6 Half of a small scroll or in-commonly made of the external

ventory and the latter two thirds of a liquod.

7 An earthen vessel and three eights of an English nobleman.

8 A precious metal intercalared in the midle with the first letter a vessel to preserve the relics of the dead.

9 Four sevenths of a specimen of a young girls needle work and three ninths of a marriage hater.

10 Three 'levenths of a pre-eminent christian virtue and a device for fishing.

11 Half of an iron vessel, an incurvate letter and half of a small village.

12 The covering of a persons head which is depilous, half of a spicy root and a consonant.

13 Half of a tree emblematical of the state of forlorn lovers, two sevenths of America's glory, and two sixth of a bold resolute woman with the superaddition of a serpentine letter.

14 The name of a small rose, and the first letter of the muse of

armorous poetry.

15 A small flying cloud,and the reverse of a bright colour.

16 A procedure inductive to entering into the bands of hymen and the middle letter of a small poem.

integument of an animal extremely loathsome to the sons of Israel.

19 Four fifths of a soft substance or paste and a name for a girl.

20 Half the comparative of little, the first letter of a musical instrument and the shallow part of a river,

21 A token of affection and half the God of war reversed.

22 A word denoting celerity and transitiveness.

23 A ligenous substance, and half of a repository for apparel.

24 Half of a predominate trait in the character of nauseous being known by the name of fop, the first letter af an element, a vowel, and the latter two sevenths of a condition to be in which, every girl endowed with natural affections fondly descants upon and antisipates.

25 Two sevenths of a wreathe of flowers, half of an assemblage of princes and the middle three sevenths of the goddess of wisdom. LOUIS A. Solution Requested.

ERRATA-IN (our last number) the Enigmatical list of Young Ladies at Greenwich Village, for 'Ludicious' read. Ludicrous' for Ward' read Word for archa' read' archer.'-In the piece on a Consumptive Friend, last line, first 18 An instrument for cleaning, verse, for! This frame' read ' His frame"

17 Edge of a hill and one fifth of a name for a goddess of the Woods.

LADY'S MISCELLANY

NEW-YORK, April 11, 1812.

"Be it our task, To note the passing tidings of the times.

Since publishing the first part of the Essay on Slavery' the author has fa voured us with a continuance, of the above subject, which we intend publishing (with pleasure) in our next number. -The Solution, of the Enigmatical list of Young Ladies, at Greenwich Village, is requested, from the Author.

Editor.

INTERESTING.

Extract of a letter from a gentleman of the first respectability in Nashville, to his friend in this city, Feb. 22, 1812.

are most visible, have been broken down by the abruptness of the undulatory motion of the earth. This gentleman also states, that near the post-road between Natchez and Nashville, several hillocks of fine white sand have been protruded upward to the surface of the ground, through a deep black soil covered with cane brake. But since obtaining the above information, I was advised by Judge Humphrey's (who remarked, at the same time, that he was fearful the communications he had to make were too well founded) that intelligence had reached him relative to the effects produced by the shock of the 7th of Feb. He states, from sources of the highest respectability, that a considerable tract of country, within the vicinity of NewMadrid, between the latitude of 36, & 37, 30, N. was, immediately consequant up. 'I was yesterday in company with a on the convulsion of the 7th of Feb. ingentleman from Natchez, who informed undated with water, which spouted in me, that from the best intelligence that torrents from fissures of amazing with ; could be collected on a journey from N. that the country surrounding N. Madrid Orleans to this country by land, there is for 15 or 20 miles, was, in a few minutes about two hundred miles of the naviga. covered with water waist deep; through tion of the Mississippi, destroyed; that which the terrified inhabitants were forc. on the western shore of the Mississippi, ed to wade to higher lands. for safety and inconsiderable distance south of that the water was so warm as to evirecent settlement called New Madrid, dence the previous action of subterranethere was sunk, about sixty feet deep, 3 ous fire, and so strongly tinctured with or 4 hundred acres of land, that was for- combustible matter, as to resemble water merly part of a praire of considerable impregnated with pulverized gun powder extent. Subsequently to some of the se. He also states, that the trees, in several verest shocks, he goes on to relate, that places, were rent assunder and broken the waters of the Mississippi were so down by the convulsion ; & that a mounstrongly impregnated with the effluviatain of considerable height, had, during of matter, supposed to have undergone combustian, as to be unfit for use; the bed of this great river has been thrown upward in a number of places (formerly deemed unfathomable,) so high as to im. pede the navigation, espicially for vessels of any considerable tonage; that, in a sand || bar which has lately made its appear. ance, there is discoverable a large quan. tity of wood & coal; the forests adjacent to where the effects of these convulsions ¦¦ great stuelty.

the night, arisen from the level of what had before been a plain.' E. Post.

Capt Baker fom the City of St. Do. mingo informs, that just before he sailed a letter was received from Jaquemel stating that Christophe had recently hung several Americans ;-and that his crui zers captured all vessels they meet, and treat particularly the Americans with

On Monday evening,the 30th ult by the rev, Wm. Parkinson, Mr. Joseph Marsh, of New Jersey, to Miss Levana Garret son, of this city.

At New Rochelle, Mr. Lawrence Dabu-venport, to Miss Grace Huntington, both of that place.