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Recipe for the Bite of a Mad Dog.

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poolsofwater, which have a strong taste | Shrimps are in abundance, if I may judge by the quantities which we found in the maws of the penguin and seal, when killed. There are clams on the rocks which are eatable.

of brimstone; the water not the least frozen, when all around was nothing butice. There are quantities of pumice stone to be picked up in different places; and in one of the isles which form Esther Harbour, the whole of the rock of which it is composed is strongly impregnated with brimstone. In fact, by putting a piece of the rock into the fire, it will burn away, leaving nothing but a cinder.

"The westermost island contains coals in great abundance; and I think the whole of them include vast masses of iron ore, as the bottoms of the different rivulets seem impregnated with quantities of iron rust. Indeed I think there must be quantities of metals of different descriptions here.

"I wish I could say something in favour of its vegetable productions; but, alas little or nothing of that can be said. There is not a tree, not a bush, not a shrub, not a flower, in all the islands. There is a little coarse moss here and there, and in Potter's Cove there is a small plot of land with a little grass of a small kind, and very

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"Animals there are none, nor is there the least appearance that any have ever trodden these inhospitable regions.

"Birds are plentiful and various. The penguins, which are innumerable, are of three different sorts; namely, the crown penguin, with a red tuft on its head, and beautiful yellow and black plumage; 2d, without the tuft, but of similar plumage; 3d, the black and white one. All of these have a very disagreeable smell. There are also sea-gulls, gannets, Cape hens, and a sort of pigeon, which is the only bird that has not a web-foot; and I think these last must have been blown from South America in the heavy north-west gales.

"Fishes are likewise in abundance and variety. The black whale and the fin-back whale are numerous, but I believe there are not any spermaceti whales here, at least I did not see any, or hear of any person who did. However, the grampus, the porpoise, the sea elephant, and the seal, are in vast quantities. There is also a very delicate fish to be caught near the different detached rocks, which I call the black or rock cod, weighing from 4lbs. to 8lbs. the only catable fish taken here.

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'Taking this land altogether, it appears only fit for a temporary residence for the sea elephant, the seal, and the different aquatic birds that inhabit it during the summer season.

"R. SHERRATT."

According to Mr. Sherratt's statement, originally inserted in his chart, but which we have transferred to this place, "the most prevailing winds are S.W. and N.E. When the wind veers to N.E. it generally blows a gale, accompanied with snow storms. The S.W. is for the most part fresh with clear weather, the thermometer varying from 25° to 27° and 40°. The N.E. wind is the coldest. The currents are very strong through the straits. Rise of tide eight feet. Flows, full and change, at eight o'clock. Flood sets in to the S.W. Potter's Cove is the safest anchorage."

A RECIPE for the cure oF THE BITE

OF A MAD DOG.-COMMUNICATED BY
E. RIDER.

TAKE leaves of rue, picked from the stalk and bruised, Venice treacle, or mithridate, and sweepings of pewter, of each 4 oz. Boil all these over a slow fire, in two quarts of strong ale, till one pint is consumed; then keep it in bottles closely stopped. Give of it nine spoonfuls to a man or woman, warm, every morning, fasting, for seven mornings together.

This, if given within nine days after the biting of the dog, will prevent the hydrophobia ;-apply some of the ingredients from which the liquor was strained to the bitten part.

This recipe was taken out of Culthorp Church some years ago; the whole town being bitten by a mad dog, and all that took this medicine did well, while all the rest died mad.

N.B. It is added, that many years experience have proved that this is an effectual cure.

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POETRY.

THE COUNTRY MINISTER.

Poetry.

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Under whose branches he would often sit

In silent meditation, at the morning's dawn,At noon,-at night,—when, thro' their lofty boughs

The moon would peep to catch a sight of him:
Yes; there he sat, and thought upon his flock,
(Their welfare ever was upon his mind)
And studied o'er their happiness on earth,
And would lead them from the earth to look,
And fix their wandering thoughts on heaven.
Nor did those studies unrewarded pass,
For soon the village, that he call'd his own,
Was noted for the peace and joy that reign'd;
All its inhabitants were one in love;-

No jarring strife, no angry words, were there,
The summer evening's breeze pass'd over it,
Nor told a tale, nor took with it a sound
Of drunken revelry, as once it did

To neighbouring vales: no; all was still;
Under their pastor's care the flock increas'd,
Increas'd in knowledge, virtue, happiness;
And when the labours of the day were o'er,
The peasant homeward bent his weary feet,
And spent the evening in domestic joys;
Heard on his knee his young ones say their
prayers,

And then to God himself and all resign'd,
And sunk in "balmy sleep.".

He was belov'd by all:-The young and old
Alike their artless smiles upon him cast,
As, with his pleasing looks, he bent his way
On sabbath morn to yonder white-worn church;
And, as he slowly pass'd each cottage door,
The modest matron with the child in arms
Was seen to bend in token of respect,
While close behind a group of children, clean
And neatly dress'd, attended to his call,
Happy, thrice happy to obey his voice.

When sickness rag'd within the humble cot, He oft was seen with med'cine in his hand, Prepar'd from herbs his little fields supplied; Prompt to the summons, walking with the child,

The sorrowing child, who had to him been sent, To tell the tidings of the dire disease

That had his father, mother, brother, seiz'd:At the bed-side arriv'd, the fervent prayer Was offer'd, and the sufferer soon reliev'd.

But see, strange marks of woe are on each cheek;

The pastor lies upon the bed of pain, By sickness brought almost to death's dark door;

And daily there was seen the attentive flock; And soon as one retires another comes To bid his last farewell with heavy heart :And now he feels the chilly hand of death Is nigh to him, and with a smile he says, "Dear friends, 1 go beyond that clear, blue sky," (Pointing his hand to heav'n) "and, oh! may

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May you" (his faultering voice was scarcely

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May you be with me there-let not my prayers,

My exhortations, all be lost-believeBelieve in God-he then will with you be, When on your death-bed plac'd."-His hand was rais'd,

The film of death was on his half-clos'd eye, He on his pillow sank, and breath'd no more. All seem to mourn the good man's early The birds that in the morning oft were fed death; (Not as they once were wont) a note of wee: By his benevolent hand,-are heard to sing The flowers that nodded as he walk'd along, And paid him for his care by their sweet scent,

Now miss th' attentive hand that water'd them, And prop'd their drooping heads :—the eyes of all

Throughout the peaceful, fruitful spot, are wet With briny tears.

I heard the great bell toll-the doleful sound

Ran the whole village through-all left their homes

To pay the tribute to departed worth:
The mournful train now slowly pass along,
Attended by a numerous throng of every age,
From tender youth to the grey-headed sire;
A death-like silence reigns around the grave,
Save only sobs that burst from the full heart:
The earth is heard to fall, and "dust to dust"
Escapes the lips of him who up-raised stands.
With head uncovered, and with heavy hearts
The sorrowing throng depart.-

And since that day ten moons have wax'd and wan'd;

And now upon his grave the grass has grown, White daisies too are seen mix'd here and there,

And rose-leaves, that have fallen from that stalk

Now nearly leafless :-it was planted there
By one who lov'd him, on the following day
To that which bore him to his "couch of rest:"
The birds now perch upon the humble stone,
That tells his name to all who travel by,
And swell their little throats--the nightly
dews

Fall on it---all around is lovely,---calm,---
And happy, as his soul !
Acton Place.

LINES,

M. M.

Written by an aged Lady, who is suffering under a violent attack of the Rheumatic Gout.

Look down, O Lord, with pitying eyes, On one oppress'd with grief and pain; My suff'rings, Lord, do not despise,

This humble pray'r do not disdain. Thou great Physician, lend an ear

To all my groans, and pains, and sighs; Be thou, my Saviour, ever near,

To comfort me when troubles rise.

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To thee I look for health and ease,
Thou only can'st effect a cure;
From sin, and ev'ry fierce disease,
Dear Lord, I pray to be secure.
Help me, O Lord, to bear thy rod,
Without a murmur or a tear;
Possess'd of patience, blessed God,
May I my pains with calmness bear.
As sent by thee, will blessings prove,
To wean my soul from ev'ry toy;
Teach it, O Lord, to soar above,
To join in songs of love and joy.
Winchester, Hants, August 6, 1821.

ADDITIONAL VERSES TO

GRAVE,"

Poetry.

A. B.

"THE

A Poem, (inserted in the Imperial Magazine, vol. 2, col. 865,) extracted from the Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, for July, 1806.

HARK! a strange voice affrights mine ear,
My pulse, my brain, run wild, I rave.---
Ah! who art thou whose voice I hear?
"I am the Grave.

"The Grave that never spake before,
"Hath found at length a tongue to chide;
"O listen, or I speak no more---
"Be silent, pride!
"Art thou a wretch of hope forlorn,
"The victim of consuming care?
"Is thy distracted conscience torn
"By fell despair?

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"In woman hadst thou plac'd thy bliss, And did the fair one faithless prove? "Hath she betrayed thee with a kiss, "And sold thy love?

"Love! 'twas a false bewild'ring fire: "Too often love's insidious dart "Thrills the fond soul with sweet desire "But kills the heart.

"A nobler flame shall warm thy breast, "A brighter maiden's virtuous charms; "Blest shalt thou be, supremely blest In beauty's arms!

"Whate'er thy lot, whoe'er thou be, "Confess thy folly, kiss the rod; "And in thy chast'ning sorrows see "The hand of God!

"A bruised reed he will not break,
"Afflictions all his children feel:
"He wounds them for his mercy's sake---
"He wounds to heal!

"Humbled beneath his mighty hand,
"Prostrate his providence adore!
""Tis done---arise---he bids thee stand
"To fall no more.

"Now, traveller in this vale of tears
"To realms of everlasting light,
"Thro' time's dark wilderness of years
"Pursue thy flight!"

There is a calm for those that weep,
A rest for weary pilgrims found;
And while the mould'ring ashes sleep
Low in the ground,

The soul, of origin divine,
God's glorious image, freed from clay,
In heav'n's eternal sphere shall shine
A star of day!

The sun is but a spark of fire,
A transient meteor in the sky;
The soul, immortal as its sire,
Shall never die!

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Review-Evidences of Christianity.

How grand the features of thy changing face,
The boisterous waving of the dreadful storm;
Then sympathizing skies, with darting pace,
And frequent flashes, shew thine awful form!
Or, when thy glassy surface, still and clear,
Enchants me with reflected diamond rays;
And health inhaling, as the breezes veer,
I feel a joy ne'er felt in former days.

Thy wide expanse beyond man's eye extends,
To right or left the land no margin draws;
In contemplating thee, the moment rends
My soul from earth, and fixes on thy Cause.
June 11th, 1821.

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Hail, sacred morn! thy animating ray
Cheereth the pilgrim on his thorny way.
Hail, hallow'd morn! thy blest return I greet,
And hope in Zion's courts my God to meet.
Hail, happy day! of heav'nly joy and peace,
On this blest day labour and toil shall cease:
Stand forth, ye watchmen, and proclaim aloud,
Proclaim the honors of our risen God.
Hail, glorious day! sweet emblem of that rest,
When ransom'd sinners are in Jesus blest;
When freed from sin my spirit wings her
flight,

To dwell for ever in the realms of light.

J. C. H.

REVIEW.-4 clear, systematic View of the Evidences of Christianity, &c. &c. with Introductory Observations on the Popular Causes of Infidelity. By Joseph Macardy. 8vo. pp. 222. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown. 1821.

THIS is an excellent work, which requires only to be known to be duly valued. It is dedicated to the Episcopal and other Evangelical Clergy of Great Britain, not in a strain of fulsome adulation, but in a manner calculated to call their attention to the

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important subjects discussed in the subsequent pages. From this manly and Christian dedication we select the following paragraph, respecting the present condition of the Jews:

"In the apostolic age, Jews might become Roman citizens; their manners and aspect were not so singular as to be contemptuously remarked; their appellation was not disgraceful; they associated and intermixed with mankind generally; filled high official situations; and, instead of equality, possessed superior influence and distinction, and uncontrolled power. Why then, Gentlemen, are these people now so scattered? So insignificant, and proverbially contemptible? So exclusive in their appearance and demeanour? So restricted in their intercourse with all the nations of the earth? So miserable, and yet so united? So distinct from all, with whom they trade, and amongst whom they live? What principle, or material, can have entered into their constitution, to make them so different from all other people? So averse to general association? In fine, why do they not merge into contemporaneous modes of living; intermix with society; and obliterate the peculiarity of their manners and appearance?"-p. iv.

This paragraph contains an interesting question, which, unless we admit the truths of revelation, we shall in vain attempt to answer.

The work is divided into five books, and these are again subdivided into chapters. The first book infers the truth of Christianity from the nature and fulfilment of prophecy: the second founds its truth on the evidence furnished by profane authors: and the third reaches the same conclusion from sacred and early Christian writers. The fourth book is but remotely connected with the grand subject of the work. It contains three chapters, which treat of the Divinity of Christ, the plurality of the Godhead, and the Unity of the Godhead. The fifth is chiefly employed in stating Mr. Leslie's argument in favour of Christianity, and in answering objections raised by infidels against the authenticity of the sacred volume. The whole concludes with a summary of Mahometanism, as it stands compared or contrasted with the Christian

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Review-Captivity and Escape of Captain Knox.

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this author partakes of much origi- | evidence thus deduced from their writnality. To those who have examined ings relates to circumstances, which, the subject with attention, the argu- in the estimation of the authors, had ments will appear quite familiar, nor not the least bearing on prophetic does the writer attempt to present declarations. The accidental associthem in any other light. But it is not ation, therefore, gives an additional in the nature of truth to be impaired weight to the argument, and resolves either by age or repetition. The names the whole into the commanding influ of Paley, Butler, Newton, Jenyns, ence of truth. Haller, Simpson, Beattie, Lardner, Leslie, Jones, and Bonnet, from whose works Mr. Macardy has made selections, are rather calculated to excite attention than to repress expectation. On the subjects of miracle and prophecy, the author thus speaks:

"If the Author of Nature would have the declarations of such distinguished individuals accredited, some extraordinary credentials should be given. As the course of nature is generally observed, the power to effect a supernatural change in some known body, would be convincing. Or, knowing as we do, that our mental powers cannot penetrate futurity, the prediction of events, more or less remote, providing they are such as the foretellers cannot influence, control, or ascertain, would be satisfactory. Such a plan must prove unexceptionable; the former bringing present, the latter, probably, not distant, conviction. The wise, benevolent Author of our existence, well knowing what would be to us satisfactory and conclusive, accordingly made choice of these very means of attesting His communications with mankind. The former, we designate Miracles; the latter, Prophecy." p. 19.

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In pursuing the principles here laid down, the author appeals to fact and incident, and clearly proves that the predictions which were delivered by the ancient Sibyls, respecting a king to the Romans, which nature was about to bring forth," as recorded by the most respectable historians, received their fulfilment in the person of Jesus Christ, and that to him alone they were exclusively applicable. It is also equally evident, that these coincidences could not have arisen from any artifice or contrivance of him whom we denominate the Saviour of mankind, because numerous circumstances that were the distinct subjects of prophecy, related to his birth, his sufferings, his death, and his resurrection, over which it was impossible that he could have had any control. These facts decide against his being an impostor.

The numerous appeals which the author has made to the testimonies of heathen writers, are powerful and convincing, and their declarations are to be the more regarded, because they cannot be suspected of partiality. The No. 35. VOL. III,

Of Mr. Leslie's celebrated argument, the author thus gives an epitome. He lays down four rules as an infallible test of truth. First, that the fact be such, as that men's outward senses, their eyes and ears, may judge of it. Secondly, that it be done publicly, in the face of the world. Thirdly, that there be memorials of it, or monuments and actions kept up in memory of it. Fourthly, that such monuments, and such actions or observances, be instituted and do commence from the time that the fact took place.

Mr. Leslie does not argue that these concurrences are absolutely necessary to establish truth, but that, where these evidences concur, the matter attested cannot be false. These concurrences, he contends, meet together in evincing the truths of Christianity, and therefore he infers, that the Gospel cannot be either a fabrication or an imposture.

REVIEW.-An Account of the Captivity and Escape of Captain Robert Knox, who was detained nearly twenty years in the kingdom of Kandy, in the interior of Ceylon. Originally published by Captain Knox, in 1681, and re-published by W. M. Harvard, late Missionary in Ceylon. 8vo. pp. 167. London, Blanshard, 1821.

THIS little work seems to want nothing but novelty to recommend it; and to such readers as nothing but novelty. will captivate, we have neither time nor inclination to apologize.

There is something in personal adventure, and biographical narrative, that is always pleasing; and our interest is excited with a greater or less degree of intenseness in proportion as the incidents which are introduced to our notice, are more or less congenial with the manners and customs of nations with whom we have not been acquainted.

The vessel in which Captain Knox sailed for India, left the Downs on the 4 I

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