60, 
SONNET 
ON THE DEATS OF MRS. CHARLOTTE 
SMITH. 
(COBARLOTTE, thy gloomy fcene of life is 
over ! 
At length thy care-worn frame has found 
repofe 5 
And thy meek fpirit, freed from all its woes, 
No longer by life’s boift’rous tempefts driv’n, 
Seeks “brighter fcenes—-and, here confin’d no 
Morey 
Borne on the wings of Faith, afcends to 
Heav’n. 
And can. we mourn the-fate that inatch’d thee 
hence ? 
And can we grieve that thou no more art 
here ? 
No! pious Hope fhall check AffeGtion’s tear, 
And ,apward-pointing to the realms of light, 
Shall bid us praife that glorious Providence, 
Whofe mercy, ever-during, ever-bright, 
Clos’d ali thy forrows, bade thy fuff’rings ceafe, 
And call’d thy foul to reaims of endleis peace. 
“Bury St. Edmunds. K. L. 
—_ SE 
FO A SWALLOW. 
Wy HY tarrieft thou, my pretty bird, 
When all thy friends are flown? 
How can’ft thou overtake their flight, 
Or tell where they are gone? 
Proceedings of Learned Societies. 
[Feb. 
Why tarrieft thou, my pretty bird? 
_ Cold is the midnight air; 
And nipping frofts and chilling winds, 
And winter fnows are near. 
Tarry not then, my pretty bird; 
Thefe will be death te thee, 
From which no friendly heart can fave, 
How warm foe’er it be. 
Why tarrieft thou, my pretty bird, 
Thus twittering all the day, . 
And wheeling round, and round, and round, 
To call thy mate away ? 
Why tarrieft thou, my pretty bird ? 
Perhaps thy mate is‘dead3 
Or, falfeito thee, perhaps with fome 
More happy {wallow fled? 
Tarry not then, my pretty bird 5 
Though all thy friends are flown, 
And thou can’t not o’ertake their flights 
‘Or tell where they are gone. 
Go !—in fome warmer region feel 
A matemore true than fhe ; 
And, neftling by her fide, again 
The happieft {wallow be. 
PP. 
‘PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. | 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
R. EVERARD HOME has laid 
M befure the Royal Society tome 
obifervations on the camel’s ttomach, re- 
fpecting-the water at contains, and the 
rejervors in which that fluid 1s.enclofed, 
with'an account of fome peculiarities in 
the urine. The camel, the fubjeét of 
thefe obfervations, was a female’ brought 
from Arabia; it was.28 ycars old, and 
faid :to have: been 20 years in England, 
It appears that the animal was worn out, 
and im a_fiaie, of great debility before it 
came into the hands of the college of fur- 
geons, and in April laft they put an end 
to its miferics by means of a narrow dou- 
ble-edged poniard pafled in between the 
ikull avd Lett vertebre of the neck: in this 
way the meduila oblongata was divided, 
and the animal inftantaneoufly deprived 
of fenibility. ‘* in the common mode of 
piihing an animal, fays Mr. Home, the 
medulla fpinalis only is cut through, and 
the eed remains alive, which renders it 
the moit cruel mode of killing an aninal 
that could be invented.” The ftomachs 
of this animal were the firft things examin- 
ed, wud-on meafuring the capacities of 
a 
thefe different. refervoirs in the dead 
body, the anterior cells of the firft fio- 
mach were found capable of contaming 
one quart of water, when poured into 
them. ‘The pofterior cells, three quarts. 
One of the largeft cells held two ounces 
and a half, and the fecond ttomach four 
quarts. This ismuch dhort of what thofe 
cavities-can contain in the living animal, 
fince-there.are large muicles covering the 
bottom of the cellular ftructure, to force 
out the water, #bich mult have been ccn- 
tracted immediately after death, and by 
that means had diminilhed the cavities. 
By this examination it was proved that 
the camel, when it drinks, conducts the 
water in a pure ftate into the fecand fto- 
mach, that part of itis retained there, 
and the reft runs over mto the cellular 
firuciure of the firft, acquiring a yellow 
colour. That the fecond ftomach in the 
camel,.contained water, had been gene- 
rally aiierted ; but by what means the 
water’ was kept feparate from the food 
had never been explained, nor had any 
other part been difcovered, by which the 
common offices of a fecond ftowach could 
be performed, To this Mr, Hunter did 
; not 
