many errors of the best Afiatick writers on the Nile, and the country which it fertilises.

* ried with him." It was impossible for me to doubt, especially when he described the person of Yakub, that he meant JAMES BRUCE, Esq; who travelled in the dress of a Syrian physician, and probably affumed with judgment, a name well known in Abyssinia; he is still revered on Mount Sinai for his fagacity in discovering a fpring, of which the monastery was in great need; he was known at Jedda by Mir Mahommed Hussain, one of the most intelligent Mahommedans in India; and I have seen him mentioned with great regard in a letter from an Arabian merchant at Mokha. It is probable, that he entered Abyffinia by the way of Musuwwa, a town in the poffeffion of the Muselmans, and returned through the defert mentioned by Gregory in his description of the Nile. We may hope, that Mr Bruce will publish an account of his interesting travels, with a version of the book of Enoch, which no one but himself can give us with fidelity. By the help of Abyffinian records, great light may be thrown on the history of Yemen before the time of Muhammed, fince it is generally known, that four Ethiop kings successively reigned in that country, having been invited over by the natives to oppose the tyrant Dhu Nawas, and that they were in their turn expelled by the arms of the Hymyarick princes with the aid of Anushirvan, king of Perfia, who did not fail, as it usually happens, to keep in subjection the people whom he had confented to relieve. If the annals of this period can be restored, it must be through the histories of Abyffinia, which will also correct the

On the Course of the Nile. THE Nile, which the Abysfinian know by the names of Abey and A

ral springs at a place called Sucut, lying on the highest part of Dengala near Gojjam, to the west of Bajemdir, and the lake of Dara or Wed; into which it runs with so strong and rapid a current, that it mixes not with the other waters, but rides or swims, as it were, above them.

All the rains that fall in Abyssinia, and descend in torrents from the hills; all streams and rivers, small and great except the Hanazo, which washes the plains of Hengo, and the Hawish which flows by Dewar and Fetgar, are collected by this king of waters, and, like vafsfals, attend his march: thus enforced he rushes, like a hero exulting in his strength, and haftens to fertilise the land of Egypt, on which no rain falls. We must except also those Ethiopian rivers, which rife in countries bordering on the ocean, as the kingdoms of Cambat, Gurajy, Wafy, Cafy, Wej, and Zinjiro, whose waters are difembogued into the fea.

When the Alawy has passed the lake it proceeds between Gojjam and Bajemdir, and, leaving them to the west and east, pursues a direct course towards Amhara, the skirts of which it bathes, and then turns again to the west, touching the borders of Walaka; whence it rolls along Mugar and Shawal, and, passing Bazawaand Gonga, descends into the lowlands of Shankila, the country of the Blacks: thus it forms a fort of spiral round the province of Gojjam, which it keeps for the most part on its right.

Here it bends a little to the east, from which quarter, before it reaches the districts of Sennar, it receives two large rivers, one called Tacazzy,

internal death, internal corruption. The woman faw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be defired to make one wife, and she took of the fruit thereof.' (Gen. iii. 6.)

The female thinks not profoundly; profound thought is the power of the man.'

• Women feel more. Sensibility is the power of woman.'

• They often rule more effectually, more sovereignly, than man. They rule with tender looks, tears, and fighs; but not with passion and threats; for if, or when, they so rule, they are no longer women, but abortions."

• They are capable of the sweetest sensibility, the most profound emotion, the utmost humility, and the excess of enthusiasm.'

• In their countenance are the signs of sanctity and inviolability, which every feeling man honours, and the effects of which are often miraculous.'

Therefore, by the irritability of their nerves, their incapacity for deep enquiry and firm decision, they may easily from their extreme sensibility, become the most irreclaimable, the most rapturous enthusiasts.'

Their love, strong and rooted as it is, is very changeable; their hatred almost incurable, and only to be effaced by continued and artful flattery*. Men are most profound; women are more fublime.

' Men most embrace the whole; women remark individually, and take more delight in selecting the minutiæ which form the whole. Man hears

the bursting thunder, views the de structive bolt with serene aspect, and stands erect amidst the fearful majesty of the streaming clouds.

• Woman trembles at the lightning, and the voice of distant thunder; and shrinks into herself, or sinks into the arms of man.

• Man receives a ray of light single, woman delights to view it through a prism in all its dazzling colours. She contemplates the rainbow as the promise of peace; he extends his inquiring eye over the whole horizon.

'Woman laughs, man fimiles † : woman weeps, man remains filent. Wo man is in anguish when man weeps, and in despair when man is in anguish; yer has the often more faith than man.

'Man without religion is a difeafed creature, who would perfuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion, is raging and monftrous.

• A woman with a beard is not fo disgusting as a woman who acts the freethinker; her sex is formed to piety and religion; to them Christ first appeared; but he was obliged to prevent them from too ardently, and too hastily embracing him. Touch me not. They are prompt to receive and seize novelty, and become its enthufiafts.

• The whole world is forgotten, in the emotion caused by the prefence and proximity of him they love.

They fink into the most incurable melancholy, as they also rife to the most enraptured heights.

Male fenfation † is more imagination, female more heart.

• When

• When communicative, they are more communicative than man; when fecret, more secret.

' In general they are more patient, long fuffering, credulous, benevolent, and modeft.

• Woman is not a foundation on which to build. She is the gold, filver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble (1 Cor. iii. 12.); the materials for building on the male foundation. She is the leaven, or, more expreffively, the oil, to the vinegar of man: the second part of the book of man.

Man singly, is but half man: at least but half human.-A king without a kingdom. Woman, who feels properly what she is, whether still or in motion, rests upon the man; nor is man what he may and ought to be, but in conjunction with woman; therefore, "It is not good that man should be alone, but that he should leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh." A Word on the Physiognomonical relation of the Sexes.

most flexible.

• Man is the straightest-woman the most bending.

Man stands stedfast-woman gently retreats *.

• Man surveys and observes-woman glances and feels.

• Man is ferious-woman is gay. 'Man is the tallest and broadest woman the smallest and weakest t, • Man is rough and hard-woman smooth and foft.

'Man is brown-woman is fair.

'Man is wrinkly-woman is not ‡. • The hair of man is more strong and short-of woman more long and pliant.

'The eyebrows of man are compressed-of woman less frowning.

Man has most convex lines-woman most concave.

'Man has most straight lines-woman most curved.

• The countenance of man taken in profile, is more feldom perpendicular than that of the woman.

Man is most angular-woman

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which, though very narrow, is exceedingly populous. You have been at Matlock in Derbyshire, and I remember your admiration of its beautiful and romantic situation: the scenery of this valley is of the same caft, but infinitely more picturesque, more wild, more varied, and more fublime. The Linth is much broader and more rapid than the Derwent; and the hillocks of the Peake are mere molehills to the alps of Glarus. These stupendous chains of rocks are abfolutely perpendicular, approach one aVOL. XI. No. 61.

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nother so near, and are so high, that the fun may be said to fet, even in summer, at four in the afternoon. On each fide are numbers of those waterfalls we so much admired during our passage over the lake of Wallenstadt; one in particular, near the village of Ruti, that foamed down the steep fides of a mountain, from the midst of a hanging grove of trees. I was so captivated with these enchanting scenes, that I could not help stopping every moment to admire them: and our guide, not conceiving it possible that these delays could be owing to any other cause than the laziness ziness of his horse, never failed to strike the poor beast; and continually awakened me out of my rapturous contemplations; and it was fome time before I could make him comprehend that I stopped by choice, and wished to continue my own pace. After having rode about ten miles, we quitted our horses and walked. Near Leugelbach, a confiderable rivulet is formed by two streams bursting from the ground at the foot of a mountain, which after a few paces unite, and fall into the Linth: beside these two princi al branches, several smaller springs, and numberless little fountains, guth from the rock. The clearness of the streams; their rapidity and murmuring found; the trees that hang over the point from whence they issue; the rude rocks above; the rich meadows and scattered hamlets--all together form an affemblage of the most lively and pleasing objects that ever entered into a beautiful landscape.

'I am informed by David Pennant, Efq; that salmons force their way annually from the fea as high as this river, to depofit their spawn. Ther progrefs is up the Rhine, and out of that noble river up the Aar, and through the lake of Zuric into the Linth; a course of many hundred miles. They are taken in these dif tant parts in September and October, and about the fize of seventeen or twenty pounds weight.

We crossed the Linth several times, which rushes with all the violence of a torrent; and came at length to an amphitheatre of mountains, where the valley ended: on our right hand a fall more confiderable than any we had yet seen, tumbling down perpendicu larly over a bare rock in a large body of water; the Alps on each fide crowned with inaccessible forefts, and covered with everlasting snow: before us a pyramidical mountain, bare and craggy; and the glaciers of Glarus clofing the view. Here the valley, and the habitable part of the canton

terminate. We then quitted the plain, and ascending through a wild forest of beech and pines, continued more than an hour mounting a very steep and rugged path, till we came to the Panten-Bruck, a bridge over the cataract that forms the Linth, which is here called the Sand-bach: it roars from the glacier down the steep mountain in one unbroken fall, and, a little way before its arrival under the bridge, works itself a fubterraneous pafsage through the rock, where it is loft only to appear again with increafed violence and precipitarion. The bridge is a fingle arch of stone, of about feventy feet in length, thrown over a precipice of above three hundred feet in depth. It serves as a communication with the Upper Alps, and is the passage for the cattle which are fed there during the fummer months; on the other side some goats came jumping around us, and feemed to welcome us to their dreary habitations. These mountains are covered with a great variety of rare plants, which made me regret that I had not pursued my botanical studies. As I leaned upon the parapet of the bridge, and looked down into the chasm beneath, my head almost turned giddy with the height. The rock, down which the Sandbach drives, is composed of flate. Af ter we had continued some time admiring the fublime horror of the scenery, we defcended into the valley, and made a hearty meal upon fome excellent bread, honey, butter, and milk, which a neighbouring cottage supplied. As the canton almost entirely confifts of rich meadows, the milk and butter are delicious; and the honey of thefe mountainous countries is most exquifite. Nothing delights me so much as the infide of a Swifs cottage: all those I have hitherto vifited, convey the liveliest image of cleanliness, ease, and fimplicity; and cannot but strongly impress upon the observer a most pleasing conviction of the peasant's happiness.