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be dried in the shade. When intended to be used, an ex- 

 tract should be made with hot water, as in the common 

 process for distilling from grain. 



As this is the season when the vine puts forth its leaves,, 

 and many thousand cart-loads of the prunings, where ther^ 

 are not goats to eat them, are yearly thrown away as user 

 less, your stating the above in your highly, interesting and 

 useful Magazine may be of use to many of your readers, 

 and to the public in general. I am, sir, 



your constant reader, 



London, JA^fES HsALL. 



April 8,. 1808, 



XLVni. Observations on the Nature of the new celestial 

 Body discovered by Dr, Olbers ; and of the Comet which 

 was expected to appear last January in its Return from the 

 Sun, By William Herschel, L.L,D F.R.S, * 



JL HE late discovery of an additiortal body belonging to the. 

 solar system, by Dr. Olbers, having been communicated to 

 me the 20th of April, an event of such consequence en- 

 gaged my immediate attention. In the evening of the same 

 day I tried to discover its situation by the information I had 

 obtained of its motion ; but the brightness of the moon, 

 which was near the full, and at no great distance from the 

 object for which I looked, would not permit a star of even 

 the 5th magnitude to be seen ; and it was not till the 24th 

 that a tolerable view could be obtained of that space of the 

 heavens in which our new wanderer was pursuing its hither-, 

 to unknown path. 



As soon as I found that small stars might be perceived, I 

 made several delineations of certain telescopic constellations, 

 the first of which was as represented in figure 1, and I fixed 

 upon the star A, as m6st likely, from its expected situatipn 

 and brightness, to be the one I was looking for. The stars 

 ia this figure, as well as in all the other delineations I Ji§d 



• From Philosophical Tr9ns^ctip,ns,Jf|^r, 1J(07« P^^^ 



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