The Woodman and his Dog form an interesting picture-it has been made the subject of the pencil and we shall now judge of its appearance in poetry

Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcern'd
The cheerful haunts of men; to wield the axe
And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear,
From morn to eve his solitary task.

Shaggy and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears,
And tail cropt short, half lurcher and half cur,
His dog attends him. Close behind his heel
Now creeps he slow, and now, with many a frisk,
Wide scampering, snatches up the drifted snow
With iv'ry teeth, or ploughs it with his snout,
Then shakes his powder'd coat, and barks for joy.
Heedless of all his pranks, the sturdy churl
Moves right towards the mark, nor stoops for aught,
But now and then, with pressure of his thumb,
T' adjust the fragrant charge of a short tube
That fumes beneath his nose:"the trailing cloud
Streams far behind him, scenting all the air!

The Ice-House, made by the late Empress of Russia, is thus beautifully described

Silently as a dream the fabric rose,

No sound of hammer, or of saw was there.
Ice upon ice, the well adjusted parts

Were soon conjoin'd, no other cement ask'd
Than water interfus'd to make them one.
Lamps gracefully dispos'd, and of all hues
Illumin'd ev'ry side: a watry light

Gleam'd thro' the clear transparency, that seem'd
Another moon new ris'n, or meteor fall'n,
From heaven to earth, of lambent flame serene.
So stood the brittle prodigy; tho' smooth
And slipp'ry the materials, yet frost bound
Firm as a rock. Nor wanted aught within,
That royal residence might well be fit

For grandeur, or for use. Long wavy wreaths
Of flowers, that fear'd no enemy but warmth,
Blush'd on the pannels. Mirror needed none,

Where all was vitreous, but in order due
Convivial table and commodious seat,

(What seem'd at least commodious seat) were there,
Sofa and couch, and high built throne august.
The same lubricity was found in all,

And all was moist to the warm touch-a scene
Of evanescent glory-once a stream,
And soon to slide into a stream again.
Alas! 'twas but a mortifying stroke
Of undesign'd severity, that glanc'd
(Made by a monarch) on her own estate,
On human grandeur, and the courts of kings.
'Twas transient in its nature, as in show
'Twas durable; as worthless as it seem'd,
Intrinsically precious-to the foot

Treach'rous and false-it smil'd, and it was cold!

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The poet presents us with many fine passages behalf of Liberty-at whose shrine he bowed with the purest devotion:→→

'Tis Liberty alone that gives the flow'r
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume,

And we are weeds without it. All constraint,
Except what wisdom lays on evil men,
Is evil-hurts the faculties-impedes
Their progress in the road of science-blinds
The eye-sight of discov'ry-and begets
In those that suffer it, a sordid mind,
Bestial-a meagre intellect-unfit

To be the tenant of MAN's noble form!

The Patriot and Martyr are thus also finely contrasted:

Patriots have toil'd, and in their country's cause
Bled nobly, and their deeds, as they deserve,
Receive proud recompence. We give in charge
Their names to the sweet lyre. Th' historic muse,
Proud of the treasure, marches with it down
To latest times, and sculpture, in her turn,
Gives bond in stone and ever during brass, -
To guard them, and t' immortalise her trust.

room of the last a little white night-cap, which is generally carried in the pocket, for that purpose.

When they go out on foot, they are attended by a slave, who carries a sunshade (called here sambreel or payang), over their heads; but whoever is lower in rank than a junior merchant, may not have a slave behind him, but must carry a small sunshade himself.

Most of the white women, who are seen at Ba tavia, are born in the Indies. Those who come from Europe at a marriageable age are very few in number. I shall therefore confine my observations to the former.

These are either the offspring of European mo thers, or of oriental female slaves, who having first been mistresses to Europeans, have afterwards been married to them, and have been converted to christianity, or at least have assumed the name of christians..

The children produced by these marriages, may be known to the third and fourth generation, especially by the eyes, which are much smaller than in the unmixed progeny of Europeans.

There are likewise children, who are the offspring of Portuguese, but these never become entirely white.

Children born in the Indies are nicknamed liplaps by the Europeans, although both parents may have come from Europe.

Girls are commonly marriageable at twelve or thirteen years of age, and sometimes younger. It seldom happens, if they are but tolerab y, handsome, have any money, or any to expect, or are related to people in power, that they are unmarried after that age.

As they marry while they are yet children, it may easily be conceived, that they do not possess

those requisites which enable a woman to manage a family with propriety. There are many of them who can neither read nor write, nor possess any ideas of religion, of morality, or of social inter

course.

Being married so young, they seldom get many children, and are old women at thirty years of age. Women of fifty, in Europe, look younger and fresher than those of thirty at Batavia. They are in general of a very delicate make, and of an extreme fair complexion; but the tints of vermilion, which embellish our northern ladies, are wholly absent from their cheeks; the skin of their face and hands is of the most deadly pale white. Beauties must not be sought amongst them; the handsomest whom I saw would scarcely be thought middling pretty in Europe.

They have very supple joints, and can turn their fingers, hands, and arms, in almost every direction; but this they have in common with the women in the West Indies, and in other tropical cli

mates.

They are commonly of a listless and lazy temper; but this ought chiefly to be ascribed to their education, and the number of slaves, of both sexes, that they always have to wait upon them.

They rise about half past seven, or eight o'clock in the morning. They spend the forenoon in playing and toying with their female slaves, whom they are never without, and in laughing and talking with them, while a few moments afterwards they will have the poor creatures whipped unmercifully, for the merest trifle. They loll, in a loose and airy dress, upon a sofa, or sit upon a low stool, or upon the ground, with their legs crossed under them. In the mean time, they do not omit the chewing of pinang, or betel, with which custom all the Indian women are infatuated; they likewise masti

cate the Java tobacco; this makes their spittle of a crimson colour, and when they have done it long, they get a black border along their lips, their teeth become black, and their mouths are very disagreeable, though it is pretended that this use purifies the mouth, and preserves from the tooth-ache.

As the Indian women are really not deficient in powers of understanding, they would become very useful members of society, endearing wives, and good mothers, if they were but kept from familiarity with the slaves in their infancy, and educated under the immediate eye of their parents, who should be assiduous to inculcate in their tender minds the principles of true morality and polished manners. But, alas! the parents are far from taking such a burthensome task upon themselves. As soon as the child is born, they abandon it to the care of a female slave, who generally suckles it, and by whom it is reared, till it attains the age of nine or ten years. These nurses are often but one remove above a brute, in point of intellect; and the little innocents imbibe, with their milk, all the prejudices and superstitious notions which disgrace the minds of their attendants, and which are never eradicated during the remainder of their lives, but seem to stamp them, rather with the character of the progeny of despicable slaves, than of a civilized race of beings.

They are remarkably fond of bathing and ablutions, and they make use of a large tub for this purpose, which holds three hogsheads of water, and in which they immerge their whole body, at least twice a week. Some of them do this, in the morning, in one of the running streams out of the city.

In common with most of the women in India, they cherish a most excessive jealousy of their husbands, and of their female slaves. If they discover