tume to that of a British tar.-Letters of a silence; the monks never speak but in Prussian Traveller, published in 1818. ACCOUNT OF GERMANY. || prayer. There are no nuns of this order! By the way, the women of Linz, and so on to Vienna, and in Vienna, are celebrated throughout Europe for their beauty, and in my mind justly so. I never saw such a number of fair faces, black eyes, and arched eye-brows; they are said to be extremely chaste, but this I only give you as an on dit. The worst of the German men is they drink so hard, and beer too: They will || drink five or six quarts each at one sitting. Vienna is a fine city, not large, but its palaces are more splendid, and, on the whole, more modern, than those in Rome or Paris; when I say palaces, I mean the UNTIL you pass Hoenlinden (famous for a battle, and Campbell's Poem) the country all the way from Munich forms a dead flat. || Munich is situated in a plain, nearly sur- || rounded by the mountains of the Tyrol, and refreshed by the rivers Ian and Iser. After quitting Hoenlinden the road becomes more picturesque with woods near, and huge forests at a distance; and at the extremity of our view are seen, as if in the éloads, the snow-topped mountains of Bohemia. We reached Passau the evening of the day we left Munich, and the follow-residences of the nobility. As for the Im ing afternoon commenced our excursion upon the Danube. The mention of this gigantic river and its accompaniments will recal to your mind and imagination the early impressions of your youth, and the stories appertaining to them, whether real or fabulous. The last memorable spot we had courage to visit was the Castle of Thierenstein, built upon a rock, command ing a vast view of the Danube, palaces, monasteries, cities, and towns, without end: for the Danube being, from all time, the commercial river of Germany, its banks are populated in great profusion. We found much difficulty in ascending this nearly perpendicular rock, notwithstanding the proprietor, Prince Hardenberg, has within these few years made a sort of foot path; but when we did arrive at the summit, the prospect was indeed sublime. The Castle itself is a venerable ruin. Here was confined our hon-hearted Richard, and beneath its tower the minstrel touched his harp and the heart of Richard at the same moment. perial palace, it is, indeed, a huge mass of “O gloria! vincitur idem The Germans, like the English, love eating and drinking, their wives and home. Perhaps in less frequented parts of the country the Germans do not deserve my eulogy; I have seldom been off the great road, or out of large cities. The worst is still behind, especially if I visit Saxony and Westphalia. I give the pre In Bavaria all monastie institutions are abolished, but in Austria, with the exception of the confiscation of a few (the wines of which, upwards of a hundred years old, have been sent to the cellars of the Emperor), they are permitted to remain with all their accumulated wealth'; much of their ready money, however, was (considering, it, as Gibbon says of another monkish possession, “a superfluous treasure,")||ference, and I trust shew more taste, by taken from them by Vandamme and other revolutionists. On Saturday we passed another grand monastery, which looks over the Danube: the creed of this order isler in Germany. wishing to return (after Dresden) by Leipzig, Jeua, Cassel, Gottinen, Dusseldorf, and through Holland.-Letters of a Travel EGYPTIAN FEMALES. WITH respect to the economical ar rangement of their families, we found that the Arabs seldom have more than two wives; commonly but one. The second wife is always subservient to the elder in the affairs of the house. The women colour their nails, the inside of the hands, and the soles of the feet, with a deep orange-colour, sometimes with one of a rosy appearance: this is done by means of benua. They likewise apply a black dye to their eyelashes, eyebrows, and the hair of their head; a brilliancy, it is supposed, is thus given to the eye, and the sight is improved. The women in general, I believe, can neither read nor write; but the better sort are taught embroidery and ornamental needle-work, in which they mostly pass their time. An Arab merchant of property made me a present of an elegantly embroidered handkerchief, worked, as he said, by his wife's hands. The women of rank are seldom seen abroadmany of these were murdered by the Turks, after we evacuated Alexandria, in 1803; but some of them, and in particular two Bedouin girls, succeeded in escaping to Malta. || The features of the Arab-Egyptian women are by no means regular. In general, the cheek-bones are high, the cheeks broad and flabby, the mouth large, the nose short, thick, and flat, though in some it is prominent; the eyes black, but wanting anima,|| tion. The bad appearance of the eyes, is, in some measure, owing to disease. The skin is of a disagreeable Mulatto colour. The hair, which is commonly black, is matted, and often smeared with a stinking ointment. It is formed in two or three divisions, and suffered to hang down the back. At a distance, however, the long flowing robe which covers them, to the heels, though it may conceal deformity, seems, by the easiness of its drapery, to heighten their stature, and even to render their air graceful. Indeed, I have never seen any women who have displayed so much easiness of manner, or so fine a carriage; being superior, in this respect, even to the women of Circassia. Probably the elegance and dignity of their gait may depend upon the habit of carrying every thing on their heads. They are taller in From general, than our European women. ignorance of their language I could form no opinion of their conversation, yet, from their numerous and graceful gestures, I suppose it might be pleasing, in spite of the shrillness of their voices. As the army was passing through the villages, they mounted upon the house-tops, and made a confused noise like the cackling of cranes, which was interpreted to us as indicating wishes for our success. The Ethiopean women brought to Egypt for sale, though black, are exceedingly beautiful; their features are regular, their eyes full of expression. A great number of them had been purchased by the French during their stay in Egypt, who were anxious to dispose of them previously to their leaving the country; and it was the custom to bring them to the common market-place in the camp, sometimes in boys' clothes, at other times in the gaudiest female dress of the French fashion. The neck was in general naked, and the petticoat on one side tucked up to the knee, to shew the elegant form of the limb. The price of these women was from sixty to one hundred dollars; while Arab women might be purchased at so low a price as ten!-Walpole's Memoirs of Turkey. A CONCISE ABRIDGMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY; IN A SERIES OF LETTERS FROM A LADY TO HER DAUGHTER. LETTER XVII. DEAR CAROLINE,-According to the promise with which I concluded my last letter, I shall commence with the lizard, and first present to your mind's eye what you have so often viewed with pleasure and delight-that elegant little creature THE GREEN LIZARD. Ir is to be found in all the warmer parts, of Europe; this creature, though the one your uncle preserved for you with such unremitting care is very small, sometimes arrives to a very large size, measuring more than two feet to the extremity of the tail; its general length, however, is seldom more than from ten to fifteen inches. Its colours are the most beautiful of all the European tribe. The mixture of darker and lighter green affording a rich and splendid variety; especially from its being interspersed with specks of yellow, brown, black, and sometimes red; the head is uniformly green, and covered with angular scales; the body is covered with round scales. The tongue of this kind of lizard is long, broad at the base, aud cloven at the tip. Nothing can equal the activity of this creature when placed on a warm wall, where it pursues its insect prey with uncommon celerity, and escaping with equal swiftness if it is itself pursued. I need not tell you how remarkably tame it is, when it becomes familiar with its protectors. But the first lizard which took your infant notice, and which, when you first saw, you exclaimed, running to me, that you had found a "fairy's crocodile," is the most common in our country, and this is THE SMALL GREY OR BROWN LIZARD, IT seldom exceeds six or eight inches; its colour is generally of a pale greenish brown, or grey, with a few yellowish va riegations: in hot summers, this creature multiplies much in England, and the spe cies may be found, in great quantities,|| about the roots of trees, and on old walls; they are always busied in pursuits of insects: and though they endeavour to escape at the pursuit of a stranger, they soon be come tame with those they know, and whom they find are not inclined to injure them. The lizard generally makes itself friends; for they do no injury to gardens, &c. but are rather useful in destroying insects. The English lizard may, however, find an enemy in the apothecary, as it is said to possess strong medical virtues, particularly in a loathsome disease now little known in England, the leprosy; a disorder which, there is little doubt, has been eradicated through our increased attention to cleanliness. most common in Europe; in the warmer regions of the earth their species vary considerably, but the propensities and nature of the animal are the same. One extraordinary species of the lizard tribe must not, however, be passed by, which is THE CAMEleon. FEW animals have been more celebrated, though none are less universally known. It is constantly affirmed, that it is capable of changing its colour at pleasure, and of taking that of any particular object or situ, ation. This assertion, however, should not be credited in an unlimited degree: the change of colour in the animal depends much on circumstances of health, state of the weather, and various other causes; and the change consists chiefly in the natural green or blue grey into a pale yellowish colour, with irregular patches of a dull red: but the usual colour of cameleons vary exceedingly; some are much darker than others, and approach even to a tinge of black; and this striking change is manifest through the whole race of lizards. The length of the cameleon, from the tip of the nose to the beginning of the tail, is generally about ten inches, and the tail is of a similar length. It is a harmless creature, and supports itself by feeding on insects; for which purpose, Providence has finely adapted the structure of the tongue; it is a long missile body, furnished with a tubular tip; by means of which the animal seizes the insects with surprising ease, darting out its tongue in the same manner as the woodpecker, and then instantly drawing it in again with the prey on its tip. The cameleon can support a long abstineuce, and hence arose the vulgar idea of its being nourished on air. It is a native of India and Africa, but is found in Spain and Portugal. This animal has the same power with other amphibia, of inflating its lungs, and retaining the air for a great length of time; so that it appears, at times, plump and fleshy-at others, when it evacuates the air, it looks like a mere skin, the ribs being completely visible on each side of the body. The feet consist each of five toes; three and two of which on each foot are con⚫ nate, or united so far as the claws by a These are the two lizards, which are the common skin: on the fore-feet the two out ward and three inward toes are united; and, is above five lines; they are covered with on the hind-feet the two inward and three outward. The motions of the cameleon are extremely slow. In regard to its change of colour, if the animal be exposed to a full sunshine, the side next the shade appears, in a few minutes of a pale yellow, with large spots of red brown on reversing the situation, the sides of the animal become changed, vice versa; but yet these changes are certainly subject to much variety, though it seems, by those who have attentively watched these changes, that the animal never appeared of a white colour. The form, structure, and motion of the cameleon's eyes are very peculiar: they || are large, spherical, and projecting full half of their diameter, the whole of which one single skin or eye lid, pierced in the middle with a small hole of not more than a line in diameter, through which appears the pupil, surrounded by a gold-coloured iris. These animals are rare, and the tribes of amphibia are less known, and less intéresting to the unscientific observer of nature's works, than those which come under more daily inspection; they would lead us into too wide a field; and my next letters shall, therefore, be devoted to the feathered tenants of the air, and to those insects whose endowments and animal economy render them a series of nature's miracles! Adieu! your ever affectionate mother, ANNA. FEMININE HEROISM; AN AUTHENTIC SPANISH AMERICAN STORY. THOUGH we glory in any instance of || have stigmatized manhood with dastardly noble energy, magnanimous resolution, and || barbarity, though the result was beneficial disinterested self-devotion, displayed by the fair, we agree with the poet, that «Her fairest virtues fly from public sight, "Domestic worth, that shuns too strong a light." And were it possible to discern the unobtrusive goodness, breathing continual ever-renewed sweets over connubial, mas ternal, and friendly intercourse--and yet more, if the secret sacrifices, the uncomplaining meekness, which veils infirmities, and endures frequent pangs in domestic life, Great Britain might be hailed as a nation of heroines, daily performing acts that demand greater strength of mind than has often produced the imposing blazonry of ma.tial renown. Concealed performances of difficult duty must be inspired by the purest motives; but the most dazzling achievements that cannot be traced to a laudable source, lose all their lustre when brought to the test of genuine merit. Iuez Laurez has perpetuated her memory by killing, with her own band, thirty imprisoned fettered omers; lest, if the Massochiniaus prevailed against the Spaniards, those intrepni leaders should rejoin their countrymen, and avenge the cruelties inSicted by the invaders. Such a deed must and woman to harbour the intention, even if her hand recoiled from grasping the murderous hatchet, she could no more reverence herself, nor be regarded by others but as an object of detestation. We can contemplate, with less aversion, the unfeeling pride of Caupolican's wife, because we make allowances for savage habits; and if, instead of throwing his son after him, when he surrendered his person to the overwhelming power of a disciplined European army, the chieftainess had been just to his valorous resistance, while resistance was possible—had she accompanied him, to soothe his lofty spirit in captivity, or retired, with her boy, to some of the fortresses of her territory, awaiting a favourable opportunity for rescuing Caupotican, she had lived in history under a more amiable aspect than in dashing their child to the brave, but unfortunate, commander, exclaiming, she would keep nothing that be loged to a coward. Compared to those, the gentle, yet firm and dignified, Miran da, shines as a polished gem beside a rude fragment of granite. After the lapse of centuries, her merits rise before us in all their beautiful grandeur, as the ever-green cedar, towering above the clouds-the pi-, sentiment, as they drew near to the abode tahaya, on its futed boughs, without foli age, yielding a redundant succession of fruits or as the floripondia sheds odours over far distant space, so the character of Miranda soared above all praise, and her virtues, richly productive, though destitute of shelter, diffuse honour to her sex. of illustrious strangers. The thorny carob, and taper, might furnish nails and needles. The refreshing cullen, jarrella, and palqui, and a thousand other wooded, blossomy, and leafy retreats, were formed within the precincts belonging to the Europeans-but Timbuey was a region of unrivalled and In 1526, Sebastian Cabot, grand pilot of various fertility. Nurtado, a generous CasCastile, was ordered to South America by tilian, judged others by himself, and acthe Emperor Charles V. with a small fleet cepted the invitation; but the sensitive deand some soldiers, and a promise of speedy licacy of Miranda had been alarmed by reinforcements, that should enable him to some symptoms in the behaviour of the undertake some great enterprize. After Cacique, and she prevailed with her lord waiting two years, Cabot returned to to send an apology, couched in the most Spain, to expedite the armament. He left respectful, but decisive terms-yet suffiNuno de Lara Governor of Buenos Ayres, ciently conciliatory, as the subsistence of with injunctions to maintain that amicable the garrison depended chiefly upon a friendly intercourse with the natives, which, hither- || traffic with the Timbueyians. Mangora to, had ensured supplies of provision for dissembled the pangs of disappointment, the garrison. The good understanding purposing to effect by perfidious stratagem, continued, till Mangora, Cacique of Tim- what he despaired of accomplishing by buey, became violently enamoured of Mi- milder artifices. He knew Nurtado was randa, a Spanish lady, who had recently often the conductor of a cousiderable arrived with her husband, an officer of squadron of soldiers, sent to procure stores. high rank, and conspicuous worth. Man- He employed spies to watch his motions, gora, accustomed to illimitable licentious- and learned the officer had set out upon a ness among his subject tribes, imagined he circuit that must engage him some weeks. could accomplish his lawless design, if Mi- || A large body of the bravest and most trusty randa could be inveigled to his territory, Indians were placed in ambuscade, at a He sent her a present of the small luscious short distance from the fort; and Mangora fig, which grows on the patahaya-a tree drew near with a few attendants, bearing destitute of leaves, but the fluted arms, large gifts of grain and fruit. Nuno de loaded with fruit, confer singular beauty; Lara received the Cacique with the highand Mangora assured the lady, that its est deference. A sumptuous banquet tesproduce, taken fresh from the foot stalks, tified the unsuspecting amity of the Spahad a much finer flavour, and conduced to niards. Mangora seemed to forget royal health and longevity. He urged Nurtado state, in careless, convivial glee. He seemto take his lovely spouse, at least once in a ed the gayest of the jocund company; and moon, to renovate her constitution with the sprung up, singing and capering with all salutary fruit, which grew only at Tim- the extravagance of inebriated mirth. This buey. Near the Spanish garrison, many was the signal for assault. All the Euroherbs, shrubs, and trees, charmed the peans fell beneath the savage exterminating senses: the red cedar grew to a stupendous blade-but righteous Providence did not size; the floripondia diffused rich per- permit Mangora to triumph in his crime, fumes; the molle bestowed wine; the luma Nuna de Lara aimed a mortal thrust at his chased away feyer and debility; the tuna, heart, whenever his treachery became ap、 and wild orange, refreshed the weary la parent. Miranda, with four other Spanish bourer; the patague, with enormous trunk females, and some children, were spared, and massive umbrage, afforded a grateful and taken to Siripia, the brother and suc. shade, and its clustering flowers decked the cessor of Maugora. Unhappily, he also sportive little ones in their dance. The inherited the same fatal susceptibility of favourite of the Great Spirit, the emblem attractions, rendered more affecting by pro of peace, the sacred canuello, inspired the found, yet dignified sorrow. Refined by Indians with every pious, kind, and liberal the majestic grace, the pathetic intreaty, |