side of the crown, which falls over the brim, or else in a wreath, which, encircling the bottom of the crown, terminates on one side in an end that falls upon the brim, and descends in an oblique direction nearly to the edge of it.

Printed muslins, of new patterns, are at present in the highest possible favour; the prettiest have a dark brown ground, strewed with white or red spots; others, that are also very fashionable, have a tawny orange ground, with a pattern in light green, of a small oval kind. Printed muslin has never been carried in France to so high a degree of perfection. It is also remarkable, that light materials, such as Organdy and white muslin, are ornamented with figured patterns; the first that appeared was Organdy figured in cotton. The pattern was a shamrock about the size of a shilling. Muslins figured in green, blue, and rose, are also in request: the two last colours are particularly so.

The peignoir form is admitted, not only in deshabille, but in half-dress; it offers nothing remarkable in the former, but several of those that have appeared in the latter are very beautiful; they are of Organdy, of the clearest and finest kind, rounded at the corners of the skirt, embroidered all round in a light and beautiful pattern in feather stitch, and edged with lace.

Robes tabliers are also in very great favour; the tablier is formed by bouillons, which, ascending on each side of the skirt, mounted on the corsage in the heart stile; a coloured ribbon is always ran through them. This is a very favourite form. Flounces and bouillons are the trimmings most in favour for robes, but the former are in a majority: this has occasioned some diminution in the width of skirts, but as yet not a great deal. Where the dress is white, the flounces are generally either embroidered or trimmed with lace; they are also headed with embroidery: in a good many instances entre deux are substituted for embroidery on the skirt. Where bouillons are employed instead of flounces, there is always a coloured ribbon run through them. The hair continues to be dressed very low behind, and in ringlets or soft braids in front. It is adorned with great simplicity, with either flowers or ribbons. Fashionable colours continue the same as last month.

ANTIQUITY OF AQUEDUCTS.

AQUEDUCTS were long ago the wonders of Rome: the quantity of them which they had; the prodigious expence employed in conducting waters over arcades from one place to another, at the distance of even one hundred miles, by cutting through mountains and piercing rocks, were performances which justly excite our admiration. Appius, the censor, advised and conducted the first aqueduct. His example gave the public luxury a hint to cultivate these objects; and the force of prodigious and indefatigable labour diverted the courses of rivers and floods to Rome. Agrippa, in that year when he was ædile, put the last hand to the magnificence of these works. It is chiefly in this respect that the modern so much resembles the ancient city of Rome. For this advantage she is peculiarly indebted to Sextus V. and Paul V.; who, for grandeur and magnificence, in repairing and beautifying the aqueducts, emulated the masters of the universe.

The aqueduct of the aqua Marcia had an arch of sixteen feet in diameter. Above, there appeared two canals; of which the highest was fed by the waters of the Tiverone, and the lower by the Claudian river. The arch of the aqueL. 38, 2.

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duct of the aqua Claudia is of hewn stone, very beautiful; that of the aqueduct of the aqua Neronia is of brick. The canal of the aqueduct which was called the aqua Appia, deserves to be mentioned for the singularity of its being much narrower at the lower than at the higher end. Fronconius, who had the superintendence of the aqueducts under the Emperor Nerva, says that nine of them emptied their waters into the city, through thirteen thousand five hundred and ninety-four pipes of an inch diameter each; and Vignere relates, that every twenty-four hours Rome received no less than three hundred thousand hogsheads of water by means of her aqueducts.

The munificence of the Roman emperors, in providing their subjects with this necessary article of domestic comfort and cleanliness, was not merely confined to the capital, nor limited to their natural dominions. The luxury of excellent water was provided in a liberal manner to many cities that submitted to the Roman arms. Athens, the seat of Grecian glory and magnificence, was indebted to Rome for its most valuable supply of water. That city, even in the must flourishing state of its republic, had recourse only to wells; which were held so sacred, that, by a law of Solon, those only who lived contiguous to a well could claim the benefit of its waters. This defect was at length removed by the munificence of the Emperor Adrian, who erected an aqueduct to supply all Athens with water, and which still bears his name; and is adorned with a frontispiece of the Ionic order, said to be a more correct specimen of that style of an cient architecture than any Rome can furnish.

Another very surprising instance of human art and industry is the aqueduct of Metz, of which a great number of arcades still remain. These arcades crossed the Moselle, a river which is very broad at that place. The copious sources of this aqueduct furnished water for the representation of a sea-fight. This water was collected in a reservoir; from thence it was conducted by subterraneous canals, formed of hewn stone, and so spacious that a man could walk erect in them it traversed the Moselle upon its superb and lofty arcades, which may be still seen at the distance of two leagues from Metz, so nicely wrought and so firmly cemented that, except those parts in the middle, which have been

carried away by the ice, they have resisted, and will still resist, the severest shocks of the most violent seasons. From these arcades other aqueducts conveyed the waters to the baths, and to the place where the naval engagement was represented. It is also said that the aqueduct of Segovia, in Spain, may be recorded among the most admired labours of the Romans. It was built by the Emperor Trajan, and is said to be the best preserved of all the Roman works. There still remain one hundred and fifty-nine arcades, wholly consisting of stones enormously large, and joined without mortar. These arcades, with the edifice, are one hundred and two feet high; there are two ranges of arcades, one above another. The aqueduct flows through the city, and runs beneath the greatest number of houses, which are at the lower end. The aqueduct which Louis XIV. caused to be built at Maintenon, in France, for carrying the river Bure to Versailles, is above seven thousand fathoms in length, above two thousand five hundred and sixty in height, and contains two hundred and forty-two arcades.

In later days aqueducts have been brought to great perfection in this country, where there are now many of them. The accompanying view represents one over the river Mersey, in the Peake Forest. It consists of three arches of sixty feet span, and ninety-eight feet and a half elevation. The canal which this bridge conducts over the river passes through a country which is very uneven, and, after passing seventeen miles, joins the canal of Ashton.

LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, AND HOPE.
Three Spirits met

Near to the Arctic Zone,
Love-Friendship-Hope--

Each claim'd the spot their own.
But, ah! Love soon grew cold,
And fled;

And even Hope 'neath the fierce blast
Lay dead:

Friendship alone, whose warmth of heart
Preserved unchilled that vital part,
Laugh'd at the storm, and joy'd to see,
That she was firmest of the three.

THE HALL OF SILENCE.

AN EASTERN TALE.

On the banks of the sonorous river Tsampu, whose thun. dering cataracts refresh the burning soil, and sometinies shake the mighty mountains that divide Thibet from the empire of Mogul, lived a wealthy and esteemed Lama, whose lands were tributary to the supreme Lama, or sacerdotal emperor, the governor of the whole country, from China to the pathless desert of Cobi. But although his flocks and herds were scattered over a hundred hills, and the number of his slaves exceeded the stars in heaven, yet was he chiefly known throughout all the East as the father of the beautiful Ze. rinda. All the anxiety that Lama Zarin had ever experienced arose from the conviction that he must soon leave his beloved daughter; and the question was always present to his mind, who will guard her innocence when I shall have quitted her for ever?' The Lama was at this time afflicted with a dreadful malady, peculiar to the inhabitants of the country in which he resided, which threatened, in spite of all that medicine could do, to put a speedy period to his existence.

One day, after an unusually severe attack of his disorder, he sent for the fair Zerinda, and gently motioning her to ap proach his couch, thus addressed her: Daughter of my hopes and fears, heaven grant that thou mayest smile for ever; yet whilst my soul confesses its delight in gazing on thee, attend to the last injunctions of thy dying father: the angel of death, who admonishes and warns the faithful in the hour of sickness before he strikes the fatal blow, has summoned me to join thy sainted mother, who died in giving birth to thee. Yet let me not depart to the fearful land of death, and leave my daughter unprotected. Oh! my Zerinda, speak! Hast thou ever seriously reflected on the dangers to which thy orphan state must shortly be exposed, surrounded as thou wilt be by suitors of various dispositions and pretensions; some wooing, with mercenary cunning, thy possessions through thy person; others haughtily demanding both, and threatening a helpless heiress with their powerful love?' He then reminded his daughter that he had