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throw back the destinies of our race for centuries ; despots vrould exult ; the hopeful 

 would despair ; the history of the world would all have to be gone over again, and the 

 eljsium in which we have been brought up would be followed by wars and rumours of 

 wars; military despotisms would result, and the white man, no less than the colored, 

 would be enslaved. Avert it, heaven! avert it, man, for if it should result, your own 

 arm and your own tongue will have done the desperate deed. 



A.t the " Warm Springs" you will find everything to your mind, and the bathing the 

 most delightful imaginable. 



The llockbridse Alum water, where we leave six hundred guests, is among the most 

 reliable of these wonderful Springs ; its value is well understood as an alterative of the 

 system, curing, with perseverence, as it really does, the scrofula, and various intestinal 

 diseases. So much is it esteemed, that the water and its residuum, and the rock itself, 

 from which it trickles, is annually sold for a sum exceeding ten thousand dollars. The 

 proprietors are gentlemen, and they contemplate great improvements, horticultural and 

 ornamental, for the ensuing season. The rail road, next summer, will land you within 

 five miles of the spot ; comfortable carriages will then be in readiness. 



I have left myself no space to descant upon the romantic ride to Alexandria ; by a 

 miracle of engineering you are carried over the Blue-ridge without a tunnel, and enjoy 

 from the "mountain-top," a scene which it is worth a voyage to see. 



There must be an end to all things; I bring this with me to be in readiness to provide 

 for the wants, my dear II., of your October number ; will you, mean time, look out for a 

 better proof-reader, for I am obliged to conclude my letter with a quotation from one of 

 Sydney Smith's; — "I assure you, that little Jeffery sometimes, leaves the printing in 

 such a state of absolute nonsense as throws me into the coldest of sweats." This you must 

 see to, or I shall be chilled. 



If you or your readers desire further accurate information, read " The Virginia 

 • Springs ; by John J. ^Moorman, M. D." It is an admirable and reliable guide. 



Answers to Correspondexts. — " Cultor" says, please give me the names of the en- 

 closed thorns, marked A, B, and of the vine, marked C. In setting out native thorns is 

 it better to sow the seed and set out the young plants thus derived at two years old, or 

 should I go at once this autumn to the road-sides and woods where they abound, select 

 and take up for that purpose, plants already pretty well grown, say five or six feet high ? 

 "Would plants of that size bear cutting down close to the ground, or die under the opera- 

 tion ? 



Are young locust trees liable to be depredated on by cattle? 



A. — Crategus crus-galli. 



B. — C. coccinea. 



C. — Ampelopsis hederacea. 



It is better, in planting a hedge of thorns, to employ 2 year old plants?, because when 

 cut down, they shoot fortli all with a nearly uniform degree of vigour. Large plants 

 dug from the hedge-rows may do well with great care, but some will probably shoot 

 stronger than others, and a few die entirely, and when a hedge once begins to require 

 patching, it can rarely be made to look well. Thorns seldom come up from seed the first 

 year ; and to have to wait 3 or 4 years for your plants is not very agreeable. Nur 

 serymen ought to be able to supply them at from 5 to 10 dollars per thousand ; though 



