130 on glafs drops. -^^S' ^' 



ments in agriculture, in every part of the country, 

 are more intimately connected with this circum- 

 stance than with any other whatever; unlefs it be 

 that of establifhing turnpike roads, which it must be 

 allowed affords a greater stimulus to industry than 

 any thing else. 



Since then the general prosperity of the country, 

 *ndthe kindly connection between the higher and low- 

 er clafses of the community, so much depend upon a 

 proper security given to tenants, by means of leases, 

 as this ingenious cforrespondcnt justly observes, 

 I cannot help recommending this subject to the at- 

 tention of my readers, as one of the most primary 

 importance. Nor ftiall I at present say more on this 

 head, in the hopes of obtaining some farther elucida- 

 tions of it upon great and liberal principles. Should 

 these elucidations prove unsatisfactory, I fliall per- 

 haps think it necefsary, at a future period, to suggest 

 some farther hints on this subject, with a view to lead 

 to the discovery of sound principles of practice in re- 

 gard to this very important object. J. A. 



ON RUPERT'S GLASS DROPS. 



vVhen glafs is taken in a fluid and fine state from a 

 glafshouse pot, and dropped into cold water, it forms 

 a drop with a long and slender tail, which bursts in 

 pieces on this tail being broken. 



Chamber's Encyclopedia says, " the best way of 

 making them is to take up some of the metal out of 

 the pot upon the end of an iron rod, and immediate- 



