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Francis C. Scott, esq. Rosebank 3 3 0 
William Waite, esq. Castlelaw.. 5 5 O 
Thomas Mein, esq. Greenwells 5 ARTO 
John Seton Karr, esq. Kippilaw Si 3) 40 
Mr. W. Riddell, Jedburgh .--. Li nds0 
Mr. Alexander Ballantyne, Kelso 1 1 0 
Sir William Forbes, baronet... 1010 0 
Mr. John Ballantyne, Edinburgh 1 1 0 
Dr. Brewster, Edinburgh..-.-- rTM apt 8 
Sir Richard Phillips....------ "Tia: Ral a 
Sir Alexander Don, baronet.... 10 10 0 
The Hon. Gilbert Hlliot,of Minto 10 10 0 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE public having experienced the 
happy effects which have resulted 
from the adoption of a popular Opinion, 
by Dr. Jenner; and it being a known 
and obvious Fact that neaily all great dis- 
coveries have been the result of accident, 
of random Experience, or of fortuitous 
observation, I conceive that I shail 
render an important and Acceptable Ser- 
vice to mankind, by inviting information 
relative to all vulgar or popular Remedies. 
With this view, I fornially address niy- 
self to the faculty in particular, and to 
your intelligent, inquisitive, and pub- 
lic-spirited readers of every description ; 
and shall be glad to have accounts of 
popular opinions aud received notions, 
relative to the Origin, Cause, Prevention, 
and Cure, of Diseases; and also of the 
composition of efficacious fainily Receipis 
and Nostrams which differ essentially 
in their ingrediewts from: the prescrip- 
tions of the materia nedica. j 
I am perfectly sensible that such re- 
medies and opinions must abound in nu- 
werous absurdities and in gross errors of 
every kind; yet amidst the mass, 1 do 
not fear but 1 shall find some Facts and 
Hints,which,whensubinitted to the ordeal 
of regular Science, and to the accurate 
Investigation of the Faculty, will reward 
me forany trouble, and prove of the 
highest service fo the human Race. I 
may indeed be able, by these means, to 
advance the art of Pliysic more within 
afew Months, than it could be improved 
in a Century, without drawing together 
such an aggregation of experience, 
- Fpr obvious reasvns, 1 request that 
y communication may be signed by 
the Name and Address of the writer, and 
authenticated by as many actual refer- 
ences as convement, 
Once in two or three months, with 
“the aid of some medical friends, [ wiil 
arrange the whole in a form suited to 
the public eye, and so as to occupy as 
small a portion of your valuable mus- 
Rape ee ee cay 
tions of Diseases 
hae ATSRA Ki 
Family Nostrums, Kc. . 4% 
cellany as possible. Perhaps in some, 
cases of consequence, you may be 
induced hereafter to atturd’ oppor- 
tunity to your correspoidents to dis- 
cuss the subjects of communication 
more at large, and thereby add to the 
stack of facts which I may be, able to 
accumulate. . y 
For the present, I shall assume the 
anonymous signature by which 1 have 
Jong been known to the readers of your 
miscellany, and shall request that) ali 
‘communications may be feft for me at 
your office, No. 6, Bridge-street, Lon- 
don, free of postage, Yours, &c. 
London, ‘ Comper Sense. 
June 15, 1808. ™ 
N.B. have addressed a similar commu- 
nication tothe Gazette of the Faculty, well / 
known under the gitle of the Medical and 
Physical Journal, and shall avail myself of 
both works as uccasion may require. 4 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
REPORT of @ COMMITTEE of te BOARD of 
AGRICULTURE, relative to the WASTE 
LANDS of the KINGDOM. 
T would certainly have been extreme- 
ly desirable, had it been in the pow- 
er of your commitiee to have furnished 
the Board with an exact statement of the 
extent of waste lands in the kingdom: 
that, however, could not be effected, 
without-an expence to which the funda, » 
of the Board were totally inadequate. 
It is a subject, however, which is well 
entitled to the consideration of Parliaz 
ment, whether a survey of them ought 
not to be. made, either at the public ex- 
pence, or at the charge of those to whom 
the property of such wastes belongs. In 
the interim, a general, though not an ac- 
curate idea of their magnitude and ex- 
tent, will be given in the following state- 
ment, partly founded on the. reports 
transmitted to the Board by its different 
surveyors; partly on calculations made 
from the county maps, where they have: 
distinguished the waste from the culti-- 
vated land; and pardy, where both these 
sources of information failed, from such 
other means of ascertaining. their extent, 
as your committee could have access to. 
it may be necessary, however, to pre- 
mise, that under the general namie of 
waste lands, your committee compre- 
hend not only commons, where there is 
an intermixture of property, but also 
such lands as lie open, uncultivated, and, 
unenclosed, yielding nothing but coarse 
and common herbage, heath, furze, and 
1 “ a other 
