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Now he shakes his pond'rous spear.-
Yet hear, O Mars! a moment hear.
Think on the Orphan's piercing cries;
Think on the Matron's ftreaming eyes;
Think on the dying Father's fpeechlefs woe:-
Oh! think on these, and yet fufpend the blow.

And thou, Bellona! who wert wont
Across th' embattled field to drive:
Thy foaming courfers, urging ftill
Thy brother to the burled fight.
The while fell difcord rudely dight.

In tatter'd garments flies the car before

Her tatter'd garments drench'd (O dreadful fight!) in' human gore!

To thee we bend. O Goddefs! grant our prayer.
Quick from forth this blood-ftain'd plain,

Turn thy chariot's falchion'd wheels:

O contemplate yon heaps of flain;

Think on the pangs our country feels Our country, once of useful arts the nurse.

Now groaning from a Tyrant's heavieft, deadlieft curfe.

To the Editor of the Bee.

WHAT name fo proper to exprefs

A well directed plan,

That boasts the philanthropic aim,

Of usefulness to man.

The Bee from every op'ning flower,

Culls with induftrious care,

Those sweets, which wrought within her cell,

Afford delicious fare,

Whether they grace the gay parterre,

Or deck the humble plain;

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From all, fome beneficial store

She labours to obtain.

And thus, through all th' expanded fields

Of fcience you may roam,
And while felecting foreign fweets,
Enrich your native home!

A fimple flowret of the mead,
No ftores can I impart,

Yet would I then the wifh exprefs
That glows within my heart.

May every liberal, useful art
Adorn this favour'd Ifle!
There may the peaceful virtues dwell,
And fofter'd genius fmile.

And may the labour of the Bee,
To noble ends inclin❜d,
Meet fuccefs, and obtain applaufe
From every candid mind."

May nothing trifling, falfe, or vain,
Its notice e'er engage,
But learning, reafon, fenfe and truth,
Illumine every page;

Nor ever feel th' envenom'd shafts,
That baneful envy throws;
The malice of pretended friends,
Or fcorn of open foes.

And, glorying in my country's pride,

I'll gladly hail the day,

When firft your infant work infpir'd
This tributary lay.

SCOTIANNA

The Parish of Holywood from Sir John Sinclair's ftatifical account of Scotland.

Origin of the Name.

HOLYWOOD is evidently derived from the holy wood, or grove of oak trees, which furrounded a large Druidical temple still standing, within half a mile of the parishchurch. It is formed of twelve very large whin or moor ftones as they are called, which inclose a circular piece of ground of about eighty yards in diameter. The oaks have now all perifhed; but there is a tradition of their existing in the last age. Many of their roots have been dug out of the ground by the prefent minifter; and he has ftill one of them in his poffeffion.

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Situation, Extent, and Surface. The parish lies in the divifion of the county of Dumfries, called Nithfdale, in the Prefbytery and Synod of Dumfries. It is about ten English miles long, and one and an half broad, on an average. It is bounded by the parish of Dumfries on the east; by Terregles, Kirkpatrick-Irongray, and Kirkpatrick-Durham, on the fouth; by a fmall part of Glencairn, and a large tract of Dunfcore, on the west and north; and by Lirkmahoe on the north-eaft. Being fituated in the middle of a broad valley, it is in general flat and low land. The hills in the parish are neither high nor rocky.

Rivers.-The River Nith runs along the whole of the east end of the parish, interfecting it, however, in one place for above a mile in length. The river Cluden, also a confiderable one, runs along the fouth fide of the parish above eight miles, and interfects it in three places, emptying it felf into the Nith in the fouth-eaft corner of the parish, near the old College or Proveftry of Lincluden, which stands on the Galloway fide of the river, in the parish of Terregles.

Fifb.-The Cluden abounds in fine burn trouts, a few pike of a middle fize, and of excellent quality, fome falmon, fome fea trout, and herlings t. The Nith produces the

+ Herlings are a small kind of trout, a little larger than a herring, and haped like a falmon; its flesh is reddish like that of the falmon or jaa

fame kinds of fifh, but with this difference, that the herlings, fea trout and falmon, are much more plentiful in it than in the Cluden. One peculiarity deferves particular notice: Though the two rivers join at the fouth-eaft corner of the parish, each has its own diftinct fpecies of falmon. The Cluden falmon are confiderably thicker and fhorter in their body, and greatly fhorter in their head than thofe of the Nith. The burn trouts abound in the fpring and fummer; the herlings and fea trout in July and Auguft; and the falmon from the beginning of March to the beginning of October. The falmon is in the greatest perfection in June and July. In the fpring it fells for about one fhilling a pound of fixteen ounces, and gradually decreafes in price as the feafon advances, to 2 d. a pound. It is all fold in the town of Dumfries, and to the families in the adjacent country. Dumfries being fo near, and many of the fishermen living in the town, the price in that market, and on the fpot where it is caught in this parith, it always the fame. The prices of the other kinds of fifh are always a little lower than that of falmon; and they rife and fall with it. About ten years ago, the price of fifh in this country was fcarcely half of what it is at prefent. The increased price is perhaps owing, in part, to the increafed confumption, and luxury of the inhabitants, but principally to the great demand for this fifh, to fupply the rich and populous manufacturing towns in Lancafhire; for within thefe laft ten years, very confiderable quantities of fresh salmon have been fent, by land carriage, into that country, from the Solway Frith, and the mouths of all the rivers that run into it.

Soil.--The foil of this parish is of four different kinds,viz. a confiderable tract of land,about a fourth part of the parish in the east, along the river Nith, and on the fouth for about feven miles up the river Cluden, is a deep, rich, light loam, and free from ftones: 2d, Another fourth part, contiguous to the former, is a light, dry, fertile foil, lying on a bed of fandy gravel, producing heavy crops of corn and grafs in a fhowery feafon; but it is greatly parched up in dry feasons;

trout, but confiderably paler. They abound in all the rivers in this part of the country, and have the name of herling in all the adjoining patimes.

3d, Another fourth part, which joins this laft, is a deep trong loam, interfperfed with ftones, upon a tilly' bed; it is naturally wet, ftiff to plough, and not fo fertile as either of the two former; but, when drained, limed, and properly wrought, more productive both of corn and grafs than either of them, in all varieties of seasons, excepting only a cold and wet fummer. 4th, The remaining part which is hilly, is fomewhat fimilar to the last, only not so deep and wet; it produces a kind of grafs, neither very fine nor very coarfe, which in fome of the higher parts of the hills is mixed with heath, and a few other hard weeds.

Air, Climate,&c-The air is dry, and remarkably wholefome. The fingular healthinefs of the inhabitants, may, however, be attributed to the following caufes. They do not live in towns or even villages; they are not employed in fedentary occupations; being either country gentlemen or farmers; they live in houfes detached from each other; they are engaged in active employments in the open air ; they are industrious, fober and cheerful. The drynefs of the air, is owing to the peculiar local fituation of the parifh. The clouds intercepted by the hills on every fide, float in fogs on the top of them, while the inhabitants enjoy a clear and dry air in the valley. At other times when the clouds break into rain on the hills, or the fides of the valley, while the fkirts of the fhowers only reach its central parts. Add to thefe circumftances, that the two rapid rivers carry off the fuperfluous water from the land, and the moisture from the air.

Seed-time, and Harveft.-The time of fowing wheat is from the middle of September to the middle of October; oats, pease, beans, hemp, and flax, from the 10th of March to the middle of April; potatoes and barley from the middle of April to the 10th of May; and turnips from the Icth to the 24th of June. The harveft generally begins about or before the middle of August: and the crop is got totally into the barns, and barn-yards, by the end of Sep.tember. In cold and wet feafons, like the laft, it is, however, fomewhat later.

Epidemical Difeafes.-No local diftempers, or fickness of any kind are prevalent in the parish. In the months of February and March, indeed, fome fevers appear among the

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