respecting such a creature as man, but by reasons of an eternal nature, and referring to the laws of an invisible world.  Every system of an inferior kind, will be found inadequate in its application, and unsatisfactory in its sanctions—­calculated, it may be, to amuse the philosopher in his closet, and attract the admiration of young and inexperienced minds, but too weak to sustain the shock of human passions, and too circumscribed to reach the heights of human hopes and fears.  The condition of women improves, undoubtedly, as a people advances towards civilization; but there is a period in the process, at which voluptuousness, more cruel than indifference, and often maddened by jealousy, subjects her to greater degradation than her original insignificance, and destroys all hope of her amelioration in the tyranny of her own licentiousness.  It is only where the principle alluded to, is publicly recognised in the civil institutions of a country, and conscientiously reverenced by the piety of its citizens, that she attains the true dignity of her destiny in an equal subordination, and vindicates the benevolence of the Deity in her creation, by the increase of happiness she confers on her consort.  This cannot be looked for in a state of nature.—­E.

[2] “These slings consisted of a slender round cord, no thicker than a packthread, which had a tassel at one end, and a loop at the other end and in the middle.  The stones which they used were oblong, and pointed at each end, being made of a soft and unctuous soap-rock (smectitis), which could easily be rubbed into that shape.  These exactly fitted the loop in the middle of the sling, and were kept in a wallet or pocket of coarse cloth, strongly woven, of a kind of grass, which was tied on about the middle.  Their shape gives them a striking resemblance to the glandes plumbeae of the Romans.”—­G.F.

[3] Unfortunately the severe effects of the noxious fish, so sparingly partaken of, disabled the two Forsters from their favourite pursuits, during the greater part of their residence at New Caledonia.  The result of their labours was, in consequence, very scanty, and, according to the younger F.’s assertions, received little or no encouragement from the friendly services of many of their fellow voyagers.  He has inveighed with no small asperity against the ignorant selfishness and unprincipled hostility with which they had to contend.  These seem to have been of a flagrant appearance, and almost systematic consistency.  “If there had not been a few individuals,” says he, “of a more liberal way of thinking, whose disinterested love for the sciences comforted us from time to time, we should in all probability have fallen victims to that malevolence, which even the positive commands of Captain Cook were sometimes insufficient to keep within bounds.”  However the reader may conjecture the existence of certain personal causes which are here complained of, he cannot but regret,