cused for the same reason assigned by Mr. Nightingale. I have a very bad cold indeed."

QUESTION AND ANSWER.

A professed woman-hater asked a good natured, facetious man, what he supposed women were made for. He replied, Women were made, so fate declares. To smoothe our ruffles and our cares And this is right; for by my troth, They're very apt to ruffle both.

EDITOR'S CLOSET.

"Do you sing, Mr. Pewitt?" "I never sing in company, madam.” "You sing, Mr. Posey, I believe." Really madam, I do not know the whole words of one single song." So it went on and each one had some excuse, until it come to my turn again, and when I was asked to sing, for the sake of making a beginning, I roared out 'Old King Cole,' in such a strain that neOur readers will perceive that the most ver a one of the party thought of asking of the first Number of our Magazine, is deme to sing again during the evening. Now voted to subjects relating to Connecticut. it was my turn to call for a song, so I It is the very design of the publication; called on Miss Tiffany-but she had a and this course will be pursued, not shocking cold, and didn't think she could however to the absolute exclusion of get through a song no way in the world." interesting matter, relating to our adjoinMrs. Bohea declared she never sung aing sister states, our whole Republic, and song" in her life. "Mrs. Jaconet never sang in company" [lucky for them liguess.] "Miss Bodkin said, that it was a long time since she had attempted to sing, but she would try to oblige the company-so after hemming three times, and coughing twice, Miss Bodkin got through one verse of the "Sailor Boy," and about half an other, and then hemm'd and coughed, and shut up her mouth, and then opened it again and simpered, and declared she could not recollect another line-so here was an end to the amusements, and then we had some apples, and some nuts, and some raisins, and a glass or two of cordial, and this my fair readers out of town, is a fair description of an evening party in town, and this is what some call comfortable.

the world at large. Certainly the history, biography, agriculture, manufacture, civil, literary and ecclesiastical institutions, manners, customs and habits of our own state and citizens, are more immediately interesting, than subjects relating to other states and kingdoms. Why we should be perpetually exploring other countries, soaring in other worlds, and remain blind to the beauties and advantages of our own, cannot be percieved. Our aim is to treat of common. subjects in a manner, if possible, interesting to the common reader; and endeavour to render" familiar things new, and new things familiar."

The "Scientific Journal" conducted by one of the first ornaments of our state and country, Professor Silliman, of New-Ha- ́ ven, furnishes a rich repast for the scientific scholar; but is above the comprehension of most of the numerous reading men in Connecticut. The "Religious IntelliHints for the Ladies.-The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehen-teresting to all, as religion is important to gencer" published at New-Haven, is insive will she be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it often without fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and repent that she has attained that summit.

all. Our Journal, we do not pretend to he exclusively, scientific or exclusively religious; but hope it may not injure the cause of science or religion."

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have received some valuable Communications, although unexpected at a stage so early in the publication of our Magazine. In addition to the gentlemen who have engaged to contribute to it, we earnestly invite the Practical Farmer, to communicate the result of their successful experiments in husbandry. The plain language of the farmer is the best of all adapted to agricultural subjects; and if slight alterations in orthography and punctuation

ERRATA.

Page 14th first column, 7th line from the bottom, leave out the before Yale.
Page 24th read them instead of it, in the second column 14th line from the bottom..

THE reasons for the emigra- climate and productive soil of tion of Englishmen to America, South America, we cannot tell has been briefly given. That what would have been the result. portion of them who landed in But we do know what North that part of it which is called America has been and is-we New-England, certainly had pros- know also, what South America pects as cheerless and gloomy be- has been and is. The first, since fore them, as ever encountered Europeans arrived, has ever been any pilgrims upon the face of occupied by freemen, determined the globe. When they landed to be free, and to leave the freeupon the Rock of Plymouth, in dom they enjoyed, as a rich lega1620, they found themselves in cy to their posterity. The second a severe climate upon a soil has been the theatre of the most by no means fertile surrounded diabolical wickedness that ever by a clan of ferocious barbarians, stained the annals of human deand constantly reducing in num-pravity, and the catalogue of huber, by the "pestilence that walk- man crimes. The unoffending eth in darkness, and the destruction natives first became victims to an that wasteth at noon day." hellish clan of avaricious, implacable, and cruel Spaniards; and, as an evidence that punishment in this world treads upon the heels 6

Had our ancestors landed where Pizarro, at the head of the Spaniards, first contaminated the mild Vol. I.

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of transgression, the American To all people, unto whom this preSpaniards have themselves endured all the calamities which a tyrannical government and a merciless priesthood could inflict.

sent writing shall come, Robert, Earl of Warwick, sendeth greeting, in our LORD GOD everlasting.

Nothing more conclusively KNOW ye, that the said Robert, proves the unyielding persever-Earl of Warwick, for divers good ance, and unconquerable energy causes and considerations him thereof the first settlers of New-Eng- unto moving, hath given, granted, land, than their firmness under bargained, sold, enfeoffed, aliened, the army of sufferings to which and confirmed, and by these prethey were subjected. It is not sents doth give, grant, bargain, sell, enfeoff, aliene, and confirm, unto within the compass of the imagin- the right honourable William, Visation, to conceive of a situation count Say and Seal, the right honmore pregnant with despair, and ourable Robert, Lord Brook, the more destitute of hope. Driven right honourable Lord Rich, and from their native land by perse- the honourable Charles Fiennes, cution, to return was worse than Esq. Sir Nathaniel Rich, Knt. Sir death-and even to return, was Richard Saltonstall, Knt. Richard not in their power. Famine, Knightly, Esq. John Pym, Esq. with all its horrours, stared them John Hampden, John Humphrey, in the face, and the arrows and Esq. and Herbert Pelham, Esq. their tomahawks of savages shewed how heirs and assigns, and their associreadily they might be made vic-ates forever, all that part of Newtims to barbarians. Having no England, in America, which lies and hopes from civilized, or uncivil-extends itself from a river there calized men, no human beings ever forty leagues upon a straight line led Narraganset river, the space of had more occasion to "rely upon near the sea shore towards the souththe God of their salvation." west, west and by south, or west, In 1634, fourteen years after as the coast lieth towards Virginia, the first landing of Englishmen at accounting three English miles to Plymouth, the design of pene- the league; and also all and singular trating into the interior, and the lands and hereditaments whatsoplanting a new colony, was car-ever, lying and being within the ried into execution. Our ances- lands aforesaid, north and south in tors had obtained a Patent for latitude and breadth, and in length the state of Connecticut, fion and longitude of and within, all the the only civilized power which breadth aforesaid, throughout the had any right to grant it; leaving it to the grantees to make the best terms they could with the savages. This great title deed is inserted for the double purpose of shewing the strength of the title by which we claim the territory of Connecticut, and the precise and perspicuous language in which it is couched.

main lands there, from the western ocean to the south sea, and all lands and grounds, place and places, soil, Wood, and woods, grounds, havens, ports, creeks, and rivers, waters, fishings, and hereditaments whatsoever, lying within the said space, and every part and parcel thereof. And also all islands lying in America aforesaid, in the said seas, or either of them, on the western or eas

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assigns, and their associates for ever. more. In witness whereof the said Robert, Earl of Warwick, hath bereunto set his hand and seal, the nineteenth day of March, in the seventh year of the reign of our sovereign Lord Charles, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. Annoq. Domini, 1631.

Signed, Sealed, and delivered in the presence of

WALTER WILLIAMS.
THOMAS HOWwson.

tern coasts, or parts of the said stall, Richard Knightly, John Pym, tracts of lands, by these presents John Hampden, John Humphrey, mentioned to be given, granted, bar- and Herbert Pelham, their heirs and gained, sold, enfeoffed, aliened, and confirmed, and also all mines, and minerals, as well, royal mines of gold and silver, as other mines and minerals whatsoever, in the said lands and premises, or any part thereof, and also the several rivers within the said limits, by what name or names soever called or known, and all jurisdictions, rights, and royalties, liberties, freedoms, immunities, powers, privileges, franchises, preeminences, and commodities whatsoever, which the said Robert, Earl of Warwick, now hath or had, or might use, exercise, or enjoy, in or within any part or parcel thereof, It is a subject upon which the excepting and reserving to his ma-juvenile reader may well reflect. jesty, his heirs, and successors, the with delight, that our ancestors fifth part of all gold and silver ore, that were thus cautious in securing the shall be found within the said pre-claim to the colony against those mises, or any part or parcel thereof conflicting claims, which have, in TO HAVE and to HOLD the said part many portions of the world, inunof New-England in America, which dated disputed territories in blood. lies and extends and is abutted as Equally cautious in clothing offivers and every part and parcel there-cers with necessary power to govof, and all the said islands, rivers, Commission" for their first govern, they obtained the following ports, havens, waters, fishings,

aforesaid. And the said several ri

ROBERT WARWICK. A Seal.

mines, minerals, jurisdictions, pow-ernour, JOHN WINTHROP ers, franchises, royalties, liberties,

privileges, commodities, heredita- Articles made between the right

ments, and premises, whatsoever with the appertenances, unto the said William, Viscount Say and Seal, Robert, Lord Brook, Robert, Lord Rich, Charles Fiennes, Sir Nathaniel Rich, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Richard Knightly, John Pym, John Hampden, John Humphrey, and Herbert Pelham, their heirs, assigns and their associates, to the only proper and absolute use and behoof of them the said William, Viscount Say and Seal, Robert, Lord Brook, Robert, Lord Rich, Charles Fiennes, Sir Nathaniel Rich, Sir Richard Salton

honourable the lord Viscount Say and Seal, Sir Arthur Hasselring, Baronet, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Knight, Henry Lawrence, Henry Darley, and George Fenwick, Esquires, on the one part, and John Winthrop, Esq. the younger, of the other, the 7th July, 1635.

First, THAT we, in our names, and the rest of the company, do by these presents appoint John Winthrop, the younger, governour of the river Connecticut, in New-England.