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had distinguished himself in that expedition, he left him by his will a golden crown, weighing three pounds.

PISO (Caius Calpurnius), a Roman consul, who, in the year 67 B. C., was author of the law which forbad canvassing for public offices, entitled Lex Calpurnia de Ambitu. He displayed all the firmness worthy of a consul in one of the most stormy periods of the republic; and prevented the people from raising Marcus Palicanus, a man of no merit, to the consular dignity.

PISO (Cneius Calpurnius), was consul in the reign of Augustus, and governor of Syria under Tiberius, whose confidant he was. It is said that by the order of this emperor he caused Germanicus to be poisoned. Being accused of that crime, and seeing himself abandoned by every one, he laid violent hands on himself A. D. 20. He was a man of insupportable pride and excessive violence. Of this many instances are recorded, but the following is the most horrible. Having ordered a soldier to be executed, because he had left the camp with another soldier and returned without him, the other soldier presented himself to the centurion, who, finding he was not murdered, stopped the execution, and all three went to Piso, amidst the joyful applause of the whole army. Whereupon Piso put a stop to their joy, by ordering all three to be put

to death.

PISO (Lucius), a Roman senator, who attended the emperor Valerian in his unfortunate expedition into Persia, and, after his capture, proclaimed himself emperor; but was defeated, taken prisoner, and put to death by Valens, A. D. 261.

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PISON, in ancient geography, the first of the four rivers that watered the garden of Eden, which Moses describes as encompassing the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold,' &c. (Gen. ii. 11, 12). Some suppose the Pison to be the Ganges; others, particularly Calmet and Reland, take it to be the Phasis, which runs north through Colchis (which they suppose to be Havilah), from near the head of the Euphrates to its exit in the Euxine Sea; but these great commentators are evidently mistaken, for the Phasis, instead of rising near the head of the Euphrates, and running north-west, has its source about 350 miles north of the head of the Euphrates, and runs south-west into the Euxine. The conjecture of Bochart and others appears to be more probable, that the Pison is the western branch of the divided streams of the Tigris and Euphrates, which runs along the side of Havilah in Arabia, and encompasses an extensive territory.

PISONIA, in botany, fingrigo, a genus of the diœcia order and polygamia class of plants; natural order nyctagines: CAL. scarcely any COR. bell-shaped; five-cleft; stamens five or six; pistil one: CAPS. superior, one-celled; valveless: male and female on the same or on different lants. Species five.

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PISSASPHALTUM, earth pitch; a fluid, opaque, mineral body, of a thick consistence, strong smell, readily inflammable, but leaving a residuum of grayish ashes after burning. It

arises out of the cracks of the rocks, in several places in the island of Sumatra, and some other places in the East Indies, where it is much esteemed in paralytic disorders. There is a remarkable mine of it in the island of Bua, and abbe Fortis says, that the pissasphaltum of Bua is correspondent to that fossil production, which, by Hasselquist, is called mumia minerale, and mumia nativa Persiana by Kampfer, and which the Egyptians made use of to embalm their kings. Mumiahi, or native Persian mummy,' says Kampfer, proceeds from a hard rock in very small quantity. It is a bituminous juice, that transudes from the stony superficies of the hill, resembling in appearance coarse shoemakers' wax, as well in its color as in its density and ductility. While adherent to the rock it is less solid, but is formed by the warmth of the hands. It is easily united with oil, but repels water; it is quite void of smell, and very like in substance to the Egyptian mummy. When laid on burning coals, it has the smell of sulphur tempered a little with that of naphtha, not disagreeable. There are two kinds of this mummy; the one is valuable for its scarcity and great activity. The native place of the best mummy is in the province of Daraab. It is found in a narrow cave, not above two fathoms deep, cut like a well out of the mass, at the foot of the ragged mountain Caucasus.' This description agrees perfectly with the pissasphaltum, or fossil mummy of Bua. Linne believes it would be very good for wounds, as the oriental mumia is, and like the pitch of Castro, which is frequently used by the Roman surgeons for fractures, contusions, and in many external applications.

PISTACHIO, n. s. Fr. pistache; Ital. pistacchi; Lat. pistachia.

Pistachios, so they be good, and not musty, joined with almonds, are an excellent nourisher. Bacon.

The pistachio is of an oblong figure, pointed at both ends, about half an inch in length; the kernel is of a green colour and a soft and unctuous substance, much like the pulp of an almond, of a pleasant taste pistachios were known to the ancients,

and the Arabians call them pestuch and festuch, and

we sometimes festich nuts.

Hill.

PISTACHIO, OF PISTACHIA. See PISTACIA. PISTACIA, turpentine-tree, pistachia nut and mastich tree; a genus of the pentandria order and diccia class of plants; natural order fiftieth, amentacea. There are nine species, of which the most remarkable are,

1. P. lentiscus, the common mastich tree, grows naturally in Portugal, Spain, and Italy. Being an evergreen, it has been preserved in this country, in order to adorn the green-houses. In the countries where it is a native it rises to the height of eighteen or twenty feet, covered with a gray bark on the stem; but the branches, which are very numerous, are covered with a reddishbrown bark, and are garnished with winged leaves, composed of three or four pairs of small spear-shaped lobes, without an odd one at the end. This species is commonly propagated by laying down the branches, though it may also be raised from the seed in the manner directed for the pistachia nut-tree; but this, being more tender than any of the other sorts, requires to

be constantly sheltered in winter, and to have a warm situation in summer. Pistachia nuts are moderately large, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, covered with a reddish skin. They have a pleasant, sweet, unctuous taste, resembling that of almonds; and they abound with a sweet and well-tasted oil, which they yield in great abundance on being pressed after bruising them; they are reckoned amongst the analeptics, and are wholesome and nutritive; and are by some esteemed very proper to be prescribed by way of restoratives, eaten in small quantity, to people emaciated by long illness.

2. P. orientalis, the true mastich tree of the Levant, from which the mastich is gathered, has been confounded by most botanical writers with the common mastich tree, above described, though there are considerable differences between them. The bark of the tree is brown; the leaves are composed of two or three pairs of spear-shaped lobes, terminated by an odd one; the outer lobes are the largest; the others gradually diminish, the innermost being the least. These turn of a brownish color towards the autumn, when the plants are exposed to the open air; but if they are under glasses they keep green. The leaves continue all the year, but are not so thick as those of the common sort, nor are the plants so hardy. In the island of Chio the officinal mastich is obtained most abundantly; and, according to Tournefort, by making transverse incisions in the bark of the tree, whence the mastich exudes in drops, which are suffered to run down to the ground, when, after sufficient time is allowed for their concretion, they are collected for use. Mastich is brought to us in small, yellowish, transparent, brittle tears, or grains; it has a light agreeable smell, especially when rubbed or heated; on being chewed, it first crumbles, soon after sticks together, and becomes soft and white, like wax, without impressing any considerable taste. No volatile oil is obtained from this substance when distilled with water. Pure alcohol and oil of turpentine dissolve it; water scarcely acts upon it; though by mastication it becomes soft and tough, like wax. When chewed a little while, however, it is white, opaque, and brittle, so as not to be softened again by chewing. The part insoluble in alcohol much resembles in its properties caoutchouc. It is considered to be a mild corroborant and astringent; and, as possessing a balsamic power, it has been recommended in hemoptysis proceeding from ulceration, leucorrhoea, debility of the stomach, and in diarrhoeas and internal ulcerations. Chewing this drug has likewise been said to have been of use in pains of the teeth and gums, and in some catarrhal complaints; it is, however, in the present day, seldom used either externally or internally. The wood abounds with the resinous principle, and a tincture may be obtained from it, which is esteemed in some countries in the cure of hæmorrhages, dysenteries,

and gout.

3. P. terebinthus, the pistachia tree, grows naturally in Arabia, Persia, and Syria, whence the nuts are annually brought to Europe. In those countries it grows to the height of twentyfive or thirty feet; the bark of the stem and old

branches is of a dark russet color, but that of the young branches is of a light brown. These are garnished with winged leaves, composed sometimes of two, at other times of three, pairs of lobes, terminated by an odd one; these lobes approach towards an oval shape, and their edges are turned backward: and these, when bruised, emit a smell similar to that of the shell of the nut. Some of these trees produce male and others female flowers, and some have both male and female on the same tree. The male flowers come out from the sides of the branches, in loose bunches or catkins. They have no petals, but five small stamina crowned by large four-cornered summits filled with farina; and, when this is discharged, the flowers fall off. The female flowers come out in clusters from the sides of the branches; they have no petals, but a large oval germen supporting three reflexed styles, and are succeeded by oval nuts. This species is propagated by its nuts; which should be planted in pots filled with light kitchen-garden earth, and plunged into a moderate hot-bed to bring up the plants; when these appear, they should have a large share of air admitted to them, and by degrees they should be exposed to the open air, which at last they will bear in all seasons, though not without great danger of being destroyed in severe winters.

PISTIA, in botany, a genus of the hexandria order and gynandria class of plants; natural order fifty-fourth, miscellaneæ.

PISTIL, among botanists, the little upright column which is generally found in the centre of every flower. According to the Linnæan system, it is the female part of generation, whose office is to receive and secrete the pollen, and produce the fruit. It consists of three parts, viz. germen, stylus, and stigma. See BOTANY. PISTILLATION, n. s. act of pounding in a mortar.

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PISTOJA, a large town of Italy, in the grand duchy of Tuscany, situated on the declivity of the Appennines, near the Ombrone. It stands in a beautiful plain, surrounded with old walls, and defended by a decayed castle. Its population does not exceed 10,000; but there are few towns in Italy of which the streets are so spacious, or the dwelling-houses so well built. It contains, however, few public buildings of note: but is the seat of an academy, two public libraries, and a museum. Here are also manufactures of silk, cotton, leather, and hardware, on a small scale. The mountains of the vicinity contain mines of copper, and of crystals known by the name of Pistoja diamonds. The Neapolitans were defeated here by the Austrians, in April 1815. Fourteen miles N. N. W. of Florence; and forty-two S.S. W. of Bologna. PISTOL, n. s. & v. a. Fr. pistole, pistolet ; Span. and Ital. pistola. A small handgun; to shoot with a pistol.

Three watch the door with pistols, that none should issue out.

Shaksveare. Merry Wives of Windsor.

The whole body of the horse passed within pistolshot of the cottage. Clarendon.

Quicksilver discharged from a pistol will hardly pierce through a parchment. Browne's Vulgar Errours.

A woman had a tubercle in the great canthus of the eye, of the bigness of a pistol-bullet.

Wiseman.

How Verres is less qualified to steal, With sword and pistol, than with wax and seal. Young. PISTOL, the smallest kind of fire-arms, borne at the saddle-bow, on the girdle, and in the pocket. Pistol barrels are forged in one piece, two at a time, joined by their muzzles, and are bored before they are cut asunder; whereby there is a saving of time and labor, and a greater certainty in the bore being the same in both. The method of welding, boring, polishing, &c., is the same with that of guns.

PISTOLE', n. s. French pistole. A coin of many countries and many degrees of value, as some have thought from Pistoia, an ancient republic of Italy.

I shall disburden him of many hundred pistoles, to make him lighter for the journey. Dryden.

PISTOLE, a gold coin, struck in Spain and in several parts of Italy, Switzerland, &c. The pistole has its augmentations and diminutions, which are quadruple pistoles, double pistoles, and half pistoles. See COINS.

PISTOLET', n. s. Diminutive of pistol. little pistol.

Those unlickt bear-whelps, unfiled pistolets, That, more than cannon-shot, avails or lets.

Donne.

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PISTON, n. s. Fr. piston. The moveable part in several hydraulic machines; called also the embolus, and popularly the sucker.

At the beginning of the operation, if the leathers be dry, the piston will not exhaust the air sufficiently, and the water will not rise; but, if a little water be poured upon the piston, it will swell the leathers, and, causing them to fit close, thus make the piston act. Immison's Elements.

PISTORIUS (John), M. D. and D. D., was born at Nidda in 1546. He studied medicine, and was admitted M. D. with applause; but, his prescriptions not being attended with success, he quitted that profession, and studied the law. His talents procured him the appointment of counsellor to Ernest Frederick, margrave of Baden-Dourlach. He had embraced the Protestant religion; but some time after returned to the communion of the church of Rome. He became afterwards one of the emperor's counsellors, provost of the cathedral of Breslaw, and domestic prelate to the abbot of Fulda. He wrote, 1. Several Controversial Tracts against the Lutherans; 2. Artis Cabalisticæ Scriptores, printed at Basle, 1587, a scarce and curious collection; 3. Scriptores rerum Polonicarum; 4. Scriptores de rebus Germanicis, in 3 vols. folio, from 1603 to 1613. This is a curious and scarce performance. The author died in 1608, aged fifty-two.

PISUM, pease, a genus of the decandria order, and diadelphia class of plants: natural order thirty-second, papilionacea. The species

are numerous.

1. P. Americanum, commonly called Cape Horn pea, with an angular trailing stalk, whose lower leaves are spear-shaped, sharply indented, and those at the top narrow pointed.

2. P. humile, the dwarf pea, with an erect branching stalk and leaves, having two pairs

of round lobes.

3. P. maritimum, the sea pea, with foot-stalks, which are plain on their upper side, an angular stalk, narrow-pointed stipula, and foot-stalks bearing many flowers.

4. P. ochrus, with membranaceous running foot-stalks, having two leaves and one flower upon a foot-stalk.

5. P. sativum, the greater garden-pea, whose lower stipulæ are roundish, indented, with taper foot-stalks, and many flowers on a foot-stalk. A great variety of garden-pease are now cultivated in Britain, which are distinguished by the gardeners and seedsmen, and have their different titles; but as many of these have been seminal variations, so if they are not very carefully managed, by taking away all those plants which have a tendency to alter before the seeds are formed, they will degenerate into their original state; therefore all those persons who are curious in the choice of their seeds look carefully over those which they design for seeds at the time when they begin to flower, and draw out all the plants which they dislike from the other. This is what they call rogueing their pease; meaning hereby the taking out all the bad plants from the good, that the farina of the former may not impregnate the latter; to prevent which they always do it before the flowers open. By thus diligently drawing out the bad, reserving those which come earliest to flower, they have greatly improved their pease of late years, and are constantly endeavouring to get forward varieties.

PIT, n. s. & v. n. Sax. þit; Dan. pit; Fr. puit. A hole in the ground; ditch; abyss; profundity; any large excavation or area, as the middle of a theatre; area of a cock-fight, &c. the grave; any hollow or dent: to pit, is to press into; to mark with hollows or dints.

O Lord, think no scorn of me, lest I become like
them that go down into the pit. Psal. xxviii. 1.
Tumble me into some loathsome pit,
Whe'renever man's eye may behold my body.
Shakspeare.

Our enemies have beat us up to the pit;
It is more worthy to leap in ourselves,
Than tarry till they push us. Id. Julius Cæsar.

Pits upon the sea-shore turn into fresh water, by percolation of the salt through the sand; but, in some places of Africa, the water in such pits will become brackish again.

Into what pit thou seest
From what height fallen.
Make him glad, at least, to quit
His victory, and fly the pit.

Bacon.

Milton.

Hudibras

Let Cully, Cockwood, Fopling charm the pit,
And in their folly shew the writer's wit. Dryden.
They managed the dispute as fiercely as two
Locke on Education.
game-cocks in the pit.

An anasarca, a species of dropsy, is characterised by the shining and softness of the skin, which gives way to the least impression, and remains pitted for

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Now I hear the pitapat of a pretty foot through the dark alley: no, 'tis the son of a mare that's broken loose, and munching upon the melons. Dryden. A lion meets him, and the fox's heart went pitaL'Estrange. PITCAIRNE (Archibald), M. D., an eminent physician and ingenious poet, descended from an ancient family in Fifeshire. He was born in Edinburgh on the 25th of December, 1652. He commenced his studies at Dalkeith; and thence removed to the university of Edinburgh, where, he improved himself in classical learning, and completed a regular course of philosophy. The law seems to have been his own choice; and to this science he turned his attention with an ardor peculiar to himself. He pursued it with so much intenseness that his health began to be impaired. On this account, his physicians advised him to set out for the south of France. By the time he reached Paris, he was happily so far recovered that he determined to renew his studies; but being informed that there was no able professor of law in that city, and finding several gentlemen of his acquaintance engaged in the study of physic, he went with them to the lectures and hospitals, and employed himself in this manner for several months till his affairs called him home. On his return he applied himself chiefly to the mathematics. His intimacy with Dr. D. Gregory, the celebrated mathematical professor, began about this time. Pitcairne's progress in mathematics was rapid, and correspondent to his other pursuits. His improvements on the method of infinite series then adopted, which Dr. Wallis of Oxford afterwards published, were a conspicuous and early proof of his abilities in this science. He however resolved to devote himself entirely to medicine, and with this view soon returned to Paris, where he cultivated the object of his pursuit with his natural enthusiasm, and with a steadiness from which he could not be diverted. In 1680 he received from the faculty of Rheims the degree of M. D.; which, on the 7th August, 1699, was likewise conferred on him by the university of Aberdeen; both being attended with marks of peculiar distinction. Soon after his graduation at Rheims, he returned to Edinburgh, where, on the 29th of November, 1681, the Royal College of Physicians was instituted; and his name, among others, graced the original patent from the crown. In his Solutio Problematis de Inventoribus, the treatise above alluded to, he discovers a high degree of medical literature, and makes use of it to vindicate Dr. Harvey's claim to the discovery of the circulation of the blood. During his residence in Scotland, his reputation became so considerable that, in 1691, the university of Leyden solicited him to fill the medical chair then vacant. Dr. Pitcairne's well known political principles excluded him from promotion at home he therefore accepted the invitation from abroad; and on the 26th of April, 1692, de

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livered at Leyden his elegant and masterly inaugural, Oratio: qua ostenditur medicinam ab omni philosophorum secta esse liberam. He discharged the duties of his office at Leyden so as to answer the most sanguine expectations. At the close of the session he visited his native country, intending to return in time for his lectures. But, marrying in Scotland, he declined the office, and was appointed titular professor of medicine in the university of Edinburgh. In a science so slowly progressive as that of medicine Dr. Pitcairne did a great deal. He not only exploded many false notions of the chemists and Galenists, which prevailed in his time, but many of those too of his own sect. He proved the continuity of the arteries and veins; and seems to have been the first who showed that the blood flows from a smaller capacity into a larger; that the aorta, with respect to the arterial system, is the apex of a cone. He collected one of the finest private libraries in the world; which was purchased after his death by Peter the Great. Notwithstanding the fatigues he underwent in the exercise of his profession, his constitution was naturally delicate. About the beginning of October, 1713, he became affected with his last illness; and on the 23d he died. Some anonymous publications are attributed to Dr. Pitcairne, particularly a treatise De Legibus Historia Naturalis, &c.; but the only ones he thought proper to legitimate are his Dissertationes Medicæ, and a short essay De Salute.

PITCAIRN'S ISLAND, an island in the South Pacific Ocean, without a river or harbour. It is situated in long. 133° 21′ W., and lat. 25° 2′ S., and in 1808 it was discovered by an American vessel which touched at this island, that it had been resorted to as a last retreat, by such of the mutineers of the Bounty as left Otaheite, to settle on some uninhabited island, out of the reach of further pursuit.

We have seen an extract from the Journal of captain King of the Elizabeth, who visited this island in 1819, which we think will interest our readers:-'On the 2d of March we saw Pitcairn's Island: at 5 P. M. of the same day we were within half a league of it, and could not persuade ourselves, from the barren appearance of the hill, that any persons who had ever seen the fertile hills and dales of Great Britain would ever fix their residence among these barren mountains. We stood off and on all night, under easy sail, and showed a light in the mainrigging, which was answered by two large fires on shore. A young girl, named Dorothy Young (as we afterwards were told), had been at work at a plantation opposite to the ship, ran to the village, and told them of our arrival, in consequence of which they made the fires in answer to our light. About 6 A. M., on Wednesday, March 3d, I stood the ship close in to what the inhabitants call ship-landing place (from the circumstance of the Bounty being hauled on shore and burnt at this place), in expectation that some of the inhabitants would probably come off to me. I hove too with our head off, and prepared a boat to go on shore; in a few minutes after we saw a boat with nine men come out from amongst the rocks, through a tremendous surf. I now

sent my boat to meet them, and tow them on board. When they came alongside, they ascended the ship's side with much good humor, and came aft on the quarter-deck where I was, and, taking me by the hand, gave it a hearty shake, and said, "How do you do, captain?' They then asked the ship's name, my name, where bound, whence from, and made many other trifling enquiries, in very good English. After satisfying them respecting these matters, I invited them into the cabin, and set before them some salt-beef, grog, biscuit and porter, with which they seemed pleased. Putting their hands before them in the position of prayer, and saying giace, they began to refresh themselves, and were much pleased with the porter. While they were eating I had leisure to survey their fine open countenances, which, notwithstanding their exposure to the sun, were truly British.

They were nine young men, the offspring of the deluded crew of the Bounty, most of them standing six feet high, very muscular and agile, of an engaging deportment and open disposition. After their repast they returned thanks to God in the same pious manner as before. They then went on deck, where they gave surprising proofs of their agility, by going aloft, jumping overboard, and swimming round the ship, while it was going through the water at the rate of two knots per hour. I now prepared to go on shore, and took the surgeon with me. Five of the natives accompanied us to assist in landing, the others remained on board till my return. When I got near the shore I found the surf so violent that I durst not attempt with my boat to go through it. I went into theirs, when one of them taking hold of me bid me not fear, for should the boat upset, he would take me safe on shore. We now entered the surf, when, to my great surprise, a number of young women and children came half way into the surf to assist in landing the boat. These women ventured far beyond their depth, and assisted in bearing the boat up, by swimming and sustaining it with their hands. We landed in safety, and were immediately met by John Adams, a hearty corpulent old man, who like the rest was naked, with the exception of a piece of cloth round his middle. He invited us to his house, for which we set out directly, accompanied by all the population of the island. Our way lay up a very steep hill, and along a footpath so narrow that they were actually obliged to carry the doctor up. When we attained the summit of the hill, we had a fine road through the woods; and after crossing two valleys, which abounded with cocoa-nut trees, we arrived at the village situated in a beautiful valley, in which were seven houses, each of which had a fine lawn before it. Two of the houses had a story above the ground, and all had very clean convenient places for their poultry and pigs. We stopped at the house of Thursday October Christian, the first born on the island, who gave us for dinner a sucking pig, cooked after the Otaheitean manner, two brace of fowls, and plenty of yams and plaintains. After dinner were served up bananas and a species of apple peculiar to the island, which we found very good. Every thing was clean, and conducted with great propriety.

Grace was said both before and after dinner; John Adams saying it first, then every one in rotation according to their seniority. After dinner we took a look at the different plantations, and found that most of their labor consisted in raising yams. There was an abundance of plantains and some sugar-cane, from which they extract molasses and liquor.

'In the evening, after supper, they entertained us with an Otaheitean dance, which consisted of various writhings and distortions of the body, by no means obscene, yet in no respect pleasant. While some were dancing, the rest sat down to look on, in company with six sailors belonging to the ship, when suddenly one of the young women jumped up and ran to her brother, saying, she would not sit any longer near that naughty man (pointing to one of my sailors), for he wanted her to commit fornication.' I asked the man why he behaved so rude to people that had treated him so well? He told me that it was by mere accident he put his foot against her's, and that he had never spoken to her. After the Otaheitean dance the sailors showed their abilities in dancing, which excited great laughter and diversion. After the dance we were shown to bed; the surgeon and myself slept in the same room. We had each of us a good feather-bed and clean sheets, made from the bark of a tree, where we slept very comfortably all night. In the morning we breakfasted on fowls and a beverage like tea, made from a root similar to the gentian, but which they called ginger. After breakfast we returned to the Ship Landing-place, to endeavour to go on board; but the sea was too high. Davy, as they called the sea, had never been so bad before, excepting once in their remembrance. We were all sitting down in conversation, when a little child ran down to go into the surf. I ran to prevent the child, and so did the wife of Charles Christian, saying at the same time to Diana, the eldest daughter of John Adams, Diana, your child will be drowned.' Adams having told me, prior to this, that his daughters were not married, I expressed my surprise to the wife of Christian. Old Adams, hearing this, took me aside, and gave me the following account:Notwithstanding his paternal care of his daughters, Edward Quintral and Diana had committed an offence against the laws of God, for which he supposed them worthy of death, and accordingly gave orders that they should be shot; but, as no person seemed willing to execute his orders, he made the necessary preparations for executing them himself, when he was strongly opposed by Auther Quintral, who said that though the of fence was certainly a great one, and the more so as a similar one had not been committed since the death of Christian, yet he did not conceive it to be a crime worthy of death. The rest being of the same opinion, Adams changed his mind also, but forbade them to marry. Adams, upon this occasion, probably changed his mind through interest; for he will not suffer his daughters to marry for fear of losing their labor in cultivating his plantation. As we could not go on board, I now searched for a watering-place, and found a very convenient one in moderate weather, and with excellent water

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