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XVII. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



PRODUCTION OF MURIATES BY THE GALVANIC DlKCOM- 

 POSITION OF WATER. 



To Mr, Til loch. 



S^^J Leicester, Feb. 15, 180C. 



1 HAVE the pleasure to inform you I have tried Mr. Peel's 

 experiments relative to the formation of miiriat of soda and 

 muriat of potash, which were in your Magazine in April 

 and July last, and find them to be perfectly correct. 



Yours truly, &c. &c. 



A. B. HORTENTZ. 

 BEET-ROOT SUGAR. 



A manufactory for this sugar has been established by a 

 company of merchants in the neighbourhood of Moscow; 

 and the success of the establishment has proved, that from 

 this vegetable a sugar is obtained which not only finds a 

 ready market, but which, the consumers say, yields in no 

 quality whatever to the sugar generally in use. 



A specimen has been presented to his majesty the empe- 

 ror of Russia, who was pleased to express his high satis- 

 faction with it. 



CURE FOR DROPSY. 



We have already had occasion to announce, that different 

 people who had been afflicted with dropsy, had been per- 

 fectly cured by means of Bohea tea. In the Greenock 

 Advertiser we find the following instance of the efficacy of 

 this remedy : 



A correspondent in Islay requests us to state, for the 

 information of the public, that Donald Cameron, a herd 

 upon the farm of Machry, in that island, was severely 

 afflicted with a dropsy, which kept liim bed-fast from July 

 to November last ; but was finally cured by using a quarter 

 of a pound of Bohea, drinking a strong infusion of it, and 

 eating the leaves. In three days the immense quantity of 

 water that was in his body disappeared, the tea having acted 

 as a powerful diuretic j and he is now stout and hearty, 

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