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Sept. 4 yet well described by any of our naturalists. The northern mountains of Nepaul abound with such animals; and I have, when there, seen a great ber, and eat the flesh, which is certainly delicious. This is all that at present I have worth communicating to you, and should I in future hear or think of something that would be acceptable to your curi osity, I fhall deem my best duty the imparting it to you. Dear Sir, most obedient humble servant, JH B- -A

Anecdote of Dr Franklin.

In his travels through New England, he had observed, that when he went into an inn, every individual had a question or two to propose to him, relative to his histo y; and that till each was satisfied, and they had conferred and compared together their information, there was no pofsibility of procuring any refreshment. Therefore the moment he went into any of these places, he inquired for the master, the mistrefs, the sons, the daughters, the men servants, and the maid servants; and having afsembled them all together, he began in this manner. "Good people, I am Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia, by trade a printer; and a bachelor; I have some relations at Boston, to whom I am going to make a visit my stay will be fhort, and then I fhall return and follow my businefs, as a prudent man ought to do. This is all I know of myself, and all I can possibly inform you of; I beg therefore that you will have pity on me and my horse, and give us both some fefreshment."

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HOPE.

For the Bee.

HOPE's a cordial hourly wanted,
And by indulgent Heav'n granted
To comfort us in ev'ery scene
The cradle and the grave between.
No harm befalleth mind or body,
But as a friend, hope's ever ready.
Loath, very loath to give denial,
Is a support in ev'ry trial.

While here on earth, such our condition,
Hope gives ev'n more than does fruition.
If we're with poverty distrest,

Hope says our wants may be redrest." If for an absent friend we mourn, Hope whispers, "he may soon return;" And when impending dangers brave, Hope says "the powers above will save". When pain and sicknefs sore deprefs, Hope is a med'cine in distress. Hopes of returning health and ease, Somewhat alleviate disease.

Life without hope would torpid be, This world a world of misery; Activity and means would cease, And dull stagnation would take place. What man would work for daily bread, Did he not hope thereon to feed? Şure none would industry pursue, If hope had no reward in view. But hope excites and animates To what to use or bliss relates. 'Tis this sets all the world a-work, Heathen, Christian, Jew, and Turk. The husbandman doth plough and sow, Hoping a fertile crop will grow. The workman plods, he labours hard, Hope stimulates, looks for reward. How many thousands sail the main, Riches in hopes thereby to gain? The soldier fights, he storms the town, Hoping for vict'ry and renown.

Hope's influence let us now pursue, As seen in a religious view. What sufferings did good men endure, For conscience sake, religion pure? Hoping that in the world unseen, All those who here have virtuous been

Shall after death to life awake,
And of celestial joys partake?

Hope of remifsion, does excite

To leave what's wrong, and do what's right.
Who would repent of actions bad,

If he no hopes of pardon had?

What would make men from evil cease,
But hope of pardon,-favour,-peace?
Forbidden pleasures we despise,
In hope of pure immortal joys.
We praise and pray, we fear and love,
Hoping for mercy from above.

May virtue be our fixed choice,
That in our hopes we may rejoice.
If what in us is wrong we mend,
Our hopes will in enjoyment end.
They who sincerely do their best,
In a well-grounded hope may rest.

THE ORPHAN.

Poor boy-though in thy tender years,
Thine eyes are dim'd with flowing tears,
Thy little heart dissolv'd in grief,
Thou canst not hope from man relief!

O child of sorrow cease to weep,
Though in the dust thy parents sleep;
The bands of death thou canst not break,
Nor from the tomb the slumb'rers wake.

An early orphan left alone,
Upon the world deserted thrown ;
A mother's love who can supply?
Or watch thee with a father's eye?
Though all unmindful of thy good,
Forgetful of a brother's blood,
And heedless of thy woeful state,
Thy kindred cast thee off to fate-
The God, who gave to them the pow's
To aid thee in this trying hour,
To thee his mercies may extend,
And ever prove thy stedfast friend.
His love thy tender youth may shield,
His hand exhaustlefs treasures yield,
His wisdom pour the precepts kind
Of life eternal in thy mind.
Cease-child of sorrow, cease to weep,
Though in the dust thy parents sleep,
The Saviour of the world shall be
A father ever unto thee.

A .D.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

NOTICES OF SOME INTERESTING PARTICULARS COMMUNICATED
TO THE ECONOMICAL SOCIETY OF ST PETERSBURGH, EX-
TRACTED FROM THE RECORDS OF THAT SOCIETY

D. Guthrie

BY ARCTICUS.

On the White Sea fiftories, by a Russian merchant of Archangel, Alexander Fomin.

THIS fishery was first set up by the present emprefs, who engaged some Hollands fishermen to carry it on for government account, and teach the business to a certain number of her subjects, selected for that purpose. As soon as the thought they were sufficiently instructed to carry it on by themselves, fhe left it to a company furnished with necefsary privileges, who seem to have made as little profit by it as the crown had done, and now it is in the hands of the peasants, who catch the fish for a few of those instructed by the Hollanders, who cure them each for his own account without any monopoly.

In answer to some questions afked by the society, at one of these instructed Russians, who now speculates in the trade for himself, a certain Swagin, relative to the causes of bad success in this great national object, he gives a few which he divides into political and natural. The natural are simply the scarcity of herrings and cod in some seasons; and the political, first an impolitic law which subjects to a duty as foreign fish, such as the

* These notices are chiefly valuable because they afford a view of the internal state and polity of the Russian empire that is not to be found but in such local difsertations as the present; what a miserable prospect does this afford of the fisheries in the White Sea!

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Rufsians catch and cure in the Danish bays, when they are more plentiful there than in their own.

adly, The rude treatment the peasants met with from the Dutch boors quartered. on them, who literally smoaked them out of their cottages, without paying attention to the dislike they have to tobacco; especially a sect of fanatics called Rofkolnicks, who are very numerous in these parts, (resembling in some degree our British methodists,) and who regard the smoak of tobacco as a species of religious abomination, as the Jews did pork &'c.; this treatment alienated so completely the peasants from the fishery, that they could only be compelled by force to work at it, and secretly hurt it by every means in their power, so that the expences were scarcely paid by the profits, when in the hands of government, and the company who next took it up. The principal drawbacks upon its succefs, now that it is open to all without restriction and monopoly, arise from the article of salt, like those of your Scotch fisheries, which otherways must be a great national blessing. What a pity it is that your ministers, now that they have given up all thoughts of drawing any revenue from the salt used in your fisheries, to the great honour of the legislature, cannot find a little time to take off a set of useless checks in the old regulations, which operate, as I see by different accounts, as a sort of prohibition to what, if properly regulated, to the ease and profit of the thousands who emigrate from the north, would equal if not surpafs, any coloneal advantage, which the happy and towering island, ever did, or ever will draw, from many it has planted in distant regions. It would appear to me as a laudable species of ambition to a certain countryman of ours, who has at present that influence in the ministry, which his great and solid talents, joined to his honourable station in it,

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