tion and gratification. It is honorable to the community, that elaborate learning is ever brought within its reach. It is unnecessary to say how honoured they are who so bring it.

Our attendance on these lectures has convinced us of the importance of seriously setting about the erection of a public Lecture room. It is something more and worse than pity, that here, where we have men disposed to labour for us, and to procure for us splendid collections of all kinds, to aid instruction, we have no suitable place for their accommodation, or our own. We feel this the more, when we see so much done, so much taste exhibited, and so much money spent on other edifices. We build temples to preserve our wealth and its records, but leave almost houseless a far better treasury. We cannot but hope that something will be soon done in this regard; and we hardly

know a case in which a small individual ex

penditure will procure so much general accommodation. There are cases in which monuments to one age must remain for the spirit of after times to rear. The times of heroes are these. But honor to learning and to learned men, can be paid at all times, and by any community which values them. In the present instance personal convenience and interest come in aid of the cause, and they have not always made their de

mands in vain.

LETTER FROM AN OLD SOLDIER.

vested with an imperishable form. This ed.
will not be, unless such information is not
only welcomed but sought. For ourselves,
we shall be most ready to aid in this im-
portant work, by all the scanty means
within our power: we shall always gladly
find room for communications, which help,
in any way or measure, to illustrate the
more important events of our past history,
or the characters of those who were emi-
nent among our fathers. In the present
instance we have no doubt that our readers
will join with us in the thanks which we
proffer to the Rev. Mr Thaxter.

SIR,

Edgartown, November 30, 1824.

Your friend J. A. J— showed me
your last paper, in which some observations
were made respecting the neglect of suita-
ble respect to Colonel Prescott. He is not
the only one that is neglected. I make no
objection to the monument on Breed's Hill,
but I think it a great neglect that so little
notice is taken of Concord Bridge, and the
men who first faced the British troops.
Much is said of Lexington-the British
met with no opposition there; I was an
eye witness to the following facts.
people of Westford and Acton, some few
of Concord, were the first who faced the
British at Concord bridge. The British
had placed about ninety men as a guard at
the North Bridge; we had then no certain
information that any had been killed at
Lexington; we saw the British making de-

The

We pursued to and then retired the army collected a Prescott with his re and John Robinson, were prompt at bein 16th of June, Colon Bridge were ordere heave up a breast-w night, and were le Reinforcements wer company went in Bunker's Hill; som volunteers, part of v eral Starks' regimen teers was the ever-t Warren. When Colonel Prescott, t eral Warren, I have personal acquaintan your known chara

cheerfulness under

replied, " Colonel P to take command, b you." This I had and believe as much my ears; a braver

I never knew.

Su

Robinson, ought n

those who write th mencement and pro revolution. The old General Putna foundation. He di

to reinforce Presco braver man never! army was little bet discipline, and und General Washing gave to it some r

ments were order

once, and the loss circle. The Bree County of Middles

loss was in Presco

nine killed and f

evil was remedie Gates, and in '76) &c. A decent

An article in a late number of this Gazette, in which we remarked, in passing, struction in the town of Concord; it was upon the mistake in the popular estimate of Col. Prescott's services on Breed's Hill, Colonel Robinson, of Westford, together proposed to advance to the bridge; on this has obtained for us a new correspondent; with Major Buttrick, took the lead; strict whose communication we give below, with orders were given not to fire, unless the no other alteration than the suppression of British fired first; when they advanced a few sentences relative to matters where-fired one gun, a second, a third, and then about half way on the causeway the British in our readers would not be interested. It the whole body; they killed Colonel Davis, is quite time that the people of this land of Acton, and a Mr Hosmer. Our people should feel and should distinctly manifest then fired over one another's heads, being an earnest and anxious curiosity respect. in a long column, two and two: they killed Bridge, where the two and wounded eleven. Lieutenant and quite as glori ing all the occurrences of that revolution to Hawkstone, said to be the greatest beauty sidering the circu which they owe every thing. When a na- of the British army, had his cheeks so bad- no more honour tion fights for existence, it sends forth its ly wounded that it disfigured him much, of than they richly best to the battle; and the men who urged which he bitterly complained. On this, the obscurity on this that contest were worthy of the cause which British fled, and assembled on the hill, the myself of importan brought them to the field. A peaceful yeo- north side of Concord, and dressed their doing justice to a manry stood with unaccustomed arms to de- Wounded, and then began their retreat. As transactions of th they descended the hill near the road that 1775, or of the 17t fend their own fields, and men came forth comes out from Bedford they were pursued; of those days, that from the regular occupations of society and Colonel Bridge, with a few men from Bed-uals, it is most p all the walks of busy life; and from these ford and Chelmsford, came up, and killed The following is materials was formed, almost at once, an several men. We pursued them and killed Brooks, who liv armed array which fearlessly met and consome; when they got to Lexington, they gence of a small quered and captured men, whose only trade were so close pursued and fatigued, that meet the British; they must have soon surrendered, had not was war, and their only home a camp. Lord Percy met them with a large reinThere must exist somewhere, at this day, forcement and two field-pieces. They fired shot the horses, a

Brooks mustered near West Cam

who commanded

1

MR RUSSELL'S GRAMMAR OF COMPOSITION.

LETTERS FROM A TRAVELLER.
No. III.

My DEAR FRIENDS,

Edinburgh, September 27.

work will show precisely,-what is not now to use the elegant simile of Mrs Dolly Duteasy to learn, how far, and in what way ton, "like a squirrel's cage hung out of a In our fourteenth number we reviewed composition is connected with grammar, three pair of stairs window." My walk for this work, and we spoke of it with undue logic, and rhetoric. It should certainly be some hours was enchanting. Life has few severity. Two very candid letters from the made a distinct study; but the best possible pleasures to equal the feelings of a pedesauthor have convinced us of our error; and way of illustrating the identity of this branch trian traveller through a new and romantic we hasten to make this acknowledgment, not of education, must be by clearly defining country in a fine autumn morning. The only because our duty to our readers requires the relations between it and the collateral independence of circumstances, the carethis, but from an especial unwillingness to and auxiliary studies. lessness of what may happen, and readiness do Mr Russell injustice, and give him good It is due to Mr Russell to state, that his to be pleased with any thing or every thing cause to regard us as at variance with him. rules of orthograghy, which we strongly "'i the air or the earth," constitute, togethHis Latin Grammar delighted us; it seem- reprobated, are sanctioned by high author-er, a state of mind as delightful as it is uned to supply what we considered a great ities; but neither these authorities, nor the common in this sublunary pilgrimage. About want; it applied the principle of analysis reasons they give, satisfy us at all. We two miles from Dumbarton is Leven-water, to the study of language. We believe that can give Mr Russell credit for one excel- celebrated in song, and near it the village the time has come when this principle is to lent and uncommon trait,-to wit,-an ab- of Renton, and the monument to the membe applied to all modes and departments of horrence of book-making; indeed, his brev- ory of Dr Smollett. A little further is instruction; and that the use of this "No-ity sometimes makes him obscure. No mas- Balloch Castle and the southern part of vum Organum" will advance the best in- ter should undertake to teach composition Loch Lomond. Here I was overtaken by terests of education, and vastly increase the who could not, if occasion required, explain a carter, whose name I afterwards discovgood resulting from it, and characterize every part of this work; but it is a fault, ered to be Mc Millan, a tenant of the Duke most honourably the age which is wise that the important parts of it require so of Argyle, and as he was well acquainted enough to avail itself of it. This good work much explanation. The book should have with the country, and pursuing the same is begun, and we may hope that it will be been larger, or else more strictly elemen-road with myself, I was glad to walk on prosecuted zealously. It has engaged the tary; as it is, however, it may answer one with him. We soon came to a toll-house, attention of some of the finest intellects in of two purposes;-to him who has studied which was also an ale or whiskey house; this part of our country; and there are rhetoric, it may recall the practical and and as the weather had by this time become those whose professional business it is to useful parts of what he has learned; or may very threatening and stormy, I felt it inteach, who will bring in aid of this ob- serve to introduce to these studies one who cumbent on me to invite my fellow travelject the strenuous efforts of no common tal- has yet to become acquainted with them. ler to refresh himself with a gill of whisents. It is pleasant to find gentlemen who key, which he despatched undiluted, obare engaged in the work of instruction at a serving, after he had bolted it, that it was distance, holding the same views, aiming at not quite the right thing, which might be the same object, and pursuing it with deobtained a short distance further, as well cided ability; and it is desirable that there as a more commodious shelter from the apshould exist between them that harmony proaching rain. I was not disposed to which naturally grows out of identity of leave the situation, as I doubted whether I opinion and purpose. ON Monday last I bid adieu to Glas- should find a better; but he was so urgent gow, and having equipped myself with an that I complied with his request to accomold sea-coat, of which the longitude was di-pany him. After we had left the house, minished by the assistance of a penknife, a my companion gave me to understand that small knapsack, and leather spatterdashes, it was a custom-house, and insinuated that with an umbrella in my hand, set off on my his cart contained a few bandanna handkertravels. My first object was Dumbarton, chiefs, and other articles which would not whither I proceeded in a steam-boat, down admit of close investigation in such an esthe Clyde, which is here a narrow river, tablishment. We soon arrived at a thatchwinding smoothly and gracefully through ed hut, into which I followed him, for the cultivated fields, adorned, at short intervals, rain now began to descend in torrents. with country seats, and now and then a The interior of this place beggared all dechurch or castle. The weather, at first, scription, which, therefore, I shall not atshowed some disposition to be fair, but be- tempt. The owner was rather shy of me, fore we arrived, which we did about six P. though Mc Millan introduced me as an old M., it rained violently. At Dumbarton I friend of his. He then caused him to prostopped for the night, and sent a letter of duce a large bottle of whiskey, or, as he callintroduction, which I had received from ed it, tea, which he assured me, with a Miss B-, to her brother, a Surgeon in this wink, was genuine. To cut the matter place. He immediately called on me, and short, I soon found that I had got into a den invited me to breakfast with him the fol- of Highland smugglers, and that my good lowing morning and visit the Castle. But friend, the worthy John Mc Millan, was far the morning was so beautifully fair, that I from being the least among them. As the could not bring myself to spend three or whiskey, of which he swallowed an immodefour hours of it waiting for breakfast; so, rate quantity, did its good office, he began having "snatched a short repast," called to insinuate that he thought my pocket was on the Doctor, left my excuses, and sur- the most valuable part of my coat, wanted veyed the exterior of the old frowning cas- much to sell me a poney, and the like "bald tle to my satisfaction, "I cocked up my and disjointed chat." At first, all this was bonnet and marched amain" towards the rather amusing, but, at length, I began to north. The rock of Dumbarton stands up feel a little uneasiness; for the day was like a sugar loaf on the banks of the Clyde, passing away, and I did not approve the nobearing some slight resemblance in its tion of proceeding very far on a lonely shape and situation, to Ascutney, near Highland road with Mr Mac, who showed Windsor, on the Connecticut; and the cas- no disposition to part company, but pressed tle is built on the top of it, "perched up," me to ride with him to Tarbet, at the head

The writer of the article upon the Grammar of Composition was disappointed at finding the work decidedly inferior to the Latin Grammar in its strict application of analysis, and this disappointment influenced his opinion of the real merits of the book. The answer to this charge Mr Russell shall give. In his letter he says, with respect to the charge that my book does not present the subject in an analytic form, I would beg of you once more to consider the reason I have given. The three ingredients of composition, are Subject, Thought, and Language. The first of these is as wide as the universe; the second embraces intellectual philosophy and logic; or, in other words, the powers, as they have been called, of the mind, and their right exercise: the third includes every thing connected with rhetoric and grammar. Now, a fair analysis leaves no gap in that to which it is applied: it must be carried throughout. To treat composition analytically in a schoolbook, is impossible. The heads merely of an analysis of the branches of science that are involved in composition, would occupy more space than all the pages of the Grammar."

We should beg leave to amend this sentence by substituting "difficult" for "impossible;" which last is a bad word, and should be used as seldom as possible. "Practice makes perfect;" and we yet hope to tell our readers that Mr Russell has published a strict analysis of the art of composition. Such a

after he had done so.

of the lake. He grew more and more | in this particular. Loch Lomond is a pond | meal. The good body was very averse to communicative, and related some of his ad- when compared with Champlain, and even any kind of remuneration, but at length ventures with excise officers, which would Ascutney, I believe, is more lofty than the accepted a trifle, though she assured me I have been, perhaps, more entertaining in Ben. I reached Tarbet about six o'clock, should have been heartily welcome. Two another place, than they were just then. having achieved something more than twen- miles farther brought me to the northern At length the train of his associations led ty miles for my first day's journey; yet it part of Loch Ard, and the pass in which to Rob Roy and Scott's novel; and he seemed to me that I had hardly walked Capt. Thornton was defeated by Helen Mc roundly declared that his own life and ad- ten, so trifling was the fatigue, and so Gregor. You will perceive that I speak of ventures were much more worthy to be agreeably had the time, for the most part, these matters, and persons, as having really made into a novel than those of Rob, and been employed. existed, and, indeed, it is not easy to think proposed to me to prepare such a work, for of them differently; for, so true to nature which he promised to send me materials to are the novelist's descriptions of what you Edinburgh, where he understood me to be do see, that they give an air of reality to going. The rain at length ceased, and I the fictitious parts of the narrative. Loch intimated to this future rival of Rob Roy, Ard is a beautiful lake, about three miles that I proposed to proceed on my journey. in length. It contracts towards the south, He accordingly departed to prepare his and gives rise to the river Forth; and here cart, with a view of accompanying me, but is the place where Rob slipped from his his horse had strayed away into a distant horse and escaped from his guard. About part of a field, or park, as they are here a mile from the southern end of Loch Ard termed. Mac ran hastily after him, callis the little inn of Aberfoyle, in which the ing to me to "wait, while he caught the Baillie and his companions met of yore beastie." I thought proper, however, to such a rough reception. There was now, wish the cottager-who, by the way, was however, no willow wand across the door, a most sinister looking fellow--a good mornnor any thing else to prevent my doing ing, and telling him that Mr Mac Millan that justice to the landlady's vivers, which might overtake me, if he chose, with his was to be expected from a New Eng vehicle, I marched off, trusting that it land pedestrian under the influence of would take him some time to catch his Highland air. From Aberfoyle my road powney, and a good deal more to catch me, lay north-easterly, towards the Trosachs. These were distant something more than five miles, and I had already walked sixteen from Loch Lomond. Moreover, it was four o'clock, with every appearance of a much of it was quite dry. Every thing storm, nor was there any house on the around was wild, uncultivated, and solitary, road. After some hesitation, however, I covered with rocks, ferns, and heath; but set forward. The landlady directed me to the ferns were just changing their colour to keep the path till I came to a "sclate quarshades of yellow and brown, and, with the pur- ry," where I should find a road paved with— ple bell-heather, and other species of heath, (something which I could not understand), gave a variegated appearance to the land-"but," said she, "you munna keep that, scape, which was by no means unpleasing. but haud straught on.' With this direction I adventured up among the hills again, over crags, and through gullies, in a very wild, dark, and threatening afternoon. At the end of about two miles I reached what I supposed must be the "sclate quarry." Here the road was divided into two, one going to the right, and the other to the left, while “straught on" was a bog, flowmoss, or some such thing. The points of the compass, in the lurid state of the sky, and in the midst of these hills, were not to be distinguished by any manner of means short of a magnetic needle. In this dilemma I did as most people do in like cases, that is to say, took the wrong road. I soon perceived before me a Highlander with his poney, and a two-wheeled vehicle, y'clept, in this country, a gig, scrambling along up one rugged declivity, and down another. This establishment being none of the most expeditious, I overtook it without much difficulty, and learned from the driver that I must return and take the other road. Arriving again at the fork, I held a council with myself, whether to encounter a certain glen which the Gael had described in the usual lucid manner, or to retrace my footsteps, and take up my quarters for the night at the inn. In this emer gency, fortune took upon herself to end the debate in a manner very decisive, and, as

About seven o'clock on Wednesday morning, I turned my face towards the eastward. The first step was the passage of the Loch, which I effected in a small boat; but, although it was provided with two stout rowers, yet being of clumsy form, and the wind strongly against us, we were unable to reach the other side before nine. Here I was set on shore near the foot of Ben Lomond, and began to scramble up a craggy path into the Mc Gregor's country. Travellers usually ascend the Ben, but I did not choose to afford either the time or labour, for the chance of the prospect, which it was ten to one I should not see, as the floating clouds were numerous, and often entirely enveloped his head. I preferred enjoying the circuitous mountain path on the north of him, which I took accordingly, and found it very pleasant. The morning was fine, though rather windy, and my walk was I passed nothing very remarkable till I through a half road, and half footpath, made reached Luss Inn, which is nine or ten chiefly by the course of winter torrents. It miles further, except the seat of the Col-was, of course, often wet and boggy, but quhouns and the Burn of Bannochar. I arrived here about three o'clock, and after dinner proceeded on my walk. The sky, which had continued to lower since the morning, now again became perfectly clear. The Loch, at Luss, is about three miles in width; but this diminishes very fast as you proceed northward, very soon becoming less than two. It is impossible to conceive a more romantic and beautiful walk than that between Luss and Tarbet. The road lies on the western side of the Loch, following the various curves and indentations of the shore, and winding along between the water on the one hand, and lofty mountains on the other On the opposite side, the hills of Rob Roy's country seemed to rise almost perpendicularly from the edge of the lake, while their figures were reflected from its still surface below;-far above them all the lofty Ben Lomond reared his brown and heathy summit, gilded with the rays of the evening sun, while every thing else around me was in shadow, and so solitary and still, that I could almost imagine I heard the echo of my own footsteps. I think there was not a single house,-certainly not more than one, for the whole distance, which is eight miles; nor did I see a living thing, except a young woman who passed me just after I left Luss, a few black-nosed Highland sheep, and a lively little dog who joined me early in the afternoon, and capered along before me to Tarbet. I may, once for all, observe here, that however beautiful and romantic the scenery of the Highlands inay be, a New Englander will not be so much struck with its sublimity, for there are many parts of our own country that excel them

About two or three miles from Loch Lomond is a small Loch, called Arklet. Here the road, or path, I should call it, divided, and I had my choice, either to go east to Loch Katrine, and down the lake to the Trosachs, or south-east to the Clachan of Aberfoyle. I preferred the latter, since it was uncertain whether I should find a boat at the head of Loch Katrine. So I followed the path towards the Clachan, wind ing among the hills, and now and then passing a single thatched hovel; these, however, were very rare, and my walk was, on the whole, as solitary as one could wish. The next lake I passed was Loch Ghon;-this is not much larger than many ponds within a dozen miles of Boston, but much more beautiful than any that I now recollect. On the banks of this lake, about ten miles from Loch Lomond, and pleasantly situated in a small green vale, or opening between the hills, I perceived a Highland cottage, into which I crept,-for one could not easily walk in,-to ask for some water. The tenant, an old woman, was quite hos pitable, and gave me a pint bowl full of excellent milk, which I drank with little ceremony. She set before me certain articles which she called "scones," and which we should call flap-jacks, with some new butter and cheese, of which I made a hearty

Thy fleeces bathed in sunlight, while below
Thy shadow o'er the vale moves slow :
Where, 'midst their labour, pause the reaper train
As cool it comes along the grain.
Beautiful cloud! I would I were with thee
In thy calm way o'er land and sea :
To rest on thy unrolling skirts, and look
On Earth as on an open book;

On streams that tie her realms with silver bands,
And the long ways that seam her lands;
And hear her humming cities, and the sound
Of waves that chafe their rocky bound.
Aye-I would sail upon thy air-borne car
To blooming regions distant far,
To where the sun of Andalusia shines
On his own olive groves and vines,
Or the soft lights of Italy's bright sky
In smiles upon her ruins lie.
But I would woo the winds to let us rest

O'er Greece long fettered and opprest,
Whose sons at length have heard the call that

From the old battle-fields and tombs,
And risen, and drawn the sword, and, on the foe,
Have dealt the swift and desperate blow,
And the Othman power is cloven, and the stroke
Has touched its chains, and they are broke.
Aye, we would linger till the sunset there
Should come, to purple all the air,
And thou reflect, upon the sacred ground,
The ruddy radiance streaming round.

Bright meteor! for the summer noontide made!
Thy peerless beauty yet shall fade.
The sun, that fills with light each glistening fold,
Shall set, and leave thee dark and cold:
The blast shall rend thy skirts, or thou may'st
frown

In the dark heaven when storms come down,
And weep in rain, till man's inquiring eye
Miss thee, forever, from the sky.

Night rests in beauty on Mont Alto. Beneath its shade the beauteous Arno sleeps In Vallombrosa's bosom, and dark trees Upon the beauty of that silent river. Bend with a calm and quiet shadow down Still in the west, a melancholy smile Mantles the lips of day, and twilight pale Moves like a spectre in the dusky sky; While eve's sweet star on the fast-fading year Smiles calmly :-Music steals at intervals Across the water, with a tremulous swell, From out the upland dingle of tall firs, And a faint foot-fall sounds, where dim and dark Hangs the gray willow from the river's brink, O'er-shadowing its current. Slowly there The lover's gondola drops down the stream, Or in its eddy sighs the rippling wave. Silent,-save when its dipping oar is heard, Mouldering and moss-grown, through the lapse of Thy roof. Serenely, from the giant limb

ang loud, and stopped him in his pride of place.
He fell, slow wheeling on his outspread wings,
Bequeathing all he left to thee;-a name.
The EAGLE of thy tribe! Thy piercing eye
Has fed the eagle. Was thy tribe cruel,
Or kind, when full of age, they cast thee forth
Upon that wilderness the world, to thee
A lonelier place than wood or mountain high,
Or the deep glen, or the remotest cave?
And didst thou die, neglected and alone,
Or was it thine in victory to fall?
Or fan the flame with thy heroic breath,
As round thee curled the slow consuming fire,
Victim indeed! the requiem yelling
O'er thine own ashes? Such was not thy end!
Thine aged body found a tranquil death,
And slept among the dewy leaves again
A long, unbroken sleep; and in that tree
Which cradled it, it found its airy grave.

W. C.

The features of the dead, being exposed by the mode of burial among these Indians, are first devoured by the birds of prey.

JUAN FERNANDEZ.

"O that the desert were my dwelling place,
With one fair spirit for my minister!"
There's an island afar in the blue western sea,
Where spring smiles forever for you, love, and me;
The winds breathing fragrance will waft away care,
And sorrow and envy can never come there.

The sun when he sets on the fountain and flowers,
Will leave not a bower so delicious as ours;
And the moon rising pale on that island of green
Will shed her calm light over souls as serene.

To solitudes lovely then hasten with me
Where Paradise blooms in the isle of the sea;
O! I shall not regret the lost Eden of bliss
With a being like you, in an island like this.

INTELLIGENCE.

S. H.

VISIT TO PAESTUM, POMPEII, AND VESUVIUS.

About fifty miles from Albergo Vittoria, are the ruins of three temples, standing together on the seashore, at a place called Pæstum. We made up a party last week, and drove out to these ruins. It was cold, clear weather, and the Apennines were covered with snow, but a more interesting trip we never made. The ruins are the most magnificent in Italy, particularly what is called the temple of Neptune, with fourteen large Doric pillars in length and eight in the other direction. Further than these ruins, and the wall of the town, not a vestige of it remains; and what is very singular, scarce a notice now exists of any account of the town, though it must have been a very considerable maritime place. Like most of the other places on that coast, it must have been a Greek settlement; but times, alas! have sadly changed with it, for now three solitary farm-houses are all that remain, owing to its being unhealthy in summer. There is something very incom

back; which, before the peii, was unknown.

On the 6th of this 1824), we made our visit suvius. The ascent and lava take about five hou tunately Salvadori for o us all about the different The crater is not at all th but a gulph of most imm can see to the very bot scarcely believe what we four and a half miles rou that its depth is two th is a most horrid, magnifi and there a quantity of ing up the rocky sides; mountain is very quiet. dark, black looking was ing to the sea; and nea vineyards of the Lach spite of the sad exampl and Pompeii, villages a and there, at the very fo and our guide told us tha ed Torre del Greco, had ed fourteen times, and a day was very clear and view very fine.

The c

small town, similarly situated, and not a
mile off from it. In returning to Naples,
on the third day, we stopped at a large san-
dy looking bank, on the right side of the
road, about ten miles from town. The
bank was that which destroyed Pompeii,
A. D. 79; and we were now at the walls of
that city. There are few things so strange
as a walk through the silent streets of a
town, which, for 1700 years, has been hid
from the light of day and the world, when
the manners and every-day scenes of so re-
mote an age, stand revealed, unchanged,
after so long an interval. It would appear
that, sixteen years before the shower of
sand and ashes from Vesuvius occurred, an
earthquake had nearly ruined the town; so
that the houses are roofless, partly from
that cause, and from the weight of ashes
which fell. Otherwise they stand just as
they were left. The streets are narrow,
but paved; and the mark of the carriage
wheels in the lava pavement is evident. In
Murat's time four thousand men were em-
ployed in excavating; and so a great num-
ber of houses, perhaps one third of the
town, have been uncovered; but at present
there are only eleven men and a few boys
at work. I fancy the Neapolitans find the
expense of giving 20,000 Austrian troops ples, towards the hills,
double pay a little troublesome; and so ex-ductive, that it is call
cavations must stand over for the present. Felice; but still the p
The houses were all small, generally of two miserable.
stories, but beautifully painted; and the
figures of animals, such as horses, peacocks,
&c. are as bright as that day they were
painted. There are two theatres standing,
and one amphitheatre, all nearly perfect;
but I find it impossible to give you any idea
of the wonders we saw in one walk through
Pompeii. At one time, we walked up a
street, called the Strada dei Mercanti, on
either side of us, the shops of mosaic sel-
lers, statuaries, bakers, &c. &c. with the
owner's name painted in red, and the sign
of his shop rudely carved above the door.
The mill in the baker's shop, and the oven,
At another time, we
amused us much.
passed through the hall of Justice, the tem-
ple of Hercules, the villa of Cicero, and
the villa of Sallust. The only villa of three published in the Lo
stories I observed, belonged to a man call-Transactions, that the
ed Arrius Diomedes (his name was at the lunar year, consisting
outside of the door); and, in the cellar, twenty-nine and thirty
beside some jars for wine, still standing, the triennial intercala
was the skeleton of this poor fellow found month, or rather an
with a purse in one hand, and some trink- times in nineteen yea
ets in his left, followed by another, bearing correspond more
up some silver and bronze vases, the last course.
supposed to have been his servant. They
had been trying to escape by taking refuge
in the cellar. Many other curious things
have been discovered here, and a great deal
may yet be brought to light, for, from a
ticket of a sale stuck up on the wall of a
house, it would appear that one person had
no fewer than nine hundred shops to let.
The street of the tombs is the most im-

SIMPLE METHOD OF LIQU

Sir H. Davy has re simple method of lique the application of heat. ing the gas in one leg tube, confined by me heat to ether, alcohol, or end. In this way, by vapour of ether, he li and sulphureous acid gases were reproduce cold.

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