18. Say, that in future, negroes fhall be bleft, 19. Say that fair freedom bends her holy flight 20. Then fhall proud Albion's crown, where laurels twine,, Torn from the bofom of the raging fea, Boaft, 'midft the glorious leaves, a gem divine, The radiant gem of pure humanity! THE HUMANE INDIAN. AN Indian, who had not met with his ufual fuccefs in hunting, wandered down to a plantation among the back fettlements in Virginia; and feeing a planter at his door, afked for a morfel of bread, for he was very hungry. The planter bid him begone, for he would give him none. 2. Will you give me a cup of your beer? faid the Indian. No, you fhall have none here, replied the planter.. But I am very faint, faid the favage. Will you give me only a draught of cold water? Get you gone, you Indian dog; you fhall have nothing here, faid the planter. 3. It happened fome months after, that the planter went on a fhooting party up into the woods, where, intent upon his game, he miffed his company, and loft his way; and night coming on, he wandered through the forest, tiik he efpied an Indian wigwam. 4. He approached the favage's habitation, and afked. him to fhow him the way to a plantation on that fide the country. It is too late for you to go there this evening, Sir, faid the Indian; but if you will accept of my homely. fare, you are welcome. 5. He then offered him fome venison, and fuch other refreshment as his ftore afforded, and having laid fome. beaufkins for his bed, he defired that he would repofe him. 1 felf for the night, and he would awake him early in the morning, and conduct him on his way. 6. Accordingly in the morning they fet off, and the Indian led him out of the foreft, and put him into the road which he was to purfue; but just as they were taking leave, he ftepped before the planter, and turning round, staring full in his face, afked him, whether he recollected his features. The planter was now ftruck with fhame and confufion, when he recognised, in his kind protector, the Indian whom he had fo harshly treated. 7. He confeffed that he knew him, and was full of exeufes for his brutal behavior; to which the Indian only replied; When you fee poor Indians fainting for a cup of cold water, don't say again, "Get you gone, you Indian dog." The Indian then wished him well on his journey, and left him. It is not difficult to fay which of these two. had the best claim to the name of Chriftian. THE MAMMOTH. OF all the quadrupeds which have hitherte. been defcribed, the Mammoth is undoubtedly much the largeft. This animal is not known to have an existence any where at prefent. We judge of it only from its bones. and skeletons, which are of an unparalleled fize, and are found in Siberia, Ruffia, Germany, and North-America.. 2. On the Ohio, and in many places farther north, tasks, grinders, and fkeletons, which admit of no comparifon with any other animal at prefent known, are found in vaft numbers; fome lying on the furface of the earth, and fome a little below it.. 3. A Mr. Stanley, taken prifoner by the Indians near the mouth of the Tenefee, relates, that, after being tranfferred from one tribe to another, he was at length carried over the mountains weft of the Miffouri to a river which unreftwardly; that thefe bones abounded there; and that the natives faid the anime was ftill exiting in the northern parts of their country. Ha 4. A 4. A delegation of warriors from the Deleware tribe having vifited the governor of Virginia, during the late revolution, on matters of bufinefs; after thefe had been difcuffed and fettled in council, the governor asked them fome questions relative to their country, and, among others, what they knew or had heard of the animal whose bones were found at the Salt-licks on the Ohio. 5: 5. The chief speaker immediately put himfelf into an attitude of oratory, and with a pomp fuited to what he conceived the elevation of his fubject, informed him, that it was a tradition handed down from their fathers, "That in ancient times, a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big-bone-licks, and began a universal destruction of the bears, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals, which had been created for the use of the Indians. 6. "That the Great Man above, looking down and feeing this, was fo enraged that he feized his lightning, defcended to the earth, feated himself on a neighboring mountain, on a rock, on which his feat and the print of his feet are still to be feen, and hurled his bolts among them, till the whole were flaughtered, except the big bull, who, prefenting his forehead to the fhafts, hook them off as they fell; but miffing one at length, it wounded him in the fide; whereon, fpringing round, he bounded over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.” DIALOGUE AND BETWEEN MRS. CARELESS EDUCATION. Mrs. Careless. Friendly. I came to request your company in a walk but I fee you are engaged with a book; pray what is it GOOD morning, my dear Mrs. Mrs. Friendly. It is a treatife on female education, which pleafes me much; and will, with domeftic avocations, deprive me of the pleasure of walking with you this morning. Mrs. Care. And what have you to do with treatises on education? I feldom read any thing, and never books of that that kind. I fhould as foon think of plodding through a volume of old fermons. Mrs. Fr. I affure you, I confider the education of youth, females in particular, to be a matter of the firft importance; and I take great pleasure in reading the obfervations of ingenious writers on the fubject. I have children, in whofe welfare, I need not tell you, I am deeply interested; and their happinefs or mifery, their honor or infamy, entirely depend, in my opinion, on the principles and habits they acquire in youth, whilst the mind is tender, and the voice of inftruction finks deep. Mrs. Care. But cannot children be educated, unless their parents read books on the fubject? Mrs. Fr. Certainly they can, if the parents are themfelves qualified for the task. But I find it a difficult and delicate bufinefs, and therefore I have recourse to the wife and experienced for affiftance in conducting it. Mrs. Care. The affiftance of the dancing, mufic, and drawing maflers, is all I require for my children. They fhall indeed know fomething of reading, writing, and nee dle work; but to give them a polite education and make them accomplished is my aim. Mrs. Fr. I fear, my dear Mrs. Careless, you do not diftinguish the advantages, which arife from a useful rather than a polite education; fince you fpeak with fo much indifference of the former, and with such raptures of the latter. Mrs. Gare. Pray what are the mighty advantages of educating children in what you ftyle a ufeful manner? I never yet faw them. Mrs. Fr. Then you are no very ftrict obferver. (I beg your pardon for fpeaking thus freely). But furely each day brings inftances of its advantages; and each day fhows the mischief of a contrary mode. The kind of education I mention is that which tends to give females well regulated minds and agreeable manners; and render them bcloved, efteemed, and admired. For it is by no means neceffary in order to this, that a young lady fhould be mif. trefs of all polite accomplishments. They often belong to fome of the most difgufting and infignificant of the fex. No, let parents form the growing mind to virtue, religion, and the calm pleafures of domeftic life; at the fame time endeavorno endeavoring that cheerfulness play round the heart, and innocent gaiety enliven the behavior. Let the habit of felfgovernment be early produced; for all the world confpiring cannot make a woman happy who does not govern her paffions. Let the first appearance of stubbornness in them be checked and refifted; and let them be taught cheerfully, to deny themfelves every object of defire, inconfiftent. with reafon, prudence, or virtue. Thus cultured, their tem-pers will be fweet and placid, and their manners gentle and engaging. If they be put under the care of tutors abroad, they will not be unteachable and refractory; and the prefence of their parents will not be neceflary to make them behave with difcretion and propriety. Mrs. Care. Well, after their minds are thus taken care of, how would you have them further accomplished ? Mrs. Fr. They should be well verfed in reading, writing, arithmetic, and English grammar. If their naturalgenius ftrongly led them to poetry, painting, or mufic, and eafy fortune admitted, it fhould be indulged and cultivated ; but by no means to fuch a degree as to interrupt or superfede domeftic employments. For thefe require attention in a greater or lefs degree from every woman; and unless she understand and discharge them according to her circumftances, fhe is contemptible and ufelefs. Mrs. Care. Fine accomplishments, truly! a perfect skill in handling the broom and dufter! Mrs. Friendly, if you educate your children in this way, they will be ruined; they will be ftrangers to the charms of dancing, dress and company. The graces will never condefcend to adorn. thofe who are accuftomed to the kitchen. Mrs. Fr. My friend, I have no objection to dancing, drefs and company, when they form not the chief object of folicitude and attention, and are cultivated merely as the recreation and ornaments of life, and not as the business and end of it. Be affured, a well furnished mind, a well governed temper, love of domeftic pleafures, and an inclination and capacity to purfue domeftic employments, are the firft. requifites in a woman, and the foundation of her refpectability and enjoyment. Without thefe, though her graceful mien and dancing charm every eye, and her mufic be fweeter than the harp of Orpheus, he must be unhappy in herself,, |