200 Dung — Varieties. 



extremely heating and drying quality, 

 whether as a manure, or for medicinal 

 purposes. It was in former days, a prin- 

 cipal ingredient in nitre beds, when that 

 article was almost entirely manufactured 

 at home. 



Carriers, horsemen, and dragoons, 

 are travellers or messengers, and I have 

 occasionally seen tumblers turned off, at 

 the distance of forty miles from home. The 

 carrier, it is said, has performed a journey 

 of forty miles in an hour and half, and of 

 even ninety miles in three hours. A dra- 

 goon has flown seventy-six miles in two 

 hours and half: but this fancy of flying 

 pigeons, is in no country, it seems, so 

 much in vogue as formerly. The admired 

 qualities in the tumbler, are excessive 

 high flight, so as to be almost imperceptible 

 to the keenest eye, in fine and clear wea- 

 ther ; perseverance in their flight for many 

 hours together, and tumbling over and 

 over repeatedly, during their ascent and 

 descent. 



The following imperfect account of pi- 



