30 Clinton's introductory discourse. 



little doubt but that the same sentiment existed at one period, in the 

 old world, with respect to this country, as now prevails here in relation 

 to Botany Bay: and what respectable man could be induced to remove 

 to that place ? What encouragement would it afford to the cultivation 

 of literature ? The Pierian Spring and the Parnassian Mount are not 

 to be expected in the Den of Cacus. The idea of a country appro- 

 priated as the residence of men whose lives have been polluted with 

 crimes, is associated with all that is shocking and appalling; and we con- 

 sider it in the same light as the poet represents the entrance into the 

 infernal regions: 



" Luctus, et ultrices posuSre cubilia curae ; 

 Pallentesque habitant morbi, tristisque senectus, 

 Et metus, et malesuada fames, et turpis egestas ; 

 Terribiles visu forma: ! Lethumque, Iaborque; 

 Turn consanguineus Lethi sopor, et mala mentis 

 Gaudia; mortiferumque adverso in limine bellum, 

 Ferreique Eumenidum thalami, et discordia demens, 

 Vipereum crinem vittis innexa cruentis." 



jEneid, lib. VI. 



The combined and pernicious effects of this complication of causes, 

 were to be traced in the general want of education — in the debased 

 condition of the learned professions — in neglect of seminaries of learn- 

 ing — and in a universal apathy with regard to the interests of science. 



The influence of printing upon knowledge is well understood. Du- 

 ring the Dutch government no press was established. Governor Dongan 

 was instructed, in 1686, to allow no printing press in the province. 

 The first established was in 1693, and the first newspaper published was 

 on the 16th of October, 1725. 



Whatever may be thought of the following remarks of Sir William 

 Temple in other respects, their justice, in relation to the medical pro- 



