. Manual of the corporation of the city of New York . hat phik)Sopher, by Dr. Smith,was blended with the intellectual elaborations of Dr. Mitchill, and demonstrates,hke his versification of the piscatoiy eclogues of Sannazarius, how deeply de-voted he was to the simple and the effective. De Witt Chcton, 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
. Manual of the corporation of the city of New York . hat phik)Sopher, by Dr. Smith,was blended with the intellectual elaborations of Dr. Mitchill, and demonstrates,hke his versification of the piscatoiy eclogues of Sannazarius, how deeply de-voted he was to the simple and the effective. De Witt Chcton, 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 ass(ciate 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 as to the question whatagency he had had in the modification of the New-England Primer, and iM^^i. 540 istry, in Columbia College, and of Natural History, Botany, and the MateriaMedica, in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in this city. His letters toTilloch, of London,on the progress of his mind in the investigation of Septic acid,is curious as a physiological document. The leading papers frcm his pen areto be found in the New York Medical Repository, a journal of wide renown,which he established with Miller and Smith ; yet he wrote in the AmericanMedical and Philosophical Register, the New York Medical and Physical Jour-nal, the American Mineralogical Journal, the Transactions of the PhilosophicalSociety of Philadelphia, and supplied several other periodicals, both abroad andat home, with the results of his cogitations. He accompanied Fulton on hisfirst voyage in a steamboat, in August, 1807; and, with Williamson andHosack, he organized the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York, in1814. He was associated with Gr
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