. Manual of the corporation of the city of New York . o that phi^psopher, by Dr. Smith,was blended with the intellectual elaborations of Dr. Mitchill, and demonstrates,like his versification of the piscatory eclogues of Sannazarius, how deeply de-voted he was to the simple and the effective. De Witt Clinton, his admirer, caused him to add to the numbers of his special translations of the Neapolitanbard ; and I am ready to admit that Mitchill equalled in harmony and in man-ner the once highly estimated piscatorial poetry of Moses Brown, who, in 1773,had published his Angling Sports in nine pisc
. Manual of the corporation of the city of New York . o that phi^psopher, by Dr. Smith,was blended with the intellectual elaborations of Dr. Mitchill, and demonstrates,like his versification of the piscatory eclogues of Sannazarius, how deeply de-voted he was to the simple and the effective. De Witt Clinton, his admirer, caused him to add to the numbers of his special translations of the Neapolitanbard ; and I am ready to admit that Mitchill equalled in harmony and in man-ner the once highly estimated piscatorial poetry of Moses Brown, who, in 1773,had published his Angling Sports in nine piscatory eclogues. Dr. Mitchillstranslations of our Indian War-songs gave him increased celebrity ; and I be-lieve he was admitted, for this generous service, an assrciate of their Mohawks had admitted him into their fraternity at the time when he waswith the Commission at the treaty of Fort Stanwick. I was repeatedly curious enough to interrogate him ts to the question whatagency he had had in the modification of the New-England Primer, and. m.^%
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