must be productive. But of this I can give no decided opinion, for want of more accurate information.

(z) These are the nominal prices of the shares in the Banks of Alexandria and Columbia. The selling prices vary, according to ċircumstances; but, as the stocks usually divide from eight to ten per cent per annum, they must be worth the former, at least, so long as the banks are conceived to be secure, although, from circumstances, they may sometimes be below it.

The value of the live stock depends more upon the quality thar quantity of the different species of it; and this, again, upon the demand, and judgement or fancy of purchasers.

Mount Vernon, July 9, 1799.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

The following is found inscribed on the back of a picture frame containing a miniature of Washington, hanging in one of the rooms of the mansion at Mount Vernon.

WASHINGTON,

THE DEFENDER of his coUNTRY, THE founder of L'BERTY,

THE FRIEND OF MAN

MISTORY AND TRADITION ARE EXPLORED IN VAIN

FOR A PARALLEL TO HIS CHARACTER.

IN THE ANNALS OF MODERN GREATNESS,

HE STANDS ALONE,

AND THE NOBLEST NAMES OF ANTIQUITY
LOSE THEIR LUSTRE IN HIS PRESENCE.
BORN THE BENEFACTOR OF MANKIND,
HE UNITED ALL THE QUALITIES NECESSARY

TO AN ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER.

NATURE MADE HIM GREAT,

HE MADE HIMSELF VIRTUOUS.

JATED BY HIS COUNTRY TO THE DEFENCE OF HER LIBERTIES,
HE TRIUMPHANTLY VINDICATED THE RIGHTS OF HUMANITY,
AND ON THE PILLARS OF NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE

LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF A GREAT REPUBLIC.
TWICE INVESTED WITH SUPREME MAGISTRACY

BY THE UNANIMOUS VOICE OF A FREE PEOPLE,

HE SURPASSED IN THE CABINET

THE GLORIES OF THE FIELD,

AND, VOLUNTARILY RESIGNING THE SCEPTRE AND THE SWord.
RETIRED TO THE SHADES OF PRIVATE LIFE.

A SPECTACLE SO NEW AND SO SUBLIME

WAS CONTEMPLATED WITH THE PROFOUNDEST ADMIRATION;
AND THE NAME OF WASHINGTON,
ADDING NEW LUSTRE TO HUMANITY,

RESOUNDED TO THE REMOTEST REGIONS OF THE EARTH.
MAGNANIMOUS IN YOUTH,

GLORIOUS THROUGH LIFE,

GREAT IN DEATH,

HIS HIGHEST AMBITION THE HAPPINESS OF MANKIND,
HIS NOBLEST VICTORY THE CONQUEST OF HIMSELF,
BEQUEATHING TO POSTERITY THE INHERITANCE OF HIS FAME,
AND BUILDING HIS MONUMENT IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN,
HE LIVED THE ORNAMENT OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY,
HE DIED REGRETTED BY A MOURNING WORLD.

A GLOSSARY

OF SUCH WORDS AND PHRASES AS MAY NOT EASILY BE UNDERSTOOD BY THE YOUNG READER.

MANY WORDS, NEEDING EXPLANATION, HAVING ALREADY BEEN EXPLAINED IN THE GLOSSARY TO VOL. I., ARE NOT HERE REPEATED.

Alienate, to transfer title to property, from one to another; or to estrange, or render hostile.

Amnesty, a general pardon of offences, by the government, or ruling power; an act of oblivion.

Arable, land fit for ploughing, or tillage.

Bailiff, an officer appointed by a sheriff to execute his au.rity; an under-sheriff.

Belligerent, a nation, power, or state, carrying on war; aisu, warlike, or disposed to make war.

Bequest, property left by will; a legacy.

Bottom-land, low ground; particularly low, level grounds, or lands adjoining rivers.

Bout, a round in ploughing; a tour across a field and back again to the same place.

Burnet, a plant.

Cabinet, the select council of an executive government; the official persons constituting such council.

Caliber, the bore of a gun, the diameter of the barrel in which it receives its charge.

Candidate, a person put up for office, or seeking to be elected to an office.

Census, an enumeration of the inhabitants of a country, made in obedience to the public authority.

Collateral, persons descended from the same original ancestor, but by a different branch.

College, (Electoral.) By the Constitution of the United States, the President and Vice-President are chosen by a certain number of persons elected for that purpose, in the several States. When these Electors are assembled, in their respective States, to give their votes, they are called a College, or Electoral College. Confederation, the name given to the United States of America previous to the formation of the Federal Union.

Coulter, the front iron of a plough, which, with a sharp edge, and with a slanting face, cuts and separates the ground.

Coup, a sudden blow; a decisive attack.

Couteau, (plural couteaux,) a knife, a hanger, a small sword.

Devise, to give or bequeath by will; also, the act of bequeathing, or the property bequeathed.

Douceur, a present, gift, or bribe.

Drill, in husbandry, to sow grain in rows, with a machine called a drill-plough.

Drought, dryness of the weather, and the effect produced by it on the soil, in preventing the growth of plants.

Emancipate, to deliver and give up, from slavery; to set frec.

Embrasure, an opening or porthole in a parapet, through which to point a gun.

Emporium, a place where trade and commerce collect; a place of gathering; a centre of business.

Envoy, a public messenger, minister, or ambassador.

Excise, a duty or tax laid upon goods, in the country, whether imported or raised at home. An import duty is a tax laid upon goods, on coming into the country; an export duty is a tax laid upon goods, on being taken out of the country.

Executors, persons appointed to carry a will into effect. Fascine, a fagot, a bundle of rods, or sticks, or brush. Federal Union, or Federal Government, the political establishment and organization of the United States of America, under their present Constitution, the States being considered as united into one Nation, and, at the same time, as maintaining towards each other the relations of partners to a league, or confederation, or compact Fee-simple, an estate held by a person in his own right, he having a complete title and possession, and the estate descending to his heirs or assigns.

Finesse, artifice, stratagem, cunning contrivance.

Flotilla, a fleet of small vessels.

Freehold, an estate held by undivided and unconditional right. Gabion, a temporary cover or barrier, raised in front of besiegers, to protect them in their approaches, or placed on the top of a parapet, as a shelter for the defendants, while firing over it.

Haversack, a bag, made of strong, coarse linen, to carry bread and other provisions, on a march.

Howitzer, a kind of mortar; a short cannon, with a large bore or barrel, mounted upon a field-carriage, with its trunnions in the middle, and not at the end, as in a mortar.

In statu quo, the previous condition of a person, or thing.
Insurgent, a rebel, one rising against authority.

Items, particular articles in an account.

Judiciary, the system of courts of justice and law, in a country.
Lieu, or in lieu of, in the place of, or in the room of.

Loam, a species of earth or soil, of different colors; a mixture of sand and clay.

Manumit, to give freedom to a slave; to liberate from bonds. Maritime, pertaining to the sea; a nation having a naval force and a commerce, is called a maritime nation.

Marl, a species of earth, in which there is more or less lime mixed

with various other ingredients, and which has a very fertilizing ef fect on the soil.

Merlins, handspikes.

Munitions, whatever materials are used in war; including, some times, the provisions and stores of an army, or navy.

Negotiation, the arrangement and settlement of matters between nations, by discussion and agreement.

Net. Net profit is clear and absolute profit, after all outlays, and charges of every kind, have been met and paid off; net weight is the weight of an article, exclusive of the vessel or vehicle in which it is contained, and of all other usual deductions.

Neutrality, the abstaining from taking part in a contest between others. standing aloof from a contest, and being at peace with both parties; sometimes the combination of neutral nations is called a neutrality. Palladium, something that affords effectual defence, protection, and safety.

Parallels, at a siege, are the trenches, or lines, made to correspond with the defences.

Paramount, superior to, of higher authority.

Patrole, a small party of soldiers, employed as a watch, to examine and visit the different sections, streets, and points, of a garrison, or town, or place of encampment.

Pike, an offensive weapon, consisting of a wooden shaft from six to twenty feet long, with a flat and pointed steel head.

Plenipotentiary, an ambassador to a foreign court, clothed with full power.

Pro tempore, literally, "for a time."

A person occupying an office only for a short time, in the occasional absence of its proper incumbent, is said to occupy it pro tempore.

Pulverize, to reduce to the state of powder.

Refugee, a person, who, in times of commotion or danger, flies to a foreign country, for safety.

Revenue, the annual income of a person, a company, or a nation.
Sainfoin, a plant, cultivated for fodder.

Sally, to go privately and unexpectedly out of a besieged place, and fall suddenly upon the besiegers, for the purpose of checking, repelling, or otherwise damaging them.

Schedule, a paper containing a list of any articles, or particulars; a paper, or written instrument, attached to another.

Sequestration, the act of seizing an estate from a delinquent, for the use of the State.

Shells, hollow iron balls, filled with powder, and so prepared, that, after being thrown a certain distance, from howitzers or mortars they will explode.

Sheriff, an officer, in each county, to whom is intrusted the execution of the laws.

Site, situation; local position; the ground on which any structure o object is placed.

Sortie, of a similar meaning with Sally.

Staple, a principal commodity or production of a country; the particular substance or original quality of a soil.

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