Mr. Weekeii''s Meteorological Abstract. 223 



Wheeler. The.lady disappeared on 

 the royal marriage, in a way that has 

 always been interesting, because unex- 

 plained and mysterious. I have beeo 

 told she is still alive, or was lately. As 

 connected with the life of the late so- 

 vereign, the subject is curious ; and 

 any information llaough your pages 

 would doubtless be agreaible to many 

 of your readers. B. 



1821.] 



raises some objections to the use of the 

 vinegar which is afterwards produced by 

 this means •, and the adoption of charcoal 

 as a fibre answers every purpose, without 

 leading to any objection whatever. 



To the Editvr of the Monthly Magazine. 

 SIR, 



ALL the world is acquainted with 

 the attachment of the late King 

 to a beautiful Quakeress of the na me of^ 



For the 3Iont/i/;/ Magazine. 



METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. — Results from Observations made at TILMAN- 



STONE. near Sandwich^in Kent. for the last Seven Months of the Year \H20. 



AN immense solar spot was visible 

 in the latter days of August ; its 

 shape parabolic, with avery dark irre- 

 gular nucleus. A fine penumbra sur- 

 rounded this beautiful spot. In my 

 hasty remarks on the great solar eel ijise 

 of Sept. 7th, I omitted to state that the 

 thermometer was obser^ ed to descend 

 gradually nearly seven degrees of Fah- 

 renheit's scale ; at the time of greatest 

 obscuration, a series of burning glasses 

 failed in igniting fragments of dark- 

 coloured cloth, and some other opaque 

 substances. No maculae or taeniae were 

 observed by me during the eclipse, nor 

 have any of particular interest occurred 

 since the one above-mentioned in the 

 month of August. H. Webkes. 



NOTES made after reading the Rev. 

 THOMAS RADCLiFF's Report of the 

 .Agriculture of Flanders, printed in 

 1819. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



HJK, 



ONI'^ of the superior features of 

 FIcuiish agriculture seems to con- 

 sist in iiaving vaults built with brick- 

 WQik jn terras njprtar, and liu^d .with 



the same, in such a manner as to ex- 

 clude both land-water and rain. Tlie 

 cavity of tJiese places is generally about 

 14 feet in Avidth by 30 or 40 feet in 

 length, or any otber length that may 

 accord with the number of cattle upon 

 the farm, and the quantity of liquid 

 manure likely to be made. It is usual 

 to have one of these vaults either under 

 or very near the buildings, in order 

 that it may receive through drains the 

 urine of the cattle and of the family, 

 as well as tlie contents of the privies, 

 together with all the soap-suds and 

 other foul water from the skullery and 

 brewery. The Flemish agriculturists 

 mostly have another of these vaults of 

 much larger dimensions, in some con- 

 venient part of their farm, at a distance 

 from their dwelling-houses : this re- 

 ceives the contents of the former, and 

 its putridity is increased by the addition 

 of the soil of privies, which they col- 

 lect from the neighbouring towns. To 

 this fetid mixture they annually add 

 ground rape-cake, about ten pounds 

 weight for every acre of their farm. 

 AVhen they are disjmsed to use this 

 liquor, they raise it by a pump into 



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