348 Observations on the Language of Signs. 
Franguntur montes, planumque per ardua Cesar _ 
Ducit opus; pandit fossas, turrit.que summis, aE 
Disponit castella jugis, magno que recessi "hae 
Amplexus fines ; saltus nemorosaque tesqua SG 
Et silvas, vestaque feras indagine claudit. sis 
Lib. VI. 38—43. Mm 
Or the relation of the same siege in Caesar De Bello Ci- 
vili Lib 3, may be considered as more applicable. _ 
Should the inhabitants of New-England. at some future 
day, take a pleasure in preserving the forts which were 
erected by their ancestors, defended by their valour, and 
which they would have laid down their lives to maintain 5 
the hills on which they are situated should be adorned with 
trees, shrubs, and the finest flowers. The laurel plant- 
ed on the spot where Warren fell, would be an emblem of 
unfading honour; the white birch and pine might adorn 
Prospect Hill; at Roxbury, the cedar and the oak should 
still retain their eminence; and upon the Heights of Dor- 
chester, we would plant the laurel, and the finest trees 
which adorn the forest, because there was achieved a glori- 
Ous victory without the sacrifice of life. 
Many centuries hence, if despotism without, or anarchy 
withia, should cause the republican institutions of America 
to fade, then these fortresses ought to be destroyed, because 
they would be a constant reproach to the people; but until 
that period, they should be preserved as the noblest monu- 
ments of liberty. 
Art. XXX1I.—Observations on the Language of Signs, read 
before the New-York Lyceum of Natural History, on the 
93d June, 1823. By Samuet Axerty, M. D., and Pro- 
fessor in the New-York Mechanic and Scientific Insti- 
tution. 1. 
Communicated for the American Journal of Science. 
Tuts paper has been a good while on hand because it 
has never been in our power to reprint it, without exclu- 
ding articles which had a prior claim. Since its publica- 
tion in New-York, the author has forwarded it te us anew 
