THE

NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW.

VOL. XVIII.

New Series,

VOL. IX.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY O. EVERETT, NO. 13 CORNHILL.

1824.

CONTENTS OF NO. XVII.

NEW SERIES.

ART. I.-Memoirs of the Queen of France.

Mémoires sur la Vie privée de Marie Antoinette, Reine

de France et de Navarre; suivis de Souvenirs et Anec-

dotes historiques sur les Règnes de Louis XIV, de

Louis XV, et de Louis XVI; par Madame Campan,

Lectrice des Mesdames et première Femme de Chambre

de la Reine.

ART. II.-New Hampshire Historical Collections.

Collections, Topographical, Historical, and Biographical,

relating principally to New Hampshire.

ART. III.-Colonization Society.

The Sixth Annual Report of the American Society for Colo-

nizing the Free People of Color of the United States;

with an Appendix.

ART. IV. Confessions of an Opium-Eater.

33

40

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.

90

ART. V.-Buttmann's Greek Grammar.

Greek Grammar, translated from the German of Philip

Buttmann, by Edward Everett, Eliot Professor of Greek

Literature in Harvard University.

99

ART. VI.-Life of Ali Pacha.

Ali Hissas di Tepeleni, Bassà di Jannina; Prospetto sto-

rico e politico del Sig. Malte-Brun.

106

ART. VII. Cochin China.

History of a Voyage to the China Sea. By John White,

Lieutenant in the United States Navy.

140

ART. VIII.-Mr Ingersoll's Discourse.

A Discourse concerning the Influence of America on the

Mind, being the Annual Oration delivered before the

American Philosophical Society, at the University in

Philadelphia, October 18, 1823. By C. J. Ingersoll.

157

ART. IX.-Griscom's Tour in Europe.

A Year in Europe, comprising a Journal of Observations

in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Switzerland, the

North of Italy, and Holland in 1818 and 1819. By John

Griscom. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philo-

sophy in the New York Institution; Member of the

Literary and Philosophical Society of New York, &c.

ART. X.-Essays on Scenes in Italy.

Essays Descriptive and Moral on Scenes in Italy, Switzer-

land, and France. By An American.

ART. XI.-Practice in Civil Actions.

A Treatise on the Practice in the Supreme Court of New

York in Civil Actions, together with the Proceedings in

Error.

List of New Publications.

178

192

204

213

Remarks during a Journey through North America in

the Years 1819, 1820, and 1821, in a Series of Letters.

By Adam Hodgson, Esq. of Liverpool.

XIII. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

234

Histoire comparée des Sytèmes de Philosophie, con-

sidérés relativement aux Principes des Connaissances

humaines. Par M. De Gerando, Membre de l' Institut

de France.

XIV. THEORIES OF THE EARTH

266

An Abstract of a New Theory of the Formation of

the Earth. By Ira Hill, A. M.

XV. JACOBS' GREEK READER

280

The Greek Reader, by Frederick Jacobs, Professor of

the Gymnasium at Gotha, and Editor of the Antholo-

gia; adapted to the Translation of Buttmann's Greek

Grammar.

XVI. SCHOOLS IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK

284

Third Annual Report of the Superintendent of Com-

mon Schools in the State of New York.

the Assembly at Albany, Jan. 8, 1824.

Submitted to

XVII. CHILI

288

Journal of a Residence in Chili. By a Young Ameri-

can, detained in that Country during the Revolutionary

Scenes of 1817, 1818, 1819.

XVIII. THE PILOT, A TALE OF THE SEA

314

The Pilot, a Tale of the Sea. By the Author of the

Pioneers, &c.

XIX. NEW ZEALAND

328

1. Journal of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, during his

Second Visit to New Zealand, from July to October,

1819. Contained in the Proceedings of the Church

Missionary Society, London, for the Years 1821, 1822.