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diligence, learning, and perfeverance, of 
that refpectable affociation, which was 
inftituted earlier, has been more ative, 
and has prefented to the public a greater 
profufion of rich and valuable fruits, than 
any of its fifter-affociations for fimilar 
purpofes in the United States. 
In the volume before us we fied a creat 
number of impertant and curious papers. 
Among the more important, we obferve 
fevera] on different fubjects of -chemiftry 
from Dy. Priettiey; feveral af®ronomical 
ones from Mr. Ellicott, and others; a 
confiderable number on various points of 
natural hiftory by Dr. Williamfon, Mr. 
B.H. Latrobe, Monf. Dupont de Nemours, 
Monf. Baudry des Lozieres, and Profeffor 
Barton. 
Mr. Hare’s ** Memoir on the Supply 
and Application of the Blow-pipe,” is 
a publication of real merit. The great 
utility of the -Blow-pipe, and the im- 
portant purpofes to which it may be ap- 
plied, are well known to the artilt and 
chemift. Inftead of ufing the mouth or 
foot, Mr. Hare has Goubniucd a machine 
which propels the air by the preffure of a 
column of water, and is denominated the 
“¢ Hydroftatic Blow pipe.” The greater 
part of the Memoir is employed in de- 
{cribing this machine, and explaining tts 
application. ‘Thefe explanations canno 
be underftood without a reference to the 
engraving which accompanies the Me- 
moir. 
EDUCATION. 
Mr. ALpDEN’s ‘ Introduction to Spel- 
ling and Reading” in 2 vols. is a re{pect- 
able elementary performance, and affords 
many proofs of the compiler’s diligence, 
attention, and judgment. 
Mr. Smitu’s ** New Hampshire Latin 
Grammar’? can fearcely be faid to have 
been demarided, on account either of the 
paucity or the faults of preceding publica. 
tions. The prefent, however, may be 
properly recommended as a juiicious, per- 
fpicuous, and ufeful. compilation, and 
well calculated to facilitate the acquifition 
of the Latin language. 
The “ Key tothe Englifh Language ; 
or, a Spelling, Parfing, Derivative, and 
Defining, Dictionary; feleéted from the 
moft approved Authors,” by Mr. Woop- 
BRIDGE, is one of the numerous compi- 
Jations which we meet at the prefent day, 
which, without attempting any improve- 
ment, only add to a load already too 
grievous for the public to bear. 
Mr. Noan WesstTer’s *¢ Elements 
of uieful Knowledge, vol, 1, containing 
an Hiftorical and Geographical Account 
Reirofpedl of American Literature— Education, &c. 
of the United States,’ is extremely well 
adapted to bring young perfons acquainted 
with a great number of important objects, 
which heretofore have been too much 
negleéted in courfes of education. The 
plan Mr. W. has formed entitles him to 
much credit; and the materials requifite 
for carrying it into effe&t are abundant 
and excellent. The felection and combi- 
nation ct them demand only that exercife 
of ju’gment, diligence, and talie, of which 
Mr, W. has given the public reiterated 
procts. a 
AGRICULTURE. 
‘© The great Error of American Agri-= 
culture expofed, and Hints for Improve- 
ment fuggetted,” by Mr. Vromas 
Moor, is a fenfible work, abounding in 
piaciical remarks, and offering the refults 
of long and extenfive exverience. The 
prin:ipal improvements which the author 
age) alte deep ploughing, faving of timber 
in the clearing of wood lands, a better 
mode of tilling maize than what is ge- 
neraily practifed, a more economical plan 
of feeding cattle, more attention to 2 
proper rotation of crops, the belt modes 
of obtaining manure, &c. &c. 
‘¢ Communications on different Subs — 
jects; .addrefled to the Bahama Agricul- 
tural Society,’ refleét muci credit on the 
active, patriotic gentlemen who compofe 
that affociation. 
making to intreduce a more regular pre- 
cife fyftem of hufbandry, and particularly 
their zeal to enrich their iflands, by nas 
turalizing a great nember of valuable 
exotics, cannot be too highly praifed. 
It is chiefly on account of its agricul- 
tural notices, that we are led to mention 
Mr, Hauu’s “ Brief Hiftory of the 
Mufifippi Territory,’ in which he gives 
an inftru€tive account of the warious and 
valuable produétions of that fertile diftrict 
ef country, which is likely foon to become 
ene of the moit pleafant and highly-culs 
tivated parts of the United States. 
Mr. SippaLp’s ‘¢ Notes and Obferva- 
tions on the Pine-lands of Georgia,” 
exhibit, in a ftriking point of view, the 
incalculable refources of that State for 
the culture of cotton; efpecially when 
their pine-lands, formerly confidered as 
werthlefs, or nearly fo, but now found to 
be remarkabl ly adapted to the raifing of 
cotton, fhall have been generally applied 
to that purpoie. 
GECGRAPHY, TOPOGRAPHY, &c. 
Confidering the great improvements 
in the {cience of Geography which modern 
times exhibit, we cannot highly com- 
mend Dr..-Morsuz’s. ‘¢ peaminciti 
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