And fractur'd cliffs, which far denote the bounds
Of the still linear Hudson's course.
Ere yet

Those eyes are open'd, whose inspiring gaze
Give double force to the magnificence

Of Nature's charms, displaying in themselves
Creative grace unrivall'd, while the tide
Again impedes us, with an earlier friend
I seek the shore at hand, and where he plies
His line amongst the tenants of the deep,
With barb tenacious, o'er the glitt'ring sands,
In dreams of pleasing meditation lost,
I wander, while profoundly o'er our heads
The breeze yet slumbers in the azure vault.

Beneath these skies, with feelings such as life's
Fair morn inspires, how often have I mus'd,
O venerable Hudson, on thy shores!
Absorb'd in the pursuit, as greatest good,
Of moral wealth or intellectual,

With frail possessions of the world of sense
For this untenantable house of clay.

Tho' with a Saviour's love imprest, yet less
Intent upon
that light which teaches first

To mourn in fallen man his worldly bent,
And heart of stone, till kindled in his breast
The spark of life eternal, at the lamp
Of faith his soul regenerated seeks
The region pure of universal peace,
Where pride, ambition, avarice, deceit,
Injustice, cannot enter; for the love

Of all enthron'd will quench the love of self,
And lay its rabid passions at our feet.

At length towards the splendid south, o'er half
The surface of the seeming lake, the breeze:
Is seen and soon we move between the rocks
On either shore, and steeps profusely cloth'd
With wood impending o'er the stream. And soon
An elevated city* on our right

Tow'rs o'er the Hudson's high romantic coast,
While by its landing, in a prosp'rous course

We stretch still northward. Here the naked shore,
Exhibiting its tiers and piles of rock

In hoary ruins; there, in covert dense
Of various underwood conceal'd, and graced
With mantling foliage to the water's edge.

* Poughkeepsie. The Legislature occasionally held its sittings here.

Thus Rhinbeck 'midst a sylvan scene we pass,
And glancing by its sedge behold a range
Of insulated mountains in the West,*
High tow'ring o'er Esopus' cultur'd plain.
Ere long in front of this majestic screen
Upon our right we view the mansion fair
That welcomes our approach; and quitting now
The breezy channel, range beneath the shade
Of Clermont'st graceful woods, and shrubberies
Sweet with exotic fragrance, till releas'd
From our unsteady vehicle we tread

The hospitable threshold of our friends.

Recalling here the many pleasing hours
Serenely past within a cheerful sphere
Of frank and liberal hospitality,

The grateful muse invokes that happy time
When mutual ties of sanction, more rever'd
Than federative compacts, shall unite
Once more Columbia with her parent isle.
Communicating in our kindred tongue
The joyful tidings of eternal peace;
Thro' either hemisphere already far
And wide th' angelict Bearer of the Word
Has wing'd his course. O! hailing as we do,
Where its regenerating light is felt,

This happy dawn of the long-promis'd day

Of our redemption, may we, like brethren, now
Evince, by charity and mutual love,

That our professions are not empty words;

And tho' divided in our temporal

And worldly state, that we're united still

Beneath a KING, whose reign shall have no end.

PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY
INTELLIGENCE.

Indian Antidote to Poison.-A short time since Mr. Chaubert, the proprietor of the exhibition of the Wild Indian Chief, in New Bondstreet, met with a serious accident, for while examining one of the

The Katskill, or Blue Mountains.

†The seat of Mrs. Livingston, widow of the Chief Justice, and mother of the Chancellor of the State, under whose patronage the steam-boat was first introduced.

Rev. xiv. 6.

poisoned arrows belonging to the Indian, he accidentally let the arrow touch his chin, upon which it left a light scratch. In the hurry of the moment he paid no attention to the circumstance, but in a very short time the whole of his chin, and the side of his face, turned black, and was very much swollen. These symptoms began rather to alarm him, and he sent for three medical gentlemen, who used their utmost skill to extract the poison, but their efforts proved ineffectual. The Indian stood by with the utmost sang froid, witnessing the ill success of the medical applications; after which he coolly walked away, and returning with a root used in his country to extract poison, applied some to his master's face; to which it afforded immediate relief, as the swelling went down, and the discoloration ceased. Had not this remedy been applied, mortification would, in all probability, have taken place in a short time. Mr. Chaubert soon recovered, and since the accident has very properly caused the points of the arrow to be divested of their poison.

New Medical Society.-A new Society has been formed, under the name of "The Society of Practical Medicine of London," to act in concert with the Institution of the same name in Paris. Their transactions are to be published quarterly.

Hydrophobia.-A series of experiments have recently been made at the Veterinary School at Paris, relative to the cure of this dreadful malady. The object in view was to confirm the efficacy of a specific imported from Italy, which it is reported will not only act as a preservative immediately after the bite, but as a cure also when the fatal symptoms have appeared. The result of these experiments is not yet ascertained.

New Febrifuge.—A plant has been brought to Bourdeaux, known in Asia by the name of Cherayita. It is very bitter, and much valued as a febrifuge, having been prescribed in Europe for the gout, and weakness of the digestive organs. No botanical description of this plant has yet been given; but it has been considered in the Asiatic Researches as a species of gentian, and is there denominated Gentiana Cherayita.

Antidotes against Poisons.—Mr. Drapier has found that the fruit of the Feuillea Cordifolia, is a powerful antidote against vegetable poisons; and Dr. Chisholm recommends the juice of the sugar-cane as the best antidote against arsenic.

Remarkable Picture.-An artist of the name of Francia has brought to this country from St. Omer's, a very extraordinary altar-piece of the fifteenth century, which he obtained from the ruined abbey of St. Bertin, in that city. The painter is John Hemminlroeth, of Bruges; the subject, the Life of Bertin. The execution equals the highest finish of the Flemish school at any period, and boasts of passages not inferior to the Italian of a century later. A still more curious fact is, that the original idea of Holbein's Dance of Death is distinctly and strikingly contained in this picture.

Canova. This celebrated sculptor has just finished an admirable group of Mars and Venus, designed for the King of England.

Painted Glass.-Mr. Buckler has received a commission from the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, to execute the east window of their cathedral in painted glass. The subject is to be the Last Supper, from a picture by West, in the possession of his Majesty. The windows being of large dimensions, the figures will considerably exceed the size of life.

Academy of Arts, in Ireland.-The artists of Ireland have been incorporated into a society like the Royal Academy. A council of fourteen has been chosen, and ten associates are to be elected next year from Irish exhibiters.

West's Picture of Christ Healing the Sick.-Mr. Heath's engraving from West's grand picture of Christ's Healing the Sick, purchased by the British Institution in 1811, for 3000 guineas, is at length finished. Mr. Heath had 1800 guineas for his task, which was to have been completed in four years, but it has occupied him no less than eleven.

Steam Carriage.-Mr. Griffith, of Brompton, a gentleman known by his travels in Asia Minor, has, in connection with a professor of mechanics on the continent, invented a carriage capable of transporting merchandise, and also passengers, upon common roads, without the aid of horses. This carriage is now building at the manufactory of Messrs. Bramah, and its appearance in action may be expected to take place in the course of the autumn. The power to be applied in this machine is equal to that of six horses, and the carriage altogether will be twenty-eight feet in length, running upon three inch wheels, and equal to the conveyance of three and a half tons, with a velocity of from three to seven miles per hour, varied at pleasure. The saving in carriage of goods will be fifty per cent., and for passengers, inside fares will be taken at outside prices. The usual objections are said to be removed; such as, the ascent of hills, securing a supply of fuel and water; and the danger of explosion is to be prevented, not only by the safety valve, but by the distribution of the steam into tubes, so as to render any possible explosion wholly unimportant. Every carriage will be provided with a director of the fore-wheels sitting in front, and with a director of the steam apparatus sitting in the rear, and the body of the vehicle will be situated between the fore-wheels and the machinery.

Preservation of Flowers.-A few grains of salt dropped into the water in which flowers are kept preserves them greatly from fading, keeping them in bloom double the period that pure water will.

Spinning and Weaving.-In the year 1745, Mary Powlis, of East Dereham, in Norfolk, spun a pound of wool into a thread of 48,400 yards in length, wanting only 80 yards of 84 English miles; a circumstance which was considered so great a curiosity at the time, as to obtain for itself a situation upon the records of the Royal Society. Since that period, Miss Ives, of Norwich, spun a pound of wool (combed) into a thread of 168,000 yards; which wonderful success in the art of spinning wool, induced her to try her exquisite talent upon cotton, when, out of a pound of that material, she produced a thread that measured the astonishing length of 203,000 yards, equal to 115 English miles and 160 yards. The last-mentioned thread, woven into cloth, would, (allowing 200 inches of it in warp and weft to a square inch of the manufactured article,) give the fair artisan nearly 28 yards, of yard-wide cloth, out of her pound of cotton !— 25 lb. of cotton, spun in that manner, would reach round the Equator.

Fire Shield.-Mr. Buckley, of New-York, has invented, and obtained a patent for a Fire Shield, intended to protect firemen whilst employed in extinguishing fires, but more particularly designed also to prevent fire from spreading. It is made of a metallic substance, thin, light, and impervious to heat; of a length and breadth sufficient

to cover the whole person, and it may be used in several different positions. When used in the street, it is firmly fixed on a small platform with wheels, and a short elevation from the ground. The fireman taking his stand upon this platform, and behind the shield, is drawn by ropes near the current of heat and flames, and, with the iron pipe or leader in his hand, elevates the water where it is most wanted. In this way a line of shields may be formed in close order, in front of a powerful heat, behind which the firemen may stand with safety, and play upon the houses with water-pipes.

Roads.-A surveyor of highways, feeling for the distress of the farmers, has lately adopted the following judicious plan for employing poor labourers, and lessening expense. As the travelling of the gravel cart in a wet season does more harm than good, the expedient is adopted of substituting three labourers for one day's team duty: The first step adopted, is to order every person to scour out his ditches by the road side, when the width of the road is set out by the surveyor, and it is water-tabled by the labourers making cuts from it to the ditches. It is then scraped clean, all the high places are picked, and the stones are broken and thrown into the hollows. When a certain quantity of the road thus prepared is ready, and is become a little dry, a cast-iron roller, which every parish ought to have, is drawn over it by three labourers, as a day and a half's teamduty, which completely consolidates the whole, a mile being easily done in a road of twenty feet wide, three times over. In wet seasons the plan is becoming general. Three labourers can complete one hundred yards a day, so as to make a good road; for the badness of roads generally arises much less from the want of materials than from their misapplication.

New Chart of the Mediterranean.-Capt. Gautier has completed his hydrographic labours. His chart of the Mediterranean has already been published by the Minister of Marine, and that of the Black Sea is nearly ready for publication. The officer was assisted in his labours by the officers of the Chevrette, and they completed, after very considerable exertion, the coasts of the Mediterranean, the isles of the Archipelago, and the Black Sea; all points of which, essential to be laid down, have been exactly determined. A number of errors in existing charts have been discovered, some of them of great magnitude. The summits of some of the Greek mountains were also taken by barometrical measure, when Mount Athos was found to be 2,063 metres in height, Mount Olympus, in Mitylene, 988; Mount Delphi, in Sispolos, 690; Mount Jupiter, in Naxia, 4009.

Life Beacon.-The Society of Arts have voted to Mr. Holditch, of Lynn, for his life-beacon, their silver medal and ten guineas. This life-beacon has been erected upon the sand near the port of Lynn, where, after repeated attempts, Mr. H. succeeded in fixing a mainpost, with a top-mast upon it, which main-post he secured by bars of iron, attached to stones of immense weight buried in the sand. Upon the beacon, seats are provided for the reception of persons who may be shipwrecked.

Steam-engines of England.-M. Dupin, a scientific Frenchman, who has lately visited England, gives the following illustration of the labour of our steam-engines. The great pyramid of Egypt required for its erection the labour of above 100,000 men for 20 years; but if it were requisite again to raise the stones from their quarries, and place them at their present height, the action of the steam-engines of England,