did not lie fo immediately expofed to the greatest fury of the tempeft, would have shared the fame fate had not their mafts given way; for all those it paffed over, were laid down on their fides: and the mizenmaft of the king's thip, was carried off close to the quarter-deck, as fmoothly as if it had been cut with a saw. "As people fat at dinner that day, they were alarmed with an unufual fort of stunning noife, as of the ruffling of many drums, intermixed with fuch a roaring, thundering, churning or dashing found, as the fea makes, in breaking on a hollow rocky fhore, during a violent storm; when, on running out of doors, the tremendous cloud was feen advancing at a great rate, with a quick circular motion, its contents feeming in a violent agitation, from the great tumult that appeared not only in the body of the column itself, but, likewife from the contiguous clouds which drove rapidly towards it from all directions, as if the whole contents of the atmosphere flowed thither, and were inftantly abforbed by it. Hence it was, that this meteor every moment appeared fo differently; fome parts of it being black and dark at times; others of a flame colour; and again, as if vaft waves of the fea had rifen into the air. But fuch was the perturbation in the cloud, that these phenomena varied continually; all parts of it rolling over each other in the moft confufed and rapid manner; and, every now and then, large branches of trees might be feen hurled about in it. Its diameter was thought to be about 300 yards, and the height 30 degrees; a thick vapour emitted from it rifing much higher. In paffing along it carried the waters of the river before it, in the form of a mountainous wave; so that the bottom was feen in many places. Such floods of water fell on thofe parts over which it passed, as if a whole fea had been discharged on them at once; and for a mile or two on each fide of it, abundance of rain fell. As the wind ceafed prefently after the whirlwind paffed, the branches and leaves of various forts of trees, which had been carried "into the air, continued to fall for half an hour; and in their descent, appeared like flocks of birds of different fizes. A gentleman, over "whofe plantation the skirt of this storm paffed, not more than two miles 'from Charlestown, affured me, that had a thousand negroes been employed for a whole day in cutting down his trees, they could not have made fuch a waste of them, as this whirlwind did in lefs than half a minute. Such trees as were young and pliant, ftooped to its violence, and afterwards recovered themfelves. But all thofe, which were more inflexible and firmly rooted, were broken off, and hurled away: fo that no part of many of them, could afterwards, be found; amongst which were fome live oaks of near two feet diameter, the wood of which is known to be almost as ponderous and hard as lignum vita; fo that fome of these trees, must have weighed, perhaps more than two tuns. Yet heavy as they were, no ren:ains of them could afterwards be found any where, except the roots, which were fixed in the earth." Of the inhabitants and way of living in Charles-Town, Dr. Chalmers gives the following thort relation. "As to the way of living in Charleftown, it is much after the English manner. But either weak and pretty four punch, or rum wel well diluted with water, and without acid or fugar, is used by many for drink, though wine and other liquors are likewife brought to the table. Tea and coffee are fo cheap, that one or both are used once if not twice in the day, by people of all ranks. But this custom cannot fail in having ill confequences, in fome conftitutions, particularly during the relaxing heat of the fummer; and perhaps the tea itself may poffefs fome qualities that are not friendly to the human conftitution; at least it is injurious to many people. For want of daily markets in the country, more falted and fmoaked meats are confumed by the people there than in town; they alfo abound with poultry of all kinds : much milk is used in various ways: more fruit is eaten in the feafon; and lefs wine is commonly drank, though in general they are far from being fparing in the ufe of rum. Some of these remarks however are to be underflood with reftriction; for no people in middling life fupply their tables better than gentlemen in the country do; and none entertain ftrangers or friends with more hofpitality. Either the Indian corn called maize ground fmall, or rice boiled with water to a thick confiftence, being preferred to bread by many of those who live in the country, they are brought to table almoft at every meal.This, as I faid above, is out of choice, for we have plenty of wheatflour. "It has already been faid, that Charlestown increases fast in buildings and people; but at prefent there are not quite twelve hundred dwelling-houfes, with nearly as many kitchens that are built separate; befides a great number of ware-houses, all which being viewed together, give the place the appearance of a large and well-built town. The modern houses are large, airy, and convenient, being from two and a half to three and a half stories high, and of fuitable dimenfions. And the banks of Cooper river being as yet moftly built upon, and the houses lofty and contiguous, they are feen to great advantage by those who approach the place from the fea, after a long voyage, as being fully in view for the space of eight or nine miles, before they come to an anchor in the harbour. "The white inhabitants of this town, may be about five thousand five hundred; but the mortality among them, cannot be exactly determined at prefent, no register thereof having been kept for several years. Formerly, when bills of mortality were annually printed, the inhabitants then being not quite four thousand, it appeared that one in thirty-feven died yearly, or about one out of each family in the fpace of feven years and a half, fuppofing all the deceased to have belonged to the place. But thefe lifts were fwelled by the deaths of tranfient perfons. It ought however to be obferved, that, during the time those bills were published, no contagious or malignant ditempers prevailed amongst us. And it must also be acknowledged, that we are rather more healthy fince the hurricanes of the year 1752; children in particular having efcaped better fince; for, before that time, almoft half the number of deaths, happened amongst those who were under five years of age. There are many more negroes than white people in this town and province and thefe of African defcent, are as fufceptible of all forts of difeafes as thofe of the other colour, if we except the yellow or malignant fever and gout. Befides, they they are liable to particular complaints, which feem peculiar to negroes only. However, even blacks, who live in all refpects as we commonly do, are equally obnoxious to the gout with white men. "Births cannot be afcertained from the chriftenings; for children are not always baptized the fame year in which they are born. But it is certain, they far exceed the deaths of the fettled inhabitants. "The natives, for the most part, rife above the middling ftature : and they attain their full height fooner, than the people ufually do in colder climates. In general, they are of a flender moke, have pale complexions, thin, fair, or brown hair, which afterwards changes to a chefnut or black colour; but it feldom curls. They are forward in genius, and thought capable of receiving inftruction earlier, than children in Britain commonly are. With respect to their character, they are exceedingly hofpitable, and of a mild temper, which yet is not without a quick fenfibility of any defigned affront: but their paffions foon fubfide. Few live fixty years; and the bald or hoary and wrinkled appearances of old age, often fhew themfelves at the age of thirty years; or even earlier, more especially on those who dwell in the country. "The women are in full bloom, between their fixteenth and twentyfifth year; and they very generally are well featured and genteel in perfon." In thefe volumes are contained two engraved tables, the one a general register of the weather for ten fucceflive years, from the year-1750 to 1759, both inclufive; the other an account of the quantity of food and drink that was ufed in each month, and the change which enfued in the feveral fecretions and excretions, according as the weather became warmer or cooler, deduced from ftatical experiments made by Dr. John Living, at Charles-Town, in the year 1740. ART. VIII. A Brother's Advice to his Sifters. Small 8vo. 3s. Wilkie. It is now fome months fince we first announced the publication of this little volume *; which has accidentally efcaped being renoticed, and probably would have continued fo, had not a correfpondent obligingly reminded us of our unintentional neglect. Not that it ever ftruck us very forcibly with an idea of such merit and importance as to demand our particular attention. Among a number of pertinent and prudential remarks on things, there are fome fo pert and puerile, that the author muft either be very young and volatile, or extremely conceited and coxcomical. There is fomething quaint and pragmatical alfo in his ftile and even his manner of fpelling and printing † * London Review for May laft. See alfo our Appendix to Vol. II. Thus he fpells the preterite of read, RED; a dutchess's, a dutch effis; St. James's, St. Jamefis; and prints the pronoun I with a small letter, i; a conceit that deforms a much better book, viz. the handome poflhumous edition of Dr. Akenfide's Poems. There There is an air of profanity in his frequent repetition, on every occasion, of the name of God. He affects feelings, fentiment, wit and fenfe; we the rather wonder, therefore, he should chuse to deliver them in the ftile of a fop. A little foppery, however, may be deemed excufable in a youth, whofe difpofition appears to be commendably tinctured with philanthropy. But whether his humanity be real or affected is of little confequence to the reader, as he himself well enough obferves, we must not expect a writer to be the great example of his own theme. "It is very fure, G-d knows! a man may very often talk well and preach well, nay fometimes act well, without being the pattern of all goodness." With his actions, good or bad, we have nothing to do; how well he talks and preaches, or rather writes, our readers may judge from the following fpecimen. "A modern, who was far from a difcontented mifanthrope, affirms hiftory to contain more examples of the fidelity of dogs, than of friends:-and therefore he had his faithful "Bounce;" who still bears him company, at Hagley, admitted to the fame equal canrafs -and hung up to the fame immortality by the fame creative pencil. -To his calculation i pretend not to fay any thing; only that i fhould fancy him to be rather a bad arithmetician and authors have not generally much practice that way. A trifle, however, would not tempt me to part with an honeft crop-cared fellow i have, between an Irish wolf dog and a Dane: and i will hazard the affertion that he who trufts too much to the friendship of mankind, will be found to have converfed very little with them, or to very little purpose. 7 "As to fancy, and parts, and imagination-what they will do, for one may be tolerably well learned from the forry, pitiful, detail of an honeft poet's moveables, which were miferably auctioned not long fince.-Poor Goldfmith!- Your grateful countrymen, however, bave kindly made it a little question how you died; tho they cared not a doit how you lived.-Shall not your fhade thank them ?—It is the ingenions remark, indeed, of the Earl of Shaftesbury that an ingenious man never ftarves unknown. Right comfortable, and right honourable confolation this!-His friends and his kindred will, cha ritably come, and look upon him, i fuppofe, my 'good Lord; and pafs by on the other fide.-His death will add, perhaps, an enter taining topic to the polished converfation of the tea table or the coffee houfe, Ranelagh or the exhibitions; unless a fire or an elopement,a duel or a bankrupcy, a fixteen-ftring Jack or a Heinell,-a coro-: nation or a burglary,-a Dutcheflis feathered head à l'Amérique or a fine cafualty,unfortunately for his perishable memory; can claim priority of introduction. "There are, and whose beards are white too, who will fay, that Pope might have faved the ink which he spent, in telling the world,. he had rather most men should do him a fmall injury than a kindness -and that he might even have fafely changed "fmall" into great," without any vaft or violent danger of having his withes denied :-but this i cannot think VOL. III. E "More "More difficult, however, it is for the rich, efpecially of your fex, to form any idea that others can be in want; than it was for the honeft, homebred Welshman to conceive that there could poffibly be other men and other women behind the cloud topped hill; or any other people in existence, befide thofe of his own wide world, which was extended to the circumference of about two miles and a half. "But heared you never of the guilt of being unfortunate, and that poverty is treacherous ?-Addifon, it is true, fays of fome one, You'll find it his misfortune, not his fault: yet they are not wanting who allow no fuch diftinction; and in whofe charitable ideas the latter is infeparable from the former.-Nay, a woman may be guilty even of a good face; and may be much too handfome to have friends. "In brief-Every county hath not, like Hertfordshire, a Wellwyn in it. The fon of a friend of mine actually learns to work at his needle, and cook his own victuals-for my friend fays he is determined that, fhould the boy ever be weighed down by misfortunes, he fhall lean upon the hollow world as little as poffible.-This gentleman may be particular perhaps; but you will not much blame him, when you fhall be told that Bentivoglio, whofe worst crime was doing too much good," and whofe comedies will laft as long as the language in which they were written; after having diffipated a princely fortune in acts of charity and benevolence; was denied the bitter bread he begged from hands his wealth had filled,—and abfolately knocked in vain at the door, brigued in vain for admiffion into the worst corner, of the very hofpital which his own felf had founded, and which his own purse had endowed. "Nor will you, poffibly, be very hafty to accufe my whimsical friend of folly, when you shall know that, within this very civilized century, within this very year, an honeft tradefman, who had a young pregnant wife, and three infants,-with a broken heart, and broken fortunes,-reduced to the extremity of wretchedness by a long feries of ill health, and worfe luck,-ftopped an old gentleman upon the road, and, with the carelessly-determined voice of Defpair, demanded his money.-But his face was fo complete an index to the contents of his heart, and fo true a frontifpiece to his fad tale! that the feeling old gentleman-good foul!-as he delivered his threeand-twenty fhillings and fixpence, could not but read his diftresstold him the inn to which he was going-and entreated him to come thither in the evening, that he might enjoy the blifs of more completely alleviating his mifery. -Phaw! plague on it! what doth this white-livered weakness still stick about me, after all my education, after all my commerce with the world! mefeems i am your doughbaked fister, and not your brother. But don't tell any body, girls.-When i fhall be able to fee clearly enough to trace it upon the blotted paper, you fhall have the rest of the ftory, which is a flock joke, a monftrous good thing,' at the Cocoa-tree. "The 2 |