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(We anticipate the smiles and the thanks of our readers for the extracts, which follow from Montgomery's poems.

Had it been in our power, the present bouquet should have been enlarged; but we love to be sparing of fragrance and flowers, and, surely,a daisy and snow-drop will suffice for October. There is a harmony in some of his lines, which is exquisite to a musical ear; and his figures and combinations indicate, that he is no copyist. His future produc. tions will entitle him to an honourable rank. He has already written poems, which are consecrated to durable preservation in the brilliant and mighty mass of English poetry. But probably his prophecy is superiour to his fulfilment, and we are willing to believe, that his future greatness will advance beyond the just exactness of present anticipation. He is now a little Lulus ; by and by he will reign on the throne of his forefathers. His general merit will be acknowledged by all ; but difference of opinion begins with comparison. We do not pretend to decide his relative excellence, or the school, to which he belongs. We love to dwell on the purity of the snow-drop,' which is better than oxslips and wild thyme ; and the field flower,' too, has perfume and tints, which are superiour to aromats and dyes from Ethiopia.]

A FIELD FLOWER ;

Within the garden's cultured round,

It shares the sweet carnation's bed ; On finding one in full bloom on Christ. And blooms on consecrated ground mas Day, 1803.

In honour of the dead. THERE is a flower, a little flower,

The lambkin crops its crimson gem, With silver crest and golden eye,

The wild-bee murmurs on its breast, That welcomes every changing hour,

The blue-Ay bends its pensile stem, And weathers every sky.

Light o'er the sky-lark's nest.

'Tis FLORA's page : The prouder Beauties of the field,

In erery place, In gay but quick succession shine,

fresh and fair,

In every season, Race after race their honours yield,

It opens with perennial grace, They flourish and decline.

And blossoms every where. But this small flower, to nature dear,

On waste and woodland, rock and plain,

Its humble buds unheeded rise ; While moons and stars their courses

The Rose has but a summer-reigni, run, Wreathes the whole circle of the year,

The DAISY never dies. Companion of the sun.

It smiles upon the lap of May,
To sultry August spreads its charms,
Lights pale October on his way,
And twines December's arms.

THE SNOWDROP.

The purple heath and golden broom,
On moory mountains catch the gale,
O’er lawns the lily sheds perfume,
The violet in the vale.

Winter! retiro,
Thy reign past ;
Hoary Sire !
Yield the sceptre of thy sway,
Sound thy trumpet in the blast,
And call thy storms away ;
Winter ! retire ;
Wherefore do thy wheels delay ?
Mount the chariot of thine ire,
And quit the realms of day ;

But this bold foweret climbs the hill,
Hides in the forest, haunts the glen,
Plays on the margin of the rill,
Peeps round the fox's den.

On thy state

When the heart bounds with bliss, Whirlwinds wait ;

And joy that cannot speak ! And blood-shot meteors lend thee

When I meet thee by the way, light; Hence to dreary arctíck regions ;

Like a pretty, sportive child, Summon thy terrifick legions ;

On the winter-wasted wild, Hence to caves of northern night

With thy darling breeze at play, Speed thy flight.

Opening to the radiant sky

All the sweetness of thine eye ; From halcyon seas

Or bright with sunbeams, fresh with And purer skies,

showers, O southern breeze !

O thou Fairy-Queen of flowers ! Awake, arise :

Watch thee o'er the plain advance Breath of heaven! benignly blow,

At the head of Flora's dance ; Melt the snow ;

Simple SNOW-DROP ! then in thee Breath of heaven! unchain the floods, All thy sister train I see : Warm the woods,

Every brilliant bud that blows, And make the mountains flow.

From the blue-bell to the rose ;

All the beauties that appear Auspicious to the Muse's prayer, On the bosom of the year ; The freshening gale

All that wreathe the locks of Spring, Embalms the vale,

Summer's ardent breath perfume, And breathes enchantment thro' the Or on the lap of Autumn bloom, air:

-All to thee their tribute bring, On its wing

Exhale their incense at thy shrine, Floats the Spring,

—Their hues, their odours all are thine! With glowing eye, and golden hair : For while thy humble form I view, Dark before her Angel-form

The Muse's keen prophetick sight She drives the Demon of the storm, Brings fair Futurity to light, Like Gladness chasing Care.

And Fancy's magick makes the vision

true.
Winter's gloomy night withdrawn,
Lo! the young romantick hours There is a Winter in my soul,
Search the hill, the dale, the lawn,

The Winter of despair ;
To behold the SNOW-DROP white O when shall Spring its rage control ?
Start to light,

When shall the SNOW-DROP blos. And shine in FLORA's desart bowers,

som there? Beneath the vernal dawn,

Cold gleams of comfort sometimes dart The Morning Star of Flowers !

A dawn of glory on my heart,

But quickly pass away: O welcome to our Isle,

Thus Northern-lights the gloom adorn, Thou Messenger of Peace !

And give the promise of a morn,
At whose bewitching smile

That never turns to day!
The embattled tempests cease :
Emblem of Innocence and Truth !

-But hark! methinks I hear
First-born of Nature's womb,

A small still whisper in mine ear : When strong in renovated youth,

“ Rash Youth ! repent, She bursts from Winter's tomb ; " Afflictions from above Tby Parent's eye hath shed

"Are Angels, sent A precious dew-drop on thine head, “On embassics of love. Frail as a mother's tear,

“A fiery Legion, at thy birth, Upon her infant's face,

“Of chastening Woes were given, When ardent hope to tender fear, “To pluck thy flowers of Hope fron And anxious love, gives place.

earth,
But lo! the dew-drop falls a way, And plant them high
The sun salutes thee with a ray, “O'er yonder sky,
Warm as a mother's kiss

“ Transform'd to stars, and fix'd in Upon her infant's cheek,

heaven."

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THE BOSTON REVIEW.

OCTOBER, 1806.

Librum tuum legi & quam diligentissime potui annotavi, quæ commutanda, que eximenda, arbitrarer Nam ego dicere vero assuevi. Neque ulli patientius reprehenduntur, quam qui maxime laudari merentur.-PLINY.

ARTICLE 54.

The Journal of Andrew Ellicott, late commissioner on behalf of the United States, during part of the year 1796, the years 1797, 1798, 1799, and part of the year 1800, for determining the boundary between the United States and the

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possessions of his catholick majesty in America, containing occasional remarks on the situation, soil, rivers, natural productions, and diseases of the different countries on the Ohio, Mississippi, and gulf of Mexico; with six maps, comprehending the Ohio, the Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio to the gulf of Mexico, the whole of W. Florida, and part of E. Florida. To which is added an appendix, containing all the astronomical observations made use of for determining the boundary, with many others made in different parts of the country for settling the geographical positions of some important points, with maps of the boundary on a large scale; likewise, a great number of thermometrical observations made at different times and places. 1 vol. 4to. Philadelphia, Budd & Bar

tram. 1803.

GEOGRAPHY has been so assiduously cultivated of late years, that every work tending to its improvement has been received with more, than common interest. In the pursuit of this science, individuals

have been tempted to brave the rigours of every clime, and their exertions have been protected by hostile governments. If then curiosity could be excited with regard to distant rivers, tracing their courses through savage deserts, with how much interest would

they look forward to the attainment of an accurate knowledge of the Ohio and Mississippi, rivers extensive in themselves, and the only avenues to the ocean of a ferformer river, and of almost boundtile and flourishing country on the less and unknown regions on the latter? At the moment of publied an additional claim to the concation, the Mississippi had acquirsideration of the American publick, by the recent cession of Louisiana. Mr. Ellicott, clothed in an official character, possessed during a period of nearly four years the tion, as would fully have gratified means of obtaining such informathe publick expectation. To show how far these advantages have been improved will be the object of the following review.

A journal soon becomes dull, where we are neither instructed

by important facts, nor amused with interesting anecdotes or observations. The reader is soon fatigued with passing over bad roads and down shoal rivers, where he has nothing but these necessary concomitants, teazing accidents, or the state of the weather, to amuse

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him. Our author left Philadel- thing of the general impropriety phia, Sept. 16, 1796, and till his of bounties, would be needless,as the arrival at the mouth of the Ohio, absurdity of making the Atlantick the 19th of December following states, who have large tracts of land we find no information of impor- still uncultivated, pay for the im tance, or any observation, that can, provement of lands upon the Ohio, for a moment, relieve the fatigue is too glaring.

To the tax upon of the journey; and at the mouth whiskey,or to the want of bounties, of the Ohio, there is but a very Mr. E. attributes the “ turbulentand short retrospect of the fine coun- disorganizing character,” generally try he had passed. The Ohio, given to the inhabitants. Although formed by the junction of the Alleg, he says he is “ far from justifying hany and Monongahela, accord- any opposition by force to laws ing to Mr. E., is one of the finest constitutionally enacted ;" yet he rivers in the United States. He often apologises, and thinks that says, “ The bottom and sides of unless this tax should be repealed, the river are strong from Pitts- the worst consequences would folburgh down to the low country, low. The climate is good, and which is generally supposed to be generally healthy, although bilious about eight hundred miles. The complaints are frequent at Cincinstrata of stone are horizontally nati and Louisville. The Ohio disposed, and principally consist in summer is shallow ; but in the of either free stone or lime stone. spring, vessels, built on the river, This horizontal disposition of the have thence sailed loaded for the strata of stone is observable thro' West Indies. At the end of this a very large extent of the United account is a map of the Ohio, upon States.” The flat lands on the a large scale, in which those parts, Ohio are very fertile, but, in many which are not drawn from acplaces, not extensive. “ A large tual survey, are left unshaded, proportion of the hills and moun- by which means we perceive at tains are unfit for agricultural pur- once how far the map is to be deposes, being either too steep or pended upon ; and future travelfaced with rocks. The hills and lers may know where their labours mountains on the east side of the will be of most advantage. It is river generally increase in magni- much to be regretted, that this extude, till they unite with the great cellent method is not more generidge commonly called the Alleg- rally pursued. hany, but on the west side they The second chapter commenccs decrease, till the country becomes at the mouth of the Ohio, in Lat. almost a dead level.” Besides the 37° 0' 23" N. and Long. 88° 50' immediate necessaries of life, this 42" W. from Greenwich. The country produces hemp, fruits, &c.; cold was here so intense, that on cordage, hard ware, glass, whis- the 22d of December, both the key, and cider are manufactured ; Ohio and Mississippi were comsalted provisions also are made pletely frozen, and remained in here ; and the raw materials or that state four days, and the ice the manufactured artirles are sent was not broken up in the former to New Orleans, where they find river till the 20 of January followa ready market, and on thein, Mr. ing. At this place were a numE. thinks, the inhabitants ought to ber of Indians from the west side receive bounties. To say any of the Mississippi, to whom a Mr.

Nolan (who was with Mr. E.) and intoxicated preacher, their spoke in several Indian languages, murmurs were converted into open but which they did not understand. opposition to the Spanish governHe then addressed them by signs, ment. The Spanish officers into which they immediately replied, flamed the discontents by their and conversed for some time with violent conduct, and then shut apparent ease and satisfaction.” themselves up in the fort, to avoid He informed our author, that “ this the fury they had excited, and the curious language was used by inhabitants embodied themselves many nations on the west side of into companies of militia. By the the Mississippi, who could only be interference of Mr. Ellicott, a comunderstood by each other in that promise was made, a committee way, and that it was commonly was chosen by the people, who esmade use of in transacting their tablished a species of neutrality, national concerns." We are re- which was sanctioned by the gove ferred by Mr. E. to a paper, for- ernour, who then issued his proclawarded to the American Philo- mation for the election of a permasophical Society, by William Dun- nent committee. “ The election bar, Esq. for a more particular ac- of this committee,” Mr. E. says, count of this language.

In this « as was really intended on my chapter commences the official cor- part, put the finishing stroke to respondence between Mr. Ellicott the Spanish authority and jurisand the officers of the Spanish gove diction in this district.” Mr. E. ernment, relative to the running and the commander of the Amerof the boundary line, and the e- ican troops were added as memvacuation of the posts on the east bers to both these committees. side of the Mississippi, abore the Our author thinks, that nothing 31° of north latitude. This cor- new would be expected from him, respondence, with the observations respecting the Mississippi ; but upon it, occupies a large portion of from his peculiar advantages he the remainder of the volume ; but might have obtained much valua. the publick had before been made ble information respecting this exacquainted with the motives of the tensive river. By his account, Spanish government, in a much we learn, that the confluence of clearer and more concise manner, the Ohio with the Mississippi is nei. from the reports of the secretary ther grand nor romantick. Those of state, which are accompanied rivers unite their waters in a by a part of these letters, as docu- swamp from 36 to 45 miles wide ; ments. If these reports, with a and which is several feet under iew explanatory remarks, or a water at every annual inundation, brief statement of the business, which is complete between the had been published in the text, and last of February and the middle of the letters been added in an appen- May, and generally subsides durdix, the reader would have been ing the month of August. Its saved a vast deal of unnecessary mean perpendicular height at labour. The inhabitants of the Natchez is about fifty-five feet. ceded territory had long been se- He says, “ in descending the river cretiy murmuring at the delay you meet with but little variety ; a of their becoming American citi- few of the sand bars and islands zens, when being excited by the will give you a sample of the whole. hasty confinement of a turbulent When the water is low, you have

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