During the period when this dark abyss of waters prevailed, the earth was without form, and void; or better, as Hebricians say -the earth was invisible and unfurnished;' we may presume that then the early operations of geological formation and arrangement began, by producing the fundamental rocks, and thus providing materials for all the derivative strata, which, in the course of their consolidation, were destined to embosom such an endless diversity of extraneous contents.

"This theory, then, is satisfactory as far as it goes: like the one previously discussed, it fairly recognises and encounters the real difficulty in the case, and it would be quite sufficient to reconcile geology and the Mosaic history, as usually understood, did not the latter assign particular events to each of the successive periods called days; the most important of these events are, the first emergence of the mountains, and the creation of organized and living beings. It seems necessary, therefore, to embrace the days in the series of geological periods; and the difficulties of our subject will not be removed, unless we can show that there is time enough included in those periods called days, to cover the organic creation, and the formation of the rocks, in which the remains of these bodies are contained.

3. The days of the creation were periods of time of indefinite length."

The illustration of this view will require a separate article.

AULD ROBIN GRAY.

LADY ANNE BARNARD, who died in 1825, sister to the late Earl of Balcarras, and wife to Sir Andrew Barnard, wrote the charming song of Auld Robin Gray. A quarto tract, edited by the Ariosto of the North, "and circulated among the members of the Bannatyne club," contains the original ballad, as corrected by Lady Anne, and two continuations by the same authoress; while the introduction consists almost entirely of a very interesting letter from her to the Editor, dated July, 1823; part of which I take the liberty of inserting here :-" Robin Gray, so called from its being the name of the old herd at Balcarras, was born soon after the close of the year 1771: My sister Margaret had married, and accompanied her husband to London; I was melancholy, and endeavoured to amuse myself by attempting a few poetical trifles. There was an ancient Scotch melody of which I was passionately fond: , who died before your day, used to sing it to us at Balcarras. She did not object to its having improper words, though I did: I longed to sing old Sophy's air to different words, and give to its plaintive tones some little history of virtuous distress in humble life, such as might suit it. While attempting to effect this in my closet, I called my little sister, now Lady Hardwicke, who was the only person near me :-'I have been writing a ballad, my dear; I'am oppressing my heroine with many misfortunes. I have already sent her Jamie to sea,-and broken her father's arm,-made her mother fall sick, and given her Auld Robin Gray for a lover; but I wish to load her with a fifth sorrow within the four lines, poor thing! help me to one!' 'Steal the cow, sister Anne,' said the little Elizabeth. The cow was immediately lifted by me, and the song completed. At our fireside and among our neighbours, Auld Robin Gray was always called for. I was pleased with the approbation it met with; but such was my dread of being suspected of writing anything, perceiving the shyness it created in those who could write nothing, that I carefully kept my own secret. Meantime, little as this matter seems worthy of a dispute, it afterwards became a party question between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Auld Robin Gray was either a very ancient ballad composed perhaps by David Rizzio, and a great curiosity, or a very modern matter and no curiosity at all! I was persecuted to avow whether I had written it or not-where I had got it. Old Sophy kept my counsel, and I kept my own, in spite of the gratification of seeing twenty guineas offered in the newspapers to the person who should ascertain the point past a doubt, and the still more flattering circumstance of a visit from Mr. Jerningham, secretary of the Antiquarian Society, who endeavoured to entrap the truth from me in a manner I took amiss. Had he asked me the question obligingly, I should have told him the fact distinctly and confidentially. The annoyance, however, of this important ambassador from the Antiquaries was amply repaid to me by the noble exhibition of the ballet of Auld Robin Gray's Courtship,' as performed by dancing dogs under my windows. It proved its popularity from the highest to the lowest, and gave me pleasure while I hugged myself in obscurity."-From Specimens of British Poetesses, by A. Dyer.

WOMAN.

PLACE the white man on Afric's coast,
Whose swarthy sons in blood delight;
Who of their scorn to Europe boast,

And paint their very demons white:
There, while the sterner sex disdains
To soothe the woes they cannot feel,
Woman will strive to heal his pains,

And weep for those she cannot heal!
Hers is warm pity's sacred glow;
From all her stores she bears a part,
And bids the spring of hope reflow
That languished in the fainting heart.
"What, though so pale his haggard face,
So sunk and sad his looks," she cries:
"And far unlike our nobler race,

With crisped locks and rolling eyes?
Yet misery marks him of our kind:

We see him lost, alone, afraid;
And pangs of body, griefs in mind,
Pronounce him MAN, and ask our aid.
Perhaps, in some far distant shore

There are who in these forms delight;
Whose milky features please them more,
Than ours of jet, thus burnished bright.
Of such may be his weeping wife,
Such children for their sire may call;
And if we spare his ebbing life,

Our kindness may preserve them all!"
Thus her compassion woman shows;

Beneath the Line her acts are these: Nor the wide waste of Lapland snows

Can her warm flow of pity freeze. "From some far land the stranger comes, Where joys like ours are never found; Let's soothe him in our happy homes, Where freedom sits with plenty crowned. 'Tis good the fainting soul to cheer, To see the famished stranger fed, To milk for him the mother deer,

To smooth for him the furry bed. The Powers above our Lapland bless

With good no other people know; To enlarge the joys that we possess,

By feeling those that we bestow!" Thus in extremes of cold and heat, Where wandering man may trace his kind, Wherever want and grief retreat,

In WOMAN they compassion find;
She makes the female breast her seat,
And dictates mercy to the mind.
Man may the sterner virtues know,

Determined justice, truth severe :
But female hearts with pity glow,
And woman holds affliction dear.
For guiltless woes her sorrows flow,
And suffering vice compels her tear;
'Tis hers to soothe the ills below,

And bid life's fairer views appear.
To woman's gentle kind we owe
What comforts and delights us here:
They its gay hopes on youth bestow,
Our care they soothe, our age they cheer.
CRABBE.

ALCHYMY.

The first authentic event in the history of Alchymy is the persecution by Dioclesian, A.D). 290, who caused a diligent inquiry to be made for all the ancient books which treated of the admirable art of making gold and silver, and without pity committed them to the flames.-Gibbon.

CHARITY OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS.

There is some reason to believe that great numbers of infants, who, according to the inhuman practice of the times, had been exposed by their parents, were frequently rescued from death, baptised, educated, and maintained, by the piety of the Christians, and at the expense of the public treasure.-Gibbon.

CUSTOM IN THE KINGDOM OF COMANIA.

In the country of the Comains, when a great and powerful prince died, on his decease an immense grave was made, and the dead person most richly adorned, was seated in a magnificent chair within the grave, and the finest horse he had possessed, together with one of his officers, were let down alive into the grave. The officer, before he desc nded, took leave of the king and the other great personages present, when the king gave to him a large quantity of gold and silver coin, which he placed in a scarf round his neck, the king making him promise that on his arrival in the other world he would restore to him the money, which he faithfully engaged to do. After this, the king gave to him a letter addressed to the first of their monarchs, in which he told him that the bearer of it had well and faithfully served him, and on that account entreated he would properly reward him. When this was done, the grave was filled up over the corpse, the living officer, and the horse, and covered with planks well nailed together. Before night, there was a considerable mound of stones piled over the grave in memory of those whom they had interred.-Joinville.

BRITISH AGRICULTURE.

Agriculture appears so early as A.D. 359 to have been in a very flourishing state in Britain, as Julian built 600 vessels capable of containing together 120,000 quarters, which made several voyages exporting corn from Britain to rolieve the famine in Gaul and Germany.--Gibbon.

THE PRETENDER.

This title was first given to her brother by queen Anne, after the expedition under Forbin in February 1708, which was frustrated by Byng. She had seemed not unwilling to countenance any attempt for his succession, but took fright at an attempt during her life.-Burnet.

ANECDOTE OF ELWES.

"I asked Fox if he remembered the miser Elwes in the House of Commons? Perfectly; and that question reminds me of a curious incident which one day befell that strange being. In my younger days we often went to the House in full dress, on nights, for example, when we were any of us going to the opera. Bankes, on an occasion of this kind, was seated next Elwes, who was leaning his head forward just at the moment when Bankes rose hastily to leave his seat, and the hilt of his sword happening to come in contact with the miser's wig, which he had probably picked off some scare-crow, it was unconsciously borne away by Bankes, who walked in his stately way down the House, followed by Elwes full of anxiety to regain his treasure. The House was in a roar of merriment, and for a moment Bankes looked about him wondering exceedingly what had happened. The explanation was truly amusing, when he became conscious of the sword-hilt which he had acquired.'"-Wilberforce's Journal.

A FRENCH CANADIAN.

The little hamlet opposite to Detroit is called Richmond. I was sitting there to-day on the grassy bank above the river, resting in the shade of a tree when an old French Canadian stopped near me to arrange something about his cart. We entered forthwith into conversation; and though I had some difficulty in making out his patois, he understood my French, and we got on very well. If you would see the two extremes of manner brought into near comparison, you should turn from a Yankee store-keeper to a French Canadian! It was quite curious to find in this remote region such a perfect specimen of an old-fashioned Norman peasant-all bows, courtesy, and good-humour. He was carrying a cart-load of cherries to Sandwich, and when I begged for a ride, the little old man bowed and smiled, and poured forth a voluble speech, in which the words enchanté! honneur! and madame! were all I could understand; but these were enough. I mounted the cart, seated myself in an old chair surrounded with baskets heaped with ripe cherries, lovely as those of Shenstone

"Scattering like blooming maid their glances round,
And must be bought, though penury betide!"

For his cart-load of cherries my old man expected a sum not exceeding two shillings.—Mrs. Jameson.

VALUE OF PROVISIONS IN THE REIGN OF HENRY I.

In Henry I.'s reign (1100-35) wheat to make bread for one hundred men one day, was valued at one shilling; one sheep at four-pence; one hide (twenty acres) of land was taxed at one shilling a year, and there being 244,400 hides south of tho Humber, this tax amounted to 12,2201.-Chronology.

Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner of perfidy in old age; its first appearance is the fatal omen of growing depravity and future shame. It degrades parts and learning, obscures the lustre of every accomplishment, and sinks us into contempt. The path of falsehood is a perplexing maze. After the first departure from sincerity, it is not in our power to stop; one artifice unavoidably leads on to another; till, as the intricacy of the labyrinth increases, we are left entangled in our own snare.-Blair.

SIR RICHARD COLT HOARE'

Sir Richard Colt Hoare, the owner of the beautiful domain of Stourhead, in Wiltshire, who died May 19, 1838, aged eighty, was the author of many valuable historical and topographical works, and more especially of the history of his native county, presenting so numerous and such splendid funereal and other monuments of the primitive inhabitants of Great Britain, which he investigated with a perseverance and success unrivalled by any other antiquary. The early possession of an ample fortune, and of all the luxuries of his noble residence, seem to have stimulated rather than checked, the more ardent pursuit of those favourite studies which occupied his almost exclusive attention for more than fifty years of his life; and he was at all times, both by his co-operation and patronage, ready to aid other labourers in the same field which he had himself cultivated with so much success and industry.

Sir Richard Hoare was a very voluminous original author, and on a great variety of subjects. He printed a catalogue of his unique collection of books relating to the history and topography of Italy, the whole of which he presented to the British Museum, to which he was, on other occasions, a liberal benefactor. He likewise published editions of many of our ancient chronicles; and it is only to be lamented that one who has contributed under so many forms to our knowledge of antiquity, and who presents so many claims to the grateful commemoration of the friends of literature and the arts, should have been influenced so much, and so frequently, by the very unhappy ambition of which some well-known and distinguished literary bodies of our own time have set so unworthy an example, of giving an artificial value to their publications, by the extreme smallness of the number of copies which they allow to be printed or circulated; thus defeating the very objects of that great invention whose triumphs were pretended to be the very groundwork of their association.-Farewell Address of the Duke of Sussex.

GENIUS.

Genius is a sort of oracle which stands between us and many of the mysteries of nature, and forms the communicating link. He who attempts to mimic it becomes odious and absurd by his presumptuous affectation.Sir Egerton Brydges' Recollections.

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination may have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.Coleridge, Table Talk.

GUESSING.

Guessing used to be considered exclusively a Yankee privilege, but it seems the Long Islanders consider themselves privileged to guess also. A tavern-keeper on that island advertises a fat hog, to be guessed for at one dollar a guess-the person guessing nearest the weight of the animal to be entitled to it.-New York Paper.

GOOD NATURE.

The parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and cour teous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shews that his heart is like the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm. If he easily pardons and remits offences, it shews that his mind is planted above injuries, so that he cannot be shot. If he be thankful for small benefits, it shews that he weighs men's minds, and not their trash.-Novum Organum. THE INFINITE.

The Infinite we cannot understand, and therefore we have no clear idea of a universe-of a God! The attempt to supply this defect by earthly images and allegories sinks us only into superstition. Worship the Infinite! and though thou canst not see him, yet His working is everywhere!— Knebel.

In the mean time, the coxswain of the gig repairs to the Postoffice for letters and newspapers, and the captain, after dismissing his young aide-de-camp with orders to wait to take him on board, or to return without him, proceeds to the admiral's office, where he meets the lieutenant, who has brought on shore the report of progress in fitting, a document which the port admiral requires daily; and having signed this and other papers, looked over the orders, received his official letters, obtained an audience of the commander-in-chief or of his secretary, according to the occasion, he repairs to the dock-yard to overlook the equipment of his ship, going on under the special direction of the first lieutenant. The officer having copied any new order that the admiral may have issued, repairs on board, or to the dock-yard, or wherever his services are required, and this is the routine that occurs every morning whilst the ship is in port..

During the time a ship remains in harbour any severe cases of illness or accident are sent to the naval hospital, and there the captain visits the patients occasionally, to see that they are properly attended to, or, truly speaking, to make a show of doing so; for he has no authority there, neither does he assume any, as everything is provided under the inspection of the proper officers such marks of attention have, however, a wonderful effect upon seamen, and it should be the policy of the captain to win the regard and esteem of his crew, and to encourage good behaviour by kindness, as well as to deter bad conduct by a rigorous but not harsh discipline. His crew should be considered by him as his children, and very much of their comfort depends upon his disposition, and the manner which he adopts, and obliges his officers to exercise towards them.

Although the captain interferes but little in fitting the ship, and then only in quiet consultation with his first lieutenant, his presence occasionally is desirable, and his influence sometimes necessary, to expedite matters by reference to the superintendant of the dock-yard; for should difficulties arise and expedition be required, he makes the proper representations to remove obstructions.

The captain usually makes the rounds of every part of the dock-yard and gun-wharf, wherein the ship's furniture is preparing, in the course of the day; and what with deciding on the many matters referred to him, holding surveys, &c., his time is fully occupied. He generally visits the hulk also; and when men are put in the report, as it is called, on complaint of some crime or neglect, he minutely investigates the charge against them, examines the witnesses brought forward to substantiate and rebut it-in fact, takes every means to ascertain the truth, and to come to a just decision, either for acquittal, or corporal or other punishment; but if corporal, it is never carried into effect until the next day.

We shall take another occasion to describe the manner in which this and every other matter is performed on board the ship; at present we may briefly remark, that, under the regulations, no men can be punished until the form of investigation is gone through, and twenty-four hours elapsed, to afford the captain due time for reflection and consideration, as to the nature and amount of the punishment to be inflicted; neither can a petty officer be flogged for a first offence, without sentence of a court-martial. His punishment is disrating to a common seaman, in the first instance; but if he repeats the crime, the captain can then flog him at the gangway.

Meanwhile, constant progress is making in the equipment, and when the heaviest articles are got on board, which is generally the case at the end of a month, the ship is hauled out of the basin, either alongside the dock-yard wharf, or at once to her

hulk, where the remainder of the work proceeds more rapidly, as no time is now lost by the parties going to and fro. Still, it is necessary that boats should be daily despatched to the dockyard, &c. for articles required, but the sea stores of rope, &c. are not taken in until all the rigging is completed, lest some should be appropriated in harbour, and a deficiency arise at sea when it cannot be replaced.

After the lapse of another week or two, the standing rigging of the ship is completed; that, and the yards, are then covered with a mixture of coal-tar, boiled in salt water, so as to produce a jet black appearance, and the ship is painted inside and out; the dock-yard people, such as joiners, &c. &c., who, up to this time, have been working on board, are then got rid of, the guns are received on board, and the coins and carriages marked by spirit-level, so as to point out when each piece is in a horizontal position, from which the degrees of elevation and depression may afterwards be calculated; and everything being ready, the men are passed over from the hulk to the ship, which is then hauled off, and takes up separate moorings in the harbour. The hulk being thoroughly cleared, is delivered up to the master attendant's charge.

The running rigging is now rove, the square-sails are next bent (tied) to the yards, sheeted home and hoisted—that is, distended; and allowance being made for stretching in the boltrope-that is, the rope which surrounds the canvas,—a minute investigation takes place, to ascertain that each fits well, and any necessary alteration is made, not only in the sails in use, but the store sails to replace them. The jibs and stay-sails are also hoisted for the same purpose, and the yards braced each way to prove that everything is in its place and works freely. Provisions and stores for sea are now continually arriving, and the ship assumes the appearance of a regular man-of-war.

During the whole time a ship is in harbour, either when fitting, or for any purpose of repair, the crew are indulged with as much time on shore-or liberty as they call it as they can reasonably desire. In most cases the whole of one watch-that is half the crew-are permitted to go on shore every evening after work ; the condition being that they return next morning sober, and should they fail in this, their leave is stopped. The refusal of leave was one of the greatest grievances of which the seamen complained during the war, but as they were then pressed, and took every opportunity to desert, this indulgence could not be permitted, and the withholding it was one of the many evils which impressment carried in its train: for it became necessary to admit women on board in vast numbers, without scrutiny as to whether they were married or not, and the reader may suppose how such a system operated upon the real wives, mothers, and sisters of seamen, when they beheld their husbands, sons, or brothers, torn away and consigned to a society where their minds would be corrupted, and their affections estranged if not lost to them for This evil-and it was a dreadful one-is now at an end; none but the undoubted wives of seamen, and those only in small numbers and of respectable characters, are ever permitted to come on board, and the men have as much liberty as they desire to go on shore. As seamen seldom have money at this period, however, and are only entitled to two months' pay in advance before going to sea, out of which they are expected to provide clothes, they cannot, therefore, contrive to "raise the wind" for those frolics which, when they have "cash galore," they delight to indulge in; they do not therefore require leave very often.

ever.

The ship now takes her turn for guard, and performs all the duties of vessels that are ready for sea, or nearly so, called “seagoing ships." At daylight a revellie is played by the drummer

and fifer, varied by tunes on the bugle, if there is a bugler on board, and the sentries discharge their muskets in concert with the gun from the admiral's ship; the top-gallant and royal yards, are swawed up and crossed at eight o'clock, sent down at sunset, and at eight o' clock in the winter, and nine in the summer, the revellie is beat again, the sentries discharge their muskets, and re-load for the night. The guard is taken each day in rotation by the ships in harbour, by signal from the "Flag" at eight o'clock in the morning, when the ship taking up the duty hoists a union jack at the mizen, and one of the lieutenants examines all vessels that arrive during the next twenty-four hours, rowing about the harbour from sunset to sunrise, reporting all these vessels, whether in commission or ordinary, whose sentries or look-out men do not hail the approach of his boat. It is the duty of this officer to carry his report to the admiral's office the following morning. Every Sunday the men are mustered at divisions, and inspected by the captain; after which they are either taken on shore, and marched in procession to church, accompanied by their officers, or divine service is performed on board; during which a pendant is hoisted at the mizen peak, to denote that prayers are going forward, and no boat is permitted or indeed attempts to come alongside when this signal is exhibited, unless on some special business that cannot be delayed.

It is a very beautiful and impressive sight to witness the performance of divine service on board a ship of war, and mark the attention with which our hardy tars regard the ceremony, more particularly when the chaplain suits his discourse-as he always should do to the comprehension of his congregation. Sailors are supposed to be an unthinking careless class of persons by those who only witness their gambols on shore, free from restraint, and often excited by drink. On board, their conduct, particularly during religious ceremonies, is most decorous and feeling, and quite as respectable as may be met with in any congregation in the kingdom.

Such of the men as take frequent leave, adopt many schemes and devices to raise the wind for money to spend ; the publicans and Jews are willing enough to credit them up to the extent of their two months' advance, which they know will be paid before the ship leaves the port, but that is but a small sum in comparison to the wants of the majority. Scarcely a ship therefore leaves the port wherein she fits, but the crew are many hundreds, if not thousands, of pounds, in debt to the inhabitants. Their charges are high, but we must admit that the risk is great-not only of the seaman's return, but his inclination to pay when he has the With the full knowledge of this, the Lords of the Admiralty generally arrange that the ship shall be paid off in the same port wherein she was commissioned, and as the men have then three years' wages to receive in a lump, they are quite able and generally willing to discharge their old obligations.

means.

The officers are frequent visitors to the shore; the theatres, evening parties, &c. are the attractions for them, and a boat is generally kept waiting until a late hour for such as return on board to sleep. In well-regulated ships, boats are in attendance at fixed hours for parties going and returning, generally to suit the dinner hours; for wanting this provision, the first lieutenant is continually pestered (particularly by the marine officers, who have much leisure time) for the means of going or sending for

some one from the shore.

We will suppose at length that the crew is completed, the stores and provisions in, the stock of the officers (except the live stock, which is never taken on board til the last) provided, and the ship reported ready to go to Spithead, where she generally remains a few days to put things to rights, and that she only waits for orders; the orders arrive, and we shall next carry the ship to that anchorage, and also introduce our readers to a naval court martial before proceeding to sea.

ON THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH. "Too strict attention to rules for the preservation of health," says Rochefoucauld, "is a very wearisome disease;" and in this instance the sententious Frenchman expresses the general opinion -so far as that is indicated by the practice-of mankind. The value of good health is universally admitted, but comparatively few persons give themselves any trouble to secure it; seeming to regard the necessity for unceasing care and attention as a greater affliction than occasional attacks of disease, or even than general ill-health: nor, in many cases, has the example of those who have in this respect differed from the majority of men, been such as to diminish the force of this feeling, or to show the wisdom of an opposite course of conduct. Who has not heard and read of men who, free from necessity for bodily labour, and possessing little energy of mind, have passed their time in observing their own sensations, watching all their variations with closest care, until the habit became insensible; and whose imagination, acting upon this narrow circle of ideas, has filled them with unfounded apprehensions, and at length, by means of the mysterious sympathies which exist between the mind and the body, has actually produced But because some men, not rightly comprehending either the ob the evils which were at first mere figments of a disordered brain? ject of their endeavours or the means of attaining it, and unfavour. ably circumstanced for its realisation, have defeated themselves by the excess of care which they took to secure success, it is assuredly whatever, and thus to leave a matter of vital importance to the most absurd to conclude that the safest plan is to make no exertion mercy of fortuitous events. Ridiculous as this seems when plainly stated, it has nevertheless been almost universally done. While years of labour and study are devoted to the acquisition of a knowledge of the arts necessary to our subsistence, or to the accumulation of wealth, how seldom is the smallest attention bestowed upon the means of preserving health!-health, which is essential to the enjoyment of our acquisitions, and without which all external advantages are comparatively worthless. When this subject is better of the principles of hygiène will form an essential part of the edu and more generally understood, the communication of a knowledge cation of the young; for no parent, who clearly perceived the immense advantages of such knowledge, would fail to make every exertion to secure it for his children.

Here may be noticed the objections of two sets of persons, who, though for very different reasons, disapprove of popular expositions of the laws by which health is governed :-the one, because they imagine the common sense or instinct of men is sufficient to enable them to take care of their health, without any assistance from rules; the other, from a fear that the knowledge thus acquired may lead many to invade the province of the physician. Against the innumerable proofs which every day affords of the incorrectness of the former opinion, such persons fortify themselves by one or two cases, which they assume to be on their side of the quesrefutation of whatever may be alleged on the other. The instance tion; and these they adduce on every occasion, as a conclusive most frequently and triumphantly referred to is that of old Parr, who, though destitute of all knowledge derived from books, yet prolonged his life in health and vigour to the great age of 152 years. But the history of that renowned old man is a striking proof of the value of rules. He has himself recorded that he strictly observed a certain regimen, to which he attributed his freedom from disease and his long life; and the soundness of which is proved by modern physiology. It does not follow, howindependently at correct conclusions, that every one can do so: all ever, that because Parr, by observation and experience, arrived are not gifted with such sagacity as he possessed; nor, even if it were possible, would it be advisable to reject the assistance of science: little progress would the world make if this plan were adopted in other matters. But, as an able writer has remarked, men never trust to unaided common sense in those points in which they possess the knowledge of a system of rules. The man who should attempt to navigate a ship, or build a house, under the guidance of common sense alone, would be regarded as insane, not only by the sailor or architect, but by everybody else; and assu redly the fact, that the plan of committing the care of the health to this favourite faculty is so generally entertained, proves only how little is known respecting the animal economy.

The other class referred to is chiefly composed of professional men, who, feelingly alive to the dangers attending the use of even the most simple remedies in the hands of non-medical persons, and Whately's "Elements of Logic." Preface,