crate canoe and try to get into it, but Noah with his flick knock em fingers fo they drop into the water and all die. Well, py py crate water he all dry up, then Noah and his folks come out of that crate canoe. And Noah he go to work and have it crate orchard and make it bundance of good cyder, now Noah he fo much love em cyder,and drink fo hard, he get • mesi quafum and go to fleep naked. Nuw Noah have three boys, the two oldeft were good boys, but the youngest was hatchet boy, this matchet boy fee his father lie afleep and no cloaths on him he no want to cover up his poor father to keep him from catching cold, caufe he is fo matchet, he go rell his brothers come go fee how father look, he is got quafum and lies faft afleep without any cloaths on, he laugh ready to kill his felf to think How his father look; but his tother Brothers fay poor father will get cold if we dont go cover him up, fo they go cover him up with cloaths that he might lie warm. Now when be awake up, they tell him what his matchet boy had done, old man he lay it up, fo when he come to make his will, he call his boys together and he tell his oldeft boy, you shall be good Englishman; his next boy he tell, you shall be good Indian; but when his matchet boy come, he tell him you fhall be devilish Negro; fo you fee Indian are above Negroes. An Account of the Altinia Societa, or clustered Animal Flower, defcribed in the annexed Plate. (By John Ellis, F. R. S.) HE Atinia, called by old au Tthors, as Aldrovandus, Johnfton, &c. Urtica marina, from its fup pofed property of finging, is now more properly called by fome late English authors, the Animal flower. This name feems well adapted to it; for the claws, or tentacles, being dif Very drunk. pofed in circles, and tinged with 1 variety of bright lively colours, very nearly reprefent the beautiful petals of fome of our moft elegantly fringed and radiated flowers, fuch as the carnation, marigold, and anemone. As there are a great variety of fpecies of this animal, fo thefe fpecies differ from each other in their form. The bodies of fome of these are hemifpherical, others cylindrical, and others fhaped like a fig. Their fubflance hikewife differs; for fome are fliff and glutinous, others fleshy and mufcular; but they are all capable. of altering their thape, when they extend their bodies and claws in fearch of their food. We find them on our rocky coafts at low water, fixed in the fhallows or fome folid fubftance, by a broad base like a fucker; but they can shift their fituation, though' their movement is very flow. They have only one opening, which is in the centre of the uppermoft part of the animal; round this are placed rows of fefty claws. this opening is the mouth of the animal, and is capable of great extenfion : It is amazing to fee what large thell fish fome of them can (wallow, fach as mufcles, crabs, &c. When it haa fucked out the fish, it throws back the shells through the fame paffage. Through this opening it likewife produces its young ones alive, already furnished with little claws; which, as foon they fix themfelves, they begin to extend in fearch of food. They are found all round the coafts of England, but the coafts of Suffex and Cornwall furnifh us the greateft varieties of them. The islands in the Eaft Indies are likewife remarkable for many kinds of them. The Actinia Societa is of a tender Aefhy fubftance, and confifits of many tubular bodies, fwelling gently towards the upper part, and ending like a bulb, or a very fmall onion, on the top of each is its mouth, furrounded by one or two rows of tentacles, or claws, which when contracted, look like circles of beads. The lower part of thefe bodies have a communication with a firm felhy wrink led tube, which flicks faft to the rocks, and fends forth other fefhy tubes, which creep along them in various directions Elakiftoteros's Anfwer to the New Testament Chriftian. 567 directions. Thofe are full of different fizes of these remarkable animals, which rife up irregularly in groups near to one another. This adhering tube that fecures them faft to the rock or thelly bottom is worthy our notice. The knots that we observe, are formed in several parts of it, by infinuating itself into the inequalities of the coral rock, or by graiping pieces of thells, part of which ftill remain in it, with the fleshy fubftance grown over them. When we view the infide of this animal diffected lengthways, we find a little tube like a gullet leading from the, mouth to the ftomach, from whence there arife eight wrinkled, fmall guts, in a circular order, with a yellowith, foft fubftance in them; thefe bend over in the form of arches towards the lower part of the bulb, whence they may be traced to the narrow part of the upright tube. Explanation of the Plate. Fig. A. The A&tinia Societa, or CLUSTERED ANIMAL-FLOWER, with its radical tube adhering to a rock. (a) One of the animals ftretching out its claws. Fig. B. A perpendicular diffection of one of thefe bodies, to fhew the gullet, inteftines, ftomach, and fibres, or tendons that move the claws. (b) A young one arifing out of the adhering tube. To the EDITORS of the BOSTON Gentlemen, A S the Clergy of this country,have never affumed any authority, to Jord it over the heritage of God; and efteem it the undoubted privelege of the Laity, to examine for themselves all articles of faith, I hope they will always discover the like candour, and - meekness in receiving inftru&ion and information from them, when their affiftance becomes neceffary. I would by your permiffion, Gentlemen, take this method, ju to notice the good intentions, of the New TESTAMENT-CHRISTIAN, in your Magazine of October last---and thank him for whatever may be deemed fen Cccc fibly faid, or done in his obfervations, &c. His defign is very far from being obfcure. Whether he is well entitled to fo much affurance in his conclusions respecting the character of the GREAT SAVIOUR of the world, perhaps his intelligent fellowChriftians, will not be fo fully agreed. I hall but imitate his goodness, when in my turn, I lay before him, and the interefied public, a collection of a few scriptures, which respect the wonderous Chara&er above mentioned. QUERY ift. Are there not in the perion of Jefus Chrift, two diftinct na- ' tures? See I Cor. x, 9. Neither let us tempt Chrift, as fome of them tempted him, and were deftroyed of ferpents. Pfal. Ixxviii, 18. They tempted God in the wilderuefs, by afking meat for their lufts.-- Ifaiah ix, 6. Unto us a child is born; unto us a fon is given, and his name fhall be called Wonderful, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, and the Prince of Peace. Matt. i, 28. Thofe fhalt call his name Emanuel, which being interpreted, is God with us.---Col. ii, 9. In him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead, bodily. Obferve well, Rom. ix, 5. Of whom, as concerning the flesh, Chrift came who is God over all, blefied forever. John. iii, 16. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us. He had a life he could lay down, which therefore is diftin&t from the divine. John 1, 1. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.--1 Tim. iii, 16. God was manifeft in the Aefh John v. 20. Jefus Chrift, this is the true God, and eternal life. The unprejudiced reader, I appre hend, will be ready to fay, that in the above noted texts, it seems at least to be afferted, that in the Son of God, there are two diftinct natures. QUERY 2d. Are not many, if not eternal God, all the prerogatives of the fupreme, afcribed to Jefus Chrift? ift Is not creation, the work of God only? Heb. iii, 4. He who built all things, is God. - Pfal. cii, 24, 25. O my God, thy years are throughout all generations; of old haft thou laid the foundations of the earth, and the Heavens Heavens are the work of thy hands. He who made, or built all things, is God but creation is afcribed to Christ, is he not therefore God?---1 John 1,3. All things were made by ham, &c. ad. To be without beginning, can be laid of none other, than the true God. Pfal. xc, 2. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou badat formed the earth, or the world, even from everlast.ng, to everlafting, thou art God.-- Prov. viii, 23 I was fet up from everlasting. - M.c. v. 2. His goings forth, have been of old, from eycrafting. Rev. i, 8. I am Alpha, and Omega, the beginning, and the ending; which was, and is, and is to come, the Almighty. Thefe are the words of Curist. But can they be fuitable to any other than the only living God? 3d. Is immutability a prerogative of the only true, and living God; This is afcribed to Chrift. Heb. xiii, 8. JeLus Chrift, the fame yenerday, to day and forever. Pial. cu, 25, 27. They all perih, but thou shalt endure; yea, all of them hall wax old like a garment, as a vefture fhalt thou change them; but thou art the fame, and thy years hill have no end. Can any words defcribe the eternal immutability of God, if thefe do not? And yet thefe words are applied to Jefus Chrift. Heb. 4,8,---11,12. To The fon he faith, they fhall perish, but thou remained, and they wax old like a garmen, and as a veftule halt thou fold them up, and they fhall be be changed; but thou art the fame, and thy years fail not. Do there fcriptures fay any thing less, than, that jelus Carifi is the only true and unchangeable God? all 4th. Omniciency belongs to God only. But Chrift fays of himself, I am be, who fearchert the hearts, and the reins, Rey. ii, 23.- John ji, 24, 25. Jefus knew all men, and needed not that any fhould testify of man; for he knew what was in hom. But it is lehovah, that fearcheth the neart, and treth the reins. Jer. xvii, 9. These are but a few of the many texts, that affert the two foli, nature of Jefus Chrift; and that afcribe to him fuch pterogatives-fuch works and perfeRions, as can belong to none other, than the fupreme and living God. To determine, in the face of all the above mentioned fcriptures, and the many more that speak to the fame purpose, that Jefus Chrift is no more than a mere creature, without firât fhewing clearly, that we misunderland thofe fcriptures; or that they are not to be received according to their moft obvious import, can hardly be deemed modeft enough for a New-TESTAMENT CHRISTIAN. ELAKISTOTEROS. For the BOSTON MAGAZINE. On Adulation. Of all the refined pleafures which the human mind is capable of enjoying, there is none more exquifitely pleafing, than that which ariíes from a review of a life fpent in cont nual acts of benevolence and virtue. The contemplation of fo tranfporting, fo reviving a fcene, expands the foul with unbounded joy and gratitude to heaven; adds new luftre to our fitting fun, and banishes from our view the horrors of our laßt, long and folitary Number--and on the contrary, if we have years of folly, vice, and incoauntency to reflect on in the evening of life; if a confcioufnels of having ex pended our precious time in the. puer ile excentricities of fool fhnels and inadvertency, if we are fo unhappy se to be then compelled to recollect tuạt we have never been inftruinental in promoting virtue and goodness among mankind; that we have beglected to cultivate benevolence and philanthropy in the world and have been affiduous in increafing the vices of a thort and miferable life by our own bad examples and propensities; we fall furely be afflicted with the moft pungent grief and forrow, and our minds be overshadowed with un neceflary gloom; it would feem that this is fufficient to fimulate us to the love and practice of virtue; but more powerful perfuafives prefent themSelves to our view. The happiness of our future exiftence depends upon the reftitude or obliquity of our condu& in this world. Among |