in the elaborate folio volumes of M. Picart, but, as that assidious compiler of the " Religions of the Universe" collected his materials in the early part of the last century, they have been rendered less valnable by more recent travelers, and by discoveries at that time little expected. Research has penetrated into kingdoms remotely placed; the African and American interiors have been better explored, and Capt. Cook, like a second Columbus, has added to our charts a considerable portion of the habitable globe. The fabulous stories of antiquity may have made warriors of women, but a state of warfare in which they destroy each other in not known to exist-their only weapons are their charms and attractions. In the most savage states, the warriors only require them as attendants, nor does it appear that, when captured, they are subject to torture and death. In political wars mercy has been generally extended to them, but in religious massacres they have indiscriminately suffered. Instances have occurred of their martial and ferocious spi On a review of the condition of women throughout the globe, they have no real ground of complaint in this country. Here a virtuous woman is duly esteemed, and more respect is paid to character than to beauty. The sex are not drudges in laborious life, nor mere appendages to the opulent and noble. Though the indissolubility of marriage may occasionally press hard on some deserving individuals, yet it is clearly ascertained, that the facility of separation would destroy mutual confidence, and prove detrimental to happiness and virtue. Whatever might give offence to delicacy has, in the following pages, been as much as possible avoided-the object being not to inflame the passions, but to render the thirst of curiosity subservient to the ends of rational enjoyment and the Christian character. Charenton, 1822, A. H. MARRIAGE RITES, &c. TURKEY, IN EUROPE, IN the East God created the first parents of the human race, and this quarter may from its early importance claim a precedence in the scale of history. Among the wonderful works of the Creation, revealed to us by the Deity in the sacred scriptures, is the accomplishment of his greatest work, the inspiration of the immaterial soul into "the likeness of his own image." For the first pair Omnipotence planted the garden of Eden, that earthly Paradise in which "herbs, cooling fruits, and gay flowers," combined to gratify the senses, while streams meandring in gentle currents, trees affording a perfumed shelter, a benevolent cerulean sky, and a tractable animated creation, made them happy in abundance, and sole possessors without termination. These invaluable blessings, however, were not enjoyed without some exactment. As the Great Parent had created his first children with rational faculties, he required a reasonable acknowledgment of dependance, and this was to be exemplified in obedience. While in a state of innocence, they were in the pale of |