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of chesnuts, and use the latter for making glue : this process 

 ■was described in 1791, in the Lycie des Aits. 



** In the same country thev make a kindof snuff of ahlack 

 colour, and also a horse medicine, troni chesnuts. 



"Abbe Rozicr says, in his Agricultural Dictionary, that 

 the fecLiluni of the chesnut mixed with other fecula will 

 make wholesome and well -tasted bread. 



"We find in \.\\t Memoirs of the Academy qfScieticet, that 

 M. le Bon, of Montpelier, after having taken the biUerness 

 from chesnuts by macerating them in an alkaline ley for 

 24 hours, and washing them every day for ten days, boiled 

 them for three or four hours, when they made excellent 

 food for pigeonSj and kept well for sonic time after being 

 (Jried. 



" The chesnut tree (cesculus hippocastaninii of hmn.) is in- 

 digenous in Asia, whence it was brought in 15S8 to Vienna. 

 Bachelier brought it from Constantinople to Paris in 1615 

 md in 1656. 



*' The bark of the chesnut tree is said to be an excellent 

 substitute for Peruvian baik. 



" The name of liippocastoimm (horse chesnut) seems to be 

 derived from its having been used in some countries as foocj 

 |"or horses." 



ELKCTRICIXy. 



Liverpool, Inly S, 1803. 



Sir, Having been i;i the habit of amusing myself with 

 electrical experiments in my leisure hours, I was not a 

 little surprised on finding the difference in shocks from a 

 Leyden phial filled from the conductor in the common way, 

 and those filled as follows : I stood on an insulated stool, 

 laid one finger on the prime conductor, and filled the jar 

 from the other ; when, on receiving the shocks, I found 

 them so considerably augmented, that two taken in this 

 nianner incommoded nie mo.e than a dozen in the common 

 method. Not having seen this fact noticed in auv publica- 

 tion, it may perhaps prove new to many of your readers. 

 Of the cause of the difference I have f >rmed no opinion, 

 but the fact is correct, the same eiltct having been expe- 

 rienced 



