ble to the dung of the ox or cow. not I am not able to say.

Whether marle is used or

The right course is to manure the hemp fields annually before the winter tillage, that the manure during the winter may have time to rot, and that it may more easily mix with the soil when tilled in the spring. The pigeon dung is the only one they spread at the spring or last tillage, and this they do to avail themselves of its whole strength. However, when the season is dry there is danger of burning the seed, which does not happen when it is spread in winter. In this case a greater quantity is necessary to produce a good crop.

The first and most important tillage is performed in December or January, which is called mid-winter tillage. Some do it with the plough, making furrows, others with the hoe, also making furrows, that the winter frosts may more easily penetrate the soil; some also perform this work with the shovel or spade, which is doubtless the best mode-but this requires more time and labour, whereas the use of the plough is the most expeditious and least profitable.

In the course of April the seed is put into the ground. Some sow a fortnight sooner than others, and all take different risques. The most early are exposed to the frosts,which do great injury to the young shoots; while those who sow too late run the hazard of droughts, which sometimes prevent the hemp from coming up.

The seed should be sown thick, otherwise the stalks will be large, the bark will be too ligneous, and the threads too harsh, which is a great fault; yet when it is sown too thick, many of the roots are choaked, and this is an injury. A medium should be adopted, which habit will point out, and generally the stalks are not too sparse but when a part has been destroyed either by frost, by drought, or other accidents.

It is proper to remark, that the hemp is an oily seed, which grows rancid by age, and then it will not vegetate; wherefore the seed of the preceding year should alone be put into the ground. When seed two years old is sown, a great part will not come up; and if older, still more will perish.

When the hemp is sown, it should be covered with earth. This is done either with a harrow, if the land has been prepared with a plough, or with a rake if prepared with a hoe or spade.

Notwithstanding this precaution, the hemp must be carefully guarded until completely come up ; otherwise, a variety of the feathered tribe, pigeons especially, will destroy the whole, even the seeds that are best covered. It is true that pigeons, and those birds that do not scratch, do no damage to grain when covered with earth; but the difference between the two kinds of seeds is, that grain does not force itself out of the ground with the shoot it produces, whereas hemp seed forces itself out when it vegetates. Then it is that the pigeons make great havock, and upon sight of the seed, tear the plant and make it wither.

The peasants endeavour to fright away the birds by scarecrows; they also set their children to protect the hemp. But these precautions are not fully adequate; for the task is difficult when the fields are extensive, and hunger stimulates the pigeons. Indeed I have seen strong persons and even dogs, from excess of fatigue, abandon their charge. Fortunately this care is not required any length of time. There is an end of it when the foliage has multiplied.

vest.

The fields, which until the springing up of the hemp, require much care and labour, demand but little more until harIt suffices to maintain the surrounding ditches in order, and to keep off the cattle: Yet in great droughts there is a part of labourers that water the fields, provided they are of small extent, and the water is at hand, and that they cannot be overflowed; which is, I believe, practised in some parts.

I have already said that accidents sometimes happen to make the hemp field thin, and it has been observed that the hemp is then thick, full of branches, and incapable of yielding a good thread. In this case, to derive something from the field, if seed only, which from the coarseness of the hemp will be of better quality, the field should be weeded to prevent the weeds from choaking the hemp.

(l'o be continued.)

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OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.

FOR NOVEMBER, 1810.

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NEW WORKS.

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A Grammar of Chemistry; wherein the Principles of the Science are familiarized, by a variety of easy and entertaining Experiments; with Questions for exercise, and a Glossary of terms in common use. By the Rev. Dr. Blair, author of the Grammar of Philosophy, &c. &c. corrected by Benjamin Tucker, author of Sacred and Profane History Epitomized, &c. Intended as an elementary book for schools, and a companion for private students, particularly those who wish to attend popular lectures. New York; David Hogan.

* The First Settlement of New England: A Sermon delivered in the South Parish in Andover, April 5th, 1810; being the Annual Fast in Massachusetts. By John Hubbard Church, A. M. Pastor of the church in Pelham, (N. H.) Sutton; Sewall Goodridge.

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The West Indies; and other Poems. By James Montgomery. Boston: Munroe and Francis.

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West and Blake, and Manning and Loring, propose to republish, by subscription, a "Selection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, from the best authors, in three and four parts; adapted principally to Dr. Watts' Hymns and Psalms, and to Dr. Rippon's selection of Hymns; containing (in a greater variety than any other volume extant,) the most approved compositions which are used in London, and the different congregations throughout England;" also, many original Tunes, never before printed. The whole forming a publication of above 250 Hymn Tunes, besides other pieces. By John Rippon, D. D.

Thomas Dobson, Philadelphia, has in press, " A System of Anatomy, by Caspar Wistar, M. D. Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania.

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MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY,

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DECEMBER, 1810.

FOR THE ANTHOLOGY.

EXTRACTS

FROM THE JOURNAL OF A GENTLEMAN ON A VISIT TO

LISBON.

On board Ship, Sept. 10th.

AFTER a long passage we have arrived safely in the Tagus. The first part of our voyage proved very disagreeable, as we encountered a constant succession of calms or contrary winds. When off cape Clear we met with a most violent storm. During three days of its continuance, the weather was more tempestuous than I ever before experienced; and we were obliged to lay to, until it abated. Our captain was himself in very considerable apprehension, and not being a man of remarkable strong nerves, was unable to disguise his fears. He tried however to gather as much courage as he could from his brandy bottle, to which he applied so often and so diligently that he became in a very short time completely drunk. This was, as may be supposed, a very agreeable circumstance

to us.

To add to the comfort of our situation, on the third night, while the tempest was at its height, we were fired at by a French privateer. I was at the time taking the only peep I had ventured at for forty-eight hours on deck, but on hearing the ball whiz by my cars, I prudently beat a retreat to my old quarters, which I did not immediately feel very anxious to quit. The privateer was prevented from coming along side of us by the violence of the storm. In the morning she was not in sight.