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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Jan. 1-2, 1^27. 



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FOE THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 

 NATIONAi, FAILINGS. 



General remarks, and even satires on national 

 failings act as foils, which enhance whatever merit 

 e.xists in individuals, and turn the mere absence of 

 the defects, which are expected as a matter of 

 course, into personal e.xcellencies. They operate, 

 besides, as salutary warnings. No Englishman ot 

 good sense, ever feared that he might appear in 

 an unfavourable light abroad in consequence of the 

 descriptions of John Bull's character, given by his 

 ov/n countrymen,and the figure which Englishmen 

 make in French farces. Dean Swift,LordJWelling- 

 ton or any other Irishman of any merit or shrewd- 

 ness would never be offended at a real or imagi- 

 nery bull, imputed to paddy ; and a New England 

 man must be a simpleton, who feels hurt by any 

 good humoured exposition of yankee foibles. 



This is preserved in the collection of Mr Gideon 

 Murtell of Lewes. 



"If," says tlie Professor, "the total length and 

 height of animals, were in proportion to their lin- 

 ear extremities, the beast in question would have 

 equalled in height our largest elephants, and in 

 length fallen but little sliort of the largest whales; 

 but as the longitudinal growth of animals is not in 

 so high a ratio, alter making some deduction, we 

 may calculate the lengtli of this reptile from 

 Cuckfield at from sixli/ to seventy feet" 



" We ought not to omit, when speaking of the 

 fossil reptiles foand in Sussex, the Iguanodon, 

 which like three former genera, has been first dis- 

 covered in tliis country. Mr Mantell, upon com- 

 paring the teeth with a recent Iguana in the Col- 

 lege of Surgeons, satisfactorily ascertained its af- 

 finity to that animal; tlie teeth are remarkable for 

 their serrated edges and the ridges on the vertical 

 surface. This reptile is supposed to have been 

 sixty feet in length, to have been herbivorous, and 

 probably to have inhabited fresh water ; for the 

 assemblage organic remains in the strata that in 



SPANISH NATIONAL CHARACTER. 



A Spanish writer observes that " Tardiness, i close it, alford "almost unequivocal proofs of having 

 whether by distrust or circumspection is the radi- jbeen deposited in the estuary of a great river. — 

 cal defect of our national character ; never to rfo The largest living speicies of crocodile are said 

 to day what may be put off till to-morrow, is a prov- 1 sometimes to attain thirty feet in length, but theyi 

 erb too frequently used,and the spirit of wliich too ' rarely exceed twenty. Huge reptiles now inhab-! 

 frequently pervades the heart and soul of every \\i exclusively warmer latitudes ; they are most' 

 Spaniard. This apathy, this fatal reiklessness, \ abundant between the tropics ; but in the hemis- 

 which has at all times impeded the success of our|phere, both in North America and in Africa, the. 

 most brilliant undertakings,and kept us dependent | sometimes exceed this limit by ton or twelve de| 

 on the will of nations we despise, and always a I gree." 



century behind them in improvements, will render 

 us slaves to the end of time." 



LITERARY C0NTR0VF.R6 V. 



In questions which arise upon subjects of pro- 

 found and intricate investigation, truth is seldom 

 elicited without a considerable desree of hostile 



SCIENCE AND 



When writers undertake to be witty in discui 



sing scientific subjects they generally fail, and e 



cite disgust when they aim at applause. But 



late number of the Edinburgh Review, under tlie 



article Phrenology, has used wit to illustrate sci- 



controversy. Let the propounder of an opinion be i ence in a happy maimer. Speaking of the organs 



ever so veil informed upon the subject of it, he 

 seldom perceives all the connected arg>iments, 

 whether favourable or unfavourable lo his own 

 conclusions, until after a conflict with some able 

 adversary. Such a struggle generally leads to 

 deeper meditations and more active researches; — 

 to the discovery of facts, which would- not have 

 been known; of arguments which would not have 

 suggested themselves ; and of fastnesses and i peculiar organ than by leaving it large, and adding 



of Hope and Cautiousness, whic^i, accorii/g to 

 Phrenologists were developed by certain pjOtube- 

 rances or bumps on the liuman skull, tiie R/viewer 

 says : / j 



" If Hope and Cautiousness are exactly opposed | 

 to each other, why should there be two faculties ? , 

 It would seem easier certainly to bring down hope 

 to the requisite standard simjdy by diminishing its 



.Vautical Piety. — A sailor having been, lor 

 good behavior, promoted from a fore -mast mai 

 a boatswain, was ordered on shore, by his cap' 

 to receive his comniision at the Admiralty Ofi 

 Jack went accordingly, and thus described 

 ccption afterwards to his companions : — '■ I { 

 away lurge," said he, " for the Admiralty Ol5 

 i and on entering the harbor I espied a do, en or 

 J quill drivers ; I hailed 'em ; but not a word i 

 I they. 'Hollo!' again said I. — Notawordi 

 I they. 'Shiver my top-sails, but what can 

 I mean .'' said I. " Then I took a guinea from 

 pocket, and holding it up to my peeper, ' Hoi 

 ; again said I. ' Oh ! hollo,' returned they, i 

 ; so, my boys,' cried I, ' you are like Balaam's 

 ' are you ? You could not speak until yoj saw 

 j angel !' " 



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I Industry and Accommodation A coble; 



Black Rock, advises "barefooted people ai 

 with old bulks on their trotters, to present I 

 cases briefly to him for examination, am! Ihoy 

 ie re-shod, re-paired, re-soled, re-vaniped, 

 quartered, or re-lifted, ot their liking;" and, 

 'a stitch in time saves nine,' he will, with pr 

 notification, rise any time of night to repair a 



It is an honour to their (the Spaniards) laws 

 a man loses his testimony who can be pr 

 once to have been drunk. [Sir William Ten 



Ornamental and Fruit Trees, Shrubs, Plant. 

 U. vt C. LANIJRETM. 



J^ursery, Secdsmeyi, and Florisls, 



PlIILADEIPHIA 



HAVE constantly on hand for sale, a v^'y exit 

 collection of Fruit Trees. Hardy Ornamental 'I'rri 

 Shrubs, Gieen House Plants, Bulbous Root-. G 

 Seeds, &c. &c. not exceeded by any similar 'jtta 

 ment in the United States. 



In their selection of FRUITS for cultiiation, 

 care and attention has been paid, and from ;iu ii 

 cy with the subject of many years, they believe il( 

 judiciouslv. 



The OR.NAMENTAL PLANTS, both ttnde^H» 

 hanty, which they are now cultivating:, are snm 

 most esteemed and admired of both native and 



weaknesses, which would not have been spontane- 

 ously explored. 



DISCOVERIES OF THE LONDON GEOiOGICAL 

 SOCIETY. 



to tli« bulk of Cautiousness. But the truth is that 

 the two principles are substantially one and the 

 same, and necessarily employ each other, as much 

 as heat and cold do. The increment o' the one 



The London Quarterly Review for Sept. 1826 '^ "^'^^^^'^"'y '■''^ decrement of the other. If in 

 in reviewing the Transactions of the Gealo'Hcal i contemplation of danger, a man fears mu:h, he, by 

 Society of London, vol. 1. 2. Series, gives the fol- : necessary consequence, hopes little— if he hopes 

 lowing account of the remains of animals found in '""^''' ^^ ^'^^^^ ""''•'• ^^ '^ ^ "'^""^^ ^""^" *"'"'"' 

 England, in a fossil state. |°f expression is used, since they both obviously 



' In this volume is a notice, by Dr Buckland ' "^^^ *^^ ^'""^^ "''"S ' ='"'^ indicate cactly the 

 of the Megalosaurus of Stonesfield, another genus . ^''""^ *''''^ °^ ""'""^ "' feeling. They are the two 

 of fossil oviparous quadrupeds of prodigious matrni- i''"'^'^e''^ "i^^e well :— and it is not less absurd to 

 tude. Although the known parts of the skeleton : ascribe them to difi-erent principles, than it would 

 are very limited,it is ascertained to have beloun-ed ""^ ^'^ maintain that the descent of one backet de- 

 to the order of Saurians. From the dimensions of Pends on causes quite separate from that which 

 a thigh bone belonging to this animal in the mu- ,'"^'^''^^'°"^ '•''® ascent of the other :— and the su- 

 seum at Oxford, Cuvier, judging from the ordinary ' PerAu'ty of the Phrenologists in these instances is 

 standard of the lizard family, assigned to the in- 

 dividual to which it belonged a length exceeding 

 fcrrty feet, and a bulk equal to an elephant seven 

 feet high. But afemur,[thigh bone] twice as large 

 has since been discovered, together with bones of 



The GARDEN SEEDS, of which a large and 

 ral assortment is cultivated, are exchisivrly of 

 own rearing, for which purpose a number of arwle 

 tached to the establishment are appropilatcd, an^ 

 the moment they are planted, through all the v 

 stag-es of their growth and ripening are 'under tlie 

 mediate care aod superintendence, coDsequenll; 

 are enabled to assure purchasers not only of thei 

 but quality. 



Persons ordering any of the articles on thtir 

 logue, may be assured of-liaving them well and 

 packed, and of every attention being paid to then 

 that they will give satisfaction. t"'' 



Orders received by Messrs. PARKER & COD Isoik 

 No. 9 Congress-square, neaf the Exchacge fiio[ 

 House, Boston, of whom priced Catalogues ( 

 whole may be had gratis. tf. Dec. 



but faintly typified by that of the wiseacre who 

 made two holes in his barn door ; one — to let his 

 cat in to kill the mice, and the other — to lot her 

 out ! They might as well maintain that besides 

 the eye to give us intimation of light, we nuist 



another of the same species,in The ferruginous sand- '"'^^ anotl^er sense and another organ to give us 

 stone of Tilgate forest, near Cuckfield in Sussex. '*''® impression of darkness." 



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