ments together, and particularly when I preffed my cheft in the act of Atooping, I was obliged to reft and pant for two or three minutes. My guides were in fimilar condition. We had no appetite; and our provifions, which were all frozen, were not well calculated to excite it: nor had we any inclination for wine or brandy, which increased our indifpofition, most probably by accelerating the circulation of the blood. Nothing but fresh water relieved us; and much time and trouble were neceffary to procure this article, as we could have no other than melted fnow. "I remained on the fummit till half past three; and though I did not lofe a fingle moment, I was not able to make all thofe experiments, in four hours and an half, which I have frequently done in less than three on the fea-fide. However I made, with great exactnefs, thofe which were most effential. "We returned much easier than I could have expected, fince, in defcending, we did not experience any bad effects from the compreffion of the thorax; our refpiration was not impeded, and we were not under the neceffity of refting, in order to recover our breath and ftrength. The road down to the first plain was, nevertheless, by no means agreeable, on account of the great declivity; and the fun, fhining fo bright on the tops of the precipices below us, made fo dazzling an appearance, that it required a good head to avoid growing giddy from the profpect. We pitched our tent again on the fnow, though we were more than four hundred yards below our last night's encampment. I was here convinced that it was the rarity of the air, and not the fatigue of the journey, that had incommoded us on the fummit of the mountain, otherwife we fhould not have found ourfelves fo well, and fo able to attack our fupper with a good appetite. I could now alfo make my meteorological obfervations without any inconvenience. I am perfuaded that the indifpofition, in confequence of the rarity of the atmosphere, is dif ferent in different people. For my own part, I felt no inconvenience at the height of 4000 yards, or nearly two miles and a quarter; but I began to be much affected when I was higher in the atmosphere. "The next day we found that the ice-valley which we had paffed on our first day's journey, had undergone a confiderable change, from the heat of the two preceding days, and that it was much more difficult to pass than it had been in our afcent. We were obliged to go down a declivity of fnow, of no less than 50 degrees of inclination, in order to avoid a chaẩm which had happened during our expedition. at length got down as low as the first eminence on the fide, about half after nine, and were perfectly happy to find ourselves on a foundation which we were fure would not give way under our feet." We M. de Sauffure concludes this part of his account by informing us, that he and his party returned to the priory by dinner-time,-all fafe and well. The meteorological obfervations follow the hiftory of the journey; they are abridged, but the author promises a full and circumftantial explanation of them in the 3d volume of his Travels. From the prefent narrative we learn, that the fummit of the mountain is a ridge, nearly horizontal, lying eaft and weft: the flope, at each extremity, is inclined from 28 to 30 degrees, the fouth fide between 15 and 20, and the north about 45 or 50. This ridge is so narrow, as fcarcely to allow two people to walk abreaft, efpecially at the weft end, where it resembles the roof of a house. It is wholly covered with fnow; nor is any bare rock to be feen within 150 yards of the top. The furface of the fnow is fcaly, and, in fome places, covered with an icy cruft, under which the fnow is dufty and without confiftence. The highest rocks are all granites; thofe on the east fide are mixed with steatites; thofe on the fouth and the weft contain a large quantity of schoerl, and a little lapis corneus. Some of them, especially thofe on the eaft, which are about 150 yards below the fummit, feem to have been lately fhivered with lightning. M. de Sauffure faw no animals on the mountain, except two butterflies, which he fuppofes must have been driven thither by the wind. Lichens are the only vegetables which are found on the more elevated parts of these mountains: the filene acaulis, which grows in great quantities on the lower parts, difappears at the height of about two miles above the level of the fea.” Advice to a New-married Man. By Mrs. Thrale, now Mrs. Piozzi. RECEIVED the news of your reflecting on the charms of your bride, cry out in a rapture, that you are happy enough without my rules. I know you are; but after one of the forty years, which I, hope you will país pleafingly together, are over, this letter may come in turn, and rules for felicity may not be found unneceffary, however fome of them may appear impracticable. Could that kind of love be kept alive through the marriage ftate, which makes the charm of a single one, the fovereign good would no longer be fought for; in the union. of two faithful lovers it would be found: but reafon fhews us that this is impoffible, and experience informs us that it never was fo; we must preserve it as long, and supply it as happily as we can. When your prefent violence of paffion fubfides, however, and a more cool and tranquil affection takes its place, be not hafty to cenfure yourfelf as indifferent, or to lament yourself as unhappy; you have loft that only which it was impoffible to retain, and it were graceless amid the pleasures of a profperous fummer to regret the bloffoms of a tranfient fpring. Neither unwarily condemn your bride's infipidity till you have recollected that no object however fublime, no founds however charming, can continue to tranfport us with delight when they no longer ftrike us with novelty. The skill to renovate the powers of pleafing are faid indeed to be poffeffed by fome women in an eminent "marriage with infinite delight, degree, but the artifices of maturity and hope that the fincerity with which I wish your happinefs, may excufe the liberty I take in giving you a few rules whereby more certainly to obtain it. I fee you fmile at my wrong-headed kindness, and, are feldom feen to adorn the innocence of youth; you have made your choice, and ought to approve it. Satiety follows quickly upon the heels of poffeffion; and to be happy, we must always have fomething in view. The perfon of your lady is already all your own, and will not grow more pleafing in your eyes, I doubt, though the rest of your fex will think her handfomer for these dozen years. Turn therefore all your attention to her mind, which will daily grow brighter by polifhing. Study fome eafy fcience together, and acquire a fimilarity of taftes while you enjoy a community of pleasures. You will by this means have many images in common, and be freed from the neceffity of feparating to find amufement. Nothing is fo dangerous to wedded love as the poffibility of either being happy out of the company of the other; endeavour therefore to cement the prefent intimacy on every fide; let your wife never be kept ignorant of your income, your expences, your friendships, or averfions; let her know your very faults, but make them amiable by your virtues; confider all concealment as a breach of fidelity; let her never have any thing to find out in your character, and remember, that from the moment one of the partners turns fpy upon the other, they have commenced a state of hoftility. Seek not for happiness in fingu larity; and dread a refinement of wifdom as a deviation into folly. Liften not to thofe fages who advife you always to fcorn the counfel of a woman, and if you comply with her requests pronounce you to be wiferidden. Think not any privation, except of pofitive evil, an excellence, and do not congratulate yourfelf that your wife is not a learned lady, that she never touches a card, or is wholly ignorant how to make a pudding. Cards, cookery, and learning, are all good in their places, and may all be used with advantage. With regard to expence, I can only obferve that the money laid out in the purchase of diftinétion is feldom or ever profitably employed, We live in an age when fplendid furniture and glittering equipage are grown too common to catch the notice of the meaneft fpectator, and for the greater ones, they only regard our wafteful folly with filent contempt, or open indignation.This may perhaps be a difpleafing reflection, but the following confideration ought to make amends. The age we live in, pays, I think, peculiar attention to the higher diftinctions of wit, knowledge, and virtue, to which we may more fafely, more cheaply, and more honourably afpire. The giddy flirt of quality frets at the refpect the fees. paid to Lady Edgecumbe, and the gay dunce fits pining for a partner, while Jones the orientalift leads up the ball. I faid that the perfon of your lady would not grow more pleafing to you, but pray let her never fufpect that it grows lefs fo: that a woman will pardon an affront to her underftanding much fooner than one to her perfon is well known; nor will any of us contradict the affertion. All our attainments, all our arts, are employed to gain and keep the heart of man; and what mortification can exceed the disappointment, if the end be not obtained? There is no reproof however pointed, no punishment however fevere, that a woman of spirit will not prefer to neglect; and if she can endure it without complaint, it only proves that he means to make herself amends by the attention of others for the flights of her hufband. For this, and for every reafon, it behoves a married man not to let his politeness fail, though his ardour may abate, but to retain at least that general civility towards his own lady which he is fo willing to pay to every other, and not fhew a wife of eighteen or twenty years old, that every man in company can treat her with more complaifance than he, who so often vowed to her eternal fondness. It is not my opinion that a young woman should be indulged in every wild with of her gay heart or giddy head; but contradiction may be foftened by domeftic kindness, and quiet pleasures fubftituted in the place of noify ones. Public amufements are not indeed fo expenfive as is fometimes imagined, but they tend to alienate the minds of married people from each other. A well-chofen fociety of friends and acquaintance, more eminent for virtue and good fenfe than for gaiety and fplendor, where the converfation of the day may afford comment for the evening, feems the moft rational pleasure this great town can afford; and to this, a game at cards now and then gives an additional relish. That your own fuperiority should always be feen, but never felt, feems an excellent general rule. A wife fhould outshine her husband in nothing, not even in her drefs.-If the happens to have a tafte for the trifling diftinction that finery can confer, fuffer her not for a moment to fancy, when the appears in public, that Sir Edward or the Colonel are finer gentlemen than her husband. The bane of married happiness among the city men in general has been, that finding themfelves unfit for polite life, they transferred their vanity to their ladies, dreffed them up gaily, and fent them out a gallanting, while the good man was to regale with port wine or rum punch, perhaps among mean companions, after the compting-houfe was fhut: this practice produced the ridicule thrown on them in all our comedies and novels fince commerce began to profper. But now that I am fo near the fubject, a word or two on jealoufy may not be amifs; for though not a failing of the present age's growth, yet the feeds of it are too certainly fown in every warm bofom for us to neglect it as a fault of no confequence. If you are ever tempted to be jealous, watch your wife narrowly-but never teaze her; tell her your jealousy, but conceal your fufpicion; let her, in fhort, be fatisfied that it is only your odd temper, and even troublesome attachment, that makes you follow her; but let her not dream that you ever doubted seriously of her virtue even for a moment. If he is difpofed towards jealoufy of you, let me beteech you to be always explicit with her and never mysterious: be above delighting in her pain, of all things nor do your bufinefs nor pay your vifits with an air of concealment, when all you are doing might as well be proclaimed perhaps in the parish veftry. But I will hope better than this of your tendernefs and of your virtue, and will releafe you from a lecture you have fo little need of, unless your extreme youth and my uncommon regard will excufe it. And now farewell; make my kindeft compliments to your wife, and be happy in proportion as happiness is wished you by, Dear Sir, &c." The following Allegory fome Time ago appeared in a Philadelphia Newspaper; and is faid to come from the Pen of the celebrated Doctor Frank lin". "In I in Na dream I thought myfelf in a folitary temple. I faw a kind of phantom coming towards me; but, as he drew near, his form expanded, and became more than human his robe hung majeftically down to his feet; fix wings, whiter than fnow, whofe extremities were edged with gold, covered a part of his body then I faw him quit his material fubftance, which he had put on not to terrify me; his body was of all the colours in the rainbow. He took me by the hair, and I was fenfible I was travelling in the ætherial plains without any dread, with the rapidity of an arrow, fent from a bow drawn by a fupple and nervous arm. A thousand glowing orbs rolled beneath me: but I could only caft a rapid glance on all thofe globes diftinguished by the striking colours with which they were diverfified. I now fuddenly perceived fo beautiful, fo flourishing, fo fertile a country; that I conceived a strong defire to alight upon it. My wishes were inftantly gratified; I felt myself gently landed on its furface, where I was furrounded by a balmy atmosphere. I found myself repofed, at the dawn, on the foft verdant grafs. I ftretched out my arms, in token of gratitude, to my celeftial guide, who pointed to a refplendent fun, towards which, fwiftly rifing, he disappeared in the luminous body. I rofe, and imagined myfelf to be 1 *The death of Dr. Franklin, fince the nounced to the public. tranfported into the garden of Eden. Every thing infpired my foul with foft tranquillity. The moft profound peace covered this new globe; nature was ravishing, and incorruptible here, and a delicious freshness expanded my sense to extasy sweet odour accompanied the air I breathed; my heart, which beat with an unufual power, was immerged in a fea of rapture; while pleasure, like a pure and immortal light, penetrated the inmost receffes of my foul. The inhabitants of this happy country came to meet me; and after faluting me,they took me by the hand. Their noble countenances infpired confidence and refpect; innocence and happiness were depicted in their looks, they often lifted their eyes towards heaven; and as often uttered a name, which I afterwards knew to be that of the Eternal, while their cheeks were moistened with the tears of gratitude. I experienced great emotion, while I converfed with these fublime beings. They poured out their hearts with the moft fincere tendernefs; and the voice of reason, most majeftic, and no lefs melting, was, at the fame time, conveyed to my enraptured ear. I foon perceived this abode was totally different from that which I had left. A divine impulfe made me fly into their arms I bowed my knees to them; but being raised up in the moft endearing manner, I was preffed to the bofoms that enclofed fuch excellent hearts, and I conceived a prefentiment of celestial amity, of that amity which united their fouls, and formed the greatest portion of their felicity. infertion of this Allegory, has been an The |