Of fhallow brooks that flow'd fo clear,
The bottom did the top appear;
Of deeper too and ampler floods,
Which, as in mirrours, fhew'd the
woods;

Of lofty trees, with facred fhades
And perfpectives of pleasant glades,
Where nymphs of brightest form ap-
pear,

And fhaggy fatyrs standing near, Which them at once admire and fear. The ruins too of fome majestick piece, Boasting the pow'r of ancient Rome or Greece,

Whofe ftatues, friezes, columns broken lye,

And, though defac'd, the wonder of the eye;

What Nature, Art, bold Fiction e'er durft frame,

Her forming hand gave feature to the

name.

So ftrange a concourse ne'er was seen

before,

What next fhe had defign'd, Heaven only knows.

To fuch immod'rate growth her conquest rose,

That fate alone its progrefs cou'd oppose.

VIII.

Now all thofe charms, that blooming grace,

The well-proportion'd shape, and beau teous face,

Shall never more be seen by mortal eyes; In earth the much-lamented virgin İyes. Not wit, nor piety, cou'd fate pre

vent;

Nor was the cruel defliny content
To finish all the murder at a blow,
To sweep at once her life, and beauty

too;

But, like a harden'd felon, took a pride To work more mischievously flow, And plunder'd first, and then destroy'd.

O double facrilege on things divine

creation bore. VII.

The fcene then chang'd, with bold

erected look

Our martial king the fight with rev'rence ftrook :

For not content t' express his outward

part,

Her hand call'd out the image of his

heart :

But thus Orinda dy'd :

Heaven, by the fame disease, did both

tranflate;

As equal were their fouls, so equal was their fate.

IX.

Mean-time her warlike brother on

the feas

His waving ftreamers to the winds difplays,

Ah generous youth, that wish forbear, The winds too foon will waft thee here!

Slack all thy fails, and fear to come, Alas, thou know'ft not, thou art wreck'd at home!

No more fhalt thou behold thy fister's face,

Thou haft already had her last embrace. But look aloft, and if thou ken'ft from far Among the Pleiads a new-kindled star, If any fparkles, than the reft more bright;

"Tis fhe that fhines in that propitious light.

When in mid-air the golden trump

fhall found,

To raise the nations under gound; When,in the valley of Jehoshaphat, The Judging GoD fhall close the book

of fate;

And there the last affixes keep,

5.

sleep:

When rattling bones together fly From the four corners of the sky; When finews o'er the skeletons are fpread,

Those cloth'd with flesh, and life infpires the dead;

The facred poets first fhall hear the found,

And foremost from the tomb fhall bound,

For they are cover'd with the lightest ground;

And straight, with in-born vigour, on the wing,

Like mounting larks, to the new morning fing.

There thou, Sweet Saint, before the choir fhall go,

As harbinger of Heav'n, the way to fhow, The way, which thou fo well haft learnt below.

And deep-ton'd thunders roll; Black clouds, and angry winds arise, And range from pole to pole.

6.

The rattling thunder's dreadful roar Speaks loud thy pow'r abroad; And tells in peals from shore to shore The majesty of GOD.

7.

But though thy greatness and thy pow'r
In dazzling splendour fhine,
Not lefs thy wisdom ev'ry hour
Displays a hand divine.

8.

Still thy vaft mercy is the theme,

Which draws our hearts above; Beyond thy pow'r and wisdom seem Thy goodness and thy love.

HYMN.

Written during the late violent Thunder

Storm11th May, 1805.

1.

We should be grateful, if fome corresponden of tafe and leisure would tranflate the following very beautiful lines, from the Lufus Poetici of Dr. Fortin.

might

The heaven and earth furround; Thou didst but speak and all was light, Above, below, around.

2.

Thy word decreed the glorious fun

To cheer each op'ning day; Bade him his daily courfe to run, And life and light convey.

3.

The filver orb of night proclaims

Thy majefty and skill; The stars attend their various names, Obedient to thy will.

4.

Tempefts and ftorms at thy command,

Urg'd by the northern blast, Sweep o'er the richeft, nobleft land, And leave a dreary waste.

Vallefque irriguas, et virides domos Serpit fons placidus murmure languido, Secretum peragens iter;

Flexas per patrios circumagens aquas Paulum ludit agros, et finuat fugam, Donac præcipiti jam pede defluus Mifcetur gremio maris :

Talis per tacitam devia femitam Ætas diffugiat, non opibus gravis, Non experta fori gurgia turbidi, aut Palmæ fanguieneum decus ;

Cumque inftant tenebræ et lus brevis occidit,

Et ludo fatura et feffa laboribus
Somni frater iners membra jacentia
Componat gelida maņu.

This is chiefly geographical, and contains fome interefting remarks on the Indians of the Ohio and Canada.

Governour Bradford's letter

book. This title comprehends various letters from and to the first fettlers of Maffachusetts, their friends in England and Holland, and other perfons, on the fubject of the colonies in matters political, ecclefiaftical, fpeculative, and neceffary. They contain much authentick information, fometimes dry like Hebrew roots, and fometimes, like Gov. Bradford's rofe, fweet and fragrant.

A defcriptive and hiftorical account of New England, in verse, from a MS. of William Bradford, governour of Plymouth Colony. Curious poetry, but worth reading. The following verfes may differently intereft the ignorant grazier and the political acon

Two complete skeletons of whales, or fome very large fith, I have feen in this neighbourhood; the one in the bank of the river, at Coggin's Point; the other fome workmen met with, two years ago, in digging into a gravelly knoll at the fide of a water courfe for the foundation of a mill. Poplar and walnut trees of a large growth, perfect in their shape and form, have been found at the depth of thirty-five feet in the earth. These appearances, in a lefs or greater degree, extend over the whole champaign country, from the falls of the rivers, to the fea, and (if my information is juft) through the whole flat country of the fouthern States to St. Auguftine, in East Florida. Above the falls of the rivers the ground rifes and is more hilly, and the bowels of the earth are totally different in their foundation.

I cannot forbear to mention a fingular occurrence, that happened at an old mill,

which stood near where the above now

ftands. About three years fince the miller, finding there was fome impediment that prevented the mill going as fast as ufual, went to the wheel to fee what af fected it; when behold a ferpent of an enormous fize had got entwined in the wheel, fo that he could not extricate himfelf. He quickly ftopt it, and with the affiftance of fome others, killed it; after which they measured its length with a fence-rail, which are usually here about eleven feet in length, when it appeared to be the full length of the rail, after its head had been partly cut off; no one had the curiofity to measure its bulk. This fact is well attefted both by whites and blacks. It was destroyed and thrown into the creek before I heard of it.

Remarks on Mr. Webfter's calculations.

Mr. Webster's reply.

Mifcellaneous remarks and ob fervations on Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Cape Breton. Geography in detail.

Defcription of the Atherine.

Letter from Rev. Andrew Eliot to Rev. John Eliot, on the burning of Fairfield in July, 1779. Ufeful to the historian. In war rapine and conflagration must always be expected. The English were generous enemies, during the revolution, and have fince been honourable friends.

Governour Shirley's letter refpecting Fort Dummer.

Two original letters from Dr. Franklin to the Hon. Thomas Cushing, speaker of the houfe of reprefentatives. The firft letter contains a long and interefting account of Franklin's agency in London at the period of the difcuffion of colonial affairs before the Privy Council, when he was feverely lacerated by the late Lord Loughborough, then Solicitor Wedderburne. Franklin's ftory is very pleafant. His repue tation is too high, for he was a forry politician, and his philofophy is more praised, than known. His fame will reft on his ftyle.

Topographical defcription of Wellfleet in the county of Barntable.

Letter from Dr. IncreafeMather to Governour Dudley. This is fufficiently impudent and infulting to the Governour.

Letter from Dr. C. Mather to Governour Dudley. The Mathers were an illustrious race. They were learned and pious, yet they have roundly abufed Gov. Dudley, accufing him of weak conduct and fhameful crimes in his official station.

An original letter from Governour Dudley to Dr. Increafe and Dr. Cotton Mather. Here the Governour defends himfelf and feems very angry at the charges Vol. II. No. 6. Rr

A topographical description of Topfham in the county of Lincoln, by Rev. John Ellis.

A topographical defcription of Machias, by John Cooper, Efq.

An additional account of Middleborough, by Rev. Ifaac Backus. The following remark is just and valuable.

Our fathers began the plantation of New England, in the poorest part of it. 'The land between Plymouth and Wareham, and between Sandwich and Falmouth, is fo barren, that a number of

deer run wild in the woods there, to this day. And there are very few men in any part of the old colony of Plymouth who are very rich, but the people are more upon a level than in moft parts of our country. And as it was first planted by a religious, prudent, and induf trious people, their pofterity retain so capital crimes are lefs known here, than much of thofe excellent qualities, that in many other places. There has not been any perfon hanged in Plymouth county for above thefe fixty years past. Neither were the courts interrupted in this county, in 1786, as they were in many other parts of the land. The goodnefs of God, and not the goodness of man, ought to have all the glory.

A topographical description of Nantucket.

Account of the first fettlement of Nantucket, &c. by Zaccheus Macy. Good old Zaccheus tells his flory very well, though he is nearly octogenary. The Indians,