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that her sinking was not occasioned 
by any leak ; but it is supposed the 
water, at various times, came in at 
the scuppers, and from the inatten- 
tion of some persons on board her, 
she was neglected to be occasionally 
pumped, 
A few days ago, at a sale of old 
furniture at Wolverhampton, a 
poor woman bought an arm chair 
for a few shillings ; and shortly af- 
terwards, on attempting to repair it, 
she found, in the stuffing of the back 
and bottom, gold and silver coins of 
George I. to the amount of 100l. 
The broker, on hearing of the cir- 
cumstance, applied for legal aid to 
recover the property, but without 
effect. 
It does not appear to be yet de- 
termined how far the plan of drill- 
ing and dibbling wheat answers the 
purposes of the farmer; but the 
following experiment, by Mr. Charles 
Miller, of Cambridge, shows to what 
an astonishing extent the increase 
of wheat may be carried with 
care :— 
On the 8th of August, he took up 
a plant of wheat, which had been 
sown in the beginning of Junc, and 
divided it into 18 parts, each of 
which was transplanted separately ; 
about the latter end of September, 
they were again removed, and di- 
vided into 67 roots ; in the end of 
March following, and beginning of 
April, they were separated into 500 
plants, which yielded 21,109 ears; 
and the single grain thus yielded 
570,000 fold! the produce mea- 
suring three pecks and three quar- 
ters, and weighing 47]b. 
12th. The college committee met 
at the India-house; after which 
Charles Grant, esq. the late chair- 
man; the,honourable William F. 
Elphinstone, the present chairman ; 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806, 
Mr. Parry, the deputy ; the secres 
tary; Mr. Wilkins, the librarian, 
and the rest of the members of the 
committee, proceeded from the 
house in two carriages, for Haily- 
bury, near Hertford, in order to 
assist at the ceremony of laying the 
first stone of the college, to be 
erected there for students, intended 
for the company’s civil service in 
India. 
Last week Matthew Mark Wat- 
son, a youth about 106 years of age, 
was found hanging in a cellar at 
Huntingdon ; on being taken down, 
various experiments were tried to 
bring him to life, but tono purpose, 
—A spirit of inguiry led this youth 
to hang himself, in order to ascertain 
what sensations it would produce ! 
A short time since, a woodcock’s 
nest was found by some children 
gathering fuel in Calyin’s wood, in 
the parish of Bucklebury, Berks ; 
the rarity of this excited a great 
deal of curiosity in the neighbour- 
hood, and drew numbers to the spot: 
the bird was daily flushed from the 
nest by her unwelcome visitors, who 
had thus repeated proofs that the 
eggs did not belong to one of any 
other genus, nor to another of the 
numerous species of the snipe; they 
are considerably larger than the 
partridge’s, nearer the size of the 
Guinea-hen’s, and speckled with a 
darker brown; the nest, placed on 
the ground, consists of dry leaves 
and feathers, which the hen appa- 
rently has plucked from her body. 
Mr. Ekington, the celebrated 
drainer, got last year from some 
boggy land which he hired of lord 
Crew, the amazing produce of 174 
bushels of good oats, from 5 bushels 
and eleven quarters of seed, sown 
broad-cast. ‘This extraordinary re- 
turn has been made from land which 
a few 
