may be "the breath of morn, her rising sweet, with charms of earliest birds,' and "sweet the coming on of grateful evening mild;" but, the female who would apply the "nimble" and grateful air of the former unto her "gentle senses," or receive the mild and tender soothings of the latter into her delicate perceptions, must be contented, while our horned roarers are permitted to parade our uplands, and infest our meads, to confine her morning, and her evening walks, within the precincts of her conservatory, her shrubbery, and her garden; unless accompanied by some kind protector, with a brace of bull dogs at his heels, and a well proved rifle in his hand. Such are the requisites for personal security, during the recreations of a country walk. THE TIDE. THAT the flowing and ebbing of the waters of the ocean are regulated by the state and changes of the moon, has so long been the deduction of philosophy, and the acquiescing sentiment of men, as to make doubt upon any the subject, which shall, at this late day, be started, appear not only extravagant and vain in the general opinion, but wholly unwarranted, and perfectly ridiculous. It may be so. Certainly it cannot be denied, without a blush, that "The sea itself, both night and noon, Neither can it be safely disputed that the higher frolics do not happen at what is vulgarly termed the new moon; and again at the full moon: in other words, when the moon shows us at one time her narrowest crescent; at another, her largest diameter. That the highest tides are synchronous |