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oil of salt, which drains from the rock salt, have been used with ad- 
vantage. Whatever may be thought upon this subject, there ap- 
pear to have been, from ancient date, very decided opinions upon 
the utility of the general use of salt, which is craved with great ar- 
dor by many animals. It is the well known token of hospitality and 
confidence among the Arab tribes, and the ancient Hebrew moral 
law enjoins its employment as a point of religious as well as of phys- 
ical propriety. 
It is hardly possible to appreciate the value of such an article, un- 
ul one has suffered the miseries of privation. 
Art. IX Meteorological tigi Jor the year 1836, a at 
Marietta, Ohio, in Lat. 5’ N. and Long. 4° 28’ W. of 
Washington; by S. P. Saetiiestl 
THERMOMETER. | s | BAROMETER. 
ge | | se! 
é | | | les | 
Months. a | . 4 a | ee | Prevailing winds. : = 
ei] ae ee ee ce & ¢ 
$3 8/25/85 518 | $i ;a/e 
— lien | a | = 6 3 os om = 
|e) Se |e) | OS | =| = | 2 ie 
January, |31.30 63|-10)73| 17) 14, 2/55) 29.70/29.00 
February, 27.23 56/-18/74 15, 1)80) ‘f 
March, —|36.23,62)_3/59 14) 2/80 : 
April,’ —_|44.2489) 22/67] 18) 12) 3/8 
May, 5.7690). 38/5 11 663 
June, 69.66.88) 48 10° 2/04 
saa 75.20/86; 56/30 4 3|9) 
69.80 85| 48/37, 20) 11 3/16 
September, |68.0888 38/50} 20) 10 3116 
October, 45.3276 22/54 15, 208 
November, |36.90,75) 12/63 13) 2/50) 
December, {30.70 6(t6| 18) 13 225, w. 
Mean, {50.03 j219)147 36/75) "Mean range: 29.4 
‘Remarks on the year 1836.—The same diminution of mean an- 
nual heat, which has prevailed in the middle and eastern states for 
the last three years, appears still to be continued, and in the year 
which has passed at rather an increased ratio. ‘To what cause or 
A Spanish physician of pis pained wit Sieagen' assured me that dogs and cats 
th , although 
he.) was, not aware that it prevailed ae Me other domestic animals. Whe ther 
red by the fact that those animals 
which. feed 1 a the offals of our table, ’a are ¢ alone affected by this peculiar disease, 
is yet to be show 
