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ments both m agriculture and the breed 
of cattle have been introduced. Swine in 
abundance are feen roaming about almoft 
every farm Turkies, and a variety of 
ether poultry ave likewife common: the 
former are delicious eating, and abound 
both in their wild and domeitic ftate.. As 
to game, I obferved very little of it, 
though plenty of . wild-towil.. On ap- 
proaching the capital, a more ftudied cul- 
ture and increafing population were dif- 
cernible; but ftill the fame unvarying 
level as before! nothing grand, or ro- 
mantic, highly interefting, or picturefque, 
ta awake the attention wt the traveller : 
yet the foothing idea of confidering {fo 
fine a portion of the globe under rapid 
amprovement, and an admirable form of 
government, muft be highly-gratifying 
to every rational being. Imagination 
takes flight, foaring on the wings of fu- 
turity, and ebiouiiia in wonder, loyes to 
contemplate the great empire of Colum- 
bia; a region {pread far and wide, from 
the frozen St. Laurence to the Indian 
Mifiifippi, from the great Atlantic to the 
beautiful Ohio, and the vaft continued 
chainof Lakes; the whole fertilized and 
peapicn by an enlightened and innumera- 
ble race, emulating the wife ~Chinefe, 
emancipating the enflaved African, and 
exhibiting a neble example to the deluded 
European, 
(Te be continued. J 
re ee 
Zo the Editor of the Menthl, 
SIR, 
qT Do not recolle& that any thing has 
4t been hitherto communicated, in your 
valuable Magazine concerning the fub- 
lime art and. fcience of Dancing ! But, 
having lately witnefled, with no {mall 
aniufement, the fprichtly agility with 
which a rural dancing- matter, at. his ball, 
_ performed fome hornpipes, L. could not 
for two or three days immediately fubfe- 
quent, hinder my fancy from running, 
every now and then, upon this fubjed, 
even jamad my moit erudite readings. and 
ferious ftudies. In confequence of this, 
the following hiftorical conjectures fug- 
gefted themfelves., to. me. . concerning 
“ Fack,.a the, Gicen,?, §§ The- King, of 
Sweden's March, §* Shan-Trews, or 
rather Saus-Trews;” three noted popular 
hornpapss of this country. 
hefe daxces, with the mufic originally 
peculiar to each of them, are of French 
invention. ‘They are as old as the firft 
half of the laft century. Their names 
were impofed in reference to events of the 
ly Mogazine. 
pital. 
Origin of © Fack othe Greeny? Se. Se. 
famous German war which was termi 
nated by the peace of Weitphalia, in the 
year 1633. 
It was the great Guftavus Adolphus, 
in honour of whom were compoied. the 
dance and the tune mentioned in the firit 
place above. He was the ally ef France. 
The French exulted in the fuccetfs of “his 
arms. The Parifians were wont, im 
thofe days, even as now, to aflociate the 
fame of all important public characters 
and events, in which they took an intereft, 
with their lighteft-and gayeft diverfions. 
John de Werth, .or Werth, whofe 
name was by the French prenounced 
Jean de Verda, was a famous general who 
commanded the forces of Bavaria, and 
fought againft France and Sweden in the 
fame German war. ‘To the infinite.ter- 
ror of the Parifians, he, at one time, 
threatened-to enter France with the army 
under his command, and to {ack its ca- 
On the 2d of March, 1638, how- 
ever, John de Werth, or Jean de Verd, 
was made prifoner by the duke of Saxe- 
Weimar*, at the battle of Rhynteld. 
He was foon after fent to Paris: and he 
remained for fome time in-confinement in 
the caftle of Vincennes. It was probably 
in their exultation over his defeat and 
captivity that the Parifians made the tune 
and the dance which they diftmguifhed by 
his name. We ma % well believe the 
mufician or dancer who firft introduced 
the one and the other into Britain, to 
have been illiterate enough not to difcern 
the abfurdity of tranflating Feas de Verd, 
in this inftance, Sack o the Green. 
Shan Trews, or rather, Sans Trews, 
the third of thefe dances, feems to me.to 
be a name compounded of twe different 
words, of which the firft is French—the 
fecond Scottifh or German, 1f not old 
French. Its fignification 1s probably the 
fame as that of the well-known modern 
phrafe of fans culottes. ‘The dance, and 
the tune to which it belongs, were pro- 
bably compofed in honour of the valour 
oi the common foldiers in the fame Ger- 
man wat. 
‘The common name of fornpipes was, 
perhaps, firft given to thefe and various 
other dances, becaufe the horn and the 
pipe were the muiical _ inftruments.. to 
which they were danced. 
Thefe dances, and the correfpondent 
miufic, were nether into Britain. foon 
alter the reftoration of . Charles If. 
From, the court and the circles of the 
great, they have at length found their 

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