1801.] 
Imagination to my fancy drew 
A profpec&t happy in its every fhade, 
Tllam’d with gaiety was every hue, © 
And every beauty was unknown to fade. 
But ’twas an imbecility of mind 
That gave admiffion to a vain defire, 
That painted human happinefs combin’d 
With the pure effence of celeftial fire. 
Had caution ftrove to limit the defign, 
And fram’d it, fubje& toa cloudy fky, 
Serenity, at leat, hadthen been mine, — 
Till taught by reafon forrow to defy. 
Perhaps, Eliza, thy fuperior aid, 
Thy. ready counfel and thy precepts wife, 
Thy valued friendfhip in its truth array’d, 
And void of every {pecies of difguife— 
Perhaps by thefe 1 may be taught to know, 
The calm ceflation that from virtue flows, 
Perhaps thy diftates may relieve my woe, 
And guide my ruffled fpirits to repofe. 
Proceedings of Learned Societies, 
1a7 
SONNET, 
Tranflated from the Italian of SANNAZARIUS. 
PrALse fleeting hopes and vain defires fare« 
ma Welles 
Fond anxious wifhes that within my breaft 
With fighs and-unavailing anguith dwell, 
Leave me, O leave me, to my wonted reft. 
O, if oblivion on my troubled mind 
His gently foothing balm will ne’er beftow, 
In death, at leaft, a refuge let me find, 
And with my being lofe the fenfe of woe, 
Now let the. fates their utmoft vengeance 
pour, 
Secure, their utmoft vengeance I defy ; 
Nor can affli€tion’s darkeft gloomieft hour 
E’er from my bofom force another figh : 
Nor Love himfelf another pang impart, 
To deepen the defpair that rends my tortured 
heart. . J. B. 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 
FRANCE. 
NOTICE of the LABOURs of the CLASS of 
MATHEMATICAL aad PHYSICAL SCI- 
ENCES during the fecond Quarterly Sitting 
of the YEAR 9. . 
MATHEMATICAL PART. 
ITIZEN LALANDE has read a no- 
tice on the longitude of Alexandria in 
Egypt; which he has determined by an 
emerfion of the ftar Antares, compared 
with the complete obfervation of the fame 
eclipfe, made at Marfeilles, by Citizen 
'THULIS, affociate member of the Infti- 
tute. It refults from;this datum that the 
difference of the meridians is 1° 50’ 26”; 
which differs very little from that which 
Citizens Novet and Quenor had efta- 
blithed ; thus, therefore, the pofition of 
this point appears to be now well known. 
Citizen Prony has read a notice on 
large trigonometrical decimal tables, calcu- 
Jated’on the cadaftre or regifter, under his 
direction, by a method entirely new, and 
which had this advantage, that an indefi- 
“nite number of calculators might be em- 
ployed by it at once, from the moft of 
whom no other knowledge could be re- 
quired than that of addition and fub- 
traction. The clafs having nominated 
commilaries to render a detailed ac- 
count of this extremely important work, | 
important from its extent as well as from 
the care which has been applied in the 
execution, has heard with much intereft 
Montuity Mase, No. 77. 
a report on the fubject, which it adopted, 
and-which it ordered to be printed, in the 
notice of its labours, during the quarter 
jut finifhed. 
Citizen DESFONTAINEs has communi- 
cated to the clafs fome interefting details 
on the culture of the bread-fruit-tree.— 
This valuable tree, Artocarpus incifa, be- 
longs to the family of wriica, and has 
much affinity with the genus of mulberry- 
tree. Its organs of fructification are well 
known, and have been accurately defcribed, 
by ForsTer and other botanifts. It is 
to Citizens LABILLARDIERE and La- 
HAYE, inthe colonies, that France is in- 
debted for them. Onvtheir return from 
the voyage in fearch of La Peyroufe, they 
depofited feveral live fhoots of it in the 
Tfle of France, which they had brought 
from the Friendly Iflands; and we have 
lately learned, by a letter from Citizen 
Martin, direétor of the colonial nurferies 
in French Guiana, that the plant fent thi- 
ther from France three years ago, fuc- 
ceeds perfectly well, that it has multi- 
plied, and is on the point of flowering, 
and that, in all probability, it will pro- — 
duce fruit in the courfe of this year. We 
muft not confound the bread-tree of the 
Friendly Iflands with the wild fpecies that 
grows in the Moluccas, and which we 
have already poffefled for fome time in many 
of our colonies, although the one be enly 
a variety of the other. Every full grown 
plant of the wild bread-fruit-tree feldom 
bears above thirty or forty fruits, which 
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