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DEATH OF A GREAT MAN.-Dcparted this life
on Friday last, in the city of Boston, Nathaniel
Bowdtch. 1t is not necessary to append to his
name single title, because that would be work
of supererogation. This country may survive two
centuries, and his equal may not be found.


Nathaniel Bowditch was native of Salem,
Massachusetts, and early in life gave evidence of
superior powers Of mind. His talents soon man
ifested themselves in the arts of navigation and
seamanship, and notwithstanding the strong wish
Of his family and immediate connexions, to the
contrary, he entered the sea service in the lowest
capacity, and rose rapidly to that of commander
His talents for mathematics and general scientific
skill soon manifested ITSELF and he was obliged by
the overpowering influence Of his friends and the
American public to pursue those studies which
were best adapted to his genius.


Accordingly at the commencement Of the nrc-
sent century, he began the correction of Hamilton
Moore's Navigator, which lie revised in Salem.
and published in Newburyport.


This work he found so defective, that il was
necessary to make Of it new and almost original
concern Who, among our ship-masters, does
not use Bowditch's Navigator! Ask the thousand
navigators that plough the deep, through the At
lantic and Pacific oceans, if they are not indebted
TO the skill, the scientific and personal knowledge
of Bowditch, for what they possess in experiment
tai navigation.


Bowditch retired from the sea in 1900 became
President Of an Insurance Company in Salem.
and has pursued his studies from that period 10
the day Of his death with zeal and assduitv
which few men in this world have been found to
do We intend to pursue the history of his lif,
in another article, but indisposition prompts us te
stop, after stating that his demise took place a
the age Of sixty-fve years, leaving behind him nc
one his superior, either in this country or in Eu
rope in nautical and scientific knowledge and ac
auiremcnts.--N. Y. Mercantile .4duerfiSer.