the ground into arable, with the consent of the owner, was to have the use
of it for five years. If any one folded his cattle for one year, upon a
piece of ground belonging to another, with the owner's consent, he was
allowed the use of the ground for four years. Thus, though the Britons had
in a great measure lost the knowledge of agriculture, they appear to have
been very assiduous in giving encouragement to such as would attempt the
revival of it.

T. GILL.

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THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS.


LANDERS' DISCOVERY OF THE TERMINATION OF THE NIGER.

We continue our extracts from this very entertaining work, the following
being from the second volume.

At Boossà, the travellers receive a visit from "the noted widow Zuma." She
must be an Amazonian lady, for, having quarrelled with her prince, the
ruler of Wowow, she was obliged to fly, and actually to climb over the
city wall in the night, and travel on foot to Boossà. Female politicians
in Africa are not so safe as in the _coteries_ of civilized Europe: they
have to fight their own battles, and we conclude, to raise their own
supplies: "the widow complained sadly of poverty and the hardness of the