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yrefent contain more than five or fix hun- 
dred houfes. It is moft beautifully ftu- 
ated on the banks of the Potowmac, and 
is flanked by the Anna-cofta river; both 
thefe rivers will admit veffels of any fize 
as high as the town. Befides thefe, the 
Tibur paffes through its heart, which 
will foon be made navigable for {mall 
craft. ‘The land within the city waves in 
gentle curvatures, never rifing into a 
hill, never finking into a valley, feldom 
into a flat. It is furrounded by a com- 
plete amphitheatre of hills, which, at all 
times beautiful, were peculiarly fo during 
the month of May... The foliage of the 
trees was of a much more vivid green 
than in England, perhaps owing to the 
much ftronger light produced by the dit- 
ference of climate in this country; the 
peach, apple, and cherry trees, were 
every where in bloffom, and before thefe 
were well off, the white, though poilon- 
ous dog-wood, charmingly diverfified the 
f{eenery, which was ftill farther embel- 
lithed by the delicately blufhing, yet not 
lefs deleterious, ivy. 
About three miles above the city, are 
what are called the Little-Falls, a ro- 
mantic fpot,. where the water rufhes over 
immentfe mafies of rocks, in vait fheets of 
white foam. Over this is thrown a very 
neat bridge, which, feen at the diftance 
of about two miles, feems to connect to- 
gether two lofty mountains. From hence 
the water rufhes into a romantic valley, 
through which, and near the fide of the 
Potowmac, gently glides.a canal, which, 
when finifhed, will conne&t and render na- 
vigable the different parts of that river. 
It is expected that this canal will be 
completed next year, when the produce 
of the richeft back country in America 
for upwards of two hundred and eighty 
miles, will be brought to this city. 
During the winter months we faw no 
birds, but fince the fpring has agqin 
made all nature fmile, they have vilited 
ws in great abundance and variety. it 
is difficult, amidft a profution of beauty, 
to determine which fpecies are the moit 
beautiful, but fome of the woodpecker 
tribe have certainly a ftrong claim to 
preference; the regularity and ftrength 
of colouring in their plumage, far ex- 
ceeds any thing of the kind I ever jaw 
before, and yet, perhaps, even thefe muft 
yield to the Baltimore bird, whofe rich 
golden feathers have in them a degree of 
indetcribable elegance. 
The twilight here is of much fhorter 
duration than in England, and as ivon as 
the fun declines it becomes quite dark, 
but the nights are beautifully dluminated 
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335 
by innumerable fwarms of the fire-fly, 
which glitter in the air. ‘Thefe little 
animals are only phofphoric under their 
wings, fo that in flying, they are alter- 
nately vifible and invifible, and muchre- 
fembie {parks falling froma lighted pipe, 
but have a very pleating effet. Wehave 
fifh for a great part of the year, very fine, 
very plentiful, and very cheap; the rock- ~ 
fifh is, I think, the fineft I ever ate. + 
The thermometer this day ftands at 
feventy-eight, a degree of heat which 
would be confidered as extreme in your 
country; but certain it is, that the heat of 
this climate is by no means fo’ oppreflive 
as that of yourmiore northernone. A re- 
mark to this effest is, I think, made in 
Brydone’s ‘¢ Tour through Sicily,” who ob- 
ferves, that the heat of fouthern latitudes | 
is never fo oppreflive as that of England. 
eer EO 
To the Editor of ‘the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
PON perufing the remarks of your 
correfpondent C. P. p. 406, I could 
not help referring to the new edition of 
Calinet’s Dictionary of the Bibie, where 
I perceive the editor feems to have adopt- 
ed the fame idea of the original nature of 
the facrament of the Lord’s Supper, as 
C.P. has extracted from Kaurien. T am 
not acquainted with the editor; in fag, 
he conceals himfelf, for what reafon is 
pat my conjecture. His words are thefe, 
fragment cix. p. 17. “ It-will be ob- 
ferved of this loaf [engraved on the-plate 
annexed] that it is -divided into tevelwe 
parts: I would not affirm, that the loaf 
ufed by our Lord at the eucharift was 
alfo divided into twelve parts; but if it 
was, it fhews how conveniently it might 
be diftributed among lis difciples; to 
each a part: and fofibly, may be thought 
to tend toward fettling the queftion whe- 
ther Judas partook of it? I think he did 
not, but that our LORD, IN sOME DE- 
GREE, COMPLIED WITH A CUSTOM 
mentioned in the article eating, in the 
Di&ionary. 1 conceive too, that fuch a 
divided loaf gives n& improper comment 
on the paflage, ‘ We being many are one 
bread’—many partakers, each having his 
portion from the fame loaf.”? 1 Cor.x. 17. 
' Now, upon reterring to the articie’ 
EATING, I find this paragraph, after 
defcribing certain Jewith ceremonies at 
table, thé author fays, “‘ They take care, 
that after meals there fball be a piece of 
bread remaining on the table; the mafter 
of the houfe orders a glaf{s to be wafhed, 
fills it with wine, and elevating it, {ays, 
Let us blefs him of whofe benefis we bave 
been partaking = the rel antwer, Blejed 
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