seventy-eight departments, occupying an extent of 1,736,056 hectares, of which the average annual produce is 37,075,689 hectolitres, being of the value of 540,389,293 francs. The average price of the hectolitre is therefore fifteen francs forty centimes, or thirteen centimes the common bottle. This is the original price; but it is nearly doubled by the expense of carriage, the indirect imposts, and the droits d'octroi, and the profits of trade. Still the exceeding smallness of this average price shows that the quantity of good wine is very small, as compared with the quantity of bad. However, its selling price has less to do with its quality than with the facility of its conveyance in the vicinity of a great consumption.

MALARIA.

New Mon.

At a late sitting of the Academy of Medicine in Paris, M. Villermie read a paper on the Influence of Marshes upon Human Life, from which he drew the following conclusions:-In the salubrious portions of our climates, the winter and spring months are those which give the greatest number of deaths, and the winteis more fatal in the north than in the south. In marshy countries, the greatest number of deaths is in the months of July, August, September, and October; and the evaporation of the marshes is most fatal to persons from one to six years of age. The complaint which generally attacks children, owing to the malaria of marshes, is stated to be an acute gastro-intestinal

affection.

Ibid.

SUBSTITUTE FOR TEA OR COFFEE.

At one of the last meetings of that very useful institution, the Medico-Botanical Society of London, a communication was read from Sir H. Willock, K. L. S. Charge d' Affaires at the Court of Persia, on the cichorium intybus of Linnæus. The author states, that the root of this plant, which is well known in England under the name of indive, or succory, is employed, when roasted and reduced to powder, by the inhabitants of Moscow, and indeed the greater part of

Russia, as a substitute for tea or coffee;

and that he himself had derived so much benefit from its use as a beverage, that he had provided a considerable quantity to take with him to Persia. We trust that this hint will not be thrown away.

ENTOMOLOGY.

of their bodies, whereby they are cut in two parts, joined by a small ligature, as in the common fly. The history and description of insects constitute the science of entomology, a term formed from the two Greek words, entoma insects, and logos a discourse. Entomology is one of the principal branches of the study of Natural History; and, though neglected or despised by the generality of mankind, as a pursuit of too trifling a character to engage the attention of a rational mind; yet, as has been wisely said of it, "the creator, the more to illustrate his wisdom, power, and skill, has decreed that the minute animals shall be more complex, in all respects, than the mighty monarchs of the forest or the flood." Mag. of Nat. His.

Anecdotiana.

A SOP FOR CERBERUS.

One day, when Nollekens was walking in Cavendish Square, attended by his man Dodimy, he desired him to take up some sop which a boy had just thrown out of a beer-pot, observing that it would make a nice dinner for his dog Cerberus. " Lord, Sir! I take it up!" exclaimed Dodimy, "what! in the sight of your friends Lord Besborough and Lord Brownlow? See, Sir, there's Mr. Shee looking down at you. No, Sir, I would not do it, if you were even to scratch* me!"-Nollekens' Life and Times.

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LACONIC ADDRESS.

There is not a finer instance of brevity in expression, or bravery and nobleness of mind, than in the address of La Roche Jacqueline to his soldiers, "If I advance," said that gallant knight, "folG. S. S.

low me; if I fall, avenge me; if I flinch,

Insects, (from insectus, cut or notched, Latin) as Dr. Johnson informs us, are so called from a separation in the middle

was fast making her its slave. The ready vanity of the Frenchman quickly perceived it. At first he encouraged it with that sort of undefined pleasure which man always feels in awakening strong affection in the hearts of even the most insignificant. Then the idea, that though an Indian, she was a princess, and that her father's extensive lands on the Missouri were daily becoming of more and more consequence to his ambitious nation, led him to think of marriage with her as a desirable object. His eyes and his manner had said this long before the old chief began to suspect it, and he allowed the wily Frenchman to twine himself almost as closely round his heart as he had around the more yielding soul of his darling child. Though exceedingly indolent by nature, Florimond de Rancé had acquired skill in many graceful arts, which excited the wonder of the savages. He fenced well enough to foil the most expert antagonist; and in hunting, his rifle was sure to carry death to the game. These accomplishments, and the facility with which his pliant nation conforn to the usages of savage life, made

him a universal favourite, and at his request he was formally adopted as one of the tribe. But conscious as he was of his power, it was long before he dared to ask for the daughter of the haughty chief. When he did make the daring proposition, it was received with a still and terrible wrath, that might well frighten him from his purpose. Rage shewed itself only in the swelling veins and clenched hand of the old chief. With the boasted coldness and self-possession of an Indian, he answered, There are Sioux girls enough for the poor pale faces that come among us. A king's daughter weds the son of a king. Eagles must sleep in an eagle's nest.' In vain Tahmiroo knelt and supplicated. In vain she promised that Florimond de Rancé would adopt all his enmities and all his friendships; that in hunting and in war he would be an invaluable treasure. The chief remained inexorable. Then Tahmiroo no longer joined in the dance, and the old men noticed that her rich voice was silent when they passed her wigwam. The light of her beauty began to fade, and the bright vermillion current which mantled under her brown cheek became sluggish and pale. The languid glance she cast on the morning sun and the bright earth entered into her father's soul. He could not see his beautiful child thus gradually wasting away. He had long averted his eyes whenever he saw Florimond de Rancé, but one day when he crossed his hunting path, he laid his hand on his shoulder, and pointed to Tahmiroo's dwelling. Not a word was spoken. The proud old man and the blooming lover entered it together. Tahmiroo was seated in the darkest corner of the wigwam, her head leaning on her hand, her basket work tangled beside her, and a bunch of flowers the vil lage maidens had brought her scattered and withering at her feet. The chief looked upon her with a vehement expression of love, which none but stern countenances can wear. 'Tahmiroo,' ke said, in a subdued tone, 'go to the wigwam of the stranger, that your father may again see you love to look on the rising sun and the opening flowers.'There was mingled joy and modesty in the upward glance of the 'Startled Fawn' of the Sioux; and when Florimond de Rancé saw the light of her mild eye suddenly and timidly veiled by its deeply fringed lid, he knew that he had lost none of his power. The marriage-song was soon heard in the royal wigwam, and the young adventurer became the son of a king. Months and years passed on, and found Tahmiroo the same devoted, submissive being. Her husband no longer treated her with the uniform gallantry of a lover. He was not often harsh, but he adopted something of the coldness and indifference of the nation he had joined. Tahmiroo sometimes wept in secret; but so much of fear had lately mingled with her love, that she carefully concealed her grief from him who had occasioned it. When she watched his countenance with that pleading, innocent look which had always characterised her beauty, she sometimes would obtain a glance such as he had given her in former days, and then her heart would leap like a frolicsome lamb, and she would live cheerfully on the remembrance of that smile, through many wearisome days of silence and neglect. Never was wo. man, in her heart-breaking devotedness, satisfied with such slight slight tes testimonials of

love as was this gentle Sioux girl. If Florimond chose to fish, she would her self ply the oars, rather than he should suffer fatigue, and the gaudy canoe her father had given her, might often be seen gliding down the stream, while Tahmiroo dipped her oars in unison with her soft,

rich voice, and the indolent Frenchman lay sunk in luxurious repose. She had learned his religion, but for herself she never prayed. The cross he had given her was always raised in supplication for him, and if he but looked unkindly on her, she kissed it, and invoked its aid, in agony of soul. She fancied the sounds of his native land might be dear to him, and she studied his language with a patience and perseverance to which the savage has seldom been known to submit. She tried to imitate the dresses she had heard him describe, and if he looked with a pleased eye on any ornament she wore, it was always reserved to welcome his return. Yet, for all this lavishness of love, she asked but kind, approving looks, which cost the giver nothing. Alas, for the perverseness of man, in scorning the affection he ceases to doubt!

The little pittance of love for which poor Tahmiroo's heart yearned so much, was seldom given. Her soul was a perpetual prey to anxiety and excitement; and the quiet certainty of domestic bliss was never her allotted portion. There were, however, two beings, on whom she could pour forth her whole flood of tenderness, without reproof or disappointment. She had given birth to a son and daughter, of uncommon promise. Victoire, the eldest, had her father's beauty, save in the melting dark eye, with its plaintive expression, and the modest drooping of its silken lash. Her cheeks had just enough of the Indian hue to give them a warm, rich colouring; and such was her early maturity, that at thirteen years of age, her tall figure combined the graceful elasticity of youth with the staid majesty of womanhood. She had sprung up at her father's feet with the sudden luxuriance of a tropical flower; and her matured loveliness aroused all the dormant tenderness and energy within him. It was with mournful interest he saw her leaping along the chase, with her mother's bounding, sylph-like joy; and he would sigh deeply deeply when he observed her oar rapidly cutting the waters of the Missouri, while her boat flew over the surface of the river, like a wild bird in sport -aud the gay young creature would wind round among the eddies, or dart forward with her hair streaming on the wind, and her lips parted with eagerness. Tahmiroo did not understand the nature of his emotions. She thought, in the simplicity of her heart, that silence and sadness were the natural expressions of a white man's love; but when he turned his restless gaze from his daughter to her, she met an expression which troubled her. Indifference had changed into contempt; and