side, and we re-embarked on the ice close by a little mill. Having got upon the ice we were much surprised and concerned to find that we had given ourselves all this trouble only to reach a place where we had perils still more alarming to encounter. The river was open on both sides, and it was necessary for the sledge to pass over a crust of ice which had maintained itself in the middle, and under which the water made a frightful noise. Our guides, who ventured on it first, assured us that there was no danger, and that when we had crossed this piece we should have nothing more to fear through the remainder of our journey. It was at the moment a bitter pill to swallow; but it promised to procure us much comfort afterwards. Although our guides had by this time got to the other side, our anxiety was not diminished; we were unable to conquer the reluctance excited in our minds by the view and noise of the water, the rapidity of the current, which shewed itself at two openings, and by the apparent fragility of the crust of ice which was to support us in the midst of the stream. With exemplary discretion we embraced the wise expedient (which made our Finlandish peasants laugh immoderately) of creeping upon our knees, passing a hillock of ice that obstructed our way in that humble posture, and on sliding on our seat to the opposite side, where we joined our sledge, which waited our arrival. This ridiculous scene was highly entertaining, and converted into mirth the terror of all our dangers.

"Having crossed the river at this place, our guides informed us that we had no farther occasion for them, and that we might pursue our journey without the least apprehension. They instantly left us, without waiting for any sort of recompence for their services; and when we called them back, and offered them money, they seemed astonished that we should think of rewarding them. One of them remained deaf to all our importunities, refused our money with firmness and dignity, and went away without it. Our narrow minds, that are filled with notions of what is called refinement, are at a loss to conceive how those people, who appear so poor and low in our eyes, merely because they have not a coat

cut after the model of ours, should refuse money, and submit to so much toil, only for the pleasure of being useful to others, and for the insipid satisfaction of doing good. Such examples, but too rare and too little known in the polished circles of great towns, are not so in those places which are far removed from a metropolis, where morals have become the victim of selfish and corrupt passion. It is the traveller, who, constantly carrying about with him his ideas of civilization (which is often only a different name for a system of refined selfishness), introduces his degraded notions into the bosom of a simple people, obliging from instinct, and generous and beneficent from nature. We for ever consider it as an incumbent upon us to reward every little attention with money; and knowing no gratification equal to that of receiving pecuniary acknowledgment, we render the purest pleasure of our nature venal by the recompences we bestow, and corrupt and debase by views of interest that sense of duty which is cherished by a sentiment of pleasure, and enjoyed by every moral heart upon performing a good action to his fellow men."

Chap. XVI. In continuing their journey, having travelled over rivers which were covered with snow of a dirty colour, they were surprised and alarmed at coming to a river where the ice, transparent as crystal, discovered under our feet the whole depth of the element below, insomuch that see the smallest we could even fishes.

The next place visited is Wasa, the first town in Ostrobothnia; a description of its trade and government occupies the remaining part of this chapter.

Chap. XVII. Leaving Wasa, they pass on to Gamla Carleby, from whence, says the author, "we continued our journey on the ice, and experienced a new sensation peculiar to this mode of travelling. We have before observed, that the frost is here so intense as to arrest the sea in its waving motion. The sun becoming more powerful with the advancement of the season, melted considerably the ice on the surface. The water thus produced during the day, collected in the cavities or furrows, and formed little pools or rivulets, which we were under the necessity of

CV. A NARATIVE of the Life of Sarah Shade, born at Stoke Edith, in the County of Hereford. Containing many well authenticated and curious Facts, more particularly during her Voyage to the East Indies, in the New Devonshire Indiaman, in the Year 1769; and in traversing that Country in Company with the Army, at the Sieges of Pondicherry, Velore, Negapatam, &c. &c. Together with some extraordinary Accounts of the Ferocity of Tigers, Jackals, Piah Dogs, Vultures, &c. Taken down by SOME GENTLEMEN, and published for her Benefit.

HIS short narrative owes its

ing the pigeons disturbed, she went out to see what was the cause of it, when she perceived a tiger cat in the act of seizing one of her pigeons, on which she had the resolution to catch up a stick with intent to rescue the bird. At this moment the animal dropped the pigeon, and made a spring at her; when, stooping down to avoid the attack, and placing her hands together to keep the animal off, the tiger cat literally seized both her hands in his mouth, when fear gave her the resolution to grasp hold of the root of his tongue, so as to prevent, in a great measure, the animal's endeavours to bite her, though she bears to this day the marks of

tion, intended for the benefit of the poor of this metropolis, and ultimately to relieve the public from the numerous mendicants, whom the pressure of the times has driven to the painful necessity of asking alms in the streets. Among many very poor but deserving objects who attended to tell their tales of woe, appeared the subject of this history; and the relation of it coutaining many curious incidents, gave the idea of taking it down more fully than would otherwise be required; and it is now made public, in hopes of obtaining some present relief for those wants occasioned by long illness."

This narrative, as might be expected from the title, abounds with the marvellous; but as the gentlemen who examined Sarah Shade appear satisfied with respect to her veracity, it does not become us, who know nothing of the individual, to question the credibility of her story: we shall therefore only give two or three extracts, which will be sufficient to excite the curiosity of our readers to peruse the whole, especially considering the benevolent object of the publication.

"At Tritchinopoly she remained about eighteen months, living in a house he had built for her on the rock; and during her stay there, one of the extraordinary incidents, which form the substance of this narrative, and which, with the motive of benevolence, were the inducement to its publication, occurred, and is as follows

-Being in the habit of keep ing pigeons in a place she had erected for them near her own habitation, and one morning, very early, hear

quence, in a desperate state, attended by Doctors Lucas and Sinclair, who were attached to the garrison; but was ultimately cured by a poor Portuguese woman, who had come to ask the charity of a seer of rice. Such was the malignity of the bite and scratches of the animal, that she swelled to an almost inconceivable degree; and but for the timely appearance of her husband, and Serjeant Lamb of the artillery, she would inevitably have fallen a sacrifice to her temerity; for though her husband pierced him with his bayonet near the heart, and Serjeant Lamb on the flank, it was with the greatest difficulty they could overcome the animal, and keep him down -a fact notorious to all the garrison, who flocked to see the creature when dead. Indeed, there is at this moment a man of the name of John Anderson, an out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital, then a serjeant at Tritchinopoly, who well remembers the circumstance." p. 9-11.

"During one of the excursions from Tritchinopoly to Madras, with two battalions of sepoys, commanded by Captain Watts, another incident happened, shewing the undaunted ferocity of the tiger. A young wo man, a native of the country, by whom Lieutenant Kennedy had a son, and who was near her time with another child, was carried off in the middle of the ranks, whilst riding on a bullock, by a large tiger, who sprang from out of the jungle, and seized her by the throat. The detachment halted in consequence; and, after a three days search, discovered the retreat of the animal, which proved to

be a female, having two whelps about the size of terrier dogs. The dam was shot, and the young taken alive, and secured by muffling the fore paws, and muzzing their mouths. In the den, which was of the size of a moderate room, and in which a man could stand upright, were discovered various ornaments of dress; among the number) of which the narrator was an eye witness, she recollects the following articles, besides those worn by the unfortunate female just mentioned; a star of real pearls set in gold, a gold watch, two silver watches, several pieces of gold chains much mutilated, a number of gold rings, and a gold snake, large enough to go round the body of a man, of considerable value, with various other valuable articles, and many bones belonging to unhappy persons who had fallen victims to the animal's ferocity. The two young tigers were afterwards sent as a present to the Nabob of Tritchinopoly." p. 12, 13.

From the Appendix we give the following:

CROWS-BRAMINEE KITES.

"Crows, in Bengal, are excessively numerous they are of a dark lead colour. They are esteemed very serviceable, by destroying great quantities of carrion, which, in that hot climate, would otherwise infect the air. The crows are held in a kind of veneration by the natives; and even the Europeans respect them so much, as seldom to shoot or otherwise destroy them. When driven by hunger, they constantly attend the houses of Europeans at meal times, and, frequently before the guests are seated, dart through the opened windows, and carry off any thing they find convenient. At breakfast it is common to eat boiled eggs, of the shells whereof they are very fond, and will come within a yard or two of you to fetch them. I remember a pleasant story of a man, whose name was Robert Taylor, who had long been un

they had swallowed, were become totally bare of feathers on the head and neck, and continued so for many years after, being commonly known by the name of Bob Taylor's crows. I saw many of them after my arrival, though Mr. Taylor had left the coun try more than two years before.

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"Braminee kites are birds much like English hawks in figure and colour, though more than thrice as large. They are birds of prey, and are, as the crows, very useful in the cousumption of putrid substances. They are extremely voracious, and will very frequently dart down, and with their talons, carry off articles out of people's hands. I saw an instance once, at the house of Messrs. Roach and Johnston, where I had been invited to dine while, with a number of others, I walked the verandah (or balcony) which overlooked the back yard, and the servants were crossing the same with the dinner, a kite suddenly threw itself from the corner of an opposite house, and, fixing its talons in a small boiled turkey, carried it off smoking hot to the top of the building, from whence he had descended, leaving the empty dish in the hands of the servant. Another time, I saw a kite dart down on a servant of my own, and fairly knock a plate and bason of soup out of his hands. A favourite cat, which I had while in Calcutta, was dropped into my court-yard, while a kitten, from the claws of a kite. The Hindoos have a religious veneration for them, and are said to worship there." p.37

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CVI. SACRED BIOGRAPHY; er, The History of Jesus Christ. Being a Course of Lectures, delivered at the Scots Church, London-Wall. By HENRY HUNTER, D. D. val. VII. 8vo.

R. HUNTER is well known to the literary world, not only as the translator of Lavater, Euler, Saurin, &c. but also as the author of six volumes of sermons, entitled Scripture Biography, to the new edition of which the volume before us is an ap pendage and conclusion. The ge neral subject is the Life of Christ, and the particular topics (as there is

no list of them) may be judged of from the following table of texts: Lecture I. John i. 1-14.-II. Is. liii. 8. -III. Haggai ii. 6-9.IV. Luke i. 11-40.-V. Luke i. 26 -33.- -VI. Luke ii. 1—14.- -VII. Luke ii, 40.- -VIII. Luke ii. 4152.-IX. Luke iii. 21-23.-X. Matt. iv. 1-11.—XI. Luke iv. 13 -32.-XII. Luke iv. 16—22.XIII. Luke iv. 20-32.-XIV. Matt. iv. 12-22.- -XV. Luke x. 17-22.-XVI. John ii. 1—11.— XVII. Luke iv. 38-44.- -XVIII. John ii. 13-17.— -XIX. John ii. 18-25-XX. 1 Cor. xv. 35-44. -XXI. John iv. 46-54.-XXII. Matt. viii. 5-12.-XXIII. John vi.

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As a specimen we shall give a considerable part of

"LECTURE II.

“Isaiah liii. 8. Who shall declare his

generation?

"The history of countries generally cominences with a geographical account of their situation and extent; of the climate and soil; of the names and the reason of imposing such names; of the era and the means of discovery; of the original inhabitants, and of other circumstances tending either to communicate useful information or to gratify curiosity. The biographer, in like manner, in delineating the life of his prince, statesman, hero, or philosopher, usually begins with tracing his pedigree and parentage, and enables the reader to form some acquaintance with his ancestors, in order to introduce the personage himself with greater advantage and effect. But both the general historian and the biographer quickly lose themselves in research. The origin of no nation or individual can be traced up to its source. The light becomes fainter and fainter as we proceed, the object is rendered more obscure and uncertain, till time at length spreads his sable mantle over it, and we behold it no more. Who then shall declare his generation, who was in the beginning with God, by whom all things were made, and without whom was not any thing made that is made.'

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We are advancing, men and brethren, upon holy ground; ground sacred as Eden's blissful plains, as the region which surrounded the bush that burned with fire, as Sinai's awful summit. Borne aloft on the pinions of the celestial dove, we are aiming

"The question of the prophet which has now been read, and which suggested the idea that we mean to pursue through this Lecture is interwoven with a variety of pointed and striking predictions which, whether taken separately or in their combination, can apply only to one person; and who that person is, no doubt can possibly be entertained when we consider, that this is the very passage of Scripture to which Philip the Evangelist was providentially directed, as a text for preaching Jesus,' to the Ethiopian Eunuch. I shall not employ any part of your time in detailing the various opinions which have been entertained respecting the meaning of the passage in general, or the precise import of the term generation' in particular. The question appears simply to be a bold defiance given to all created wisdom to investigate, to unfold the generation, the origin, the essence of that wonderful person concerning whom such singular circum. stances and events are predicted; it amounts to a strong and positive affirmation that it is impossible to declare Him as he is, to trace his existence through the successive periods of duration up to its commencement, as you may do that of a mere man from the moment of his birth, or through a series of ancestors. What, in this view, is the obvious doctrine of the text? That the generation of Him whom the Spirit of prophecy, and the corresponding history represent as an innocent, patient, vicarious sufferer, extends beyond the sphere of created nature, eludes pursuit, spreads the glory of eternity around it, and