selves, and acts of violence and in. ART. 33.

jury are as rare in their societies, Democracy Unveiled, or tyranny

as in nations which keep the sword stripped of the garb of patriot- of the law in perpetual activity,” ism.

By Christopher Caustic, &c. Nonsense. LL.D. Cc. &c. In 2 vols. 3d

Redeunt Saturnia regna ; edition. New-York, for I. Riley,

Jam nova progenies cælo dimittitur alto. and Co.

When the famous Locke formed

a paper constitution for a commuDid the author think it neces

niiy, his schemes soon dishonoursary to subjoin to his third edition ed his judgment; yet was his reaevery thing that any person in soning generally conclusive, and England or America has ever said, his acquaintance with the histonot only of the work now before

ry and state of man indisputaus, but of his other productions ? bíe. But there are some politiHere are sixteen witnesses intro- cians who can find an excuse for duced to inform the publick, when the absurdity of their deductions they can decide as well without in their ignorance of facts. them, for the circumstances are within their own knowledge. Had ourable and liberal as any our

The printers of this work, honthese recommendations been omitted, would the author have feared of men, always distinguished for

country can boast among that class censure ; and is not this an unfair their honour and their liberality, mode of averting it? This is not generally deserve credit for their the self-supported confidence, which

correct editions ; but errours withthe author, since his success, might in their department are sometimes have justly displayed.

discernible. In the list of errata Of the great additions in verse

we do not find correction of a and prose to the present edition,

gross mistake in page 17th of the we can say, they are not inferiour introduction, where lines from to the rest of the work, nor unwor- Horace are quoted as prose. Can thy of their relation to the elder- this be the fault of the poet ? born. But two volumes ! Indeed, 'tis too much for our poor pockets to pay for. The most valuable remarks a

ART. 34. mong the addenda will be found in the notes on page 26 and 195

The Anatomy of the Human Body. of the second volume. The ridi

By William Cheselden. With cule upon a letter from one great

forty copper-plates. Second eman to another, containing some

dition. Published by David whimsical observations on general

West. 8vo. polity, might have been supported by reference to any really profound

AS this work is perfectly known historians or philosophers. “We to the publick, and an edition of it see,” says the letter-writer, “ nu

has appeared in Boston before, we merous societies of men, the ab- need only remark, that this edition originals of this country, living to- is very handsomely executed, ungether without the acknowledg. commonly free from errours, and ment of either laws or magistracy, will bear a comparison with the yet they live in peace among them

London edition.

Company, on the anniversary of ral History at Paris, Corres. their election of officers, Boston, frondent of the Agricultural SoJune 2, 1806. By James Ken- ciety in the Department of the dall, d.m, minister of the First Seine and Oise. 8vo. pp. 306. Church in Plymouth. Boston, printed at the Anthology Office, by Munroe and Francis. 1806. This is a work which steals on

the world without any splendid Of this discourse it is but jus- promises or pompons pretensions, tice to observe, that it is decidedly yet, at a future era, it may attract superiour to the majority of pro- the attention of the historian, as ductions of its class. It is partic- one of the intermediate links ularly free from the common-place which connect a prosperous emcant of our anniversary effusions, pire with the laborious efforts of and discovers occasionally some

industrious emigrants and infant symptoms of eloquence. The his- colonists. It is, indeed, of importory of Hezekiah, at the period that tance to mark the gradual, the he was invaded by the king of As- insensible progress of an entersyria, is a fortunate text-matter for prising population. The men the orator of 1806, and his manner who shot woodcocks in the forests of maneuvering it for the edifica- where Philadelphia now stands, tion of his countrymen remarkably have been known by many yet alive; creditable to his understanding and and half a million of persons now heart. The only quarrel that we

inhabit countries, where, twenty have with Mr. Kendall comes from years since, the foot only of the his making use of shakened instead wandering savage heard. of shaken, and his introduction of Vast is the object that thus fills two rhetorical beings of the co

the mind ! immense the prospect Jossal order within the narrow

offered to future ages s! We can compass of his pages. Now, one only notice, in a few pages, this giant, in all conscience, is sufficient link which connects the past with for a sermon, unless the preacher the future, which leads to events is desirable of reminding us of the most astonishing and importGog and his partner,

ant ; in which the imagination can neither be guided or corrected by reason. It is now time to change

the language which partial views ART. 37.

and temporary information occa

sioned. What was styled the Travels to the west of the Alleghany northern portion of the American

Mountains, in the states of Ohio, continent, was not confined on the Kentucky, and Tennessee, and west by the chain of mountains back to Charlesion, by the up- which pervades that vast mass of per Carolinas ; comprising the land, and which, resisting the most interesting details on the pre- ocean on either side, divides Amesent state of agriculture, and the rica like an insect, at the Isthmus natural produce of those Coun- of Panama, but by the Alleghanies, tries, &c.; undertaken in the which separate the low alluvial year 1802, by F. A. Michaux, lands left, apparently at a late peinember of the society of Natu- riod, by the ocean, from the higher

was

regions. The northern states entifick reader, these are only have been styled the eastern, as slight impediments : , to others they project farther into the Atlan- they may be serious obstacles. tick,while those below Pennsylvania While we wander through counobtained the appellation of south- tries often visited and as frequentein. In our present view both ly described, we have little tempare eastern, and the truly west tation to enlarge : yet we may recountry is beyond the Alleghany mark, from a professed naturalist, mountains or their continuation, the son of a man who had travelled, which are lost as they approach with similar views, through some Georgia, or the Floridas. On the of the most inaccessible regions north, immediately below Lake of the United States, the numerous Erie, the Alleghany and Fayette and valuable species of oaks which counties disappear in the Ohio he had occasion to notice, and the country, and Kentucky ; this last various nut-trees, which might is again succeeded by the Tenes- form an useful and interesting see, which, on the west and south, monography, though peculiarly is followed by Louisiana and the intricate and of difficult discrimiFloridas.

nation. We have, as usual, to regret, in Log-houses is a term often emour author's tour, the want of a ployed, and though generally used, map. It is sufficient for us to re- the ideas of their construction are mark, that the author proceeds not very precise and discriminate. from Philadelphia westward, till We shall select, therefore, a short he falls in with the vast streams sketch of their forin. of the Ohio. These he follows, with some deviations, in a south- « It is not useless to observe western course, till he returns by here, that in the United States low Carolinå to Charleston. they give often the name of town

To follow our author minutely to a group of seven or eight housover mountains and « barrens ;" es, and that the mode of constructthrough forests, and across the ing them is not the same every deserted beds of winter torrents, where. At Philadelphia the houswould be useless. We have point- es are built with brick. In the ed out this work as the link for the other towns and country places future historian, and it is our busi- that surround them, the half, and ness to trace only the more promi- even frequently the whole, is built nent features. M. Michaux is a man with wood ; but at places within of science and observation. He is seventy or eighty miles of the sea, not a speculator, recommending in the central and southern states, the purchase of lands in the west- and again more particularly in ern country ; though we suspect he those situated to the westward of does not explain all the difficulties the Alleghany Mountains, oneof the situation ; but he offers, on third of the inhabitants reside in the whole, the fruits of attentive log-houses. These dwellings are investigation. We are sorry to made with the trunks of trees, from add, that he appears in disadvan- twenty to thirty feet in length, tageous colours, from the very about five inches diameter, placed numerous faults of his printer, one upon another, and kept up by and the gallicisms of his transla: notches, cut at their extremities. 10!, To the experienced and sci. The roof is formed with pieces of

similar length to those that com- Our author had not yet crossed pose the body of the house, but the Alleghanies, or extended his not quite so thick, and gradually course beyond the confines of sloped on each side. Two doors, Philadelphia, when we find the which often supply the place of singular remark, that during the windows, are made by sawing war, in the time of the French reaway a part of the trunks that volution, the inhabitants of the form the body of the house. The neighborhood of Bedford found it chimney, always placed at one of more to their advantage to send the extremities, is likewise made their corn to Pittsburgh, and with the trunks of trees of a suit- from thence to New Orleans, by able length ; the back of the chim the Ohio and Mississippi, a course

l ney is made of clay about six of more than 2,000 miles, than to inches thick, which separates the Philadelphia or Baltimore, not fire from the wooden walls. Not- exceeding 200 or 250 miles. If withstanding this want of precau- this be generally true, what a prostion, fires very seldom happen in pect does it afford of the future the country places. The space prosperity of the western-country! between these trunks of trees is The passage of the Alleghanies filled up with clay, but so very offers few remarks of interest or carelessly, that the light may be importance. On these mountains seen through in every part ; in our author searched for a species consequence of which these huts of the Azalea, a plant of singular are exceedingly cold in winter, importance, since to the valuable notwithstanding the amazing qualities of the olive tree, it adds quantity of wood that is burnt. the power of bearing the cold of The doors move upon wooden the most northern climates. He Iringes, and the greater part of found it, and recognised it to be them have no locks. In the night the same plant which his father time they ovly push them to, or had discovered ; but the seeds fasten them with a wooden peg. had failed, in consequence of their Four or five days are sufficient for soon growing rancid.

We trust two men to finish one of these our author has been more fortu. houses, in which not a nail is used. nate, though of his success we Two great beds receive the whole have no information. It is a diefamily. It frequently happens cious plant, not above five feet in that in the summer the children height : its roots spread horizonsleep upon the ground, in a kind tally, and give birth to several

The floor is raised from shoots. The plant grows only one to two feet above the surface in cool shady places, and in a ferof the ground, and boarded. They tile soit; the roots are of a citron generally make use of feather beds, colour. On these high grounds or feathers alone, and not mat- coal is not uncommon, but little tresses. Sheep being very scarce, attended to, as it is necessary to the wool is very dear ; at the clear the ground from the trees. same time they reserve it to make Labour is, however, dear, and stockings. The clothes belong the contest between expense and ing to the family are hung up convenience, of course, frequent. round the room, or suspended The vast river, the Ohio, is upon a long pole." P. 78~-30. formed by the conflux of the Mo

of rug.