3. Standing upon this smooth and solid bed of granite, you hear the water rushing and roaring deep below you, and sending up sprays in its angular passage, to be coloured by the golden beams of the sun, and to be drank in by the thirsty verdure on its banks. Looking through the zigzag channel from either extremity, it presents a profile strongly analogous to artificial fortification, and the eye hastily searches for the bristling bayonet and the cannon, as it sees the numerous bastion, and curtain, extending themselves at length, with almost the regular disposition of engineer construction.

4. Above you, the river spreads itself out in ample dimensions, and approaches, peaceably and silently until it is forced to find vent in this narrow channel, where it lashes itself into fury, and pours itself along in a roar that is heard for miles around. Standing in perfect security on the very edge of this chasm, you may look down into it,

5. “Through which foam globes in eddies ride,
Thick as the schemes of human pride,

That down life's current drive amain,
As frail, as frothy, and as vain."

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Below you the country spreads itself out in a rich landscape; you see the silver stream threading itself along through occasional woodland and opening, both sides of its rich banks exhibiting the thick monuments of industry and art.

6. At a distance, the village spire raises itself up proudly above the buildings that surround it, and divers roads are seen traversing the adjacent country, converging to the village, like so many radii from circumference to centre. These Falls take their name from the circumstance of a hunter, named Snow, being killed there by the Indians, as far back as the year 1762. This country was then a wilderness.-New-Gloucester, the nearest settlement, was just commencing and Captain Snow and a Mr. Butterfield were engaged in hunting and trapping on this stream. 7. Their camp was pitched on the east side of the river, near by the Falls, and tradition points to the very spot. Indian depredations, at that time, were frequent.. A party of warriors had descended from Canada, and, scattering themselves upon the frontiers, were carrying with them devastation and terror. One party having laden themselves

with booty, in returning discovered the traps of these hunters, and eventually traced them to their camp.

8. Butterfield, who happened to be upon the outside, discovered them when within a few rods of it. He uttered a scream of terror, and conjured Snow, who was within, to surrender, as resistance would be useless. Snow, who was aware of the horrible sufferings to which they doomed their prisoners, replied, that he would not surrender himself alive-that it was better to perish there than at the stake.

9. The Indians, finding themselves discovered, by a yell precipitated themselves upon the camp. Snow appeared at the door, with his musket in his hand, and made a demonstration of surrender; but he did this only to single out his victim. The Indian who covered the file in its approach, was of ferocious appearance and uncommon stature.

10. His head was adorned with the plumage of the eagle, taken entire, its wings depending over either shoulder, and its talons and beak so arranged that it still seemed to have life and be conscious of its kingly power. When within a few steps of Snow, and signifying to him good quarters, Snow suddenly elevated the muzzle of his piece, and saying that he neither asked nor gave quarters, dis charged it into the bosom of the Indian Sachem, who rolled upon the ground, convulsed in the mortal agonies of death.

11. Before Snow could recover the camp, or make another movement of offence, he himself was slain and cut to pieces by the whole party, who had flung themselves at once with fury upon him. They then betook themselves to lamentations and howlings for the loss of their chief; and after having performed all the funeral rites due to his rank, they sunk him in a bog, and continued their march northward, taking Butterfield with them, calculating to offer him up as a sacrifice for the death of their captain.

12. On the borders of lake Umbagog they were joined by the Indians who had been spoiling in other directions, and here they feasted several days, holding their orgies, both for the success of their campaign and the loss of their Sachem. They afterwards went on to Canada; and Butterfield, watching every opportunity to escape, at length ventured-and travelling the wilderness alone, finally reached

his friends in safety, and informed them of the tragical death of his comrade.

13. The remains of Snow were subsequently interred by a party that went to New-Gloucester; and a mound of stones, loosely flung together, still marks the spot where sleeps the valiant hunter, whose name is perpetuated by identifying it with the name of the Falls.

Note. Androscoggin river, in the state of Maine, rises in the north part of York county, on the borders of NewHampshire. It unites with the Kennebec about 20 miles from the ocean.-Umbagog is a large Lake, in Grafton county, New Hampshire, on the confines of Maine.

SKETCH OF THE INHABITANTS OF CHINA.

SECT. 1. Persons and Character.

1. THE Chinese, in their complexion and general ap ́pearance, exhibit proofs of their Mongol origin. They bear a very strong resemblance to the Tartars, except they are more slender, less active, and less able to endure hardship. They have a square flat face, small nose but broad at the root, large ears, and small oblique eyes. Their colour is a pale yellow, like the root of rhubarb or a faded leaf; but in the southern parts darker than in the northern.

2. They have a long tuft of black hair, plaited into a tail, reaching from the crown of the head to the waist, and sometimes to the calf of the leg, the rest of the scalp being closely shaven. They pluck out their beard with tweezers, leaving only a few straggling hairs. The higher classes_ pride themselves on being fat, which is supposed to indicate at once abundance of food and exemption from labour.

3. The general character of the Chinese is represented as a strange compound of pride and meanness, of affected gravity and real frivolity, of refined civility and gross indelicacy, of great apparent simplicity and openness in conversation, attended with a degree of art and cunning of which an European has no conception. From the throne to the meanest subject, there is an entire disregard to truth.

4. Dishonesty in traffic is represented as universal, and their skill in the art of cheating unparalleled. They are described as the most timid people in the world, entirely devoid of personal courage and presence of mind in cases of danger, and capable of being terrified almost into convulsions by the drawing of a sword, or the presenting of a pistol; yet suicide, by both sexes, is said to occur more frequently among them than among any other people.

5. They are described also as extremely vindictive, and remarkably deficient in common humanity and fellow feeling. If a Chinese drop from a boat into the sea, he is suffered to sink without the smallest effort being made to save him. They are distinguished for their national vanity, and in all their transactions with foreigners, their self-importance is conspicuous. They regard all nations as absolute barbarians in comparison with themselves. But when compared to the nations of Europe, "they can only be said," in the language of Mr. Barrow, to be great in trifles, whilst they are really trifling in every thing that is great.'

6. Their whole external conduct is under the regulation of law; and their general character in regard to morals, compared with their minute observance of duty by penal laws, affords abundant proof of the utter insufficiency of human laws, without the aid of religious principle, to produce real virtue among human beings.

7. But on the other hand, their natural disposition is mild, cheerful, contented, and obliging; their exterior deportment is uncommonly decent, and their manners extremely prepossessing. Public intoxication is very rare among them. They are also distinguished for their steady and unremitting industry; unexampled perseverance in all their pursuits; and unbounded veneration for parents and ancestors.

SECT. 2. Women.

8. A proof of the low state of civilization in China is the extremely degraded condition of the female sex. Women seldom quit their apartment, which is situated in the most retired part of the house, and there they live secluded from all society but that of their domestics. It is accounted a species of moral offence for a woman to be seen in the public streets; and when they occasionally visit a relative or

friend, they must be conveyed in a close chair, or in a covered wheelbarrow.

9. Women, whose husbands are of high rank, are always confined; those of the second class are a sort of upper servants, deprived of liberty; while those of the lower are permitted, indeed, to go abroad with greater freedom, but it is only that they may labour like slaves. If they become mothers, their burden is the greater, since while at work, they carry their child upon the back.

10. They even perform the office of beasts of burden, and are sometimes seen dragging the plough or harrow, which their unfeeling husband holds with one hand, while he casts the seed into the ground with the other. Even in a state of domestic improvement they possess no privileges or indulgencies; and are not permitted to sit at the same table, or in the same apartment with their husbands.

11, The education of females is intended to give them a taste for solitude, and accustom them to habits of modesty and taciturnity. If their parents are rich, they are instructed in all sorts of needle-work, and to play upon different instruments of music. Few of them are beautiful: the handsomest are generally bought for the court and the principal mandarins; women in China, among the highest classes, being considered and treated as articles of trade.

12. The most singular circumstance respecting the Chinese women is the unnatural diminution of the feet, which is effected by compression from the earliest infancy, and which is considered as the chief ornament of a Chinese beauty. The great toe is left free and preserves its natural size; but the foot is so confined with bandages, that it grows little from infancy, and is so generally diminutive in size, as to enter a shoe of four inches long and an inch and a half broad. Females experience much inconvenience from this practice, and walk with a timid and tottering step, unless they support themselves by the wall.

SECT. 3. Manners.

13. A Chinese of rank is a mere slave of fashion. There is a rule for every thing he does; whether he sits or walks, whether he speaks or remains silent, whether he receives company at home, or walks abroad. If an oversight be committed in any of these particulars, a due num