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Jwith quicksilver Horizontal sun-dials, in brass made for any j latitude, of four, five, or six inches diam- I JS 0 3 13 6 i wr, divided into five minutes of tune f ?ach at 8s 12s and . - ' - , , Ditto seven inches v , v ; Ditto riirt Jn ;nA 0 1 1 1 Q 16 1 6 15 2 4- jtto nine mches, ditto . Ditto len inchps. ditto Ditto twelve inches ditto with equation table 4 JJlllO httfn infhoa mfn ovonr miniup thirty-two points of the compass, 5 15 6 J' ,. .rrrv I ' - I Ttnlrtmi- i ! alsh of TTlmtis alataanfl TT. Ampriranai trans-I I rUDMauJi' w r-r-nf i ,j ' i J I 7 V . . i " i. JBotany FOR THE HARBINGER. Natural science has been slo w to take root in America, arid in truth: it appears to be the last to' be cultivated in all countries. But we ininK uiai uuiuny uas uccn even icaa tended to in this country, than we would, a priori, have been led to expect. During 'the last vvvr .u years, &ime xvaim just gaiuci.- eda portion of our botanical treastiresnd laid them at the leet ofj the delighted .Ian- na?us, a number of Europeans have engaged with ardour, arid acquired distinction, in the investigation of North American botany. Amonr these are .pre-eminent the two Mi chaux, Clay tori, Bartram; Catesby, .Waiter, Pursh'. and Nuttall. At present, however there are symptoms that this delightful science is about to awaken a due share of interest in the Eastern and Northern! por tions of. our country. Nuttall lectures; at Cambridge. Torrev at New York, Ives at 0 ;o 0 0 Yale, Eaton all Troy, Dewey at William's College? Barton at Philadelphia, and a .num ber of other gentlemen are known to uevote a share'of theii; attention to this subject. In the South however, ! the prospect is by no means so promising. I do not kuovv that Botany is any where, publicly taught in the Southern States: ! Elliott, and his zealous coadjutor McBride,are dead; ScHweinitz and Leconte have abandoned the South. There are however still a few genttemen disperseu through the Southern country that give some attention to the botanical treasures that sur round them, which are even richer than those within ithe reach ! of their , more northern brethren. Perhaps there is no country in the temperate zone that can boast ol more varied vegetable products than North Caro- lina. From the mountains to the sea coast, ybii have those of the alpine, subalpine, al luvial, aquatic,! and maritime habitations. -What harvests' have not Michaux and N uttall gathered on our eastern savannahs, arid cn the summits of the Catawba ridge! ' In the following article I have two objects in view, one to marK a lew localities oi in tercsting plants, and the other, to shew the familiar uses to which this science may be annlied bv those I who cultivate it; how, in . i ' 'jl r r: i t t 1 L.'' ine(worusui viccru, it imvcis wnu. us, cheering ;many a (dreary ride, and amusing many a solitary walk. . II. B. C. MEMORANDA! OF a! JOURNEY FRQM NEAVBERN TO: RALEIGH. :-t : . BY AN AMATEUR BOTANIST. 1 j. j J ':! m : . ; I--': ' . r. Hccc studia peregrinantur nobiscum. Cicero. The point from which I set out is one of great botanical riches, but these we cannot stop to survey in tneir almost oounaiess va riety. A claiice is all that we can afford. The curious Sarracenia and the wonderful Didnaea! (Venus'-fly trap) have ceased .to bloomj (June 30th) while the flower buds of Nelumbium luteum are peeping abve.4he waters, soon to display their splendid'forms, and sit, like yellow-haired Nymphs above their native element. Of the genus Sarra- cenia we have three species, S. purriurea, S. flava, and S. Catesbcei, El. ; j; Leaving Newbern 1 on the last of June, the season is one of the least propitious for the botanist, j The thousand species of ver nal flowers have faded away; anil the autum nal plants, as; the Aster, .Laatns, soiiaago, and llelianlhus have not begun to shed their fforceous hues-o'er Nature's great parterre. The. Rhexias, however, with their. fugacious A . flowers, are now in bloom, among which is pre-eminent the R. glabella, (Deer grass) accompanied hy R. mariana, R. ciliosaj and the rarer iv. luteja, oryeuow-ncwerea unex- ia. , ine uiaaeipnous plants, too are now very generally in: bloom, and among these in different portions of the journey were ob served Zornia tetraphylla, Hedvsarum nu- diflorum, ! Lespedeza (sessisiflora ?) f and Tephrosia paudfolia. i he delicate Lobelia gracilis is blooming plentifully, while none of its showy congeners have appeared; It is singular, considering its abundance,) that no botanist before JNuttall, has described this Dlant. Calamintha Caroliniana? abundant 17 to 24 miles from town, and beginning to flower. Kalrnia iangustifblia is in fruit. - - 4 That elegant tree,5 with its pyramidal summit, the Gordona lasianthus, (Loblolly Boy,) displays its 1 j beautiful , white; flowers, and the humble Clethra alnifolia begins to shed its honied' fragrance' on the air. Here I note, in dry and sandy soils, the Stipa aven acea. In theflow grounds of the Neuse the UtlUi Jill UIU v g wuuua vv vuv ... Clematis reticulata (or C. crispa?) presents its delicious pale blue flowers, and the Con Violvulus,teriellus spreads a profusion of white flowers ion the surface of the sandy soil. Here too I found, two years ago, the Mac- bridea pulchra df Elliott, the first probably that had been seen iri North Carolina illo- pea tinctoria (Yellow leaf or Dye leaf,) here attains the height of a small tree; Rhus radi cans, Cissus hederacea, Zizyphus volubilis and Decumaria sarmentosa climb the lofty trees, while the Tillandsia usneoides (Long moss) festoons their branches. 1 j j . In the streets of Kinston, Martynia fpro boscidea and Sida abutilon are abundant. Here are also some fine trees of the Ariieri- can Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis,) and Prof Eaton has just published at Albany the sixth edition of his 'Manual of Botany.' It is probable that not 50 copies of the six editions have been sold South of the Fotomac. I also of Ulmiisalataand U. Americana trans- ! planted from'the river swamp. Rhus radi- l : . . cans, Zizvphtis volubilis, Cissus hederacea, and Decumana sarmentosa climb the loftv trees, while he Tillandsia usneoides (Lonij moss) festoons their branches. In fa ditch ar SiX mnes aDove ivinsion ooservea mat sin gular grass Schcenus effuses, very apprppri ately called "Saw grass," from the remarka Die serraiure oi us ngia leaves, railing Creek noted jCupressus disticha (Bald ly- press,)Betula nigra (Birch,)t .'ephalanth us. oc- cidentalis .(Button wood,) Nyssa aquatica (Tupelo gum) and some of the finest willow oaks (Quercus phellos,) I have ever secii. A little farther on we reach, that sandy and barren tract which extends to the neigh borhood of Waynesborough, and which! no traveller probably, save the botanist, can en ter with satisfaction. , To him it has its pe culiar interest, for here he finds plants which he would in vain seaich for in more fer tile districts. This, is the native region of Quercus catisbcei, Quercns nigra, and Ans- tida stricta, (Black Jack and Wire-grass,) but among these I descried with interest btilhn gia sylvaticai OiJosmqdicm bispidum and Baptisia lariceolaia. r Yucca filamentosa, fBear grass,! and Asclepias tuberosa TP risy root, are also inhabitants ofj: this ffion. .'At. Bear Creek! Hibiscus moscl re- tos is plentiful, and itl was again observed in bloom, in the low grounds of the'NeUse at Smithfield. From this point to Kaleigh, in dry, sandy soils, qccurs Rhus purmlum - Dwarf sumach a very poisonous plant. In a mill-pondj five miles 'above, is a fiue loca htv of that eleerant - plant the white water- HlJy Nymphaea odorata. At this place also is. an abundance of the showy Cacaha atri- plicifolian whose flower buds are almost rea (ly to expand July nd.J At a mill nine miles below Smithfield, the stratified rocks first make their appearance, at aj low angle, on the bank ol the creek up which the roau passes. They appear to be, as Professor Olmstead has remarked, ill.defiricd granitic rocks. The e alluvial character of the country however continues for several miles west of Smithfield, the rocks being covered, to a great depth, by sand ! arid) water-worn peb bles . - - h ' si- If In the flat' pine woods,! near Smithfield, the Saracennia flava, called 1 rumpets, ' is plentiful, and I observed it, iri wet places, west ot Smithfield, at the very" base of uhe primitive country, beyond which IjUjd j;not see it. I think it probable' this is jits western limit. Here too the beautiful Dracocepha- ium variegatum is oiooming aoun accompanied us for several mi Smithfield. At this place then verv large and beautiful trees o 1 . . ' t ' t f ilU-i till I lantiy, and es west" of, are some the Celtis occKlentalisrlack-berry.yi hey extend along l ; -a -ar - . ' " 4 the Neuse as low as Wravnesborough, and perhaps lower. 1 he pines occupying tne lands east of j Smithfield- have recently been 'boxed' for turpentine. Thev are the Pirius palustris, tht; species which, in the easicrn part ot the State, yields, to such a vast amount, the turpentine, tar, ' and pitch or commerce. '.: . .' "v; ;( ':- ; West of this point the Silphiums are com mon; and are beginning to flower, I July o. J Comptonia asplenifolia oefcurs in dry gravel ly soil. Rubus accidental American! Rasp berrv.l md Schrankia uncinata have: been occasionally observed throughout the jqur-' ney. rotaiana sagmaiis gatnerea in iruii. Cacaliaatripiicifolia again becomes abundant, p In a'feriile valley seven miles east of Ra- leigh, Smilacina raceniosa in fruit and Dio scorea quaternata. Between this and Ra leigh gathered in flower Clematis viorna. j, One inile east of Raleigh, we reach the quarry, from which is obtained the firie gra- nite with which' the State is about td rebuild executed of this noble material, Jthe! Capitol of North Carolina may vie in durability vith the Parthenon of Athens, and the Pantheon of Rome. Could Thorvaldsen be engaged to restore the siatue, we shall have still less cause to deDlore the loss of the late buildinsr. Whfin wp snpak nf rpMnrinr thd statnel wii jdo not mean the patch work propose dby ' r ' n i i: r - . t Mr. Hughes, but that a new statue be made on the model of the former. July 4th, wit nessed the ceremonies of laying her stone of the Capitol, and in i of the: cor- he evening attendedthe meeting of the Internal Improve ment Convention. . . !'J r.irpiimsfanpps Hin tint nprmit mp t.n exa- ... .1 t mine the botany of the immediate vicinity of Raleigh, but in the mineraiogical cabinet oil . . . J - L . T)r. B. T have, morfi than nnr.fi. hid the plea- I - - - j t -r- - 4 sure of viewing an elegant collection of mi- n era Is from the State.- ' rich resources of our own I j : '! C. ; Newbern, August 26th, 1833. Biography JOHN RANDOLPH, OF ROANOKE. i v. i "I:-. 'jf.j. - We ffive, as our leading article for1 this evening, the auto-biographical letter; of the late John Randolph, of Roanoke omittint? some lew expressions ot narsnnessf iwmcn might, perhaps, wound the feelings of survi ving relations in 'Virginia It was written in 1813, to his nephew, who afterwards died we believe, in England. It never was. in- tended for; the public eye by the writer, but with the very few omissions we have made, we cannot perceive the least objection to its publication. The fling at Dr. Witherspoon, will in no wise affect that great and good man's memory. It was obviously the ! ma lignant, petulance of a dissolute school boy I thwarted in his purposes bv beinff restrained in his pocket money; it is a naunt daily re peated in the case of every similar guardians Probably the charges' against Mr. - Tucker - i uim ruiuimu rvanuoipn are no petter ioun- - ded. iV. York Com. Adv. : . ; ! I; - J I December 13 1813 You shall "know something of mv life," nay, every thing,1 tny dear . son thatTcan be desirable or profitable for you to know. It s a tale not devoid of interest or events, and miffht be wrought uri iritfa rnnrp pntrao-p inor narrative, than ninety-nine out of a hun- dred of the hasty Volumes which minister to the mental green-sickness of pur misses and masters. L.iko, yourself, I was left by my father an orphan, when too young to be sen sible ol my loss. Ihe first thing that I can remember, is, finding myselfin my mother's family, the pin baslcet oi the; whole house. I think that I can! recollect j some circum stances that musthave happened in 1776; but I distinctly remember, events that took - 1 place in the , year j following. I shared my motner s wldowea Dea; ana was the nestling of her bosom. Every! night after I was un dressed, and in the morning before I rose, I kneeled down in my bed, and putting up my little hands, repeated after my mother the Lord's payerj and 1 'the .beli)pfi1,.-.:and.'to this circumstance I attribute some of my present! opinions. I say- present, because thev lay long dormant, and a& if extinguished I within -me. In the autumn of the year 1783, my mother married St; George Tucker. , From that da v there was a change in my situation. The first blqw that I ever received, was from the. hand of this man and notaj week afterhis un ion with mv mother. ' At his instance, i was sent at the age of nine to the school of Wal ker Murray, (who had been his fellow stu dent at College,) in. the cpunty f ! Orange; then, and perhaps! yet, a wild and savage country, inhabited by the Coarsest, the. most ignorant, and vicious of the human race!, A new world was opened to me. Uur school - -a - . x. 1 -a fellows, (your father and uncle Theodorick were at the same? school.) were, with the exception pi one or two gentlemen s sons, ,: . ..... . - , f adepts in eyery species of i profligacy, -vul- gar, brutal, savage..! Our schoolmaster was the most petulant arid malisrnant wretch in I creation. We had scarcely the necessaries of life; without ah opportunity to acquire any tnm? more tnan as much Latin, as sum ced to furnish; out a bald translation of the - ' f i ti- i -i i ..." L ordinary school books. Indignant at his iieaimeni, your iauier, iiaruiy uiirteeii years old, determined to desert and go home. From otir step father,1 we looked for nothing I I i 1 . 1 ! 1 i '' 1 ' f ' IT 1 " .1 iiKe sympatny qr jienaerness.! my orotner was deterred by his expostulations from exe- cuung nis purpose. xuurray transierreo nis school to Williampburgh, and we were trans- f erred along, with it., In 1784, the state of my health iriduced my mother to send me to Bermuda, where I arrived in the month of July; and just twelv riioriths afterwards, she came, over with her whole family,, and re in ained lill Nov. 1785; when ' she encount- ereq a long and boisterous passage j in a wretched sloop, to Virginia. This laid the foundation of that disease, which deprived me, two years afterwards, of the best mother that every man had. My sojourn in Bermuda was of essential service to me in many respects, it was a .-- -1 i, ( i i f n respite from the austere rule; of my step-fa ther, and the tyranny, hardly tolerable, of . a ! ,i Murray; rand I acquired a temper not brook tamely .heir unreasonable Exactions. There was a good country-gentleman's Ii- j brary in! old Mr. Tucker!s house, j where J l staid; and here 1 read many sterling! miglishi ways bookworms; It was a sort of bond to I the afjection; ihat united-us; ; j Our flrstques- tion at meeting was, generally, f What have you read? Haveyfou seen this or that work?" by going to Bermuda, however, 1 lost my week; 1 had just- mastered the .grammar. verfectlv when I left Williamsbursrh. Wal i x - . - . -..-!-. ....! , , a t . king round, the base, (it was a circular iron railing that protected it,) of Lord Botetourt's I statue, 1 had -committed ithe. ( AVestmimster J grammar to memory, so as to, be able to re-1 peatf every word t of i it. The pendulum of I the great clock which vibrated over my t i - ! i. t .-V' ., :.' 1 nead, seemed to concentrate .ray attention on mv booki - MyBermudian tutor; Ewing, I had no Greek class, and would not ake the l 11 f .. 1 ! I 1 i ' trouoie oi reading a; single Doy. Afterourreturh, we wentback to Williams- 1 1 ' 1 ' , i j . , t- ' :J .V I burgh; your father continuing to board with Murray, but attending Mr.r Wythe, in Greek, mathematics, and ! think Latin, alsb. ; Soon anerwarus ne eniereq coiieee. e were ai the grammar school kept in the old capital, which has been since pulled down, to save the expense of repairing the hall, where Hen- ry spoke and Independence was declared; The shocking barbarity of Murray towards my brother Theodorick, drove him from the - Ull I ! ' j i t - This letter was written, it will be perceived, before Mr. RaruloTnh's suntiosed. conversion. Ai iUustrative of the general facts above stated, we 'quote! the foUow- ino- anecdote from the S. S; Journal "The late John Randolnh. some vears since, addressed himself to an in- idolph, some years since, addressed himself to an in- j timate friend in terms sometning nice tne iotiovyiag; x used to be called a Frenchman, because 1 took the French side in politics; and though this was unjust, vrf.thfl truth is. I shbuld have! been a French atneisr, if it had not been fur one recc llectioh, and that was the memory of the time when mv departed motner usea u take my little hands in hers, and cause me on my knees - 1 school, -(our mother was then iii New York j for her health;) and soon after, left it. Ha- ving spent some months at homj, we (Theo- dorick and myself,) were sent,! in March, 1787, to Princeton, where we wer joined in the summer by your father Dr. Wither spoon,in order, to make the most1 out of us,, put Thedorick and myself into the grammar school, although we! wee further advanced than'any of the freshmen or niost of the so phomores. In this subterranean abode of noise arid misrule, I was' pent jfor five long months; and in September! was transferred ' to the college, with habits acquired in that school bv ho means propitious to study. At Christmas, Theodorick and I went io New York, to spend what little money we had hoarded lor that purpogei III tlel.it was. since Witherspoon's riecessities drove him to em bezzle our funds;) arid were recalled in' a few days by a letter from your father, enclosing one from our mother, which summoned us to her dying bed side. We hastened home, and saw her for the last time. I In January. 1788, she died. ! The sun rose jand set; the rivers, flowed; the order of Nature went on. This seemed to, me at first unnatural and shocking. My mother had .been a faithful executrix of my! father's will, a faithful stew- ' i 4 " ard of the effects committed tu , her charge, in trust for her children. She: left clear ac counts and money (hot a small $um) in Jiand. , In May, 1788, Theodorick and I were sent . to college intNew York;, andj your, father came on here to attend the debates of the Convention, on the question ot adopting or . rejecting the Federal Constitution of 1787. This visit gave rise to the attachment be- tween himself and your mother, which ter minated in their hiarriage, about eighteen months afteitvard'S. ! ' ! ! Your father Joined us in New '.York',". He was in his nineteenth year, and the most manly youth, and most; elegant gentleman , that I ever saw, Mrs. Bingham, of Phila delphia, used to send him invitations to her parties, and he ofteii went from New. York to that city to them?- Yet hei was. neither debauched, iior dissipated. He was regular, studious, above j lovv coriipany j of, any sort, "the great vulgar or ; the small;", his appa-j rel," according to Lord Burleigh's advice, was "costly not fine;" and you r .might see in his Yld attendant, Syphax, whom he carried j with himi U New York, that his master was a gentleman. Columbia' College was not yet recovered from 'thejshv ck of the Revol ution, lM.was justemerging out of chaos. I . i O O . . . I The Professor of Humanity, . (Cochrane, now in the college of Nova Scotia,) was an i irisnman, euucaieu at inniiy uouege, Llublin, and a most accompiisheu scholar. With him I entered as a private pupil, pay I t 1 " 1 . 1 i ing eight dollars a month, out ol my own allowance for clothes,) for the I privilege. X nan devoted tne tan vacation at mnccton. (1787) to an' attempt at regaining my Greek; and now- (July, 17b!5,) burning with the j thirst of knowledge, (which 1 was hot per autted to slake at the fountain of Nassau,) and emulous of literary distinction,! 1 sat seriously tol work, and was greatly encour aged by. my tutor, who was,: or affected to be, amazed, at the rapidity of ray progress. To my irreparable loss, he leftj cpilege about two or three monthts after I had entered I myself as his private pupil Your father's friend. return to Vipginia left me without a "Where," you Will ask,, 'was mv my- unrte Theodorick?" Alas! my poor brother differed. in everv respect froni lyour noble 'father Of all things' in the world, he detested most a book, uevoteu to, pleasure and "tun, ; as he termed it, he not only set me a bad ex ample, but, with his dissolute companions, absoltitej) prevented me from reading. .Of- ten have they torced the door pi my study, times out of" the window. In jtwo years, he undermined his constitution,- and destroyed his health forever; and after lingering a long time, a mere skeleton ol himself, he died at t ' i , j, O O - O Bizarre, just before the birth o your brother St. George. My guardian for under the impulse of the ascendancy he had acquired oyer me, I had chosen Mr. Tucker as such was so scanty in his supplies, that I be came necessitous; Pi. course, unhappy; and, why should I conceal lt?J gradually (elf into the habits and way oflife of my unfortunate brother,-rWith this difference,!! that I contin- i . iii'. . I- i- it :. ued to read, but books pi amusement only, enervating and almostj destroying my intel- lectual powers! and vitiating my taste. Yoilr father Was married ohf the last day of the day year 1789: and in t!)( summer! followim vim Til 1 " 1 Theodorick and I left New York ' for VirV ginia. jn consequence of my mothers death, j,.. hmhanH IpU ilatoai:. to reside in u in iiamsburg; where Edniund Randolph, just abnointed Attorney General of the United. stales, at that time lived. He proposed to Mr. Tucker.1 that I should study law under njm; accordinrlv ii went to Philadelphia in the month of September 1790,! the year of the removal of Congress from 4ew yotk. i , , i ftl , rnnrrcss. Ynire.-'and the pv"" r i "rrr I , L new one rise like a wuu. I saw the coronation such mfact it was O ripnfiral Wafihinffton, in :17by, and heard Qen . n nrij TiTiilHnh. when thev First took their , u T 1Ta nr i?nrna. entatives. congress met at rniiautipuia anu Mri Kandolph was f too much cngro?stu uy fnAUf iV and his own nenpssities. to think OX me. He too, embezzled the funds which ' i !.. I I t A l S'r'5 !