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dently all that the writer could make of it; | individuals for which it is intended. There as to be perfectly air-tight. From the upbut it displays no remarkable power of is no contest in the career of the drama. In per portion of the chamber, two tubes prothought or language. The reviewer prais- the years 1821 and 1822, there were produ- ject, of sufficient diameter to allow musket es Dr Southey, and the whole religious his-ced only two melo-dramas. The greater part bullets to pass freely down, for the purpose tory and condition of England, with quite of the works which issue from the Sicilian of loading the gun. Nothing more is neas much zeal as discretion. There is a presses, relate to antiquities and the fine arts. cessary than to lift the short lever of a slidpleasant story related of Archbishop Laud, ing valve, when the rush of steam into the whom both author and reviewer seem inchamber instantaneously discharges the clined to praise rather more than most hisbullet, with a force much greater than ortorians. dinary gunpowder. Several times, three or four balls thrown in at once have been stopped in the gun-barrel for want of sufficient steam pressure. This might be avoided by giving any degree of pressure required. Mr Perkins has not yet employed a greater power than thirty-five atmospheres, though the strength of his apparatus would admit five times that power if necessary.”

A new Literary Journal was announced for the month of May-"Revue Euro“The spirit of faction arose to such virulence, péenne, ou Productions de l'Esprit humain that even the softer sex opened upon him the bat- en France, en Angleterre, en Italie, en Altery of vulgar and insolent invective. An instance lemagne." The publication is to be monthis related by Heylyn, the biographer of this great ly, and in bulk about ten sheets 8vo. It man, in which the Primate adroitly foiled an antago- proposes to give information of all the nist of this description with her own weapons. Lady Davies, the widow of the Attorney General of Ire-works published, discoveries made, proland, took upon herself, in the true spirit of fanat-gress ascertained, &c., in the arts and sciicism, to prophesy against Laud, shortly before his ences in every part of Europe; and is to advancement to the Archiepiscopal See; believing be published in English at London, French that the spirit of Daniel had passed into her, be- at Paris, Italian in Italy, German in Gercause out of the letters of her name, ELEANOR DAVIES, she could form the anagram, REVEAL many, &c. Already the contributors and editors are provided. O DANIEL; though by the way, it had too much by an S, and too little by an L. While the other bishops and clergy were gravely endeavouring to confute this wretched fanatic by arguments deduced from Scripture, Laud went a readier way to work. Taking a pen. he wrote this anagram, 'DAME ELEANOR DAVIES-NEVER SO MAD A LADIE, and presented it to her, saying, 'Madam, I see you build much on anagrams, and I have found one which I hope will suit you.' This threw the whole court into laughter, and either the poor woman grew wiser, or was less regarded."

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A young French poet, who possesses an astonishing faculty, proposes to improvise publicly, in French, something very extraordinary,-a Tragedy in 5 acts, and a grand Opera in 3 acts. This young man, M. Eugène de Pradel, has but just left Sainte Pélagie, where he has been imprisoned during five years for political opinions. During this time he has applied himself closely to study, and has published several works in prose and verse.

HATCHING FISH.

The Chinese have a method of hatching the spawn of fish, and thus protecting it from those accidents which ordinarily destroy so large a portion of it. The fishermen collect with care on the margin and surface of waters, all those gelatinous masses which contain the spawn of fish; after they have found a sufficient quantity, they fill with it the shell of a fresh hens-egg, which they have previously emptied, stop up the hole, and put it under a sitting fowl. This Review is also an Academical Reg-At the expiration of a certain number of ister, and contains many pages of Univer- days they break the shell in water warmed sity Intelligence, Prize Poems, Lectures, by the sun, the young fry are presently hatched, and they are kept in pure fresh water, till large enough to be thrown into the pond with the old fish. The sale of spawn for this purpose forms an important branch of trade in China.

Review some time since.

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SICILIAN LITERATURE.

The "Bibliothèque Italienne" for 1823, contains an account of the literary productions furnished by Sicily in 1821 and 1822. It does not appear that literature is much encouraged or cultivated by the Sicilians. In those two years, according to this account, only about fifty-six works were published. Sicilian Literature is equally poor in its journals. There is a publication called "The Iris," a journal of sciences, letters, and arts; but it is not very expensively got up, being principally composed of extracts from foreign journals. The " Abeille," which served as a literary Gazette for Sicily, was so badly supported, that it ceased at the twelfth number. The "Journal de Médecine," in which are published the observations made at the great Hospital of Palermo, may be interesting to the class of

PERKINS' STEAM GUN.

Mr Perkins' reputation must be injured by such premature and imperfect accounts of his inventions as this. It is stated in the above notice, that he has only used a pressure of thirty-five atmospheres; now, the force of gunpowder has been ascertained to be equal to one thousand atmospheres, and of course, we should presume, a priori, that the force of the balls projected from this apparatus, must be comparatively trifling. And in confirmation, is the fact that three or four balls together in the barrel are sufficient to choke it up, and prevent the discharge; yet we are not told that there was any bursting of the barrel, a consequence! which would certainly follow under the same circumstances, had it been charged with gunpowder. Besides, if we recollect right, the generator of Mr Perkins' new engine works with a presssure of only thirty-five or thirty-six atmospheres, and he has found it difficult to provide a boiler which should bear even this pressure without giving way. It is, of course, impossible, or exceedingly improbable, that his present apparatus should be able to bear five times this pressure, or one hundred and seventyfive atmospheres, which this account states it will admit.

CORRECTION OF THE LOCAL ATTRACTION
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The Board of Longitude has voted the sum of £500, to Mr Barlow for his simple invention for correcting the local attraction of ships. It consists of a plate of iron abaft the compass, which being regulated so as to correct the effects of the ship in any one place, does the same in all places. This invention is expected to be of very important service in navigation.

Some late accounts from Great Britain, speak of the application of steam, by our celebrated countryman, Mr Perkins, to the All publishers of books throughout the purpose of discharging bullets from a gun United States, are very earnestly requested barrel. It is said that "his present appa- to forward to us, regularly and seasonably, ratus is constructed rather with the view of the names of all works of every kind, preshowing the practicability of this applica-paring for publication, in the press, or retion of steam, than as a model of a machine cently published. As they will be inserted for that purpose. A copper pipe of two in the Gazette, it is particularly desired inches in diameter is connected at one ex- that the exact titles be stated at length. tremity with the steam reservoir belonging to Mr Perkins' improved engine, and at the other with a strong metal chamber. Into this chamber a strong gun-barrel is firmly screwed in a horizontal direction, so

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VOL. I.

REVIEWS.

Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla, under the orders of Captain William Edward Parry, R. N., F. R. S., and Commander of the Expedition.

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BOSTON, JULY 15, 1824. latitudes in which the voyage was to be prosecuted, and all measures adopted which might tend to hasten the successful termination of the adventure. The instructions furnished to Capt. Parry were explicit and minute, directing him to consider the discovery of the North-west Passage to the Pacific as the main object that he was to pursue, to which all other discoveries were to be held subordinate; and that the ascertaining of the northern boundary of America was the next. He was further instructed to give his unremitting attention to observations with regard to the magnetic influence, and to the natural history, geography, &c. of the countries which he might discover, as being also objects of very high import ance, with respect to which any information must prove valuable and interesting to science.

certaining that it had no opening to the
westward, and in the attempt to double the
cape, which forms the north-east boundary
of that bay, was stopped by the commence-
ment of winter at an island, called by him
Winter Island, on the 7th of October, 1821.
The review of what had been performed
thus far, we shall give in Capt. Parry's own
words,

-Terms, $5 per annum, payable in July.
No. 7.

Here they

The winter here was not over so as to permit their departure until the first day of July, 1822; being later by several weeks than the same season at Melville Island, though Melville Island lies rather more than eight degrees north of Winter Island, and though the mean corrected temperature of the two winters was, at Melville Island, 24° below zero, and at Winter Island only 11.7° below zero. were visited by a tribe of Esquimaux, and obtained from them some valuable geographTHE name of Captain Parry must be faical information. They learned that the miliar to most of our readers; his account coast, after running northward a short disof his first voyage was extensively circulattance, turned short round to the westward ed, and his singular fitness to command and afterwards to the south-south-west, so such an expedition excited strong hopes as to come within three or four days' jourthat the voyage, the account of which is ney of Repulse Bay. The Esquimaux now before us, would result in the complete further told them, that from the hills on discovery of the long sought-for Norththis westerly coast nothing was to be seen west passage. The expedition failed in this Capt. Parry left England on the 8th of but one wide extended sea. This was conand in almost every other object of those May, 1821, reached the entrance of Hud-firmed by the recollections of some of the who planned it, evidently from no fault of son's Straits on the 18th of June follow-officers who had ascended the hills forming the commander or want of cooperation with ing, passed through the Frozen Strait of the boundary of Repulse Bay, and who had him of those under his command. The ac- Middleton, between Southampton Island seen a large sheet of water in the distance, count which he has published exhibits the and the continent, in the month of July; which they had supposed to be a lake. same modesty in the writer, the same per-coasted completely round Repulse Bay, as- From other Esquimaux, with whom they fect good sense, sound judgment, and demet in the course of their next summer's cision of character in the man, which were navigation, they learned the existence of a so obvious in his narrative of his first and strait tending nearly west, along the line more flattering expedition. We say more of coast which had been drawn by their flattering, inasmuch as it seemed to open a winter friends. This strait they discoverway direct to Behring's Straits, and left ed and called the "Fury and Hecla Strait;" small doubts in the minds of those best but the summer was too short and inclemqualified to judge, that the passage would ent to permit them to proceed far. They be feasible, if the north-eastern point were stopped on the 29th of August, 1822, of this continent could be reached. It In reviewing the events of this our first season of by an impassable barrier of ice of the forwas supposed, as Capt. Parry had conclu- navigation, and considering what progress we had mer winter, stretching from shore to shore. sively shown that the northern coast of made towards the attainment of our main object, it The rest of the season they spent in anxAmerica lay several degrees to the south was impossible, however trifling that progress ious watchings for this ice to open; in indeof Lancaster Sound; as he had made great considerable satisfaction. might appear upon the chart, not to experience Small as our actual ad- fatigable but vain efforts to discover a more progress up that sound; and as the only vance had been towards Behring's Strait, the ex-southerly and freer passage; in repeated obstacle to his further progress there, was tent of coast newly discovered and minutely ex- and close investigations of the course of the ice; that in the lower latitude on the plored in pursuit of our object, in the course of the the currents in the strait; and in journeys continental coast, not only would the summer last eight weeks, amounted to more than two hunover the rugged hills to look for the polar dred leagues, nearly half of which belonged to the be longer allowing more time for navigation, continent of North America. ocean. This service, notbut so much warmer as thoroughly to melt withstanding our constant exposure to the risks the ice, and allow a clear passage along the which intricate, shoal, and unknown channels, a coast. This supposition was strengthened sea loaded with ice, and a rapid tide concurred in by the knowledge, that Hearne and M'Ken-presenting, had providentially been effected with zie had both seen the northern ocean at out injury to the ships, or suffering to the officers and men; and we had now once more met with different points, and both described it as an tolerable security for the ensuing winter, when open sea, entirely clear of ice. obliged to relinquish further operations for the season. Above all, however, I derived the most sincere satisfaction from a conviction of having left no part of the coast from Repulse Bay with the continent. And as the mainland now in sight from the hills extended no farther to the eastward than about a N. N. E. bearing, we ventured to indulge a sanguine hope of our being very near the north-eastern boundary of America, and that the early part of the next season would find us employing our best efforts in pushing along its northern shores.

This last voyage was begun with the most favourable auspices; every thing, which the experience of the former had shown to be desirable to increase the comfort of the officers and men, was supplied with unbounded liberality, every precaution taken to ensure the safety of the ships, all instruments furnished which might be used in making scientific observations upon the various natural phenomena of the high

eastward in a state of doubt as to its connexion

This they did in fact discover,-unless Capt. Parry was unaccountably deceived, and doubted not that the strait which they had entered communicated with it, and that they were indeed upon the northern There was a continual coast of America. current setting out from under the ice, and the masses which broke off from time to time were carried rapidly to the eastward by this current, and never returned. The winter commenced upon the 20th of September, and they were firmly enclosed in ice for ten months; another tribe of Esquimaux wintered near them, and attending to the wants and partaking of the labours and sports of these people furnished them with ample amusement.

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marks his character, determined to send looked as high as possible, in Baffin's Bay, their mothers, and the d home his consort, and pursue his research-if not on the coast of East Greenland. The which were indulged w out past us in dismay. es with one ship only during the ensuing voyage which Capt. Parry has just begun inhabited part of the h season, and for that purpose removed to his is destined to enter Barrow's Straits, the outer apartment, being own ship all the provisions which could be most northerly western opening from Baf-blocks of snow, laid small art, each being c spared from the other; but in the month of fin's Bay. The scientific observations which were form a substantial arc July, 1823, the scurvy appeared among both officers and crew; and he was reluct-made during this second voyage, are re-high in the centre, and but what this princip antly compelled to return to England, served for a separate publication, with the shall not here further where he arrived on the 18th of the follow- exception of a few incidental remarks, prin- these curious edifices, ing September. cipally geological and botanical, and occa- ful and sufficient light sional notices of irregularities in the com- circular window of ic of each apartment. passes, and of meteorological appearances. No general deductions can be drawn from these insulated facts; the only one of which that struck us as being of importance, is, that the aurora borealis exerts no sensible influence upon an electrometer or upon the magnetic needle.

The mercury wa to 26 degrees below the Esquimaux to it was actually ne Afterwards, when little milder, thoug perceptible on boar from the change.

On this account the

which is then removed

to consider, that, in al kept in view was cool ed of snow!

It is afterwards

that when water w
to drink, they co
freezing point be
They eat ravenou
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get only about s
twenty four hours
pains to weigh an
them consumed.

Though firmly persuaded that the Strait of the Fury and Hecla communicates directly with the Northern Ocean, Capt. Parry believes that it will seldom or never be navigable. We think this opinion abundantly justified by the reasons which he assigns. He says that a westerly current along the northern coast of America, has been observed by the Russian navigators The most interesting part of this work to and by Capt. Franklin, that this current general readers, is undoubtedly the account forces the ice to the western mouth of the of the intercourse between the voyagers strait, and bars up its entrance. He ex- and the Esquimaux. Of this singular peo- tions in these curiou presses however a confident hope of ulti-ple few particulars have been hitherto building the former a mate success, and thinks the most advisa- known; few, at least, were known with higher, or adding oth ble point at which next to attempt to force exactness and certainty. Differing essen- crowded. In building an entrance into the Polar sea, is Prince tially in appearance, character, and hab-it over, and, as it were Regent's Inlet, discovered in his former its, from the other aboriginal inhabitvoyage. He is now gone upon another ex-ants of America, and strictly confined in pedition with this object in view; and we their location, by causes which it is difficult cordially wish him success, though, we con- to understand, to the northern Arctic refess, without very sanguine hopes. We gions, or their immediate vicinity, they think that the land north of the continent serve to illustrate most strongly the power of America approaches much nearer to the which man's physical nature can exert, in pole than has been hitherto believed, and accomodating itself to all circumstances and that the space lying north-west of Melville conditions of existence. Exposed, during Island, the farthest point attained by Capt. a large portion of the year, to an intensity Parry in his former voyage, is filled up by of cold, and surrounded by a wintry desolalarge islands intersected by straits, some tion, which our seasons scarcely help us to wider, some narrower, of which perhaps imagine, they have their own comforts, and few if any are so wide as is Lancaster enjoy them so highly, that they feel the Sound at its western entrance, or so likely greatest compassion for the more southern to be free from the ice brought into these nations who want them. But we will deoutlets by the ascertained currents of the scribe them in Capt. Parry's words. While Polar Sea. It would occupy too long a the vessels were fixed in the ice at Winter space, were we to give all our reasons for Island, it was reported to Parry that some this opinion; but that on which we lay huts appeared to be erected a short dismost stress, is the greater coldness of the tance from the ships. climate, than that of Asia and Europe in ly to visit them. the same parallels of latitude. It is a well When it is remembered that these habitations known fact, that the sea coasts of all counwere fully within sight of the ships, and how many tries are warmer than the interior in the eyes were continually on the look out among us, same degrees of latitude; land lying in high for any thing that could afford variety or interest in our present situation, our surprise may in some delatitudes, either north or south, exerts a sensible influence upon the climate of con-gree be imagined at finding an establishment of five huts, with canoes, sledges, dogs, and above sixty tiguous countries lying nearer the equator. men, women, and children, as regularly, and, to all Thus the existence of a continent near the appearance as permanently fixed, as if they had south pole was suspected long before its occupied the same spot for the whole winter. If discovery, from the fact, that the tempera- the first view of the exterior of this little village ture of the southern hemisphere was lower was such as to create astonishment, that feeling was in no small degree heightened, on accepting the than that of the northern at the same dis- invitation soon given us, to enter these extraordintance from the equator. Thus the winters ary houses, in the constraction of which we obare longer, it seems, at Winter Island than served that not a single material was used but snow at Melville Island, and the difference of the and ice. After creeping through two low passages, mean temperature much less than the dif- having each its arched door-way, we came to a small circular apartment of which the roof was a

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weighed before being hours in getting thr not consider the quar

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Raw Spirits
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