164 
An immense whale of the sperma- 
ceti kind, called the Macrocephalus, 
was lately caught off Creswell. The 
following were its dimensions :— 
Length from the tip of the nose to the 
end of the upper fork of the tail -- 61°0 
note a ae +» 37°6 
Girth in thickest part 
Height of the nose or blunt part of 
the Head cenee 0. vec Poditeene Taro 
Length of the under-jaw «-++++++-+ 15°6 
Distance between the eyes «+ee++++ 20°6 
—The upper jaw projects five feet be- 
yond the under one; in the latter 
there are two rows of ivory teeth, 
twenty-three in each row; in the 
upper jaw there are no teeth, but it is 
furnished with cavities to reccive the 
teeth of the under. 
Moral Hours, a poem, from the pen 
of the Rev. J. JoNEs, M.A. will soon 
appear. 
Dr. BrewstTER has published, in his 
valuable Journal, a list of the steam- 
boats plying on the river Clyde in 
1822. ‘The boats which ply between 
Glasgow and Greenock generally 
make two, and frequently three trips 
a-day; and hitherto not a single pas- 
senger has lost his life, cither from 
sea-risk, or the nature of the ma- 
chinery. 
Tons. 
Superb, to Liverpool, = 160 
Majestic, ------ ee dow - = 939 
City of Glasgow, .. do. 
building, «+ do. 
Eclipse, -++++++ee+ Belfast. 
Britannia, +---+--+ Campbelton, - 69 
Argyle, eens feee do. - 66 
Highlander, -+++e+ Loch Sunart. 
Comet, «+++++.--- Fort William, - 29 
Highland Chieftain, Stranraer, - - 37 
Inverary Castle,-- Inverary, - - 71 
Rothsay Castle, do. : = (461 
‘Towart, Oe es do. 
Neptune, +-----.. Rothsay, - - 68 
Highland-Lad, +--+ Lochgoil-head, - 34 
Fingal, an ce:e'6s hee do. ~ a 52 
Port-Glasgow, +--+ Helensburgh, - 55 
Greenock, -+sseee6 0... Par Wet e 
Caledonia, «+-++-+« LU Bi ce HIRE iB 5 
Waterloo, --++-++ do - - 58 
Glasgow; «+++++++ Largs, - - 43 
Albion, «-...-.-. + do. - - 63 
Largs,--+-+.+.+.- s+ do. 
Dunbarton, -----+ Dunbarton. 
Marion, -+--++++++ Loch Lomond, 
Postboy, ++-++++» Greenock, - - 54 
Gourock, ++++-++- do. - =) 45 
Marquis of Bute, do. - - 36 
Robert Burns, ecceees do. SPW ae 
Oscar, «++ -seeeedeces AO. * 3 87 
Trusty, «.e0-s--- Goods, - - 59 
Industry, ....e+++ do. - - 55 
Dispatch, seeeeess do. ~ E 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
[Sept. 1, 
Active, --+- do. - - 59 
Sampson, -.+ «+++. ‘Towing-vessel, - 49 
Hercules, «+++-++« do. 
This spirit of enterprize is credita- 
ble to the Scotch, On our Severn 
there is not one; and only one in the 
Bristol Channel, from Bristol toTenby, 
and Ireland. 
We have at sundry times given 
place to papers by Mr. Doncaster on 
spade husbandry, and we now have 
pleasure in giving the substance of a 
letter from Mr. Falla, of Gateshead, 
detailing the experiments of four suc- 
cessive years in the cultivation of 
wheat by the spade. Former experi- 
ments, says Mr, F. having been made 
with plants of wheat raised upon gar- 
denbeds, and from thence transplanted 
into lines, Mr. F. began with the same 
mode; he sowed the wheat in beds in 
the month of Augusi, and transplanted 
the same in September and October, 
—the distance of the lines from each 
other was, in one experiment, nine, 
and in another twelve inches—placging, 
in both cases, twelve plants per yard 
in the lines. These experiments he 
made two successive years, and the 
least produce was fifty-two bushels, 
and the greatest sixty bushels, Win- 
chester, per acre. The quantity of 
ground under these experiments was 
half an acre each year. 
cosT. 
Digging at 4d. per rood .... £113 0 
Transplanting 232,523 plants, 
at 4E per 1000 eeseee---. 4 7 12 
Two pecks of seed wheat ---- 0 4 6 
Total eec--evesee§ 4 73 
Experiments in 1819. 
bushels p. acre. 
1 transpl. from seed-bed into 6 in. lines, produced 624 
2 do. 9 do. do. 5tg 
3 do. 12 do. do. 61 
4 sown in drills 9 do. do. 65% 
5 sown broadcast do. 58% 
Experiments in 1820. 
1 transpl. from seed-bed into 6in. lines, produced 68% 
2 do. 9 do. do. 65% 
3 do. 12 do. do. 60% 
4 sown in drills 9 do. do. 735 
5 sown broadcast do. 765 
Expense of one acre in drill, and also 
broadcast : 
Digging «+eses.seeeeseeses £1 13 O 
Seed wheat, two bushels per acre 0 18 O 
211 0 
If sown broadcast, and rakedin 0 4 O 
215 0 
I have no difficulty im asserting, that 
one digging is equal to three ploughings 
and harrowings; and the ploughing each 
time of an acre is calculated to cost 8s. 
and the harrowing 2s. 
Three 
