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structure, and c;eneral oeconomy, ihcy are amply provldccJ 

 for spreading destruction. 



It must give great satisfaction to those who practise or 

 patronize horticulture, to be informed of a verv simple cure, 

 which has proved invariably successful, and is neither costly 

 nor difficult to be obtained — it is the mere application of 

 sulphur, but not burned by way of fumigation or smoke. 

 The precise method of using it has not yet been detailed to 

 me; when it is, you may expect to receive all necessary 

 instructions : in the mean time let it be observed, that the 

 sublimed sulphur, the flores snlpkaris, not the crude brim- 

 stone in powder, is what has been emploved. 



Having received my information from the most respect- 

 able source, it becomes me to rlisclalrri all pretension to the 

 merit of the di&coverv ; T shall, therefore, add, that it was 

 in the extensive and highly cultivated gardens of the hon. 

 baron Hepburn, in East Lothian, where the first experi- 

 ments were made; and, I understand, both there and in 

 other gardens, the practice has been constantly attended 

 with success, 



I remain, dear sir, 



your obliged and obedient servant, 



Long- Acre, JoS. HuME. 



Jan. 2'i, 1808. 



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Ejicyclopcedische Uehersicht der IV issenschaften des Orients, 

 uus siebefi Araliscken, Persischen, und Tinkischeji Iferken 

 uebersetzt : den Freunden vnd Keniiern der Orienialischen 

 Litteratur gewidmet vofi einem derselhen Bejiissenen in 

 Konstantinopcl. — '^ Cyclopedical View of the Sciences of 

 the East, translated from seven Works, in Arabic, Per- 

 sian, and Turkish : inscribed to those who arc acquainted 

 •with Oriental Liteiature, by a Person residing at Con- 

 stantinople." — Leipsick, 1804, 8v6, 2 part.s, pp.699. 



JrlowEyER useful to the advancement of Oriental learning, 

 oT however necessary for complctirig the history of the human 



mind 



