The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-08-13 00:00:00

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THE TIE/ a.F.

• OXFORD RACKS.

wassiormaY, •viouro S.
The Gold Cepo.:Futir
Mr. °chesslash Sirepbus, by Rubella, 6 yrs
Mr. West's Fits-Orville, aged
Mr. Bseller's eb. b. Steeltrap, 6 yrs old
Fifty Posed% de gift of the Date of Marlborough.
sues mold.
Mr. Tbsrobill's f. fledurs by Crispis,llpo'
Mr. flairebey's b. e. by Hedley,lf fur
Mr. West's b. f. Barbara, 9 yrs Oa .6.. i a
Mr. Demises Pelican, 5 yrs old •••••11
Mr. C. Day's b. Swindon, b yrs
Mr. Pryse's r. f.Uailise, 9 yrs old
Mr. Mryttell's b. L Mu.lin, 9 yrs old

VIIVISDAT.
The Osferdsbire Slaws of tars. rub, b. R.
Mr. Ddlidall asef-Olavre, b yrs 01d....
Mr. Sadler's gieeltrsp. 6 yrs 014
The City Members' Plate of bOl. for bones
bred was woo at two boats by Mr. Illepsell's
4 yrs GM, beating two others.

Ilt1.1113OLDr• PERSONAL, NA,

M. Humboldt relates some rentat
Ises couceratug the serpents -in South
the follessiug will show to what perils,
the traveller is exposed. Ou taking
lodging, we are told—
" Before we took possessiou of the
the ludiatis killed two great etripanore serpents.
These grow to four or five feet loug. They appear.
milt° sue to be the sante species as those 1 described
in the Hz Margdalesia. It is a beautiful auitnid.i
hut extremely ves,omous, white below the belly,
and spotted with brown and red on the back. As
the Motile of the hut was filled with gran., sod es
we lay upon the ground. there being no means of
suspending our hammocks, we were not without
inquietude daring the night. In the morning a
large viper wars found ou lifting up from the ground
the jaguar skin upon which one of our domestics
tud slept. The lodisus say, that there reptiles,
slow in their movements when they are not pursued,
creep mot o man because they are fassd of heat.—
Ise feet, on the banks of the Magdalena a nrpent
entered the bed of one of our fellow.travellers„
where he remained • part of the uight. without do.
iug him any harm. Without wishing here to take
up the defence of vipers and rattlessaikes, 1 belite4
it may he affirmed. that if thews veneerious animals
had such a dispositiou for offence, as is supposed,
the human specits would certainly not here resisted
their numbers in some parts of Americo ; for
Malice, on the hanks of the Oruonoko, and the
humid mountains of Choto."

After this tile wanderers entered the Rio Negro,
and the view here takru is both gengrapliically
good and morally effecting :
" After all we bad endured (obserfiii oar inte-
resting author), 1 inay be permitted, perhaps, to
speak of the satisfaction we felt is baying reached
the tributary streams of the Amason, having pan-
ed the isthmus that separates two great systems
of rivers, and in being sure of hating fullilled
the most imp ortaiit object of our voyage, the de-
termining astrouomicully the source of that arm of
the Orounulo which falls into the Rio Negro,
and which the existence has been alternately
proved and denied during half a century. In
proportion as we drew near to the object we
have long had iu view, its interest teems to aug-
ment. The uninhabited batiks of the Cassiquiarr,
covered with forests, without memorials of times
past, then occupied toy imagination, as do now the
banks of the Euphrittes, or the Oxus, celebrated
is the auuals of civilized 131111Q118. 111 that Mien,/
past of the New Continent we ahnost accustomed
oorselvesi to regard men as not being essential to the
order of nature. The earth is loaded with Orme,
and nuthiug impeder their free developement. An
immense layer of mould manifests the uointerrupted
action of orgauic powers. The crocodiles and the
boas are musters of the river; the jaguar, the pecari,
the dente, and the mutikies, traverse the finest with-
out fear, aid without danger ; there they dwell
as in en invent inheritance. This aspect of uui-
mated nature, in which man is uothitig, has some-
thing iii it strange and slid. To this we reconcile
ourselves with difficulty on the ocean, and amid the
sands of Africa; though in these scenes, where
nothing recalls to rniud our fields, our woods, and
our streams, we are less astonished at the vast so-
litude through which we pass. Herr, in a fertile
country adorned with eternal verdure, we reek in
vain the traces of the power of man ; we seem to
be transported into a different world fro, that
which move us birth. These impressions are so
much the more powerful, in proportion as they are
of longer duration. A soldier, who had *peat his
whole life in the missions of the Upper Oroonoko,
biro with us on the bank of the river. He wallah
intelligent titan, who, during a calm and Serene
night, pressed me with questions on the magni-
tude of the stars, tan the inhabitauts of the
moon, on a thousand subjects of which I was tip
ignorant as himself, tiring unable, by my en-
amor, to satisfy his cutiosity, he said to me piss firm
tune—' With ievpeet to toi a, 1 believe there are
Ito utoseithuve then you would have found, if you bad
g hue by land from Javito to Cass:Thine."

The body of Mr. .I.ICOMI. who twat *aorta-
warty loot some time bits°, of DuVII, has btri,
picked uN kt walla taro beloogiug to Wasting..
who it Irbitiopub.ctl plundered tba body and *het-
wattle buried it. This has been known its rouse-
queate of our of the oleo haviug beau detarted
few days mace alreutsg the area of a valuable Orli
watch Mr. JACOB/ illtd nbiloll Ind perora, bybstlet'
thy Fryucts told. which hitter. it 111 also presumed,
has been abated swotg the'pervous who &mud the
body.

PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY.
9 per Ct. rigt I sp. th.N.As. logdoall
prr Ct. Cons. 751 74 I Ex. Bill.. 4/pr.
7Si I Lottery Tickets, W. 18..
Si per Cent....... e6l I CllllB. Int AG5......-"261
4 pc, Ceuta. OA I 7581

DEATH.
Oie (be Silt instant, Bridget. youngest auogidet of Jvhb
EA. of Theirobsan.Hall,

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