The native inhabitants of America make a fifth race of men. They are of a copper colour, have black, thick, ftraight hair, flat noses, high cheek bones, and small eyes. They paint the body and face of various colours, and eradicate the hair of their beards and of other parts, as a deformity. Their limbs are not fo large and robuft, as thofe of the Europeans. They endure hunger, thirst, and pain with aftonishing firmness and patience; and, though cruel to their enemies, they are kind and just to each other. The Europeans may be confidered as the laft variety of the human kind. But it is unneceffary to enumerate the personal marks which diftinguish them, as every day affords you opportunities of making fuch obfervations. I fhall only fuggest to you, that they enjoy fingular advantages is related that Vedius Pollio, in the prefence of Auguftus, ordered one of his flaves, who had committed a flight offence, to be cut in pieces, and thrown into the fish pond, to fecd his fishes. But the emperor, with indignation, commanded him inftantly to emancipate that flave, and all the others who belonged to him, from from the fairnefs of their complexions. The face of the African Black, or of the olive-coloured Afiatic, is a very imperfect index of the mind, and preferves the fame fettled fhade in joy and forrow, confidence and fhame, anger and defpair, fickness and health. The English are faid to be the fairest of the Europeans; and we may therefore prefume, that their countenances best express the variations of the paffions, and the viciffitudes of disease. But the intellectual and moral characteristics of the different nations, which compofe this quarter of the globe, are of more importance to be known. Thefe, however, become gradually lefs difcernible, as fashion, learning, and commerce prevail more univerfally; and I shall leave them, as objects of your future inquiry. Thus paffed a winter evening by the fire-fide of Euphronius, whofe pleasing, though anxious task it was, To rear the tender thought; To teach the young idea how to shoot; To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind; To To breathe th' enlivening fpirit; and to fix SISTERLY UNITY AND LOVE. BSERVE thofe two hounds that are coupled together, faid Euphronius to Lucy and Emilia, who were looking through the window. How they torment each other, by a disagreement in their purfuits! One is for moving flowly, and the other vainly urges onward. The larger dog now fees fome object that tempts him on this fide, and mark how he drags his companion along, who is exerting all his efforts to purfue a different rout! Thus they will continue all day at variance, pulling each other in oppofite directions, when they might, by kind and mutual compliances, pass on eafily, merrily, and happily. † *Thomfon's Seasons. + I am indebted to Mr. Dodfley for the fubject; but not for the narration, or moral application of this fable. Lucy Lucy and Emilia concurred in cenfuring the folly and ill-nature of these dogs; and Euphronius expreffed a tender wifh, that he might never fee any thing fimilar in their behaviour to each other. Nature has linked you together, by the near equality of age; by your common relation to the most indulgent parents; by the endearing ties of fisterhood; and by all thofe generous fympathies, which have been fostered in your bofoms from your earliest infancy. Let these filken cords of mutual love continue to unite you in the fame pursuits. Suffer no allurements to draw you different ways; no contradictory paffions to distract your friendship; nor any selfish views or fordid jealoufies to render those bonds uneafy and oppreffive, which are now your ornament, your ftrength, and highest happiness. AN APPEARANCE IN NATURE EXPLAINED, AND IMPROVED. O NE morning, in the month of September, as Alexis was riding with Euphronius from Hart-Hill to Manchester, he he noticed, with furprise, the fudden difperfion of a thick fog, which had obfcured every object around them. The fun now fhone in full splendour; and the veil being withdrawn from the face of nature, the hills and dales, the meadows, corn fields, and woodlands feemed to meet the eye with renewed beauty and luftre. As foon as they were arrived in town, Euphronius took a glass of clear fpring water, and threw it into a teafpoonful of falt. An opacity almost instantly enfued through the whole of it; but when the glass was placed near the fire, and gently agitated, the liquor quickly recovered its transparency. This experiment, faid Euphronius to his fon, explains to you the phænomenon you lately observed. The watery vapours, floating in the atmosphere, which formed the thick mift we found fo incommodious to us, were diffolved by the air, as soon as the fun had given fufficient warmth and motion to its particles: And in the evening, the fog will again return, and the dews defcend, from the absence of that genial influence, which now diffolves and renders |