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Editor has assigned (p. 200) for so doing, aud to affirm that this change was made "for the purpose of giving room for what the present Editor chose to insert;" whereas the present Editor has not in either of these places inserted a single remark.

VII. The Portraits of the Fish will be justly appreciated by the publick; but, from the opinion of many competent judges, I feel authorised to assert, that they exhibit the peculiar "traits of character" more correctly than has before been done.

VIII. As to the infringement of copy-right, the publick are well acquainted that it was universally understood Messrs. Rivingtons had declined publishing the work again; and I gathered from what Mr. H. himself said, that Messrs. R. objected to print it again because they thought the sale would not pay the expence of re-engraving the plates. But on this head I may appeal to the lovers of Walton and of Angling, and ask if they would have remained satisfied with the sixth edition? And it was on this account, as I am credibly informed, two other editions were contemplated by gentlemen of the highest respectability.

IX. The hand of Walton is correctly copied; and therefore the engraver is no more to be censured, than an artist who engraves the pic ture of the Last Supper by Leonardo de Vinci would be, for copying the singular impropriety which has been remarked in the hand of St. John.

X. Either Messrs. Rivingtons are under a mistake concerning my application to Mr. Donovan, or Mr. H. has misunderstood them. When I applied to Mr. D. the Fishes were engraved, and I only applied to purchase fifty impressions of fresh-water fish from his elegant work on British Fishes, taken off on quarto paper, and coloured by him; with which I intended to adorn a splendid edition of the Complete Angler that I had caused to be printed, of the size, and in manner, of Daniel's Rural Sports.

DEAR SIR,

YOU wish to know if it be your old Academic Friend who is holding out to the world so strange a paradox, as that Christmas is a better season for hay-making than July; and who is inviting the farmers of his own country to follow his example, and to defer mowing until November, December, and January; assuring them, that if they do so, their hay will be of superior quality, much more in quantity, and effectually secured from injury by severe weather, to which it is sometimes exposed when mowed in summer; and if I be the person, you ask me how I came to engage in a pursuit so different from the literary ones in which you

left me.

I reply, that when I retired from College and settled in the country, I became fond of Agriculture; and, not content with simple practice, I was led by the force of old habits to study theory also, and of course to make myself acquainted with the Natural History of the different ve getables I was cultivating.

The Grass Department seemed to me, of all others, the least understood, and the most injudiciously ma naged under the direction of Agricultural Book-makers..

I therefore determined to make Grass my particular object, and to study the Natural History of all those which had been deemed valuables limiting my attentions to their Ha bits, Properties, and Uses; which, in my opinion, ought to constitute the

primary

primary object of the Agriculturist.

With this view I made small plots in my garden, of every species rephted valuable; each of these, when they promised tolerably well, were removed to more extended areas in my farm; and I thus proceeded from theory to practice.

While thus employed, I heard a grass boasted of, called by the IRISH

ORIN or FYOREEN. I immediately procured roots of it, and paid this grass the same attention I had given to the others.

The extraordinary qualities of the FIORIN Soon began to burst upon the; and when they seemed entitled to attention, I gave them to the pub lick; first in the Transactions of your Board of Agriculture; and then, when I discovered new ones, I published these in the Transactions of the Belfast Literary Society; and when they still accumulated, I printed desultory small pamphlets or single sheets, that I distributed among my friends, but which were never otherwise published.

One of these, the acñezed Epitome, has reached you; and you wish to have it printed in the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, to promote the cultivation of this extraordinary Grass on your side of the water.

As public utility is the common object with us both, i chearfully W. R. EPITOME OF THE HABITS, PROPERTIES, AND

consent.

USES OF FIORIN GRASS.

HABITS. Fiorin thrives in all climates, from Iceland to Indostan. It thrives (and I believe equally) in all elevations, the top of the mountain, and the bottom of the valley; equally in all soils, wet and dry, the mire, of the morass, the shallow summit of the gravelly hill, and the pavé of a shut-up turnpike road, never covered with soil. Fiorin appears to thrive the better, the greater the hardships to which it is exposed, because the efforts of its competitors are thereby weakened.

PROPERTIES. The propagation of Fibrin is easy, as its strings or routs may be put down any day in the year, with a certainty of growing. A piece of ground can be laid down with Fiorm grass more cheaply than with any other; for ten men, properly arranged, will plant out an English acre (if prepared) in one day. Fiorin advances into profit much more rapidly than any other grass; for if laid down early in April, it will produce in that same year a valuable crop either of hay or green food. Fiorin may be p.3

pagated by sowing its pure hay from the rick or loft, and most slightly sprinkling it with soil. This power of vegetation continues in vigour above four months. Fiorin grass may be mowed and made into hay any month in the year that has the letter R in it. Fiorin hay is saved in the mouths of November, December, and Ja, nuary, with less labour and greater security from injury by weather than other hay in July. Fiorin grass mowed October 15, after, sustaining 16 days of the wettest weather remembered, was put into a rick on November 7th; there it remained perfectly sound, until completely eaten up by sheep early in January. Fiori hay is superior to that of any other grass in quality, and most decidedly preferred by from a Fiorin meadow is far greater than horses, cows, and sheep. The produce the crop of any other grass: a portion of ground laid down with Fiorin late in August 1806, twice mowed in 1807, and not manured, produced six tons the English acre in 1808; and a portion laid down November 15, 1806, once mowed in 1807, and tolerably manured, produced in 1808, seven tous, four hundred, one quarter and eight pounds, the English acre. The hay of both parcels when weighed was. dry and rattling; and that it was in a

fair merchantable state between man and man, proved upon oath before the Earl of Gosford, by the person who weighed it in the presence of the owner, and other credible witnesses; his Lordship also examined the hay not long after it was weighed, and found it in excellent order.

Usts. Fiorin will produce a valuable crop of hay to the farmer, be the description of the ground what it mẩy He will thus be enabled to apply his best ground to grain crops, as his very worst will supply him with choicest hay, Fiorin will also afford him an abundant stock of green food from November to May, superior in quality to any other, and more accessible in winter. This green food he will find highly valuable for his milch cows, as by it the milk is improved in richness and flavour, and greatly increased in quantity. The ground occupied by our young plantations (hitherto useless) may be made as profitable as any other, by planting it with Fioriu, and careful weeding; for this grass thrives well among trees, and until they close overhead, will give great crops. The first of these pasitions I have from respectable authority; for the truth of all the others I am responsible. Such of them as can be exhibited or proved on the spot, may be verified at Clonfecle in the county of Armagh], where, until April 1st, hay will be left standing in the field; and part of the meadow will remain uncut.

Jun. 26, 1899. W. RICHARDSON.

Mr.

add to my distress: this was nothing more than two ounces of glauber salts dissolved in a quart of boiling water; when cold, a tea-cup full to be taken every other morning, fasting. This is now nearly two years since. I have persevered, and, through mercy, I look upon it as the means of my recovery. It had not, of course, an immediate effect, the disorder was too deeply rooted; but, as I said before, I persevered, and for more than a year and half past, I have not had the slightest symptom of a return. What can I say more to recommend the trial of it? My faculties are perfectly revived, and I am restored to the enjoyment of every comfort this world can afford. I trust you will think this worthy insertion in your Magazine, and shall only subjoin my sincere wishes that it may be equally efficacious to the poor sufferer as to myself.

Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN,

E. B.

Feb. 10.

WISHING to do all in my power

to relieve the distresses of my fellow-creatures, I send you a remedy, I have been assured from very good authority has frequently cured that terrible disorder, Epileptic Fits. It is half a dram of powdered ginger, to be taken three times a day, in conserve of hips of treacle. As it is a very simple and cheap remedy, I think it well worth the trial of the unfortu. nate young lady whose fits are mentioned in vol. LXXVIII. p. 1144. Should she try it, and should it succeed, I shall be most happy to see the cure announced.

I

Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

J. W. Feb. 11. OBSERVE in p. 1144, a Letter requesting to know what would be a remedy in the case of Epileptic Fits. I have a son now eleven years old, who was grievously afflicted in that way for a considerable time, and all that regular medical advice could do availed nothing; but, by the advice of a neighbour, we tried the following easy matter, viz. one tea-spoonful of the Juice of Rue or Herbigress, given every morning about half an hour before breakfast; and in about six weeks he was completely cured, and hath had no return: it is now nearly two years ago. Yours, &c.

C.

Mr. URBAN,

Feb. 24.

OBSERVING in vol. LXXVIII. p. 1144, a desire of A. Lang ham for a remedy for Fits, I will beg of you to inform him, a Mole, perfect as it is taken, and dried in an even or by a fire, and made into a fine powder, and a tea-spoon filled with it put into a glass of white wine, and taken the first thing every morning, is very likely to effect a cure. If one Mole will not do, a second or a third is advised to be taken. This recipe was found in a book of the late Dr. James. T. S.

Mr. URBAN,

Feb. 19.

Tappears at last that the Addison

Monument is to be set up directly below that of the immortal Handel, in the South Transept of the Abbey Church, as a horde has been affixed on the spot for the workmen to set about their labour therein. Now, as the attitudes of the statues of Handel and Addison are rather of a similar nature, their dress almost one and the

same, will not that of the latter per

sonage interfere with the former, which will actually have the effect of standing upon the head of the new effort of sculpture-to say nothing in the way of comparison about the abilities of Roubiliac or Westmacott?

Had the setters-up gone but to the next or centre cluster of columns of the Transept, no rivalship would have been manifested; but a centrical situation, and a full and unimpeded glow of light obtained. This idea may be corrected, to be sure, in this way"Some people will never be satisfied!" A TRUE ENGLISHMAN.

"PROUD PRELATE,

"I Understand you are backward in complying with your agreement; but I would have you to know, that I who made you what you are can unmake you; and if you do not forthwith fulfill your en gagement, by I will immediately unfrock you. "Yours, as you demean yourself, ELIZABETH."

Heaton, it seems, had promised the Queen to exchange some part of the lands belonging to the See for an equivalent, and did so, but it was in consequence of the above letter.

S. L.

21. A Tour in France, 1802. Printed 1908. W10 performed this Tour, or

who wrote it*, we know not; nor why six years have elapsed before the Tourists thought proper to publish. From the general tenor of their observations we are inclined to think that they were young travellers, and consequently easily affected by small matters. We do not mean, however, that they are sparing in useful information, or at least in that which is amusing. On some occasions their researches were pretty close. They tell us, p. 2, that the dress of the women-peasants "is a petticoat of one stuff, and a very short jacket of another they seem neat in their dress, and particularly clean about the head." Our Authors are enraptured with the low price of provisions; and we are told that " English beer, brewed there, is every where to be had cheaper than in England." Sales by auction exhibit rare pennyworths. "A pair of bellows, without a nosel, sold for three half-pence; and a flannel petticoat, with very little of the original in it, sold for twopence-halfpenny!" The prompter of the theatre at Calais is a woman; a circumstance which we believe has escaped the attention of former travellers, but which we recommend to that of our managers. As our Travellers advance into the interior, they encounter the well-known difficulties, bad and expensive inns, dirty rooms, extortion of all kinds, &c. In point of cleanliness the French are very consistent, no kind of improvement having been introduced since our ingenious countryman Hogarth said that their houses 66 were gilt and b-t."

Our Travellers adopt the vulgar superiority of the Library at Paris over that of the British Museum, from "its being open at all times, and every part accessible to respectable people, to pass what time they please there, without expence or trouble." Travellers would not be the worse for knowing a little of their own country.

The following short account of the Gobelin tapestry is more interesting:

*From an anecdote in p. 39 it would appear to be the production of a Lady. GENT. MAG. February, 1809.

"I shall next make a few observations on their manufactures; and first of the celebrated Gobelin tapestry, a work of art, which is justly the wonder and admiration of Europe. I was anxious to know the mode of manufacturing it, and spent some hours there examining it. It is worked in looms both horizontal and perpendicular, but more of the latter than the former. It is done on the wrong side, and by a kind of rule which renders the execution not a work of genius, but a mere mechanical method by measure; a warp is provided of very strong, even, brown thread; and the woof is formed of the finest-coloured shuttles. The picture they are to copy is worsteds, wove in with very fine 'small placed before them, and the colours of the worsted sorted exactly to the different colours in the picture; the space that each colour occupies is very exactly measured' by rulers, so minute that inches are divided into hairs-breadths; these colours are wove into the warp, exactly corresponding with the picture, with respect to space and shade; and if the measure and

colour are correct to minuteness, no error in the work can occur; and the artificer right side of his work, and perhaps never never finds it necessary to look on the does, till the work is finished. The picture, when complete, will be the exact copy of the original, equalling it in expression, and exceeding it in richness of colour. The work is very simple, and easily learned, but tedious beyond belief; the worsteds are as fine as a hair; and so many motions of the shuttle are required for the least possible effect, that it accounts for the great expence of this curious work: sufficient for the back and seat of a chair will cost from 3 to 5001.;

and a single pannel, as part of the hanging of a room, will amount to from 1 to 2000; but then it must be remembered that this pannel will cost one man the labour of 15 years, besides materials, and other expences. About 190 people are now employed at this work; and there are gradations of business for all sorts and sizes: the young beginners sort and wind worsted; those a little advanced in the art weave the ground-work of the pieces; and the experienced workmen take the figures, faces, and more important objects. The wages of the best workmen are 2s. 6d. per day; of the young beginners 6d. Government supports the whole expence; and indeed, at present, only Government can purchase the product; none but a princely fortune can purchase so expensive an article."

The

Of the stereotype invention our Traveller knows but little when he states, as one of its advantages, that,

"in