find that Adams, in his admirable work on Roman antiquities has fallen into the same mistake. Our translator has discovered also his ignorance of a Greek word in the last book of the Odyssey, v. 226 where Tavor is used. It means pruning, and not levelling, and Logan in correcting a mistake of Cicero, has fallen into one of his own. Once more; after relating the speech of Cyrus on his death bed, when he expresses his hopes of immortality, Cicero concludes, "Cyrus quidem hæc moriens, Nos, si placet, nostra videamus.” This Logan has render ed "and now to mention some of our own people ;" whereas the meaning undoubtedly is, as Melmothhas given it, "permit me now to express my own sentiments." These are the principal instances. in which Logan appears to have discovered a want of intimacy with the language, and surely his sins of ignorance are very few. He has frequently, however, mistaken the meaning of passages, through mere inattention; and some of these sins of negligence we proceed now to note. CATALOGUE [To be continued.] OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, FOR JUNE, 1808. Sunt bona, sunt quædam mediocria, sunt mala plura....................Mart. NEW WORKS. An Address delivered before the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society, on Friday, May 27, 1808. By Charles Paine, esq. Boston, printed by Russell & Cutler. of the state of Massachusetts. By a citizen of New York. Price 1 shilling. A Sermon delivered at the Installation of the Rev. James Miltimore, to the pastoral care of the 4th church in Newbury, April 27. By Joseph Buckminster, D. D. pastor of the 1st church in Porismouth, (N. H.) A Sermon delivered May 26, 1808, in Brattle Street Church, Boston, before the convention of the Congregational Min- A Treatise on Trigonometry and Navisters of the commonwealth of Massa-igation, containing an explanation of their chusetts. 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Collins & Perkins, New York, have commenced an American edition of Bell's Principles of Surgery. The English edition sells at 60 dollars. The American edition, it is intended, shall be equal in every essential point, and be rendered at less than half that price. In the press of Manning and Loring of this town, Doddridge's Lectures on Preaching, and the various branches of the ministerial office; in 1 vol. 12mo. Thomas and Whipple of Newburyport, have in the press, The Village Cu rate, a poem. By J. Hurdis, B. D. Pre ON THE MANGANESE FOUND IN VER- small a quantity to be considered au object of MONT. Gentlemen of the Anthology, Mr. Geo. Higginson has transmitted to me a mineral, sent to him by the superintendant of the iron works of Monkton, in the state of Vermont. This mineral is the black oxyded Manganese Hauy; its colour is a dark greyish black, its texture compact, it is formed in orbicular, or mamillary concretions, the interstices of which are coated with the same substance chrystalized in small thomboidal, four sided prisms of a lustre and colour like polished steel. Experiments, to which I have submitted it, indicate that it exists almost free of extraneous matters, and in an high degree of oxydation. According to the information communicated to me by Mr. Higginson, it forms a powerful stratum of about two or three feet thick, from whence may be inferred that it is sufficient to set America free from the necessity of importing a substance, which is of some importance in several manufactures. This mineral is accompanied with a yellowish brown clay, strongly impregnated with oxyd of Manganese, which may be employed in the manufacture of pottery ware. I have obtained from it, and shewn to several gentlemen of this town, a kind of pottery very much re sembling the black pottery of Wedgewood. NOTE. Manganese is found also in the vicinity of Boston, (7 miles south) but in teo utility. S. GODON. NEW SYSTEM OF NOTATION. We understand from Mr. Pelham, that his System of Notation applied to Johns son's Rasselas has been several weeks in the press, andwill, in afew days be ready for publication. The time, labour, and expense necessary to produce this specimen of a new kind of printing have much exceeded the first calculations. This circumstance, however, we are assured has only increased the author's desire of rendering the work acceptable to his subscribers and the publick, and by no means diminished his attention to the neatness and correctness of the typographical execution. EDITORS' NOTE. IN former numbers of the Anthology, we bave published several articles of Intelligence, which we selected from the Medical Reposito ry, a work deserving high commendation, published in New-York. As many of the articles, particularly one respecting Col. Gibbs' grand cabinet of Minerals, and the account of the American Tourmaline, which was mutilated by a mistake of the printers, without the know!edge of the editors, have been republished in several newspapers in various parts of the United States, and the Anthology quoted as their authority, we feel it our duty to make this at knowledgement. THE MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY. FOR JULY, 1808. For the Anthology. INTERMENT OF THE DEAD. Gentlemen, THE manner, in which we dispose of the dead, can never be a question uninteresting to the living. Ere long to become members of that tranquil community, we feel unusual solicitude in the inquiry, what is to become of us, at a time when we shall have suffered a change so important. Probably it was intended by the wise economy of Divine Providence, that death should be regarded by mankind as a curious matter of philosophick speculation and an evil that may happen, rather than one to be proved by infallible experiment. We tremble at the thought of sickness and pain, because these our bodies have endured, and by recurrence to memory, we can feel our former sufferings again. Death on the other hand wants that test of reality never having experienced the change, we cannot bring it home to our minds with such distinct perceptions of its nature.. Could we feel as forcibly the latter evil as the former, life would pass off in gloomy forebodings, and occupy so large a portion of our thoughts, as to leave no room for considerations, which, Vol. V. No. VII. 2 T although indispensable, are comparatively insignificant. It is however a departure from the design of this essay to dwell on our fortitude or fears, as they very remotely touch the subject now under consideration. Our present mode of interring the dead, is liable to a variety of objections, which we shall suggest as they arise, without a strict adherence to methodical arrangement. One of the objects of our solicitude is now, and ever has been, to perpetuate the memory of the dead. For this purpose grave stones are erected, describing the name, character and family of the deceased, and many of them may be said with far more truth than poetry to "Implore the passing tribute of a sigh." In cities swarming with population, such as London or Paris for instance, they feel peculiar reverence for the repositories of the dead. Westminster Abbey is not more venerable for the sepulchres of kings and heroes, than it is for the antiquity of those mansions. The chisel has lent its assistance; the heroes of England are frowning in marble; but the skill of the most consummate artist is incompetent to excite that solemnity of thought, which we derive from consciousness that we are treading on their ashes. At the successful attempt to redeem the memory of the great we are struck with astonishment; but our reflection over their tombs is a tacit satire on the ability of the artist, and admonishes us, that of those great men nothing but the cold memorial exists. Nations, both antient and modern, have regarded it as one of their indispensable duties, to dedicate certain portions of their ground to the repose of their dead, and to keep them inviolate. Whatever increase of population may enhance the value of their lands, still they do not think of trespassing on the graves of their countrymen. Every generation augments this veneration in the eyes of the subsequent, until the frequency of interment endangers the health of the survivors. So strong was this attachment in revolutionary France, that the National Convention to dissipate more effectually the charm, invaded the recesses of their slumbering princes, and plundered those gloomy apartments of their silent inhabitants. Louis, our old benefactor, was denied the privilege of decay, and interred in quick lime, that no vestige might be left, where loyalty might repair by stealth and shed a tear over the vicissitude of human great ness. the living and the dead, that the bones of our ancestors shall be mingled with our own and await the day of resurrection together. These feelings are not the offspring of civilization: nature has impressed them on her children in the wildernes. When the Scythians retreated from Darius, and abandoned their forests without regret, the ambassadours of that barbarous race admonished the haughty monarch not to meddle with the graves of their parents. To the disgrace of our country it must be confessed, that we appear to be in a manner strangers to those endearments and regards felt by almost all other nations ancient or modern, civilized or savage. We violate without reluctance or remorse the enclosures consecrated to the dead. We traffick in the bones of our ancestors, and barter away their mouldering bodies to nourish the growth of a cabbage or a tulip. We see with unconcern the implements of husbandry pass over their heads, and it is no uncommon thing to behold their sepulchres converted into barns. Posterity will scarcely give credit to the tale, that we have followed our fathers to the grave, shed tears of anguish on the turf, and then disposed of their bones at publick auction. This new article of merchandize, may hereafter turn to some profit, for it has been, "credite posteri !" ascertained that such enclosures are far more propitious to vegetation than others, on account of the substances composing the soil. How much our ancestors may be worth, and how much they ought to be revered by their posterity, bids fair to depend on the small or large extent of ground, which they occupy in their graves. Modern philosophy, which has kindly undertaken the correc It is a kind of compact between tion of heaven, and would fain make In times of pestilence and disease, mortality has been so prevalent, and the grave yard so crowded with victims, that noxious vapours have exhaled from their corruption, which, mingling with the gloom of an inauspicious sky, have enlarged the contagion and made its poison more inveterate. |