860 
é 
which hie afferted t6 have beeritaken from 
atemple of “Venus ; but, befides the fact 
being doubtful, theie fragments had no- 
thing grand in their appearance. 
Jumelin endeavours to reconcile the dif- 
ferent opinions of traveliers refpecting the 
Maguisttes; who are maintained by fome 
to be a mild and helpitable people, and by 
others a horde of robbers. He thinks 
Both opinions are correét, accordingly as 
they are apolicd to the inhabitants of the 
cape; or thoie that refide in the interior part 
of the country. Cape Matapan, the ancient 
Tenarus, is a fterile coafi, crowded with 
scale rocks, and peopled with men in 
all re{pects worthy of the foil; but fur- 
ther in the country the Maguioties form a 
nation, of uncultivated manners, and p Books 
but frank, mild, and hofpi hha : and this 
difference is eafily explain ed, by the differ- 
ent manner of living of one 0 the other ; 
the latter live on the produce of ici 
lands ‘and flocks; the former have alfa 
fome flocks, but live principally on plunder. 

Fer the Meat? ‘bly Magazine. 
xtracts of Letters from the Rev. Harry 
Toutmin, Jately 6f CHOWBENT in 
Poe ag HOW Of FRANKFORT, 72 
NTUCKY, NORTH AMERICA. 
At 
o clock on Tuefday morning, 
ae £4, 1793, we failed from Brif- 
tol in the fhip, Sifters, which was bound 
for Norfolk, in V Mga, though fhe be- 
longed to Portland, in the State of Maffa- 
chuffets. Our fhip, according to cuftom, 
was navigated by a Britifh pilot and his 
man, till we came off the ifland of Lundy, 
which is about 80 miles frorn Briftol. 
From thence he returned on Thuriday 
morning, and we proceeded with a nor- 
therly wind and pleafant weather. The 
wind and weather continued favourable to 
us till Monday, the 27th; by which time 
we were in_tne ietede of 44 deg. 58 
min. north, and in the longitude of 
deg. 5 min. So remarkably had we been 
favoured, that we began'to calculate upon 
the nofibility of completi ing our voyage 
in lefs thana month. On Tuelday, how- 
ever, we had fome ftrongs gales, which 
continued, with occafional rain, fer the 
ipace of two or three saboe The iea 
running high, we were toffed about a 
good deal: and though we were never 
in the leaft. danger, it was enough to 
give forne of our family the full expec- 
tation of going to the haem 
moit unplealant circumfiance attendin: 
was, that it renewed that aback: which 
till then had left moft on board. ~ As the 
2 
- Letters from Mr. Toulmin, of Kentucky. 
“gales abated, 
purfait of us. We 
[ December, te 
the wind sot more to the 
Ae fo that we were obliced to make a 
foutherly courfe, with a view of availin 
ourlelves of the tradc-winds. On Wednei- 
day the sth of June, being in the latitude. 
of 34 deg. 31 min. and in the lorigitude of 
39 deg. 54 min, we fell m with a norther- 
ly wind, which, to our, great fatisfation, 
enabled us to fteer again towards the weft. 
Being now arfived | in a latitude fo much 
more fouth than what we had been in 2 
week before, the weather became confide- 
rably warmer, and the fun being more di- 
rectly over our heads than in nerthern Ja- 
titudes, we had recourfe to an awning of 
blankets upon deck for the fake of fhade. 
Farenheit’s thermometer, at one o’clock im 
the afternoon, ftood at 75 deg. in the 
fhade, and at 82 in the fun. I covered one 
thermometer with a bit of white’ cloth, 
and another with a bit of black cloth. In 
half an hour, the thermometer covered 
with black, rofe 6 degrees higher than it 
was Benes whereas the other rof only. 
1 degree: a plain preof of the advantage 
of xubite hats, when one is expoied to the) 
fervent fun. A fimilar- experiment, made - 
at another time, fhewed that white is much 
cooler than green likewife. We were de- 
fiined however to experience much warmer 
weather than this, and found it neceflary 
to have a proper awning of fails ipread 
for fhade over the quarter “deck, Our nor- 
therly wind having continued but a little 
while, we were obliged to purfue cur 
foutherly courfe; and it was not till we 
had pailed the tropic of cancer, that we 
fell in with the trade-winds. It was the 
r6th of June, before we were able to make 
for the weit, when our latitude was 23 
deg. 20 min. and our longitude 45 deg. 
53 min. We had then but light Heo 
They continued till the la of June, or the 
firit of July, when they bea fomewhat 
brifker ; and on the 2d, we began to re- 
cover the latitude we had loft, and purfued 
a northseaft courfe. We were then in la- 
titude 24.deg. 45 min. longitude 65 deg. 
4 min. 
You will no doubt be anxious to hear 
what incidents happened to, us upon the 
voyage. The principal occurrence took 
place 1 in the courfe of the firft week. On 
the Saturday morning, we obferved a thip 
at a confiderable Be fcemingly in 
Ve conjeCtured, that it 
was a privateer, belonging either te the 
French or to the Englith. But.as we had 
ng to do with the fons of violence on 
noth 
A aes fide, we gave ourfelves little concern 
about the matter, and purfued our courle 
before a brik aad favourable wind. In 
the 
