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Wien and Warschaw meant Pe ‘and 
7 , or that the rivers Vistula and 
Pate! were  cieeuaee | in Weichsel and 
Donau; - 
si for him to know that Regensburg 
an 
, will not. 
it would be utterly impos- 
bon were the same place. 
respondent, who 
d any thing to the absur- 
yh { have already enumerated; but 
it to some able correspondent of 
“ pout out th means proper to 
to re the grievance, 
% Pe at myself with calling to notice, 
“ strange, and I fear ‘almost irremedi- 
- sble, custom, 
p lam, yo Cc, 
ee ig eee 
: 2} _— ! 
¢. the Biiitor of the Mor Y Magazine, 
7... SIR, 
7 WAVING observed a paragraph in 
the Morning Post of the second 
instant, announcing the discov of a 
chain of mountains, commencin the 
river Savannah in North America, com- 
cae" entirely of th caries of marine 
Pad shells, &c.) hould glad 
Pad mong ie re Fextessv rre- 
perclen ou had recei red any 
it on this sghieee 
oe es 
ee eC, 
Sept. 1 16. 1808.9. 
Piss 9, a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR; 
N reply to your 
pe an enquiry in yourlast Number 
ting the ravag Pmoths amongst 
s, I bave to observe that ‘s 
moth endl foun found most destr 
tye about autumn. lgppes Ae 
tracts for p tion, whic) ae mu 
i seit 
1. “ Ifyou seeth the ey or mother, 
foam of oil to~half, and therewith 
iin Be bottor ttom, comers, and feet 
sny-4 hes press, the cloaths that you 
; shall never be hurt} with 
bike, so that it be dry before you put 
a clothes therein.” 
@ Rit e branches or leaves of 
tes tree w p or laid among cloth or 
Ks, it will keep the same free from 
; 
» Moth orms pad oth rruption,.” 
? i. is urs, &C, 
_ June 6, 1908. * a; A. 
“ still cule in this neigh. 
7 To the Editor of the “the Month Moacine 
SIR, 
INCE the most unq le evi- 
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mt 
| Ravages of Moths. 
bs J 
29. 
hourhood (the testimony of her contem- 
poraries and. rig caer: the reaiity 
of the existence of Mrs. Bridget Bostock, 
Itake.the liberty to send for the pratifi- 
cation of your readers, the folk owing 
facts, if you should deem them won thy a 
place in your Magazine; though I cane, 
not see any just reason why the names of 
peeone who have imposed upon the 
credulity of the world, should be rescued 
from that oblivion hae they so well me-~ 
rit: and to which it is probable, many of 
them, were they now alive, would. be 
‘compelled by shame, to wish themselves 
to be consigned. 
Mrs. Bridget Bost ock was, born of ob- 
scure parents, who lived in the parish of 
Coppenhull, about four miles’ from this 
place, where she lived her whole lite, and 
died there at a good old age, about‘haif 
a century ago. She was long famous, not 
only within her own native * hor izoa, but 
through many of the surrounding coun- 
ues, tor elfecting, by the most simple me- 
thod (her fasting spittle), many extraore 
dinary cures, beyond the reach of profes- 
se skill; in which, though her powers 
were then pel haps universally believed, 
few will now deny, that a blind er edulity, 
and other accidental circunistances, were 
a chief agents. It would now be deem- 
diculous to recite many of the mar 
odlbas and supernatural instances of her 
commissioned powers, performed upon the 
eighbouring inhabitants, which well de- 
serve tobe buried with them in the dust; 
and 1 thinkyour correspondent will be 
satisfied with the following letters, which 
Ihave carefully copied from the originals, 
ae in the possession of a gentleman of 
e greatest respectability in this place, 
Ge whose wey fell in the fullow- 
ing manner, partly related in the letters 
themselves. Mis. Bostock’s fame bein 
»far extended, one Sir John Price, of 
uckland, Brecon, having lost, by death, 
a beloved wife, wrote.to. her, hoping by 
her prayers, to have leg restored to him; 
but not obtaining ally satisfactory answer, 
and not being acquainted with any per- 
son in the neighbourhood, was induced 
to make a second application to her, 
through the medium of the post-master, 
with whom, as it appears, he interchanged 
many letters on the subject, which justly 
Pipe him to the severest ridicule, as 
of the most remarkable instances of 
blind fanaticism which is to be met 
vith. At the death of this post-tnaster, 
they descended to the present possessor 
‘a who bad | miarried his daughter, 
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