who took every opportunity to throw themselves overboard, when brought upon deck for the benefit of fresh air. The captain perceiving, among others, a female flave attempting to drown herfelf, pitched upon her as a proper example for the reft. As he fuppofed that they did not know the terror attending death, he ordered the woman to be tied with a rope under the arm-pits, and let down into the water. When the poor creature was thus plunged in, and about half way down, the was Heard to give a terrible fhriek, which at firit was affcribed to her fears of drowning; but foon after, the water appeared red around her, the was drawn up, and it was found that a fhark, which had followed the thip, had bitten her off from the middle.” The native inhabitants of America make a fifth race of men. They are of a copper colour, have black, thick, ftraight hair, flat nofes, high cheek bones, and fmall eyes. They paint the body and face of various colours, and eradicate the hair of their beards and other parts, as a deformity. Their limbs are not fo large and robuft as thofe of the Europeans. They endure hun-t ger, thirst and pain with altonishing firmness and pa tience; and, though cruel to their enemies, they are kind and just to each other. The Europeans may be confidered as the laft variety of the human kind. They enjoy fingular advantages from the fairness of their complexions. The face of the African black, or of the olive coloured Afiatic, is a very imperfect index of the mind, and preferves the fame fettled fhade in joy and forrow, confidence and fhame, anger and defpair, fickness and health. The English are faid to be of the fairest of the Europeans; and we may therefore prefume, that their countenances beft exprefs the variations of the paffions, and viciffitudes of difeafe. But the intellectual and moral char acteristies of the different nations, which compose this quarter of the globe, are of more importance to be known. Thefe, however, become gradually lefs difcernible, as fafhion, learning and commerce prevail more univerfally," FEDERAL THE FEDERAL MONEY. HE Congrefs of the United States of America, August 8, 1786"Refolved, that the Standard of the United States of America, for gold and filver, fhall be eleven parts fine and one part alloy. "That the Money-Unit ofthe United States (being by the Refolve of Congrefs of the 6th of July, 1785, a Dollar) shall contain, of fine filver, 375 grains," &c. 64 700 As this money proceeds in a decuple, or tenfold proportion; any number of dollars, dimes, cents, and milles, fimply express fo many dollars and decimal parts of a dollar. Thus, 3 dollars, 4 dimes, 6 cents, and 5 milles are expreffed D. d. c. m. 3, 46 5=3465 Dollars=3465 milles. As the dollar is the integer, unit, or whole number, and the Eagle the name of a gold coin; and the dime, cent, and mille, are 10th, 100th and 1000th parts of a dollar, the decimal point (,) feparates between the dollars and dimes. Therefore in accounts, the terms Eagle and Dime may be omitted; the place of dimes being the place of tens for cents; and the right hand figure, or place of units for Eagles, will be the place of tens for dollars. d.c, c. E. D. d. c. D. C.. Thus-,6 9,69 and 24 9, 78249,78 The feveral Currencies of the United States, compared with dollars and cents, are as follow: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia, Kentucky and Fermont. D.. S. C. D. J. c. D. s. d. c. D. d. c. D. d. C. 1=6=100 =3=,50 =16,25 =9=1242=41=64. New York and North Carolina. D. s. C. D. S. C. D. 5. C. D. S. C. =8,100 4,50 D. d. C. =1=12} ==,64 c. D. d. c. D. d. c. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. D. s. d. c. D. s. d. c. D. s. d. 17.6,1003-9,501-10-25=11=12=5161 South Carolina and Georgia. D. s. d. c. D. s. d. c. D. s. d. c. D. d. C. D. d. x=4-8=106=2-4=150&==1•3=25 {=7=124&z=31=61 INTERESTING INTERESTING CALCULATIONSupon the POPULATION ofthe UNITED STATES, and of the WORLD. A DMITTING the population of the United States at prefent (1796) to be five millions, which is very near the exact number, and that this number, by natural increase, and by immigration, will be doubled in 20 years, and continue to increafe in that ratio for a century to come, at that period, (1896) there will be in United America 160 millions of inhabitants, nearly 20 millions more than there are at present in all Europe. And when we confider the probable acquifition of people by foreign immigrations, and that the interior and unfettled parts of America are amply fufficient to provide for this number, the prefumption is ftrong that this eftimate will not differ materially from the event. It has been common to compute the number of inhabitants on this globe, in round numbers, at 950 mil.. lions, viz... America 150 millions-Europe 150 millions-Afia.. 500 millions, and Africa 150 millions. Hence it has been reckoned, that as a generation lafts 30 years, in that space 950 millions of people must be born, and the fame number die ; and, confequently, that about 35 millions die annually; 86 thousand every day; 3,600. every hour; 60 every minute, and one every fecond, or in this proportion. This eftimate is much too large. One nearer the truth was made a few years fince by a gentleman* in England, in which he reckons the inhabitants of the world at about 731 millions; of whom are, Pagans Roman Catholics Millions. Millions. 44 420 Proteftants. This estimate, I apprehend, confiderably exceeds the truth. He reckons upwards of 90 millions in America. This is too large by more than one half. Dr. Stiles, than whom no man was better informed on this subject, reckoned that the whole number of In dians in all North America, did not exceed two millions and a half. Admitting this to be true, fifteen or, including the islands, twenty millions, would be the extent of the population of all America. Mr. William Carey. 112 AN IMPROVED CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF REMARKABLE EVENTS, DISCOVERIES, and INVENTIONS ; Comprehending, in one view, the Analyfis or Outlines of Generat Hiftory, from the Creation to the present Time, Before Chrift. 4004 THE creation of the world, and of Adam and Eve. Enoch tranflated into heavena [days. 3017 2348 The old world destroyed by a deluge which continued 377 2247 The tower of Babel is built about this time by Noah's pofteri ty; upon which God miraculously confounds their language, and thus difperfes them into different nations. 2188 Mifraim, the fon of Ham, founds the kingdom of Egypt,. which lafted 1663 years, to the conquest of Cambyfes. 2059 Ninus, the son of Belus, founds the kingdom of Affyria, which lafted about 1000 years. 1921 The covenant of God made with Abraham, when he leaves Haran to go into Canaan, which begins the 430 years of fojourning. 1897 The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed for their wickednefs, by fire from heaven. 1822 Memnon the Egyptian invents the letters.. 1715 Prometheus firft truck fire from flints. 1635 Jofeph dies in Egypt, which concludes the book of GeneGs, containing a period of 2369 years. . 1574 Aaron born in Egypt; 1490, appointed by God first high pricft of the Ifraelites. 1571 Mofes, brother to Aaron, born in Egypt, and adopted by Pharaoh's daughter. t 1556 Cecrops brings a colony of Saites from Egypt, into Attica, .... and begins the kingdom of Athens in Greece. 1503 Deluge of Deucalion in Theffaly. 1493. Cadmus carried the Phenician, letters into Greece, and built e the citadel of Thebes. 1491 Mofes performs a number of miracles in Egypt, and departs from that kingdom,together with 600,000 Ifraelites,befides. children, which completed the 430 years of fojourning. 2485 The first flip that appeared in Greece brought from Egypt. by Danaus, who arrived at Rhodes, and brought with him his fifty daughters. 1453 The Olympic, games celebrated at Olympia, in Greece. A452 The Pentateuch, or five first books of Mofes, are written in the land of Moab, where he died the year following, aged 110 years. 1451. The Ifraelites, after fojourning in the wilderness 40 years, are led under Joshua into the land of Canaan, where they Bef, Chrift. fx themselves, after having subdued the natives; and the period of the fabbatical year commences. 1198 The rape of Helen by Paris, which, in 1193, gave rife to the Trojan war, and fiege of Troy by the Greeks, which con tinued ten years, when that city was taken and burned. 1048 David is fole King of Ifrael. 1004 The Temple is folemnly dedicated by Solomon, 896 Elijah, the prophet, is tranflated to heaven. 894 Money first made of gold and filver at Argos. 869 The city of Carthage, in Africa, founded by Queen Dido, 814 The kingdom of Macedon begins. 776 The firft Olympiad begins. 753 Era of the building of Rome in Italy by Romulus, first. King of the Romans... 720 Samaria taken, after three years fiege, and the kingdom of Ifrael overthrown by Salmanafer, King of Affyria, who carried the ten tribes into captivity. The first eclipse of the moon on record. 658 Byzantium (now Conftantinople) built by a colony of Athe nians.. 604 By order of Necho, King of Egypt, fome Phenicians failedfrom the Red Sea round Africa, and returned by the Mediterranean. 600 Thales of Miletus travels into Egypt,acquires the knowledge of geometry, aftronomy, and philofophy; returns to Greece, calculates-eclipfes, and gives general notions of the universe, and maintains that one Supreme Intelligence regulates all its motions. Maps, globes, and the figns of the Zodiac, invented by- 597 Jehoiakin, King of Judah, is carried away captive by Nebuchadnezzar to Babylon. 587 The city of Jerufalem taken, after a fiege of 18 months. 559 Cyrus the first King of Perfia. 538 The kingdom of Babylondestroyed; that city being taken by Cyrus, who, in 536, iffued an edit for the return of the Jews. 526 Learning is greatly encouraged at Athens, and a public library first founded. 515- The fecond temple at Jerufalem is finished under Darius. 509 Tarquin the 7th, and last King of the Romans, is expelled, and Rome is governed by two confuls, and other republican magiftrates, until the battle of Pharfalia, 461 years. 504 Sardis taken and burned by the Athenians, which gave occafion to the Perfian invasion of Greece. 481 Xerxes, King of Perfia, begins his expedition against Greece. 458 Ezra is fent from Babylon to Jerufalem, with the captive Jews, and the veffels of gold and filver,&c.being 70 weeks of years, or 490 years before the crucifixion of our Saviour, 454 The Romans fend to Athens for Solon's laws. 451 The decemvirs created at Rome, and the laws of the twelve tables compiled and ratified., 43V Nineteen |