wnlawfull carriage should not be used by any of them hereafter, in the prohibiting and unlawful punishing of Our good people for using their law full Recreations and honest exercises >pon Sundayes and other Holydayes, after the afternoone Sermon or Seruice, Wee now finde that two sorts of people wherewith that Countrey is much infected (Wee meane Papists and Puritanes) have maliciously traduced and calumniated those our iust and honourable proceedings. And therefore, lest our reputation might vpon the one side (though innocently) haue some aspersion layd vpon it, and that upon the other part, our good people in that Countrey be not misled, by the mistaking and misinterpretation of Our meaning, we have therefore thought good hereby to clere and make Our pleasure to be mani fested to all Our good people in those parts.

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"It is true that, at our first entry to this Crowne and Kingdome, Wee were informed, and that too truely, that Our Countyof Lancashireabound ed more in Popish Recusants than any County of England; and thus hath still continued since, to Our great re greet, with little amendment; save that, now of late, in Our last riding through our said county, Wee find, both by the report of the judges, and of the Bishop of that Diocesse, that there is some amendment now daily begin, ning, which is no small contentment to Us.

"The report of this growing amend ment amongst them, made Us the more sorry, when with our owne eares we heard the generall complaint of our people, that they were barred from all lawfull Recreation and exercise vpon the Sundaye's afternoone, after the ending of all Divine Seruice, which cannot but produce two euils: the one, the hindering of the conuersion of many, whom their Priests will take occasion hereby to vexe, perswading them that no honest mirth or recrea tion is lawfull or tolerable in our Religion, which cannot but breed a great discontentment in our peoples' hearts, especially of such as are peradventure pon the point of turning. The other

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inconuenience is, that this prohibition barreth the common and meaner sort of people from using such exercises as may make their bodies more able for warre, when wee, or our Successours, shall haue occasion to use them; and, in place thereof, sets up filthy tiplings and drunkennesse, and breeds a number of idle and discontented speeches in their alehouses. For, when shall the common people have leave to exercise, if not vpon the Sundayes and Holy daies, seeing they must apply their labour and win their living in all working-daies?(Con cluded at p. 251.)

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ANTEDILUVIAN REMAINS.

THE enormous skeletons discovered at various periods in America, demonstrate the former existence of animals. far surpassing in size any at present known. In fact, these remains evince that the most gigantic quadrupeds now in existence are mere pigmies, compared with some of the ancient inhabitants of the western world ; but of these, perhaps nothing more will ever be known than the bones abovementioned. The following tradition relating to them is still in existence It is amongst the native Indians. given in the very terms of a Shawanee, and shews that the impressions produced by these monsters were most forcible:

*Ten thousand moons ago, when nought but gloomy forests covered this land of the sleeping sun, long before the pale men, with thunder and fire at their command, rushed on the wings of the wind to ruin this garden of nature,-when nought but the untamed wanderers of the woods, and men as unrestrained as they, were the lords of the soil,- -a race of animals were in being, huge as the frowning precipice, cruel as the bloody panther, swift as the descending eagle, and terrible as the angel of night. pines crashed beneath their feet, and the lake shrunk when they slaked their thirst; the forceful javelin in vain was hurled, and the barbed arrow fell harmless from their sides. Forests were laid waste at a meal;

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the groans of expiring animals were every where heard; and whole villa ges, inhabited by men, were destroyed in a moment. The cry of universal distress extended even to the region of peace in the west, and the good spirit interposed to save the unhappy, The forked lightning gleamed all around, and loudest thunder rocked the globe. The bolts of heaven were hurled upon the cruel destroyers alone, and the mountains echoed with the bellowings of death. All were killed except one male, the fiercest of the race, and him even the artillery of the skies assailed in vain. He ascended the bluest summit which shades the

source of the Monongahela, and, roaring aloud, bid defiance to every Vengeance. The red lightning scorch ed the lofty firs, and rived the knotty oaks, but only glanced upon the enraged monster, At length, maddened with fury, he leaped over the waves of the west at a bound, and at this moment reigns the uncontroled momarch of the wilderness, in despite of even Omnipotence itself."

Enteresting Varieties.

MIDWIVES Writers against the employment of men in midwifery, should take for their text the subjoined extract from the preface to Gray's Supplement to the Pharmacopeia," 1821- 66 The union of midwifery with apothecary practice does not, from the Bills of Mortality, appear to be attended with those advantages to the female sex that might reasona bly be expected to arise from the union of modern physiological theory with practice; since, in the thirty years from 1728 to 1758, during which women were almost exclusively em▾ ployed, out of 759,122 deaths, only 6,481 took place in child-bed, or rather more than eight in a thousand; while in the eight years from 1807 to 1814, when men-midwives were as exclusively employed, out of 147,304 deaths, there were 1404 in child-bed, or little less than ten in a thousand, which when extended to the mortality of the whole kingdom, is an annual increase

of 250 deaths in child-bed. This can scarcely be attributed to any other cause, than that the apothecary is unconsciously led to unduly hasten the delivery, or that he serves as a medium of communicating febrile contagion, to which females at such a period are peculiarly liable,"

MEDICINES, says the same writer, must in most cases be made unpalatable, lest the patient should conceive himself to be furnished with mere slops, for the sake of a charge being made!!!

TO TEMPER STEEL. A correspondent says, "Having bought a handsome knife, and paid handsomely for it, I found that whenever I attempted to cut wood, or any hard substance, the edge broke. This accident, often repeated, soon made a mere saw of my blade. I complained to the cutler, who very seriously assured me that it was a sure finished by sharpening it, for which sign of the goodness of the steel; he be charged me sixpence. This grinding became so frequently necessary, that my knife was reduced to the size of a large needle. A new blade was then fitted to the handle, but this also proved of too brittle a temper, and the same accident happened to it. My patience now became exhausted, and I almost despaired of ever possessing a serviceable knife, when an itinerant grinder of scissars gave me an effectual receipt, viz.-to plunge the blade up to the handle in boiling fat, for two hours, and then, taking it out, to let it cool gradually. I followed his directions, and my knife now cuts the hardest wood without

being damaged its edge resists even bone."

THE STRANGER'S GRAVE,

BY J. WILMINGTON FLEMING.! IN the cleft of yon rock, whose stern front threatens danger,

Where the wild waters beat, and the hollow winds sigh,

Unhallowed, unwept, is the grave of the stranger

Who came a wan exile, unfriended to die.