d not have
offended the ears of Boileau more than the Whal and the Leck, the
Issel and the Zuiderzee."

THOMAS I. WHARTON (1791-1856), a distinguished Philadelphia lawyer, was
a frequent contributor, and for a time was editor of the _Analectic
Magazine_.

CHARLES J. INGERSOLL, the author of "Inchiquin the Jesuit's Letters on
American Literature and Politics," was born in Philadelphia, October 3,
1782, and died there May 14, 1862. His first boyish composition is in
the _Port Folio_ of October 24, 1801. It is entitled "Chiomara," and is
introduced by the editor as the work of a "youth ambitious of the fame
of Chatterton." Chiomara is a Gaul, who kills a Roman in defence of her
honor.

EDWARD INGERSOLL, a younger brother of Charles, wrote poems for the
_Port Folio_ on the events of the times, and named them "Horace in
Philadelphia." All his poems, of whatever nature, were signed "Horace."

CONDY RAGUET (1784-1842) published in the _Port Folio_ some interesting
letters on the "Massacre of St. Domingo." He had gone as supercargo to
Hayti, and lived there during the exciting scenes of the Revolution. He
also contributed numerous papers to the _Port Folio_ upon "Free Trade."

JOHN SANDERSON (1783-1844) was professor of Greek and Latin in the
Philadelphia Central High School. He wrote, at the suggestion of
Theodore Hook, a capital volume of Parisian sketches, called the
"American in Paris," which Jules Janin translated into French. Portions
of his "American in London" appeared in the _Knickerbocker Magazine_. He
successfully opposed, in a pamphlet signed "Riberjot," the plan of
excluding the classical languages from Girard College. He was an
intimate friend of John E. Hall, and contributed to the _Port Folio_.

JOHN SYNG DORSEY (1783-1818) succeeded Dr. Wistar as professor of
anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania. He published an edition of
Cooper's "Surgery," and "Elements of Surgery," the latter of which was
adopted as the text-book in Edinburgh.

ROYALL TYLER was born in Boston, near Faneuil Hall, July 18, 1757. He
studied law under John Adams, was made a judge of the Supreme Court in
1794, and, in 1800, became chief justice. He was one of the closest
friends of Joseph Dennie, and when the latter became editor of the
_Farmer's Weekly Museum_ he wrote for him a medley of verse and social
and political skits under the general title "From the Shop of Messrs.
Colon and Spondee."

These papers he continued