The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-18 00:00:00

rind of reseiitment.—Sam—ue/ Jcititson

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THE CZAR AND HIS ARMY (AFTER REviEw.—They (the
soldiers ) do nut salute, but as every division passes, the Em-
peror hails them with the accustomed cheer of " How are
you, my children ?" to which they respond, in enthusiastic
roar, "We thank you, our father." The corps having de-
filed, the Emperor again touches his hat to all the officers,
saying, " Adieu, messieurs and then walking from the re-
giment, he exclaims, " I am satisfied with your zeal and con-
duct, my children." " We'll do better the next time," is
then the cry from the hattalions.—The Marquis of London-

Berry's Tour to the Northern Courts.
THE EXQUISITES or NEW ZEALAND.—The countenances
of all were entirely bedaubed with a solution of the red koko-
wai earth. A few had dipped their heads within a large cala-
bash, containing this rouge dissolved in Water, which formed
a plaster, whose brilliancy was enhanced by a stain of the
blue earth, called parakawahiu, which was used to encircle
the right eye and half of the temple. The effect of this latter
pigment was best visible in the dance, when at intervals the
white of the eve only is displayed. Feathers decorated the
heads, which bad been carried in a carved box by one of the
party, who had collected a• large quantity on the sea beach,
from the dead tare, or ganneta, we had passed in our route.
All the finery that had been bestowed on them by Europeans,

such as cast-off clothing, which are not repudiated tan hastily

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by their wearers in New Zealand, were sported on this ocea-

sum. The sole article of dress on one of these exquisites was
a tattered brown waistcoat, that reached a foot and some
inches below the throat of the wearer, the nether man being

exposed in. ;purls naturalibity. Another had put on a shirt,
whose original hue had been from times remote undistinguish-

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able, This was fastened round the loins by, the sleeves,
forming au apron fur the wearer: a native mat covered the
shoulders. One youth bad inserted himself into the body of
a woman's gown, which served as a jelia, his extremities
being incased in an old red baize shirt, the sleeves of which
answered the purposes of trousers for the legs. A pair of
duck trousers were tied round the throat of one young chief.

—Polack's Seven Years' Residence in New Zealand.
HEIGHT OF WATER IN THE CANADIAN LAKES.—WC
understand that Mr. Alfred Barrett, chief engineer upon the
western section of the Erie Canal, with Mr. D. Jay Brown,
assistant-engineer, visited Port Dalhousie, at-the mouth of
the Welland Canal, last week, to examine the water-marks
made-in 1825, and ascertain the comparative height of water
in Lake Ontaria from' that period to this. On examination
they learned that since the year 1825 that lake had been gra-
dUatly ...na within thtca 7c0.. Q.nt roll illy atscereaSiln!
to volume, and is now six feet eight inches higher than in
1825. It has fallen since the Ist of July two inches, so that
the entire rise of water has been six feet and ten inches.—
Lake Erie, as near as can be ascertained, from water-marks
at the foot of the lake, and at Black Rock harbour, has risen
only about four feet, or something less. And the Niagara
river below, about the same, the comparative height of the
river and lake not varying over two inches since 1826.
Lake Erie has apparently fallen eight inches from its great-
est height in June; and from the extraordinary hot weather
to the present summer, and the consequent evaporation go-
ing on, it would not be surprising if the lake should fall 18
or 20 inches by the Ist of December. The lakes appear to
be following the present year a similar course to what they
did in 1818, after the very high stages of water which suc-
ceeded the cold and wet seasons of 1815, 1816, and 1817.
During those three years they rose rapidly ; and in the spring
and early summer of 1818 were much higher than they had
been for many years previous, although not so high as now.
But in the hot summer of 1818 the evaporation reduced the
lakes nearly two feet in depth, and they continued to fall
gradually in each successive year, till about 1821-2, and there
remained without much change till 1826-7-8; since which
they have been continually gaining in height and volume.—
BitPlo Commercial Advertiser.
HALLEY'S COMET--At the late meeting of the British As-
sociation of Science, at Newcastle. Sir William Herschel
made the following remarks on this comet:—" One of the
most interesting series of observations, of a miscellaneous
kind, I had to make at the Cape of Good Hope was that of
Halley's comet. This cornet is the great glory of modern cal-
culation. To see the predicted return of such a body now
verified for the second time, trite to a single day—nay, to a

Courts.

few hours—of his appointed time, after an absence of seventy-
five or seventy-six years, during which it has been subjected
to the unceasing perturbations of all the planets, and especi-
ally persecuted by Jupiter and Saturn, those great stumbling
blocks bf comets, is really superb. However, what I have
now to relate refers to a very singular and instructive. fact in
its physical history. I saw the cornet for the first time, after
its perihelion passage, on the night of the 25th of January.
Mr. Maclear saw it on the 24th. From this time we, of course,
both observed it regularly-. Its appearance at first was that

of a round, well-defined disc, havitig near its centre a very
sman bright object exactly like a small comet, and surrounded
by a faint nebula. This nebula, in two or three more nights,

was absorbed into the disc, and disappeared entirely. Mean
while, the disc itself dilated with extraordinary rapidity; and
by measuring its diameter at every favourable opportunity,
and laying down the measures by a projected curve, I found
the curve to be very nearly a straight line, ictlicating a uni-
form rate of increase; and by tracing back this line to its
iutersectiou with its axis, I was led, at the time, to this very
singular conclusion,—viz. that on the 21st of January, at 2h.
p. m. the disc must have been a point—or ought to have no
magnitude at all ! in other words, at that precise epoch some
very remarkable change in the physical condition of the comet
must have commenced. Well: all this was speculation. But
here comes the matter of fact 1 refer to, and which, observe,
was communicated to me no longer ago than last month by
the venerable Olbers, whom I visited an my passage through
Bremen, and who was so good as to show me a letter he had
just received from M. Boguslawski, professor of astronomy at
Breslau, in which be 'states that he had actually procured an
observation of that comet on the night of the 21st of January.
Well, then, how di it appear ? why, as a star of the sixth
magnitude—a bright concentrated poiut, which showed no
disc, with a rnagnifaing power of 140! And that it actually
was the comet, and no star. he satisfied himself, by turning
his telescope on that point where he had seen it. It was gone!
Moreover, he had taken care to secure, by actual observation,
the place of the star he observed; that place agreed to exact
precision with his computation : that star was the comet, in
short. Now, I think this observation every way remarkable.
First, it is remarkable for the fact, that M. Boguslawski was
able to observe it at all on the 21st. This could not have been
done, had he nut been able to direct his telescope point blank
on the spot, by calculation, since it would have been impossi-
ble in any other way to have known it from a star. And, in
fact, it was this very thing which caused Maclear and myself
to miss procuring earlier observations. lam sure that I must
often hare swept, with a night-glass, over the very spot where
it stood in the mornings before sunrise. And never was
astonishment greater than mine at seeing it riding high in the
sky, broadly visible to the naked eye, when pointed out tome
by Mr, Maclear, who saw it with no less amazement on the
24th. The next remarkable feature is the enormously rapid
state of dilatation of the disc and the absorption into it of all
trace of the surrounding nebula. Another is the interior
cometic nucleus. All these phenomena, while they contradict
every other hypothesis that has ever been advanced, so far as
I can see, are quite in accordance with the theory on the sub-
ject, which I suggested on the occasion of some observations
of Biela's comet,—a theory which sets out from the analogy
of the precipitation of mists and dews from a state of transpa-
rent vapour on the abstraction of heat. It appears to me, that
the nucleus and grosser parts of the cornet must have been
entirely evaporated during its perihelion, and reprecipitated
during its recess from the sun, as it came into a colder region ;
anti that the first moment of this precipitation was precisely
that I have pointed out as the limit of the existence of the
disc,—viz. on the 21st of January, at two p. in. or perhaps an
hour or two later."—alikencerim.
DISCOVERY OF A MARINE SAURIAN ANIMAL—For the
last twenty years, anatomists have agreed that the extinct
saurians must have inhabited tire sea, although no living ma-
rine reptile was known. They argued, that, as there are
now Chelonians, like the tortoise, living in fresh water, and
others,' as the turtle, frequenting the ocean, so there may
have en formerly some saurians proper to salt, others to
fresh water. The recent diseovery, however, of a maritime
saurian, has now rendered it unnecessary to speculate on
such possibilities. This creature was found on the Galapa-
gos Islands, during, the visit of 11. M. S. Beagle to that archi-
pelago in 1835; and its habits were then observed by Mr.
Darwin. The islands alluded to are situated under the equa-
tor, nearly six hundred miles to the westward of the coast of
South America. They are volcanic, some of them being
three thousand or four thousand feet high; and one of them,
Albemarle Island, seventy-five miles long. The climate is
mild; very little rain falls; and, in the whole archipelago,
there is only one rill of fresh water that reaches the coast.
The soil is, for theamost part, dry and harsh, and the vege-
tation scanty. The birds, reptiles, plants, and insects are,
with very few exceptions, of species found nowhere else in the
world, although all partake, in their general form, of an
American character. Of the inammalia, says Mr. Darwin,
one species alone appears to be indigenous, namely, a large
and peculiar kind of mouse; but the number of lizards, tor-
toises, and snakes, is so great, that it may be called a land
of reptiles. The variety, indeed, of species is small; but tire
individuals of each are it, wonderful abundance. There is a
turtle, a large tortoise ( Tested° indicus,) four lizards, and,
about the same number of snakes, but no frogs ortoads. Two
of the lizards belong to the family Iguaniclie of Bell, and to a
peculiar genus (Amblyrhynchus) established by that natural-
ist; and so named from their obtusely-truncated head and
short snout. Of these lizards, one is terrestial in its habits,
and burrows in the ground, swarming everywhere on the.
land; having a round tail and a mouth somewhat resembling
in form that of the tortoise. The other is aquatic, and has
its tail flattened laterallY, for swimming. "This marine
saurian," says Mr. Darwin, "is extremely common ou ail
the islands throughout the archipelago._ It lives, exclusively
on the rocky sea beaches, and d Rever saw one even ten
yards in-shore. The usual length is about a yard, but there
are some even four feet long. It is of a dirty black. colour,
sluggish in its movements on the land; but, when in the wa-
ter, it swims with perfect ease and quickness, by a serpentine
movement of its body and flattened tail, the legeduring this
time being motionless and closely collapsed on its sides.
Their limbs and strong claws are admirably adapted for crawl-
aver the rugged and fissured masses of lava which every-
where form the coast. In such situations, a group of six or
seven of these hideous reptiles may oftentimes be seen on the
black rocks, a few feet above the surf, basking in the stm
with outstreched legs."—Lyell's Elements of Geology.
Power, of Russia.--.eSoine grave politicians who under-
value the power of Russia, and think that Messrs, Roths-
child are the arbiters of peace or war, significantly allude to
what they call her vulrierable point ; they talk of her financial
embarra;iments, and assert that the want of money will pre-
vent a collision. Perhaps these reasoners are not aware that,
personally, the Emperor of Russia possesses, in territorial
property alone, a revenue ten times more considerable than
any civil list in Europe; that, speaking. financially, Russia
has nothing to lose and every thing to gain, from the moment
that the seat of.war is carried beyond the frontiers; besides;
that her internal administration Is less expensive than any
other; that her levies of troops are collected with a surprising
economy for the crown, and at the cost of the landed pro-
prietors; that every military expedition, once out of a country
e at, iroen,
as twhichher
eciasn scarcelyhardly
etcootrud a
turn t
ike ltussia,
out leistoa speculation
a empire,
treaty of peace signed between that power and her adver-
saries by which she did not ultimately gain seine augmenta-
tion to her own territory.—Raikes's City of the Czar.
PARTRIDGE .BOOTING IN SOUTH AmERICA.—The large
partridge of South America is about the size of a plump
barn-door fowl. When it rises, this partridge takes a per-
pendicular flight of about forty yards, and then darts off with
prodigious velocity in a direction undeviatingly horizontal.
When shot in this latter direction of its.flight, it falls with
such a headlong and precipitate impulse, as to make it bound
to some distance from the spot at which it first touches the
ground. Of all the shooting, grouse, woodcock, pheasant,
blackceck, partridge, snipe, ptarmigan, there is none equal
"far intenaoty of delight and excitement to this of the large
South American partridge. He is called, par excellence,
" perdriz g,rande," or large partridge. His scent is so strong
that from the moment your dog comes upon it, the agitation
of his frame is all but hysterical. 'The bird, before he will
rise, runs at a prodigious rate; and if your dog, in coming
upon -him, as an English dog does when 'he has traced a
covey, should stop and lie down, you would never get a shot.
The bird is off the moment his quick ears or his natural in-
stinct has told him his pursuers are near; not off by flight,
but by a race which commences in suspicion and fear, and
terminates in absolute precipitation. So that for the chance
of shooting your bixd, you are obliged to encourage your dog
to go in upon him, to follow tip yourself the glknie with un-
remitting alacrity, and to pay, with palpitating satisfaction.
after perhaps a ten minutes' run, for the achievement of
bringing down, in all his irresistible career of flight, the
goodly priie you have so breathlessly pursued,—Robertson's
Paraguay.

In Russia no military man wears coloured clothes. A
young friend of mine asking a Russian officer if he always
wore his uniform, his answer was, " I was born and shall die
in it."—The Marquis of Londonderry's Tour to the Northern

INSECTS OF THE GOLD COAST.—A new species of the Go-
liath us beetle is an object of commercial as well as entomo-
logical value, as much as £5O having been given for a speci-
men. Formerly £2O to £25 was an ordinary price.

DINNER UPON A LARGE SCALE.-Dr. Shaw, who pub-
lished his travels into Africa and Egypt, gives the following
account of a family dinner prepared by the Emperor of
Morocco. At the top there was fish, consisting of a whale,
boiled, and a few sturgeons and porpoises, fried, roun). it: at
the bottom, the bind quarter of an elephant. On one side,
a brace of lions fricasseed ; on the other side, the neck of a
camel, made kabab (as the Dr. calls it,) or, in plain English,
cabobbed. The second course :—A brace of ostriches roasted.
On the one side, a griffin, and a dish of cranes and storks;
on the other, a pOtteci crocodile. There was no butcher's
meat; but a roasted buffalo at the side table. The Doctor
says he only picked the short ribs of a lion, which Louse his
own expression, was a delicious morsel. What can we say
to brother Jonathan after this ?

TULIKISH PaovEnßs.—A small stone often makes a great
noise. A foolish friend is, at times, a greater annoyance than
a wise enemy. You'll not sweeten your mouth by saying
" honey." If a man would live in peace he should be blind,
deaf, and dumb. Do good and throw it into the sea, if the
fish know it not, the. Lord will. Who fears God need not
fear man. If thy fos•he as small as a knat,, fancy him as
large as an elephant. They who know most are the oftenest
cheated. A man who weeps for every one will soon have lost
his eye-sight. More is learned from conversation than from
books. A friend is of more worth than a kinsman. He rides
seldom who never rides any but a borrowed horse. .Trust
not to the whiteness of his turban, be bought the soap on
credit. Death is a black camel, that kneels before every

man's dour.

RUISIAN GAMING.—At every evening party in this town,
besides the "usual rubber of whist, there is a table with dice,
appropiated to the game of passe dix, at which a very dirty
custom prevails. The scores are marked by each player
with chalk on the card-table, and a little brush is used to
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alter the sums, as they vary, every minute, which has a very
slovenly appearance; at times, the brush is too actively em-
ployed in effacing a debt before it has been liquidated. Some
years back, at court, where the same custom likewise existed,
the empress-mother, at the close of the game, found a defi-
ciency in the sum which she was entitled to receive; and
very naturally asked who was to make good her winnings.
Mr. de -----, who was the real defaulter, and probably thought
that his imperial creditor could not want the money, very
calmly replied, " Madame, ce sera, sans doute, Messrs.
Brosse et Co. qui payent tout." As we are on the subject
of play,. J may add, that an incident occurred the other day
at the house of Madame -, to which, though it is huzhod
up, I only allude to show that it came to my knowledge; and
as I have no wish to propagate evil reports, you will excuse
my mentioning any names. A general officer, whose name
is well known, was detected by one of his own friends in un-
fair play at icarie, and publicly reproached with it; this cir-
cumstance has not prejudiced his reception in the world, as
it would hive done in,uther countries.—liciikes's City. tf the
Czar.

STEAM NAVIGATION.-At the late meeting of the British
Association, at Newcastle, Mr. J. S. Russell mentioned the
following experiments, which he said had been made. Two
fitty-horse power engines had been taken out of a vessel, and
two sixty-horse power engines put in their place. When the
propelling power was tao fifties, the velocity of the vessel
was ten miles and three-quarters per hour. When it was
two sixties, the velocity with which the, vessel moved was ten
miles and six-tenths per hour. Here then was an increase
of power, a greater expenditure of fuel, and the increase of
the velocity was only three-tenths of a mile. Another expe-
riment was made on two vessels, one or 450 tons, and the
other of 500 tons burthen. The larger vessel was propelled
by two engines of 300-horse power, and the smaller one by
two of 150-horse power. The larger vessel, with the double
power, proceeded at the rate of nine miles and a half an hour,
while the smaller one moved at the rate of nine miles and a

quarter an hour: This instance he thought extremely satis-
tactory : the smaller vessel had the proper form that a vessel
should have, and the larger one had not. He was, therefore,
of opinion, that the form of the vessel was the direction in
which we should look for improvement. Indeed, he thought
it probable that, ere long, we should have vessels of double
the length, for a given breadib, that they at present generally
are. The objection to an increased length, from the danger
of what is called " breaking the back," might be, in a great
measure, removed by a proper system of diagonal framing.
Another important consideration is, that the linear dimen-
sions of a vessel being► doubled, the capacity is increased
eight-fold; but the increase in the resistance need not be
more than twofold.

THE FOLLY OF GOING ABROAD FOR HEALTH..—England
is the worst place in the world for people in bad health. In
other countries the invalid has as many of the comforts of
home heaped about them-as possible. Decay looses half its
misery when it gradually creeps upon hint amid old familiar
faces, in the hearing of well known voices, and in scenes that
he has known from boyhood. Fatigue and anxiety are care-
fully avoided, and at last he is buried in his own parish, and
wept over by his own friends. But in this extraordinary
country of ours things are very differently managed. A man
may as well commit a felony as show symptoms of a cough.
Sentence of banishment is immediately passed on him—he is
hurried off from his own valleys—from his own stout walls
and sheltering plantations to inhabit some marble half fur-
nished palazzo, in a climate where the winter is so short that
it has not been provided against at all; and where, therefore,
when it does come—and even Naples is sometimes deep in
snow—it comes, as the vulgate hath it with a vengence.
Far away from home, with strangers around him, a language
he does not understand—doctors in whom he has no confi-
dence—scenery he is too ill to admire—religious comforters
in whom heabas no faith—with a deep and every day more
vivid recollection of domestic scenes —heart broken—home-
sick—friendless and uucared for—he dies. And why—why,
in heaven's name, is a man hurried across Europe for the
chance of meeting with a mild climate, when any one cats
see in a moment that climate alone can be of no possible use,
but that,in order to be efficacious, it must have accessories
which the softest of Italian skies cannot compensaete for the
want of? But besides all these,—and leaving out of consi-
deration alltogether the enormous expense of so long and
painful a journey—is it absolutely indispensable that the
sufferer (if change of scene and atmosphere be recommended)
should be dragged over foreign roads, and pillaged and
neglected at foreign inns? Englandhas in its own boundaries
varieties enough of climate and temperature to suit almost
any complaint—the coast of Devon, beautiful and romantic
—Malvern, splendid and airy—Da.wlish—Hastings—Shank-
lin—Bowchurch—some one or all of these places within easy
journeys of any part of England—all of them within reach
of moderate fortunes, and what is, is our estimation, the
greatest recommendation of all, all of them within the sound
of " the church-going bell." There are some symptoms of
returning sense on this subject to be perceived in the increas-
ing size of all the villages along the sautheru coast. From
Dover to.the Land's-End there are little nests of cottages.
studding all the bays and inlets, provided with wide, green
verandahs against the summer sun, and placed in the middle
of little gardens and green fields running close down to the
sea. There will very soon be no such thing as "a rapture on
the lonely shore." People who enjoy a sea view must be con-
tent to do so in company of half the world ; for it is not to be
supposed (however much those sheltered situations owe their
attraction to the salubrity of their climate, and its adaptation
to the cure of certain complaints,) that their visiters are
limited to those who require their assistance in restoring theth
to health: From June to the end of October all the seaward
roads are choked with whole families, whose jocund faces and
loud laughter show that the journey forms •no part of a
medical prescription—rolling downwards in one continuous
-stream, in "whiskey, buggy, gig, and dogcart, curricle and
tandem," not forgetting coaches, railways, and all manner of
chaises, to spend a few weeks at the seaside. Rooms are
engaged for days and days before—cocklofts are emptied of
old potato-sacks, and fitted up with nice French beds—chintz-
curtains are hung up at the windows, and the dog-kennel in
the back-yard converted into an arbour, with honeysuckles
creeping over the roof. The habits of simple villagers are
entirely changed; the geography of the parish becomes a study
Of some difficulty to the oldest inhabitants; walks are cut
through plantations where walks were unknown before; flag-
staffs about ten feet high are erected'on hillocks, and orna-,
mented with Union-Jacks about two feet square; booths are
opened with a few shells appearing at the window, and digni-
fied with the name of imperial bazaars;—for the nomen-
clature is no less changed than the topography. What used
to be Bill Newsham's pig stye is now Belvidere hall; Tom
Symmonde's cottage is Pomona's Bower ; and for four
months in the year the quiet hamlet is in a complete masque-
rade. As the winter approaches, a recurrence to the ordinary
state of things is gradually perceived- The real invalids—
those for whose ostensible benefit all these changes have
taken place—stay peaceably in' the warns parlours which the
rioters have left—all January, February, and even in the
bleak days of March, they wander among the deep lanes and
scarcely leafless hedge-rows, and after their walk or their well
wrapt up ride in the donkey-chaise, they come back to their
blazing fire in the ivy-covered cottage that yields their wasted
forns, health in the breeze and shelter in the storm. Such
are the transmigrations through which the villages ois the
south coast annually pass, and more benefit, we will be hold
to say, is experienced by a winter residence its one of them
than by a toilstitrie pilgrimage to 'Nice or Naples.—Blackwood.
THE CONGREVE ROCKET.—The very flight of.the Con'
greve rocket is startling; it springs from the ground in a
volume of flame; and then rushes along with a continued
roar, with its large head blazing, and striking point-blank,
and with tremendous force, at the distance of a mile or
more. In a siege it is already extremely formidable. It
bursts through roofs; it fixes itself wherever it cats bore its
way; and it inflames everything that is combustible. Stone
walls can only repel it, and that not always. This weapon
may be regarded as almost exclusively English in its use, as
well as its origin. It will be like the English how its the
fifteenth century. In the next- war.what an extraordinary
change will take place in all the established instruments of
putting men out of the world ! We shall be attacked at
once, above, around, and below. We shall have the balloon
showering fire upon us front miles above our •heads; the
steam-gun levelling us from walls and ramparts, before we
can come within distance to dig a trench ; the Congreves
setting our tents, ammunition-waggons, and ourselves in a
blaze in our first sleep; and the steam-boat running and do-
ing mischief everywhere. But of all those mischief-makers
I should give the palm to the rocket. No infantry on earth
could stand for five minutes within five hundred yards of a
well-served rocket battery. Half a dozen trollies of half-a-
dozen of these fiery arrows would break the strongest bat-
talions into fragments, lay one half dead on the ground, 'and
send the other blazing and torn over the field. The heaviest
fire from guns is nothing to their effect. It wants the direct-
ness, the steadiness, the flame, and, resulting from all
those, the terror. If the British troops shall ever come into
the field without an overwhelming force of rockets, they will
throw away the first chance of victory that ever was lost by
national negligence. Nothing can be inure obvious than that
this tremendous weapon has not even yet arrived at its full
capacity for war on a great scale.—Blackwood for September.
Great, reader, are the mysteries of grammarians! Dr.
Johnson considered but as only a conjunction; whereas, says
Mr. Todd, it is in fact a conjunction, preposition, advert,
and interjection, as Dr. Adam Smith long since ingeniously
proved. With Horne Took it is a verb to boot, .being ac-
cording to him the imperative of the Saxon beon-utan, to be
out; but in .this Mr. Todd supposes him to be out himself.
And Noah Webster says it is also a participle and noun.
Pity that, some one has not proved it to be a pronoun; for
then it would have belonged to all the eight parts of speech.
Great are the mysteries of grammarians !
O reader! had you in your mind
Such stores as subtlety can bring,
0 gentle reader! you would find
A mystery in every thing. .
For once, dear reader, I, who pride myself upon lucid order
of arrangement and perspicuity of language, instead of mak-
ing; which I have heretofisre done,.and.shall hereafter do, the
train of my associations as visible as the tract of a hare in
the dewy grass or in the snow, will let it be as little apparent
as that of a bird its the air, or a serpent on a rock ; or as
Walter Landor in his poems, or his brother Robert's, whose
poetry has the true Landorean obscurity, as well as the Lan-
derean strength of diction, and the Landorean truth and
beauty of feeling and of thought: perhaps there is no other
instance of so strongly marked an intellectual family like-
ness. Thus having premised, I propound the following
question :—Of all the birds in the air, and all the beasts in
the field, and all th'e fishes in the sea, and all the creatures
of inferior kind, who pass their lives wholly, or in part, ac-
cording to their different stages of existence, in air, earth,
or water, what creature has produced, directly or indirectly,
the most effect upon mankind?—That which you, reader,
will deserve to be called, if you do not, after a minute's re-
flection, answer the question rightly. The goose !—Now,
reader, you have hit the but.—The Doctor.