64 Travels through the 



even if we fuppofe it in fome meafure injurious; for, as the 

 health is to be judged of comparatively, it is plain that a treie 

 allowed to retain its bark, may, in fuch circumftances as we 

 have ftated, be lefs healthy than one that has been ftripped. 



The fa6l, at any raie, def^ves the feriouS attention of all 

 who have orchards. We Tiicntioncd fome time ao;o*, that 

 an infe^l molt injurious to apple-trees hstd made its^ppe^t^-' 

 ance in this kingdom. Would it not be worth while to afcer- 

 tain how far trees might be freed from them by decortication^ 

 with the view of applying the remedy generally ? We need 

 hardly add, that in every cafe of the kind the bark fliould bef 

 carried out of the orchard and burnt, to prevent the mfe<Sls 

 from travelling back to the trees; and that a bandage im- 

 pregnated with fome foetid fubftance (liould be tied round the 

 lower part of each tree to prevent the infeiSls that may have 

 fallen during the procefs from again afcending, A. T. 



VIIL Accou7it ofC F. Dam berger's Travels through the. 



interior Parts of Africa, from the Cape of Goad Hope to 



Morocco, 



[Continued from p. 2 5 3. J 



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N the 17th of March 1788 our traveller took his de- 

 parture frorh Kahorathoj.and, dire6ling his courfe north-ea(?, 

 in a few days after crofled a fmall mountain, from the top of 

 which he had a view of a beautiful plain beneath, with the 

 town of Haouffa lying in the back-ground, and in the front 

 of the landfcape the great river Niger. Here he found him- 

 felf all at once tranfportcd into a totally different country, 

 which prefcnted, as far as the eye could reach, huts, houfes, 

 delightful thickets, enlivened by goats, hoifes, aiid cameh 

 feeding, and people bufy at their occupations both on foot 

 and on horfeback. This diftri6l, our traveller afferts, is one 

 cf the fineft, if not the fineft, in all Africa. From the moun- 

 tain, it was a good hour's walk to the Niger, where he intended 

 tocrofs; but lix of the Moors in the ofiiathe ■\ wanted to detain 

 him, and to fend his companions back. *' Not undcrftand- 



'^ Philofophical Magazine-, Vol. III. p. S9 and 224. 

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