NEW ENGLvVND FARIVIER. 



July 27, 1827'. 



iWisccUantfS. 



From the JForcesttr JEgis. 



THE WONDERS OF THE DEEP. 

 The bounty of nature has spread flowers nnd 

 herbs over hill and valley with boundless profu- 

 sion. The insect hosts flutter in the sunshine or 

 hum among the trees. Field and forest are 

 swarming with life in its various forms. The 

 varieties of animated being, forming a chain of 

 existence extending to objects so minute as to 

 elude the sight, and rising so high as to exceed | 

 the power of human observation, have been dili- 1 

 gently examined, and catalogues and descriptions j 

 tell us the names and inform us of the man-' 

 ners and habits of many of the tribes of earth 

 and air. The waters equally populous, have of' 

 course been less successfully explored. Of the ; 

 ■monsters who feed among the caves, or gambol : 

 in the deep, we yet know but little. Occasionally > 

 some odd fish presents himself to ths observation; 

 of the sailor, and the account given of its appear- 

 ance is so strange that we rank it with " fish i 

 stories." Although the Sea Serpent has figured | 

 so much in the waters along our shores, and in 

 the depositions of those gentlemen who saw the 

 terrible glitter of his eyes through telescopes, we 

 are still left in doubt whether it be a creature of! 

 real existence or of imagination. The diving 

 bell has occasionally been employed in the ox- ■ 

 amination of shallow places to direct the labors 

 of industry, but the boldness of adventure never 

 has descended to those depths where we should 

 expect to find the haunts of monsters, and one of 

 the most remarkable inventions of modern ira- 

 nrovement has been ineSectual in reclaiming the 

 treasures of human wealth gathered during suc- 

 cessive centuries to the deep, or in discovering 

 the gems and metals, the spars and corals that 

 adorn its cells. Scientific enquiry has been busy 

 in examining those animated beings so infinitely 

 varied in form and structure and so multiplied as 

 to exceed the power of figures to number, floating 

 on the surface. The following extract from 

 Scoresby, copied into the last American Quarter- 

 ly Review, shows the known myriads of the popu- 

 lation of the sea, and may give some idea of the 

 probable extent. 



" The number of medusa," says Scoresby, " in 

 the olive green sea, was found to be immense. — 

 They are about one fourth of an inch asunder. — 

 f n this proportion, a cubic inch of water must con- 

 tain 64 ; a cubic foot n0,.'i92 ; a cubic fathom, 

 23,887.872 ; and a cubic mile, about 23,888,000,- 

 000,000,000 ! From soundings made in the situa- 

 tion where these animals were found, it is proba- 

 ble the sea is upwards of a mile in depth ; but 

 ■whether these substances occupy the whole depth, 

 is uncertain. Provided however the depth to 

 which they entered be but 2.')0 fathoms, the above 

 immense number of one species may occur in a 

 space of two miles square. It may give a bet- 

 ter conception of the amount of raedusE in this 

 extent, if we calculate the length of time that 

 would be requsite with a certain number of pcr- 

 Bons for counting this number. Allowing that 

 one person could count a million ia seven days, 

 which is barely possible, it would have required 

 that .30,000 persons should have started at the 

 creation of the world, to complete the enumeration 

 at the present time." 

 What a stupendous idea this fact gives of the 



immensity of creation, and of the bounty of Divine 

 Providence, in furnishing sucli a profusion of life 

 in a region so remote from the hauitations of men ! 

 But if the number of animals in the space of two 

 miles square be so great, what must be the amount 

 requisite for the discoloration of the sea through 

 an extent of perhaps twenty or thirty thousand 

 square miles." [Arctic Voyages, p. 180.] 



RULES FOR GOOD iMANNERS. 



1. If y'ou are at work near the road, be sure to 

 stop, and look at every one who passes by, from 

 the time he first makes his appearance, until he is 

 out of sight. No one, who has not had the ex- 

 perience of it, can tell how much pleasure there 

 is in seeing half a dozen men abandon their em- 

 ployment and gaze at him, as though they had 

 never before seen a mortal, or wore desirous to 

 sec every button on his garments. 



2. When yon are passing by neighbors at work 

 never f;iil to stop and talk with them, especially 

 if they arc engaged in doing something of con- 

 siderable importrnce. Every one must perceive 

 how agreeable it is to a man to be obliged by the 

 rules of good manners to suspend his labor an 

 hour, especially if he has several hired men in 

 company with him, to a trifling story, or to hear 

 the history of his neighbor's afl^iirs. 



3. When a person passes by your house, never 

 fatl to deck the windows with as many faces as 

 the house can supply ; and if the windows will 



; not accommodate :ill, let one or two stand in the 



I door. 



I 4. If you are passing by a houso be careful to 

 look into the windows ; by this you may general 

 ly know whether its occupants are industrious. — 



I You will likewise occasionally get a glance at a 



' young lady as she sits in the parlor, reading nov- 

 els, braiding straw, or working lace ; which to 

 say the least is worth a shilling. 



; 5. On the sabbath take your stand before the 

 meeting houso at least fifteen or twenty minutes 

 before the season of worship cominoncos, and lot 

 no one escape your notice, wlio may come to the 

 house of worship. The pleasure which the young 

 lady experiences, passing twenty or thirty young 

 gentlemen gazing intently at her, may bo easily 

 imagined; and if perchance she drop her glove 

 or handkerchief, let the blush on her face tell how 

 delightful the task to pick it up. — JV. H. Sentiiiel. 



A poor ragged urchin was tried (at the last 

 Westmoreland Sessions) for stealing an old jack- 

 et from a lime-kiln; proof "was strong as holy 

 writ," the Chairman summed up with clearness 

 and the wisdom of the county jury was now to be 

 condensed. After a long deliberation on this 

 knotty point, they turned round — " Gentlemen, 

 have you agreed upon your verdict ?" when the 

 Foreman peeped cunningly from beneath a shag- 

 gy front, with about as much intelligence in it as 

 that contained in the face of an ourang-outang, 

 and said, " not guilty ; but he ought to be sevcrciv 

 reprimanded for stealing it." 



A gentlemen made a very good reply to one 

 who asserted that he did not believe there was a 

 truly honest man in the whole world. " Sir," said 

 he, " it is quite impossible that any one man should 

 know all the world ; but it is quite possible that 

 some one man may know himset/." 



Praise. — Praise -is like arabergrise. A little 

 whiflT of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable ; 

 but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your 

 nose, it is a nuisance, and strikes you down. 



FrioncU bought with money, fail when money flies ; 

 Those won by merit, not till meiit dies '. 



Original Jlnecdote. — A schoolmaster in one of 

 the neighbouring towns, while upon his morning's 

 walk, passed by the door of a neighbor who was 

 excavating a log for a pigs-trough. " Why,"s:iid 

 the schoolmaster, " M. , have you not fur- 

 niture enough yet ?" ' Yes,' said the man, 'enough 

 for my own family, but I expect to board tlie 

 master this winter, and am making preparations.' 



I lay it down as a sacred maxim, that every man 

 is wretched in proportion to his vices ; and af- 

 firm the noblest ornament of a young, generous 

 mind, and the surest source of pleasure, profit, and 

 reputation in life, to be an unreserved acceptance 

 of virtue. [Letters concerning Mythology.] 



Great Tunnel through the. Silver Mine of Kings 

 hurg, in JVorway. — A wonderful gallery has been 

 pierced through the side of the mountain, at the 

 depth of six hundred feet, through which the ore 

 is now transported, instead of being hoisted to the 

 top. — Its length is six thousand feet, and it occu- 

 pied twenty-three years in its completion. It had 

 been commenced in 1792, but during seven years 

 of one time it was discontinued : it had just been 

 opened. The process was most tedious, being en- 

 tirely by calcination and hammering, which bro't 

 the rock off" in flakes. Only two men could work 

 at a time ; they both commenced externally ; and 

 to their credit be it recorded, that upon meeting 

 they were only two or three feet difierencc in 

 the level, and none in the direction : it is from 

 six to seven feet wide, and from ten to fifleeii 

 high. — Jones' Travels. 



./I Green Old .ige.—Mr. Moore, of Ellsworth, 

 Me. now in his 78th year, is stated in the Ells- 

 worth Courier to have made with his own hands, 

 during the last nine months, 56,(100 good shingles 

 which hiive been sold for $168, besides attending 

 to the work ot a farm. He can hoe, mow or rake 

 as much in a day as any common man wishes to 

 do. 



By a letter from a gentleman now in Dresden, 

 Saxony, it appears that the government of that 

 country is giving particular attention to the exten- 

 sion of its trade and commerce — that it is desirous 

 of increasing its commercial intercourse with the 

 United States, and for this purpose has lately ap- 

 pointed Consuls to reside in our principal Sea 

 Ports. 



Yellow Locust Seed, ifc. 

 For sale at the New England Farmer office, a few 

 lbs. Yellow Locust ?eed, superior scarlet short top Rad- 

 ish, White Mulberry, 13 varieties of Turnip, Girkin 

 or pickling Cncumher, ice. with a new assortment of 

 ornamtntal flower seeds. 



\ youn? genlleman who has had adventages of Ibe 

 best academical, universily and professional education, 

 and of acquiring the French and Italian languages a- 

 broad, wishes to obtain a situation which would be 

 permanent, as professor or tutor in a college, or instruc- 

 tor in an academy or school. \ny propositions, present 

 or prosppctiv. addresstfi to A. B. care of Rev. Dr. 

 Jenks, Rostoj. ''Ta^s. will rfeeire immediate attention. 



The Farmkr is (nil.lished eTtiy Friday, at $3,00 

 per ,»nnum, or $2,50 If paid in advance. 



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 are entitled to 9. sixth volume gratis. 



