the Mediterranean, and in various parts of the Baltic, &c.&c.? Upon the view, already taken, and the reasoning employed, these curious facts, were we disposed to extend this article for the purpose of making a full application of the new doctrine, would perhaps admit of satisfactory explanation, with a LITTLE assistance from the orb of night. How can they be fairly and fully explained by the lunar doctrine of the tides, singly contemplated ?-I never witnessed more than the attempt.

Nevertheless, desirous as I am, of bringing the question to an amicable issue, and by no means willing to cast a slur upon yon, beauteous planet of the night, with whom I formed early and endearing intimacy; I am ready, more than ready, to enter into compromise with this fair, this lovely moon, and to allow that her fascinating attraction may, and probably does, in a greater or lesser degree, influence and augment the force of that reaction, in the central conflux of the waters, by which the tide is occasioned, and which must, of course, rise higher on our shores as the power of lunar attraction is more or less combined with that of said reaction. Hence it follows, in consequence, that the tides must

rise higher, or, in common phrase, “put up" with the increase of the moon; and that they will find their highest elevation when her orb is "at the full;" while they sink, as it apparently diminishes and falls into the wane; and drop gradually to lowest ebb, as the confederacy of the lunar power with the central reaction of the waters, lessens and withdraws.

But, what was intended merely to supply a hint, for the consideration of philosophers, is stretching into a length of disquisition. I have been hurried unwarily, by these tides into a troublous and formidable venture; into waters perhaps too deep for our fathom. Let me, and those who may have stemmed them with me thus far, if any such there be-let us, before breakers, or, hardly less awful critics, overwhelm us, get on shore, one and all, as speedily as possible!

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Thanks!!-we have escaped the billows! the reviewers?

NATIVE LANGUAGE.

THE force of habit and repetition is aptly instanced in the effect of native language on the organ of hearing, and on the perceptions of the mind.

In the speech which we have used from our youth; in our vernacular and native language, and in no other, do words ever seem to ourselves, the true symbols of our ideas. Any man, of any country, may at once put this doctrine to the test. Let him, supposing him to be of English birth and breeding, and a competent scholar in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, or what else; let him, on any given occasion, express the same sense in these various languages; let him direct them in succession to the signification of the same object: and then, let him immediately apply his native language to the same occasion: the use of two or three words, even a single word, will be effectual to the purpose.

By a careful attention to what is passing in his mind, when he is pronouncing a phrase, or word, in any language except his native one, or that which is decidedly predominant and fairly become his own, he will perceive that he makes such phrase or word a representative, a symbol of an idea, and an illustration of the image just formed in his mind, only by, tacitly and rapidly translating it into his earliest acquired, his colloquial speech; into that language, with which first perception had been linked; to which his ear has been familiarised; in which he perpetually THINKS; and in which alone, he now identifies sense and object with sound and with expression.

A REMARK ON DRESS.

The man who finds most occasion for uniform neatness in his provision of coat, waistcoat, &c. &c. &c. intending hereby the entire costume of his turn out; happens, unfortunately, to supply an instance of the person who is least prepared for this cruel and indispensable observance; (viz.) he, who, with a very slender and fixed income, perceives himself called upon, or thinks that he is so, to preserve the appearance, and acquiesce in the habits of genteel life.

Such an one, because his fortune is scanty, must, in defiance of prudence, and of maxim, not dare to "cut his coat according to his cloth;" he may claim the privilege of an averted eye from his tailor; from the manufacturer of his boots, or of his saddles; from artizans, of whatever description: but, he must look the sun, and his own associates, directly in the face: he must daily appear in fresh and in no niggard