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and glens in the vocation of pedler, and wrote verses. Subsequently he published a little volume of his poems and, laden with other commodities, he again sallied forth in quest of customers and subscribers. But he was not successful and returned once more to his trade, till the French revolution burst forth, when for gslling satire he wrote in the Scottish dialect, he was prosecuted for q libel, and ignominously sentenced to burn his own verses at the town cross, and suffer short imprisonment. Disguised with affairs in his own country, he wrought months, expend- ing only a shilling each week, to procure mo- ney enough to transport him to the United States, where he arrived in 1794 For some time he worked at his trade near Philadel- phia, and then as pedler travelled through New-Jersey, with some success. Afterwards he taught schoolin various places, and travelled great distances on foot. At length he became settled, at Gray's Ferry, near Philadelphia, as an instructor, and formed an intimacy with the venerable naturalist, Wm. Bartram, which circumstance proved decisive of his flu ture pursuits. He died in August, 1913, be- fore he completed his 47th year. We look with astonshment at the magnitude of his la bors. At period when our advancement in the arts was next to nothing, he found means, by the cxertions of his own unaided energies, to produce work which would have done honor to Europe. e.-Bost. 7'rap.