322 Means for preventing thé Diséases of Poultry. [May 1s 
it in full perfection, as the rays of the 
setting sun glistened on a part of the ex- 
pause of water, and threw a soft dnd 
glowing shade on every feature of the 
landscape. As the shades of evening 
began to obscure the distant objects 
from our sight, we quitted our rocky 
station, and sought the banks of Gold- 
rill-beck, a stream issuing from Patter- 
dale, where there are several pleasing 
spots, rural, simple, and interesting. 
Having now conducted you to the ex- 
tremity of Ullswater, I shall take my 
leave of that truly beautiful lake, regret- 
ting I do not possess the charming de- 
scriptive powers of a Radcliffe, to convey 
to you amore just idea of its thousand 
lovely charms; if it were possible for 
language to convey an adequate idea of 
the richness and variety of its banks, the 
woods, the rocks, the pyramidal clifis, 
and mountainous precipices, which, min- 
gled with rural spots, ornament and 
encrease the beauty of the most charm- 
ing of scenes. 
In length, Ullswater is about nine 
miles, and not more than two and an 
half at the widest. It abounds in char, 
eels, and trout, of the richest flavour. 
Report informed me, they are caught to 
the immense. weight of twenty-five or 
thirty pounds; but, having seen none but 
of an ordinary size, I dare not affirm the 
assertion. And now farewel. In my next 
‘you shall have an account of an alpine 
excursion we had planned, and which 
actually took place on the succeeding 
day. Pray let me hear from you soon, 
and believe me sincerely, 
Tne WANDERER. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OUR correspondent L, in the 
Number of your Magazine for 
December last, page 403, furnishes some 
useful and interesting information re- 
specting the diseases incident to poultry, 
and the treatment proper for their cure; 
acquired, apparently, by much expe- 
rience in the breeding’ of poultry, and 
equal care and ability in referring those 
diseases to their real cause. But the 
trouble, care, and ditliculty, necessary to 
their cure, are, as your correspondent 
justly insinuates, so great as to render 
the means of preventing the occurrence 
of those diseases far more desirable to be 
known, than the means by which they 
can be cured. I shail therefore, through 
the medium of your Magazine, proposea 
method of prevention, suggested by a 
\ 
perusal of L’s communication; and to 
that end, I shall avail myself of a remark 
it contains. He says, that “in dry, 
sandy, and calcareous, districts, they 
khow little of disease among their poul- 
try.” Then might not a poultry-yard be 
so constructed, as to combine all the ad- 
vantages of such a soil, by laying upon it 
a stratum of sand, gravel, lime; or other 
dry earth, of a sufficient thickness; and 
by raising it in the centre, and letting it 
slope off to the sides, so as to resemble, 
in shape, a mirror? By the latter 
means, the rain would flow off to the 
extremities of the yard; and the little 
hill, thus created, would always be dry. 
The boundary of the yard might be placed 
a little way within the rise of the ground, 
so as to exclude, from the part occupied 
by the poultry, the level which the water, 
flowing from the centre, would naturally 
find: and it might be adviseable to cut a 
small trench, or ditch, round the exe 
tremity of the yard, (outside of the 
boundary fence,) in order to carry off the 
water coming from the raised ground. 
As the winds which blow from the north 
and east are in this climate the most 
severe, and the most likely to give cold 
to the young chickens, shelter and pro- 
tection from their effects are objects of 
consequence, and might be effected by 
building the poultry houses on the north 
and east sides of the yard. 
March 10; 1811. HH. .. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
CRITICAL REMARKS ON SHAKESPEAREs 
Kine Joun.—J4ct 1. Scene 1. 3 
So hence! Be thou the trumpet of our wraths 
And sullen presage of your own decay. 
-s Y the epithet sudlen,’ says Drs 
Johnson, ‘‘ which cannot be ap- 
plied to a trumpet, it is plain that the 
poet’s imagination had suggested a new 
idea, as if he had said, ‘ Be a trumpet 
to alarm; be a bird of prey to croak out 
the prognostic of your own ruin.’ But 
Mr. Malone sees not why the epithet 
suilen may not be applied to a trumpet 
with as much propriety as to a bell, And, 
in Henry JV. part 2, we read, ‘sounds 
ever after like a sullen bell.” The epi- 
thet, however, as applied to a bell, is 
eminently happy. Milton has adopted 
it with grand effect in bis Il Penseroso. 
Oft on a plat of rising ground, 
1 hear the far-off curfew sound, 
Over some wide-watered shore, * 
Swinging slow with sullen roar. 
But the sound of the trumpet is sprightly 
and 
