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The party in the sail boat then weighed !
anchor and the next morning early crossed
the Bar and put out TO sea on their way to
st. Augustine, and arrived there on the
18th early, having stopped in the meantime
ut Cape Canaveral light house TO get water,
where they found little daughter of Mr..
Russcll's about IL or l 8 years old and eight
of his negroes, who had got separated from
the rest Of the family and had come up all
the beach on foot, distance of about 90
miles or more. 81 .. SO
The number Of persons which came to
St. Augustine in this sail boat, of a l-2tc
bur,hen, was 27 in all including women q
children.
From their report it Is probable that al
the settlements in St. Lucie county ar
abandoned by this time.
They all concur in saying that only four
or five Indians were seen Or heard OF in the
settlement on the 18th inst. when this ou,
rage was committed, but, Major Russell
and others of them are of the opinion from
the amount Of property carried off from his
house. and from other circumstances that
there were more than the four about there
There had been no difficulty or quarrel
between the Indians and the settlers there
as they say and no provoca,ion, whale yer:
tending 10 such result. The act seems ,"I
have been one Of mere savage wanton''
and cruelty. .,odeu
Maior Russell, though badly ~, is do.
and suffering much from his w.e"a wa"'a speedy
ing we'll and has fair pro7
recovery.
|.16HlCULTURE.
ANTIQUITE or Or, or primitive slate, Is
Man in his ruiSrn philosophers TO have
supposed by dss&s s&s and roots The art of
subsisted or dshing was, in their opinion,
hunting Sspp h.sp towards civilization. Then
the fri pasturage of animals, and lastly,
camcc or or culture Of the soil. The planting
MM!ssrowing of seeds arc supposed 10 have
/Lnssen limitations of the effects produced by
sand and mud left by the inunda,ion Of riv-
crs. Hence, Sir Isaac Newton and others
have considered that corn was first culriva.
ted on the banks of the Nile.
BE these learned snppositions as they
may, it is certain that in the remotest period
Of antiquity 10 which the knowledge Of
man extends, the science of agriculture
was practised and esteemed by the wise,
the great, and the mighty Of the land. We
arc informed by the sacred scriptures that
God sent Adam forth from the garden of
Eden TO till the ground. "Caia was til
ler Of the EARTH" Noah began 10 be
husbandman, and planted vineyard. A.
braham purchased the field of Macpheia.
Isaac is said to have sown amd reaped a
hundred fold. Moses gave directions to the
cultivation Of the vine The demeene or
crown lands of King David are said to have
been under the management Of certain Of
icers. Elisha was found in the field with
twelve yoke of oxenAefore him. In Egypt.
corn was purchased by King Pharoah and
stored away. Homer, in the Odyssey, (,he
earliest composition extant, save the Rible,)
gives beautiful description of Ulysses
finding his father, old King Leries, who
had been robbed of power, wealth and
grandeur, happy and contented in the cul-
tivation Of his little fields. Herodotes, the
father Of historians, tells us that the soil of
ancient Babylon was so rich and we'll cult
waited, that it produced two Or three hundred
fold. Xenophen says that Cyrus, the wisest
and best of ancient monarchs, distributed
premiums with his own hands, TO diligent
cultvators Of the soil.
The invention Of manures was so high
ly esteemed by the ancients, that Pliny as.
cribes it to Augeas, q Grecian king, and de.
clares that lands used to be cultivated by
the hands of even Generals, and that the
earth is delighted to be plowed with ia share
adorned with triumph" Cincinnatus was
found at his plow, when called TO the Die.
satorship of Rome. The Emperor of Chi.
ma, by an immemorial usage of his " Ce.
lessial Empire" is required annually to 20
into the fields, with all the high dig gnitary
OF his Court, and plow flrrow with his
own hands, as an example of industry to
his subjects, and as an illustration of the
Importance Of agriculture. Amongst the
the invention of agriculture was
ascribed to superhuman agency, and SO alb.
surd was their gratitude that they worship.
ped the OK for his services as a Iaborer in
the field l-BoUen's Farmer.
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