*At 3 oclock between 88 and 89.

We have before us the meteorolog ical observations for New-London in June last. At noon, and at three hours before and after noon, the table gives 66, 68, 69, and a mean of 67, which is three degrees lower than in Salem. The winds were easterly 11 times out of 30 observations, or for so many days; in Salem, 18 out of 56 times. Rain only 3 times; in Salem 13 times. In New-London, highest 75, lowest 61. In Salem, lowest 62, highest 87. Cloudy only 4 days in New-London.

In New-York the thermometer was on 9th July, at 90 degrees, and nearly at that height for several days. On that day, the thermometer was not very high in Salem, but the barometer as low as we ever observed it. Sal. Reg

8:30

2: 29.9 70 S.E.

$s. : 29.9

10: 29.9 66

8:30 2:30 ss. : 30

S.W.

Hazy. Fair.

27th Day. S.W. Fair.

74 S.W. Fair.

73

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$s. : 30

10:30

76 S.S.W.

29th Day.

74 S.W.

86 S.W.

80 S.W.

77

Fair.

THE EDITOR'S NOTES.

We thank the Botanist for his valua ble communication, and ask an early receipt of his 2d number.

The author, or authoress, of the essay on Piety, Honesty, &c. will pardon our use of the pruning-knife, and our readers will pardon us, if we have not used it sufficiently. To be honest, we were obliged to recompose the thing.

The favour of Adolphus, and the extract sent us by Constance, shall appear in the next Anthology. So likewise shall Lines on the death of Politian, which were not seen until our "collection of** July" flowers" was made.

The Physicians of the town, to whom we owe what we deem an interesting document, and the gentlemen who furnish us with an accurate meteorological table, have our gratitude and respect. Aug. 1804.

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FOR THE ANTHOLOGY.

ON TASTE.

THE arts and fciences have

fometimes been confidered the fole fubjects, which Tafte particularly regards. The charms of mufic, the beauties of profe and poetic compofitions, the breathing canvafs, and the fculptured life, together with a few monuments of natural grandeur and finifhed art, have been thought to form the only sphere of her action. This is too limited an acceptation of the term. A moment's contemplation on the nature and operations of taste will convince us that, it equally refpects the conduct of human life.

Tafte is somewhere defined, to "confift of a nice harmony between the fancy and the judgment." To this we may add, that, forming a union of the powers of reafon and of foul, it enables us to view the various objects that furround us, through the medium of juft propriety.'

Tafte, like air, pervades the regions of universal knowledge. Embracing each art, and every fcience, fhe exhibits to the mind

their every quality, and then di

rects the wavering choice amid general and individual purfuits. Poffeffing not only the attributes of found judgment, but all the warmth of imagination, fhe is peculiarly well calculated to furnifh us with materials for defign and execution. It is not alone neceffary, that the man of tafte inherit the endowments of genius; he must have cultured and burnifhed them with ambitious attention. With a difcerning eye he has united a fedulous hand; and to a rational curiofity, that ever prompts to fome ufeful inquifition, has joined an invincible attachment to real excellence. In fhort: The man of true taste, like Quinctillian's true orator, is a man of virtue; and poffeffes, along with the acute faculties of the head, the amiable qualities of a good heart.

No fingle qualification, how