II EFFECTS OF FROST. Sept. 28. 



pence ; and as it is very eafy, in all cafes, to have the yarn un- 

 twlfted to any degree that may be wanted ; and as, where the 

 AV'ool is long, a very finall degree of twifl is fufficient to make 

 the thread cohere enough for being wove in a light loom, where 

 the foft Shetland wool is employed, fabrics of wool may be thus 

 made, not only much finer than any that have ever been feen, 

 but even fofter in texture than the fineft Indian fliawls, which 

 liave hitherto been unrivalled by any European manufadlurer. 

 [_N. B, If not difdppointed by the engraver, the figure and de- 

 fcripiion of the untwifimg machine 'will be given in our next. 



•Farther Obfervations on the EffeBs of Frofl on Corn. 



To the Editor of the Bee. 



S I R, 



In looking over No. 6th, Vol. IV. of your ufefiil publication, 

 i obl'erved an extradt from Jny ftatiftica! account of the Parilh 

 of Linton, relative to the effefts of the harveft frofts.^ — Whe- 

 ther from inaccuracy in my original report, or inadvertence in 

 thofe who prepared it for the prefs, I find a conclufion fet 

 down, without a precife ftatement of the fads from which that 

 conclufion is deduced. 



It is in the laft paragraph of page 218. immediately after 

 the fentence, it is certainly the cafe ivith cats. The fadts, which 

 I either did ftate, or ought to have ftated in confirmation of 

 the preceding averment, as to the frofl having little effeB on 

 the cars of oats, ivben their juices nuere luatery, and had not at- 

 tained to t'hrconfflenceof0icki/hmilk, are as follow; "In the 

 " year i 784, the froft was on the night betwixt the i 7th and 

 " i8th of Augufl: — I had that feafon afield in the crofts ad- 

 " joining to the village of Linton, fown with Polilh oats, a 

 " fpecies of oat about three or four weeks earlier than tiie 

 ^' Tweedfide oat, then commonly ufed ; the uppermoft grains 

 " (which in every fpecies of oat ripen fooneft) had in that 

 ''• field attained to the confiltence of thick milk ; thefe were 

 *' all frofted four or five grains down the head ; the grains 

 "• below thefe all ripened well. The rough bear in the conti- 

 " guous fields, which might be about equally forward with 



