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attention, it is proper to mention the 
Rev. Mr. Ho1.Lock’s Sermon, preached 
before the General Aflembly of the Pref- 
byterian Church in the United States of 
America. This difcourfe is deduced from 
John iii. 30: He mujt increafe; and af- 
¥ords a very impreffive {fpecimen of the 
‘eloquence of the author, who is jultly 
conlidered as one of the moft emisent 
‘among the young preachers in the United 
States. — oe tds 
The Rev. Mr. Emerson’s Sermon on 
the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Bowdoin, of 
Bofton, pofiefles the appropriate qualities 
for occafions fuch as that on which it 
was delivered; and though it cannot lay 
claim to any high degree of diftinétion, 
it may be properly prorounced a neat and 
correct piece of compofition. ‘ 
‘ The Rev. Avexanper Mc‘Leop’s 
Sermon on the Kingly Charafter and Office 
of Chrift, indicates ferioufnefs, piety, 
and a mind well ftored with knowledge. 
But the author, who is minifter of the 
Reformed Scots Church in New York, 
difclofes too many of the narrow and 
prejudiced opinions of the communion to 
which he belongs. > 
ss A’ Sermon preached at the Annual 
Ele&tion at Hartford, in the State of 
Conneéticut, by Marraias BuRNETT, 
D. D. Paftor of a Church at Norwalk,” 
contains much of the political matter 
which is to be expefted on {uch occafions 
from one of a body of clergy who are 
extremely addigted to the carrying of the 
feelings of party-politics into the pulpit. 
It muft be faid, however, and we think 
it creditable to Dr. Burnetr, that, 
unlike too many of his brethren, he is 
not violent in this difcourfe. 
The Rev. Dr. Morse’s Sermon deliy- 
ered before the ancient and honourable 
Artillery Company in Botton, is chiefly 
defigned to exhibit the venerable character 
_ ‘of the early fettlers of New England, 
the diftinguifhed reputation of the ancient 
Corps which he addreffed, the dangers of 
innovation, and the advantages of ad- 
hering to the fteady habits of their ancef- 
tors. ; : 
* GEOGRAPHY, TOPOGRAPHY, &c. 
Few publications have appeared in the 
United States which will be read with 
more intereft by the lovers of American 
geography than the ‘‘ Journal of An- 
pREW ELLICOTT, who at¢ted as Com- 
mifficner on behalf of the United States, 
during the years 1796, 3797, 17985 
1799 and 1800, for determining the 
boundary between the United States and 
the poflefficns of his Catholic Majefty in 
Reirefped? of American Literature. —Theahgy, See 
America.’ This Journal contains many 
interefting remarks on the fituation, fous 
rivers, natural produétions, difeafes, &cs 
of the different countries which the au- 
thor vifited on the Ohio, Mifliffippi and 
Gulf of Mexico. . 
to it, comprehending the courfe of the 
Ohio, and of the Méffiifippi from the 
mouth of the Ohio tothe Gulf of Mexico, 
Six maps are attached 
the. whole of: Weft Florida and part of 
Eaft Florida. 
containiag all the aftronomical obferva- 
tions made for determining the boundary, 
‘ with many others, made in different parts 
of the country, for fettling the geogra- ~ 
phical pofitions of fome important points. 
Maps, fketching the boundary line on a 
large feale, are likewife added. The 
author has alfo enriched the work with» 
a great number of meteorolegiea! obfer- 
vations. The countries explored on this 
occafion, and which are here fo well 
defcribed, have lately gained a great ac- 
ceflion of intereit in the public curtofity, 
by the transfer of Louifiana to the United 
States. Few perfons, by their talents, 
or by the advantages of the fituation in, 
which they are placed, could poffeis bet- 
ter means of examining the territory in 
quettion ; and it may be confidently af-, 
ferted that the flock of ufeful and authen- 
tic information concerning it is greatly 
augmented by the contents of this vo- 
lume. . IRR 
~ A body of interefting fa&s concerning 
the fouthern and weftern parts of the 
United States has been latcly acquired 
by Mr. Cox’s <* Eftimate of Commercial 
Advantages by way of Miffiflippi and 
Mobile rivers to the Weftern Country.” 
The geographical part of this performance 
is by far the moft interefting. The au- 
thor is minute. in ftating the diftances; 
portages, and prices of conveying the pro- 
du&tions of the country, from the Ohio 
through the Mobile and Mifliflippi to the 
Gulf of Mexico, and wice verfa. In 
purfuing this fubjeét, Mr. Cox afferts 
that Mobile Bay, which receives the 
Tombigbee and Alabama rivers, is navi- 
gable by means of the former of thefe 
ftreams to Lat. 319. 30! N. by fea-veflels, 
This is half a degree north of the Flo- 
rida line ; aud to this point the tide ebbs — 
and flows. The leading objeét of this 
publication is to fhew that merchandife 
cannot be conveyed from Philadelphia, — 
or any others of the Atlantic ports, by 
the way of Pittfburg, and down the 
Ohio, fo cheaply by a great difference as 
by the Mobile, &c. And he next makes 
an effort to prove that the Gankrenares 
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