not pass through the line of the dip, was found to constitute an electrical machine, capable of sustaining a constant current, passing through conductors connecting its centre and circumference. The effect was greatest at right angles to the dip. Currents occurred in a brass globe, in whatever direction rotated. The axis of the globe being made parallel to the dipping needle, and the revolution caused to take place from west to east, the effects of the earth's diurnal motion, in producing electrical currents within itself, were exemplified. These currents were found to proceed from the equator toward both poles. There is not a little plausibility in the theory respecting the Aurora Borealis, which he thus modestly suggests :

"I hardly dare, even in the most hypothetical form, to ask whether the Aurora Borealis and Australis may not be the discharge of electricity thus urged toward the poles of the earth, from whence it is endeavoring to return, by natural and appointed means, above the earth to the equatorial regions. The non-occurrence of it in very high latitudes is not at all against this supposition; and it is remarkable, that Mr. Fox, who observed the deflection of the needle at Falmouth, gives that direction of it which perfectly agrees with the present view."

To the new department thus added by Mr. Faraday to the science of Electricity, he has given the name of Magneto-Electricity.

Having so far already trespassed on the patience of our readers, we must forbear any farther account of these discoveries, or those of other investigators of the same subject. Magneto-electrical apparatus and machines have been invented by our countryman, Mr. John Saxton, by Dr. Ritchie, M. Pixii, Messrs. Nobili and Antenori, Professor Emmet and others, exhibiting brilliant sparks, and performing chemical decompositions. The contrivances are very ingenious, but can hardly be understood without the aid of draw. ings.

We may remark in conclusion, that Mr. Faraday has very satis factorily demonstrated the complete identity of all the species of electricity yet discovered, viz: Volta-Electricity, Thermo-Electricity, Magneto-Electricity, Animal-Electricity, and common Electricity of tension.

F. A. P. B.

LINES

Written on receiving a Branch of the Evergreen Myrtle.

O NOT to me the Myrtle bring,
The changeless unto death,
For human love is a fragile thing,

And its vows are empty breath.

And the slightest flower that paints the lea,

Or leaf that decks the grove,

Might better far the emblem be
Of briefer, paler love.

For the snowy Cistus marks it well

Brief blossom of an hour

And the hollow Fox-glove's pois'nous bell,
And the Larkspur's fickle flower;

And that pale leaf of slender form,

The growth of southern shades,
That withers in the lightest storm,
And in the sun-beam fades-

Ah! these are the emblems, sad and true,
Of the dreams that the young heart weaves,
The gorgeous clouds of the sun-set's hue,

The flowers, and the forest leaves;
The false mirage of the desert sea,
Mocking the traveller's eyes.

O such must love ever be unto thee,
If thou fix it below the skies.

Then teach thou the flame to soar above,

That in thy bosom springs,

And give not an undying love

To frail and dying things;

Give it to that which knows not death,

Nor dreads the passing shower

And be the emblem of thy faith,

The holy Passion Flower.

A DOCTOR'S ANA.

No. 2.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM! what a mystery! A few months ago I was a firm unbeliever, and thought it all a humbug. But, gentle reader, it is true-I have found it to be true. And what you have heard, surprising and unaccountable as it is, is but the beginning of the wonder. I have transcended all other magnetizers, and have performed such exploits that I am astonished at myself. Such wonders have I worked, that I seem to myself to be in a dreamy state of existence, and I am scarcely able to preserve my consciousness. Finding myself possessed of a power, by which I control the spirits of others, and send them abroad from their earthly tabernacles to wander just where I am pleased to will, and employ them to gather information for me from all parts of the world, and even from the whole universe, I feel as if in a giddy whirl through immensity, or rather as if I was caught up into the third heaven in a sort of intellectual whirlwind. Science has hitherto moved onward with a slow step, but now she has taken a tremendous leap clean beyond the old land-marks of knowledge. Animal Magnetism is destined to overturn every thing. Reason and investigation will soon be forgotten words-all knowledge is to be obtained by intuition. Divine, divine science! with what raptures hast thou feasted my soul ! Little did I dream, when I first set my foot so thoughtlessly on the threshold of thy temple, that I was to be admitted into those penetralia, where are revealed thy greatest wonders!

Great as is the power which I possess, I fairly stumbled upon the discovery of its existence. I was one day going through some of the motions (passes, as they call them) of the magnetizers upon a nervous patient, more in sport than in earnest; and lo! she presently dropped asleep. No one of the family could awake her. She would, however, talk with me freely while in this state. There is something so unnatural in magnetic slumber, that it is rather frightful to one who first witnesses it. The sisters of the patient seemed very much alarmed at her condition, and feared she would never wake again; for as we are rather a secluded people, they had never even heard of Animal Magnetism, so that the scene was entirely new to them. I endeavored to quiet their fears. But one

of them could not be quieted at all; and as she was subject to hysterical paroxysms whenever unduly excited, I was afraid that my first essay in this art would be attended with trouble, and I awak. ened the patient before my own curiosity was any thing like grati. fied. As soon as this was done, and she saw her sister to be herself again, she brushed away her tears, and turned to me; and with a hysterical laugh, said, "Doctor, you must be the very Devil himself." And many of the good people of the village, when they heard of it, thought that I verily had communication with the Devil, and that the days of witchcraft had come again. I feared that I should lose my practice; but I was so fascinated with this first entrance into this new field, this fairy land, that nothing could dissuade me from continuing my visits to it. I went on magnetizing, but I soon came near getting into trouble again. I magnetized a lady when her husband was absent on a journey. He came home unexpectedly, and found her in this state. She was conversing with me as he entered, but she would take no sort of notice of him. He was a passionate fellow, and listening to no explanations, he at once. turned me out of the house and sent for another physician. My brother Doctor simply told him that he must send for me again to wake up his wife, for no one else could do it, and he accordingly did. Since that I have magnetized a great number. I am a won. der to our quiet village, but I am quite as great a wonder to myself. For the last few months I have lived in a new world. Greater and greater wonders have burst upon me every day; but I believe that I have now arrived at the Ultima Thule of Animal Magnetism. Some of my exploits I will relate.

There have been, in the experience of every magnetizer, many surprising instances of clairvoyance as it is termed. Somnambules have read sentences enveloped in many folds of paper, not with their usual sense of sight, but simply by putting the thing to the back or side of the head, or to the pit of the stomach. But I have a patient that can in her magnetic state read any thing, however finely written or printed, and however enclosed, by putting it to her great toe. And I have a negro patient that can read any thing that is applied to her heel. Most somnambulists can see through only such things as paper, cloth, &c. ; but my most marvellous ones see through even walls of every sort. There is a Miss Brackett in Providence, who, though she has been blind for many years, can be sent forth in her somnambulic state seeing every thing perfectly. But this I consider as a comparatively small feat. Her eyes are only amaurotic-the optic nerve expanded on the retina is simply paralyzed, and there is no disorganization. I have a patient whose eyes are wholly disorganized, and yet I can at any time send her

out with perfect vision over the whole town. No one can conceive of the surprise manifested when I first sent her out shopping.

The learned Mr. Charles Poyen, who has figured so largely in Providence and Boston, says-" Why could not the instinct of welltried somnambules be united to the intellect of physicians for the treatment of grave and doubtful diseases?" Many have acted upon this hint, and (shades of Hypocrates and Allen!) what graphic descriptions of disease, and what judicious prescriptions for their cure! Why, the magnetic somnambule looks right into the very innermost parts of the body, and with a microscopic eye too, seeing all the minutest operations with the utmost clearness. For ex ample, I can, by means of the clairvoyance of my best somnambules, discover the exact state of the lungs in all its varied diseases. She can see tubercles in the very infancy of their formation. Away then with percussion and auscultation. Laennec, your 66 оссираtion's gone." Physicians cannot commonly discover inflammation till it is fairly fixed upon a part, but she can see it in its forming stage. There are many points of dispute in physiology that I expect to settle by her agency. She can see perfectly those little in. visible workmen, the Capillarics, and describes their shape and mode of action. The profession shall soon be favored with the results of my investigations, or rather, I should have said, of her intuitions.

The marvellous story of the lady in Providence, who looked into a sick man and found his spleen enlarged, when the diagnostic skill of physicians had been wholly baffled-the thing being finally proved by an examination after death-has gone the rounds of the papers. My somnambules have performed parts far surpassing this. In truth, my best one I carry about with me as a regular assistant -assistant did I say?—I do her wrong, she is my teacher and guide. She saves me the labor of investigating disease and prescribing for it. Physicians are often puzzled to find out the seat of a disease and its nature. But she, with her somnambulic clairvoyance, will ransack the whole body, just as she would hunt for any thing in a house, and she never fails to find the disease and to describe its character. Her prescriptions, I think, are very judicious, though they do not always cure. This is almost the only thing in which I have been disappointed. I have said that I carry her with me. I do not do this always. I often send her in spirit to the sick rooms of my patients, and she does quite as well as when she visits them in person. Of course, we need never to go out ex. cept when we please. I expect, therefore, to enjoy an easy and pleasant life, instead of the toilsome and wearing course which is the common lot of our profession. It matters not how distant my patients are, for I can send my coadjutor in spirit any where, even to