the females have pro- 

 duced their young, and are thriving as well as 

 if they were in Norway. Some of the Wapiti, 

 or gigantic stag of the Missouri, have also been 

 imported into Scotland. These animals are of 

 the size of horses, and can be broken for har 

 ness, in which their speed must be prodigious. 

 [U. ¥. GaEettc. 



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try, and was we believe adopted. Subsequent 

 an advertisement appeared in the London pap 

 inviting candidates for the office of Professor 

 Mathematics in Woolwich Academy, and si 

 citing at the same time testimonials of their r 

 pective claims. Two persons were selected, 

 the result of the examination, by scientific m 

 and these two were Dr. Hutton, and the celeb 

 ted X)r. Maskeline, late Astronomer Royal. 1 

 umpires, who had scrupulously examined 

 pretensions of each, declared that there \ 

 very little superiority between these succes' 

 candidates, but if there was a preference Hut 

 was entitled to it. — Hutton was totally unfrie 

 ed, and had not been seen at the time by 

 examiners. 



GARRICK AND FOOTE. 

 The success of Garrick's Stratford Jubil 

 which run ninety nights in one season, so m\ 

 annoyed Foote, that he was going to burlest 

 it by a mock procession. A man dressed 1 " 

 Garrick was to be introduced as the princi 

 character, and some one was to address bin 

 his own Jubilee lines — 



" A nation's taste depends on you, 

 " Perhaps a nation's virtue too." 

 To which he was to make answer only by c. 

 ping his arms like the wings of a cock, 

 crowing out — 



" Cock-a-doodle doo 1" 

 Garrick hearing of this, was so much ala 

 ed, that he got a nobleman to persuade Ft 

 to abandon his mirth-moving design. 



PRACTICAL ADVICE. 

 Fill up your time so fully with useful employ- 

 ments, as to have little leisure for pursuits of a 

 doubtful character. Endeavour further to ac- 

 quire such a strong sense of duty, such a taste 

 for contemplations of a higher order, and such 

 well arranged habits of sacred study and devo- 

 tion, as may supersede the temptation to devote 

 to idle, if not injurious amusement, moments 

 which may be so much more profitably given to 

 the great concern of preparation for another 

 world. Keep in mind the claims which your 

 family, your friends and society, have upon your 

 hours of retirement ; and the importance of so 

 employing those hours, be they few or many 



rushed violently up the channel, drove a schoon- that both your mind and your body may be re- 

 er of 3o tons burthen from her moorings, threw freshed for the returning duties of each succcs- 

 her upon high ground, and rolled over the ordi- sive day. And, lastly, guard against habits of idle 

 nary beach into the woods, completely inundat- curiosity, and be not ashamed to own that there 

 iog all the adjacent flats. This was followed by : «re many things with which neither your time 

 two others of equal height, which caused the ""r y"'' t^^'e permit you to be acquainted, and 

 creek to retrogade a mile and a half, and to over- 'east of all with every new tale that happens to 

 flow its banks where water was never before be the subject of popular conversation. 



seen by seven or eight feet. The noise occasion- 

 ed by its rushing with such rapidity along the 

 winding channel, was truly astonishing. It was 

 witnessed by a number of persons. 



At Kettle creek several men were drawing a 



Anecdote of the late Dr. Hutton, connected n'kh 

 his extraordinanj hdvancemeitt. — Dr. Hutton was 

 originally a common workman in a coal mine in 

 the north of Englasd, and having in the use of 



Some of our journals have lately repe; 

 Tom Sheridan's facetious equivoque to his 

 ther when he advised him to take a wife- 

 have no objection. Sir, whose wife shall I tak 

 An equivalent to, if not the original of wh 

 we remember to be of some standing in \ 



wickshire. Sir , a justice of the pe 



had frequently had before him, at the sn 



the parish, farmer B , whose love of 



trigue often brought him into piilernal sera 

 One day, while his worship sat with my 1 

 it was announced that the worthy farmer 

 charge of the constable, attended for a hea 

 touching one of his usual misdoings. My 

 was requested to leave the room during the 

 amination ; and on going away met the cul 

 " Ah ! John," said she, " why do you me 

 so with the girls — why don't you get a wit 

 Poor John scratched his head apologetic: 

 and replied, " So 1 does, ma lady, sometii 

 but then their husbands are so dommed mad 



The Stran-berry. — It is a fact, though not gene; 

 known, that the common strawberry is a natural 

 tifrice; and that its juice, without any previous 

 paration whatever, dissolves the tartarions incrusti 

 on the teeth, and makes the breath sweet Jc agree; 



fish net in the lake, when suddenly Ihey saw the j his pickaxe wounded his arm, he was disabled 

 water coming upon them in the manner above j from pursuing his humble labor. In order to 

 mentioned; and, letting go their net, they run gain an honest livelihood, he applied himself lo 

 for their lives. The swell overtook them be- writing and arithmetic, and subsequently set up 

 fore they could reach the high bank, and swept a little school. Hexam Bridge, by some acci- 



them forward with great force ; but, being ex- 

 pert swimmers, they escaped unhurt. The man 

 who was in the skitT, pulling iu the sea line, was 

 drove with it a considerable distance over Ihc 



dent fell down, and Dr. Hutton, then an obsture 

 country schoolmaster, wrote a long paper, re- 

 commending a model for the new bridge, which 

 ultractcd gvc;(t attention in that part of the cuun- 



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