1825.] 
lish, who had made it their abode. To that 
report I have scarcely any thing to add; 
for, with the exception of some cases of 
rgbeola, and of cynanche parotidea, we 
lave had no specific malady amongst us. 
Bowel complaints, as is usual every where 
at this season, have been frequent of late, 
and in some instances attended with a con- 
siderable degree of fever ; but I have not 
heard of any fatal case. Indeed, such is the 
exemption of Boulogne from fever, that I 
haye only seen one purely idiopathie case 
since my last report. During the spring 
and early summer months, variola has been 
exceedingly prevalent in all our neighbour- 
ing towns, with whose inhabitants we have 
had, ofcourse, unrestricted communication ; 
yet that disease has not gained a footing 
among our population. 
mark this circumstance as a proof of the 
difficulty of drawing conclusive inferences 
from isolated facts, in opposition to uni- 
versal experience and observation ; for had 
the disease been the plague in place of va- 
viola, the anti-contagionists would with avi- 
dity haye embraced the fact, as establishing 
the non-contagious nature of that disease. 
About a fortnight ago a poor family, hay- 
ing one or two, children sick of yariola, mi- 
grated to this place; yet the infection does 
not appear to spread. 
~ It may be superfluous to introduce here 
what has been long and generally remarked, 
' that the climate of the Continent differs 
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materially in its effects. upon our feelings, 
from what we experience by residing in cor- 
responding latitudes in insular situatiens. 
What the cause of this may be, I do: not 
pretend to determine, as there is no diffe- 
rence, by the test of experiment, in the phy- 
sical and chemical properties of the atmos- 
phere in those situations. Continents are 
Warmer in summer and colder in winter ; 
on the other hand, the atmosphere over 
islands is probably at all times more humid, 
and consequently must also differ from the 
former in its proportions of electric and 
magnetic fluid; but whether it be owing to 
the operation of those fluids or not upon 
our bodies, I daily hear it remarked, by in- 
valids particularly, that they enjoy more 
lightness of feeling on this side of the chan- 
nel, much greater and more permanent than 
they experienced in England. This was 
expressed by Dr. Johnson as the pleasant 
effect he felt from continental air when he 
visited France :—see his life by Boswell. As 
coming within the scope of this report, I 
have further to observe, to the credit of our 
countrymen, residents at this place, that a 
committee has been-formed in correspon- 
dence, with the Humane Society of Lon- 
don, with whose assistance an establish- 
ment is formed for the recovery of the 
drowned, of which there have been frequent 
heart-rending occurrences here. f 
' Ti. Rosrrrson, M. D, 
Boulogne-sur-mer, Sept. 8, 1825. 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
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@NHE present Report, for the most part, 
_# must be the echo of the preceding. 
Our correspondents, generally, had formed 
a prospective judgment, which events have 
sanetioned. ‘The golden crop, wheat,. has 
proved the most abundant, not. only in the 
three kingdoms, but on the Continent, in 
Canada, and the United States. We have 
few districts im which this is not found to 
be- considerably above: an average; the 
straw particularly bright and clean, with far 
less appearance of blight upon the whole 
plant, than might have been expected from 
so yariable‘a season. From the favourable 
state of the weather, great. part of the wheat 
has been. caxxied aad. secured in a state of 
perfection; some, however, has been both 
cut and carried too soon—a usual error : 
whenee the sample is injured, and, if 
speedily thrashed, it will have a rough and 
moist feel, In fortunate Seotland, they 
boast of a wheat crop, one-third above aw 
average, with a more satisfactory account 
of all the other crops than we have received 
from any other part of the island, potatoes 
excepted, the quality of which is described 
us fine: Less is said tham heretofore on 
the supposed scantiness of the stock of old. 
wheat, which is now, in request, at an ad- 
Yance of price; to grind withthe new, hur- 
ried to market in its moist state, with the 
view, it may be presumed, of taking ad- 
vantage of the present favourable. rates: 
for the circumstences of the farmers are 
now so fortunately improved, that they are 
able to hold their eorn, and prevent any - 
sudden depression of the market. “Indeed, 
ouraccounts from the country are- univer- 
sally satisfactory, both with respect. to the 
farming and the labouring elass—the latter 
finding full employment, on considerably 
better terms than they have obtained of 
late years. In all this sunshine, there yet 
hangs a cloud over the minds of the land 
proprietors and eultivators, touching. the 
probability of a change in the eorn laws’ iy 
fuvour of free trade, they taking for granted 
their just right and title to the monopoly. 
This, however, must give way; but when, 
we believe, has not yet: been decided by 
those in whose power the decision Ties. 
We have heard that the subject awaits the 
investigation of a new Parliament. Bar- 
ley is the next crop to wheat in-point.of 
quantity ; perhaps, on the whole, approach= 
ing to:'an average. It has been well har- 
vested, and much of it of fine quality; 
some sprouted! and: discoloured! by the 
showers during harvest. Outs) peas; 
beans, tares, clover an@ othor seeds; short 
2M2 Cropss 
