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perance in drink, as dissection has repeatedly shown; but the neglect of a distinct pathognomonic difference between the ravings of inebriety, or delirium tremens, and mental derangement, strictly so considered, have led to gross miscalculations in our prognosis. As alcoholic insanity is engendered in every country where drunkenness prevails, it is perhaps more fre-quently seen in our mixed population, than in that of Europe. Hence we have sometimes been led to pronounce hastily and erroneously that our success in the management of lunacy is greater than that of other nations. We, however, must be sup-plied with more extensive and more accurate tabular views of the comparative results of practice, in different institutions abroad and at home, before we can come to a satisfactory conclusion on this contested head. It is cheering to the feelings of the philanthro-pist to know, that by remedial measures, much more is accom-plished at the present day, than was at a former time imagined practicable; and Mr. Eddy's convictions in after life, that the treatment of derangements of the mind, like that of disorders of the body, would ere long bear signal triumphs of professional skill in the healing art, seem likely to be experienced at no very remote period. Mr. Eddy's name is associated with those of Fulton, Colden, Morris, Van Rensselaer, Hawley, and others, in projecting the canal system of New York. Years before the commencement of the Erie and Hudson Canal, he entertained enlarged views, founded on extensive personal knowledge of the country, of the expediency and practicability of inland communication by water. A paper on the subject, written by himself, may be seen in Dr. Hosack's memoir of De Witt Clinton. He was a member of the Board appointed by the Legislature, in 1810, to explore the route of an inland navigation from the\Hudson river to Lake Ontario and Lake Erie; and he accom-panied the commissioners on that tour of public duty. A copy of the first published report on this subject, dated February, 1811, may be seen in the American Medical and Philosophical Register. In common with Clinton, Morris, Pintard, and other advocates, for the general organization of the canal policy at that early stage of this great undertaking, odious imputations were freely bestowed upon him and his compatriots, and with