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principal emigrations from the Eastern Continent to the Western; the causes of those emigrations; the numbers of the emigrants; the places, to which they removed; the towns, which they built the colonies, which they planted; the churches, which they founded; and the principal persons concerned in the several enterprises for the settlement of America, whether navigators, adventurers, statesmen, divines, or warriors, with biographical sketches; the most material facts in the progress of the American settlements; the population of the natives, and of the colonists, at different periods; the formation of new colonies or states; the foundation of colleges and other seminaries of learning; the establishment of societies for promoting useful knowledge; the progress of arts and sciences; the progress of commerce; new inventions, or useful improvements; military and naval strength; civil wars, or insurrections; wars with the Indians; memorable battles; the principal events of the late revolutionary war; changes in the civil and ecclesiastical state; deaths and ages of eminent men; and providential occurrences.

It is the design of the author, to relate events in the order of time, on the plan of chronology, and yet to dilate on articles of peculiar importance, after the manner of history. The authorities will be given with precision; and the work will consist of two octavo volumes. The first will be ready for subscribers, in the next autumn.

A descendant of the celebrated William Penn, the founder of the city of Philadelphia, and the father of Pennsylvania, has lately presented to that city a large sum of money, to be expended in erecting a statue of his illustrious ancestor.

The President of the United States, has received a letter from capt. Lewis, (who was sent out for the purpose of exploring the territory of Louisiana,) dated Fort Mandan, April 7th, 1805. At the date of this letter, the party consisted of 35 persons, including interpre. ters and Indians, and all in good health.

The party under his command left the mouth of the Missouri on the 19th May, 1804. They fortified themselves in Nov. last, on the banks of the Missouri, 1609 miles from the mouth, in VOL. I. No. 2.

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latitude, 47d 21m N. at Fort Mandan. The country for 200 leagues from the mouth of the river is extremely fertile; thence to their winter quarters' not so good. Red cedar, cotton, and black ash are the principal trees in that country. The land is generally level, and the plains covered with grass. The Indians are friendly, excepting one tribe called the Soux, who are apprehensive lest the party should supply their enemies with arms, &c. As they advanced, the more friendly they found the savages, and the better armed; having also a regular trade with the Hudson's Bay company by the way of Lake Winnepeck. The party were supplied during the winter with corn, and abundance of wild meat Buffaloes, deer, elks, goats, and various kinds of fowls are here in great abundance: fish scarce. Horses are kept by the Indians, which are used only for the chase and in war. From information it is presumed, that the Missouri terminates about 600 miles above Fort Mandan. They have sent to the President, an accurate journal, with a map of the country through which they passed; also a large collection of natural and artificial curiosities.

Capt. Lewis does not calculate to complete his voyage within the present year, but expected to reach the Pacifick Ocean and return as far as the head of the Missouri, or perhaps to Fort Mandan before winter; and entertains the most sanguine hopes of complete suc

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GREAT BRITAIN.

Mr. A. Arrowsmith has compiled from various interesting and valuable materials, and published a map of Inexhibits, on a scale of two inches to a dia, six sheets, price £2 2. This map degree, on a great circle of the globe, a of the regions, which once composed very distinct and comprehensive view the vast empire of Hindustan.

the progress of the British acquisitions The following is a brief review of in India, proceeding along the coast, from the Ganges to the Indus. Congyl Chittagong, the dis rict of Midnapoor, in Orissa, and Bahar, were ceded by the Nabob, Jafher Koan, 1757, and Shah Alum, in 1765. To these were added in 1775, Benares; and in 1801, Allahabad, and the greater part of Oude; the remainder of which is now tributary to

the company. Delhi and Agra, adjoining the former, were conquered from the Marattas in 1803. The whole extends about 1100 miles along the Ganges, and has on an average, nearly 300 miles in breadth.

The province of Cuttach in Orissa, conquered in 1803, joins this vast territory with that called the Northern Cicars, which was wrested from the French, and confirmed in 1766, by Shah Alum, and the Nezam, to the English company. These extend along the coast about 600 miles, and have 50 of mean breadth. In the Carnatick, the English possessed for more than a century, only their fac tory of Madras and its suburbs, which they acquired about the year 1640; their boundary was much enlarged by Mohamed Ali Khan, whom they made Nabob of Arcot, in opposition to the French; and the whole of this extensive territory, including Maduna, Tanjore, &c. became formally, as it had long been virtually, subject to the company in 1801. It borders, at Cape Comorin, on Travancor, which with Cochin are tributary to the English; and it is only separated by the Ghats from Mysore, of which the greater part is subject to, and the remainder dependent on, the company, having been wrested from Tippo Saib, in 1792, and 1799. Adjoining to the northward, are the dominions of the Nezam, under the protection of the English, and beyond them, a part of Berar, transferred from the Maratta Raja to the Nezam, and relinquished by the latter to the company in 1803. These countries extend nearly 1000 miles from north to south, and their mean breadth may be reckoned 300 miles.

Bombay and its environs, with the coast of Guzerat, (the former of which was given in dowry with a Portuguese princess in 1662, to King Charles the second, and the latter has been ceded at various times by the native Rajas,) are of greater value than many of the above mentioned possessions, to the extent of which they make but slight additions. Of the central tracts, Gurrah, Mundla, and the Bundelcun 1, which are among their latest acquisitions, lesscan besaid; and the conquests from the Dutch on the coast of Ceylon, are too well known, to require any detail. Mr. Arrow smith's capacious and elegant map, is recommended to all, who have concerns with India, or who can afford either to

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The fourth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, greatly enlarged and the new articles incorporated in their proper places, is now publishing in England, on fine yellow wove paper, demy 4to. The plates will amount to upwards of five hundred. The publication commenced in February last, and a halfvolume appears every six weeks.

A grand aqueduct, constructing over the vale of Ponte-Cassylta, in Denbighshire to perfect the Junction Canal from Chester along the river Dee, has lately been completed. It is one of the most extraordinary efforts of art, consisting of nineteen pair of conical pillars, fifty two feet asunder, the center of which is one hundred and twenty feet in height, each pair of pillars supporting a kind of eliptical bridge of cast iron; the whole covered with immense sheets of cast iron, rivetted and cemented together, so as to form an aqueduct of sufficient width to allow the canal barges to pass one another.

THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE.

The English language is making conall the new Russian institutions, and in siderable progress on the continent. In most of the German universities and academies, there is a master appointed for teaching it. A number of elementings of the best English authors, have ary books, and selections from the writbeen lately published. British publications, indeed, occupy a considerable portion of the periodical reports of literature in the journals of the continent; and there are few English works of importance which are not speedily transĺated into some continental language; often into several languages.

GERMANY.

According to an imperial edict of Oct. 13th last, issued at Vienna, all lectures in that university, on logick, metaphysicks, practical philosophy, and physick, are to be delivered in Latin. By another edict, all private teaching, without a licence from the heads of the university, is forbidden; and those who are taught in this manner, and without a licence, are disqualified from standing a competition for any situation, which is to be decided by the literary attainments of the candidates.

SWEDEN.

The king of Sweden manifests great, zeal in the establishment of a proper system of education in his dominions. A board, appointed for the purpose of superintending publick instruction in thatkingdom,has commissioned a young Swede, named BRODEMAN, who had distinguished himself by some critical pieces and a treatise on education, to make a tour through several parts of Europe in order to collect information on the subject. He had an audience of the king of Great Britain who pointed out to him several things, which he thought would prove of especial utility to Sweden; and enjoined him, above all, not to be too easily led away by untried novelties.

Baron HERMELIN, who has already published maps of many of the Swedish provinces intends to publish a geographical and statistical description of Swedish Lapland, by Mr. WAHLENBURGH of the Cabinet of natural history at Upsal.

RUSSIA.

Several periodical works have very recently commenced in Russia. One, entitled notices of the North, is to be edited by M. MARTIGNORO, well known for his translation of Longinus; and will exhibit the history of learning and civilization in Russia, with the lives of its most illustrious men, Another journal appears at Moscow under the direction of M. KUTOSor, ancient curator of the university, entitled, the friend of illumination or journal of the sciences and arts. More accurate and complete details respecting GEORGIA, than the public at present possess, may be soon expected. Beside the expedition undertaken by order of the Russian government, and conducted by count PUSCHKIN, who was accompanied by several scientifick men; the baron of BIBERSTEIN, who has already published a work relative to the west coast of the Caspian sea, is now travelling in Georgia, to examine every thing relative to the culture and commerce of silk. Three engineers have like wise been recently dispatched into that country, to collect further information.

FIRES.

Oy the 11th of June, the town of Detroit was entirely consumed by fire. The houses, about 300 in number of

wood and compact, stood chiefly on one handsome street. The fire caught in a stable from the pipe of a Frenchman, about 9 o'clock in the morning, at the windward end of the town, and in five hours, not a dwelling house remained standing.

In the towns of Barnstead, Barrington, Farmington, New Durham, Middleton and Milton, in Strafford co. (N.H.) from 30t040 miles N.W.of Portsmouth, the fires, the beginning of this month, (July) made dreadful ravages, consuming for many miles, fences, forests, and the various products of the earth. The cattle were much injured by the flame and smoke, and two cows perished. The buildings were preserved by the exertions of the inhabitants, except two dwelling houses and a barn, which were consumed. A timely shower on the 8th checked and it was hoped, had terminated the progress of the desolat. ing flames.

SINGULAR PHENOMENON.

A GENTLEMAN of respectability and veracity, during his passage from Martinico to Boston, on the 8th, 9th and 10th of July, 1805, being on soundings, about 10 or 12 leagues to the southward and east ward of Cape Cod, observed on the surface of the water, small winged insects, vulgarly called Millars, in such numbers, as to discolour the water for a considerable distance. Advancing toward the coast, their numbers increased, and, apparently fatigued with the length of their flight, were every moment falling into the sea, where they perished. It was supposed by the gen tleman, who gives the information, that the vessel ran the distance of 40 or 50 miles along the coast in a northerly direction, from the first to the last appearance of these insects. For a day or two previously, the wind had blown fresh from the S. W. which probably had blown them from the shore to this distance. Those on the wing came in a direction from the land, appeared extremely fatigued, and would frequently light on the rigging and sails of the vessel. We merely record these facts, as well attested, and leave it to others to account for them.

N. B. The gentleman has left with the Editors one of these insects, found in the vessel several days after her arival.

HARVEST.

WE cannot forbear mentioning, (says the Fredericktown Herald) that the hopes, which we expressed, in a former number of this paper, respecting the promising appearance of the fields, have been happily realized in the abundance of the harvest. The weather has been remarkably favouraable for the reapers and ingatherers; till within a few days, when it has been uncommonly warm. The mercury in Fahrenheit's thermometer having in the shade and current of air repeatedly risen up to 92 and 93 degrees. And we understand, that several labourers have fallen victims to the excessive heat. Nor have we been without some refreshing showers SO necessary for the growing crops of corn. There is reason to hope, that this will be a most prosperous year for the husbandman.

A retrospective view of three foregoing years and particularly

the last, when in addition to indifferent crops, sickness made its ravages throughout the community generally, will make us gratefully sensible of these blessings of Providence, and enable us fully to estimate their value.

The Hon. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, Esq. is elected Boylston Professor of Rhetorick and Oratory in the University at Cambridge.

ORDAINED.

At Providence, R. I. on the 17th inst. Mr. HENRY EDES, over the first Cougregational church in that town. The solemnities of the occasion were introduced with prayer, by the Rev. Mr.

CHANNING; the Rev. Dr. ELIOT preached from Luke x. 18: the Rev. Mr. WILSON offered the ordaining prayer, and the Rev. Dr. LATHROP gave the charge. The Rev. Dr. KIRKLAND expressed the fellowship of the churches, and the Rev. Mr. GRAY made the concluding prayer. Sacred music was performed with skill and animation, and the several services appeared to engage the serious and interesting attention of a numerous audience.

List of New American Publications.

THEOLOGICAL.

AN abstract of an apology for renouncing the jurisdiction of the synod of Kentucky, being a compendious view of the gospel, and a few remarks on the confession of faith, by Robert Marshal, John Dunlary, Richard M.N. Barton, W. Stone, and John Thomp, son. 1805.

Three sermons preached at Northampton by Rev. Solomon Williams, A. M. 1805.

Butler, Northampton. A discourse delivered at Haverhill, March, 1805, at the funeral of J. Kimball, A. M. To which is added a short memoir of his life. By John S. Popkin, A. M. Newbury Port.

The importance of virtue and piety as qualifications of rulers a discourse delivered March, 1805, by Daniel Dana, A. M. Newbury Port.

Two discourses on Christ's selfexistence, preached at Newbury Port, March 3d, 1805, by Samuel Spring.

The moral tendency of man's accountableness to God; and its influence on the happiness of society. A sermon preached on the day of the General Election at Hartford, Con. by Asahel Hooker, A. M.

The kingdom of Christ, a missionary sermon preached at Philadelphia, May 23d, 1805, by Edward D. Griffin, A.M.

The way of God vindicated, in a sermon preached September 16th, 1804, after the interment of his only child, Jonathan Homer, A. B. who died September 7th, 1805, aged 21. By Jonathan Homer, pastor of a church in Newton.

A sermon on duelling preached at New Haven, September 9th, 1804, and

at New York, January 21, 1805. By Timothy Dwight, D. D.

A sermon preached before the Hampshire Missionary Society, August 4th, 1804, in Northampton, by Enoch Hale, A. M.

The value of life and charitable institutions; a discourse delivered before the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at their semiannual meeting, June, 11, 1805, by Rev. Thomas Gray, A. M.

A discourse to a society of young men in London; preached in the year 1719. By Rev. John Cumming minister of the Scots church, London. Boston reprinted Jan. 1805.

The guilt, folly, and source of suicide; two discourses preached in the city of New York, Feb. 1805. Samuel Miller, D. D.

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A discourse delivered in Haverhill Jan. 31st, 1805, at the interment of the Rev. Hezekiah Smith, D. D. late pastor of the Baptist society in that town. By Samuel Stillman, D. D.

The characters, trials, and duties of a gospel minister delienated in a sermon delivered at Amherst, (Mass.) May 2, 1804, at the ordination of Rev. Thomas H. Wood, to the work of an Evangelist. By John Emerson, A. M.

A sermon at the ordination of the Rev. Henry Lord, to the work of the ministry in Williamsburg, June 20, 1804. By Joseph Lyman, D. D.

A Thanksgiving discourse, delivered at Chester, N. H. Nov. 1804. By Nathan Bradstreet, A. M.

A discourse delivered at the opening for publick worship, of the Presbyteri an church, in the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia, April 7th, 1805. By Ashbel Green, D. D.

Two occasional sermons preached at Hatfield, Nov. 4th and 29th, 1804. By Joseph Lyman, D. D. Pastor of the church in Hatfield.

The close communion of the Baptists, in principle and practice, proved to be unscriptural, and of a bad tendency in the church of God; in seven letters, addressed to the friends of fundamental truth, and of practical religion. By Rufus Anderson, A. M. Salem, 1805. 20 cents.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Report of the trial of the Hon. Samuel Chase; Baltimore, printed for Samuel Butler and George Keatings, 1805.

An address to the members of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society, by Peter Thacher, A. M.

The Poetical Works of John Milton, from the text of Dr. Newton, with a critical Essay, by J. Aikin.

S. Etheridge and C. Stebbins. This is a pocket edition in two vols. neatly printed on a nonpareil type, and good paper.

An Abridgment of the History of New England, for the use of young persons, by Hannah Adams.

PERIODICAL WORKS.-RELIGIOUS.

THE Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, published at Hartford, monthly, 40 pages, 8vo. 12 1-2 cts.

The Massachusetts Missionary Magazine, published at Boston, monthly, 40 pages, 8vo. 12 1-2 cts.

The Piscataqua Evangelical Magazine, published at Portsmouth, once in two months, 40 pages, 8vo, 12 1-2 cts.

The Assembly's Missionary Magazine, or Evangelical Intelligencer, published at Philadelphia, monthly, 50 pages, octavo, 25 cts.

The Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Magazine, published occasionally, Boston, 12 1-2 cts.

The Christian's Magazine, published in New York, once in three months, 120 pages, 8vo. 37 1-2 cts.

N.B. The profits of the above works are devoted to missionary purposes.

LITERARY.

THE Literary Miscellany, published quarterly, at Cambridge, 100 pages, 8vo, 50 cts.

The Monthly Anthology, published in Boston, 50 pages, 8vo, 37 1-2 cts.

The Literary Magazine and American Register, published monthly, in Philadelphia.

The Mathematical Correspondent, published at New York, by T. and J. Swords, 24 pages, 12mo, 18 1-2 cts.

The Medical Repository, published quarterly in New York.

The Collections of the Historical Society, published in Boston, gencrally a vol. once in a year.

The Monthly Register and Review

Two Treatises, wherein are contained several particular subjects, by of the United States for January, 1805, Aaron Putman, A. M.

by S. Cullen Carpenter, Charleston, S. Carolina, 6 dolls. per annum.

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