able to suspend, for a time, his respiration, for it is impossible to conceive that the process of breathing could be carried on while the mouth and throat was so completely stuffed and expanded by the body of the goat, and the lungs themselves (admitting the trachea to be ever so hard) compressed, as they must have been, by its passage downwards.

The whole operation of completely gorging the goat occupied about two hours and twenty minutes: at the end of which time, the tumefaction was confined to the middle part of the body, or stomach, the superior parts, which had been so much distended, having resumed their natural dimensions. He now coiled himself up again, and laid quietly in his usual torpid state for about three weeks or a month, when his last meal appearing to be completely digested and dissolved, he was again presented with another goat, which he killed and devoured with equal facility. It would appear that almost all he swallows is converted into nutrition, for a small quantity of calcareous matter (and that, perhaps, not a tenth part of the bones of the animal) with occasionally some of the hairs, seemed to compose his general fæces;-and this may account for these animals being able to remain so long without a supply of food. He had more difficulty in killing a fowl than a larger animal, the former being two small for his grasp.

Few of those who had witnessed his first exhibition were desirous of being present at the second. A man may be impelled by curiosity, and a wish to ascertain a fact frequently stated, but which seems almost incredible, to satisfy his own mind by occular proof; but he will leave the scene with those feelings of horror and disgust, which such a sight is well calculated to create. It is difficult to behold, without the most painful sensation, the anxiety and trepidation of the

harmless victim, or to observe the hideous writhings of the serpent around his prey, and not to imagine what our own case would be in the same helpless and dreadful situation.

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The solution lies in giving the letters their full and distinct French pronunciation.

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Take one ounce of the seeds of Resolution, properly mixed with the Oil of Good Conscience; infuse into it a large spoonful of the Salts of Patience. Distil very carefully a composing plant called Others Woes, which you will find in every part of the Garden of Life, growing under the broad leaves of Disguise; add a small quantity, it will much assist the Salts of Patience in their operation. Gather a handful of the Blossoms of Hope; then sweeten them properly with a Syrup made of the Balm of Providence; and if you can get any of the Seed of True Friendship, you will have the most valuable medicine that can be administered. But you must be careful that you get the Seed of True Friendship, as there is a weed that very much resembles it, called Selfinterest, which will spoil the whole composition. Make the ingredients up into pills, which may be called Pills of Comfort: take one night and morning, and in a short time the cure will be completed.

On the shortness of Human Life, from Ossian.

Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence in the house of her fathers. Raise the song of mourning over the strangers. One day we must fall; and they have only

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fallen before us. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged day! Thou lookest from thy towers to-day; soon will the blast of the desart come. howls in thy empty courts and whistles over thy half worn shield.

How long shall we weep in Lena, or pour our tears in Ullin! The mighty will not return; nor Oscar rise in his strength; the valiant must fall one day, and be no more known. Where are our fathers, O warriors! the chiefs of the times of old! They are set, like stars that have shone; we only hear the sound of their praise. But they were renowned in their day, and the terror of other times. Thus shall we pass, O warriors, in the day of our fall. Then let us be renown, ed while we may; and leave our fame behind us, like the last beam of the sun, when he hides his red head in the west..!

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Extract of a Letter from our Townsman at Trenton, to his Friend in Paisley, dated 26th and 31st of January last.

Weaving is got rather dull of late, which has discouraged us a good deal, and it has set us a talking of the western country; indeed, some have begun to pack up what they mean to take with them, and sell off all they can spare, so that our Scots Clan here, are likely to be much thinned in the course of the ensuing summer. We have procured all the late publications we can get for information upon that subject, such as Bradbury and Mellis's travels through the United States; Birkbeck's Journal and Letters from the Illinois, &c. Also, letters from some Scots people who left this last summer. There were two families from Dalry, Boyle and Stirret, and two young men, William Pollock, Beith, and

left this together, and took the waggons at Phila

delphia for Pittsburg. They paid seven dollars per ewt. for luggage, and women and children, all the rest walking that could, to save money. The two young men went on before, and arrived some days before the waggons at Pittsburg, and bought a boat sixteen feet long, eight feet wide, supposed to carry about three tons, for sixteen dollars, and a book and chart, instructing to navigate the Ohio and the Missisippi to New Orleans, for two dollars, and when the waggon arrived, they all embarked in their boat next morning, and were joined by two more young men, who were for the same rout, naking six men in all, and proceeding down the river Ohio in the following order: two rowing, two at rest, one steering, and one keeping a look out, and changing every two hours through the day, and mooring at the bank of the river every night, when all got to rest. In twenty-four days they arrived at Indiana, where both families are fixed on good farms. Pollock, one of the young men, is a mason and bricklayer, and can get two dollars a-day, but he says, he is on the move for St. Louis, in the Missouri Territory. It lies just at the junction of the Missouri with the Missisippi river, and said to be a very thriving place, the land very fruitful and cheap. A large tract within ten miles was offered to actual settlers last year so low as one dollar an acre, and several years' credit, or considerable discount for cash. The lands sold by government are fixed at two dollars an acre, five year's credit, by instalments, and interest thereon, or 162 cents per acre for cash. These new countries promise to be very populous in a few years. It is quite astonishing to contemplate the changes that are every year making in them, imagine to your self, one river, (the Missisipi) whose tributary streams drain far more land than the whole empire of China, and which was but a few years ago a vast and dreary