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100 Natural Hiftory, 
to extract it the mufhroom is pounded in a mortar, and the 
liquor | thence obtained is boiled for a quarter of an hour in 
water. ‘’ An ounce of liquor is fufficient to communicate co- 
louring-matter to fix pounds of water. When the liquor has 
been firained, the fluff to be dyed is put into it, and boiled 
for a quarter ofan hour. All kinds of ftuff receive this co- 
lour and retain it, but on lineh and cotton it is lefs bright, 
This colour may be modified, in a very agreeable manner, by 
the effect of mordants, 
The procefs fucceeded beft on filk. When this fubftance, 
after being dyed,-is made to pafs through a bath of foft foap; 
it acquires a fhining golden-yellow eolours which has a per- 
fe& refemblance to the yellow of that filk employed to imi- 
tate embroidery in gold, and which has hitherto.been brought 
- from ‘China and fold at a dear rate, as the method of dyeing 
jt is unknown in Europe. The yellow colour extra@ted fromr 
this nfuflroom maybe employed alfo with advantage for 
painting in water-colours as well as in oil. 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
The two following articles on the Friendfhip and the Sa- 
gacity of Birds, by Mr. Simpfon of New-York, we copy 
from the Medical Repofitory, 5 avaluable work publifhed in 
"America :—~ 
«* Mr. Myers, a brother-in-law of mine, moving from 
Wilton to Philadelphia, defired me tg fend for a large tur- 
key-cock and hen, and a pair of bantams, which had been 
a long time in his yard, and which the family did not choofe 
to have killed. Accordingly, after"his departure, I had them 
brought home, and put with fome other poultry that were 
then creer in my yard. Some time after, as I was feed- 
ing the poultry from the barn-door, a large hawk turned the 
barn, and fuddenly made a pitch at the bantam hen: fhe 
immediately gave the alarm, bya noife which they generally 
make on fuch occafions; when the large turkey-cock, who 
was about two yards diftance, and who I prefumed faw the ~ 
‘hawk’s intentions, and the imminent danger of his old ac- 
quaintance, flew at the hawk with fuch violence, and gave — 
him fuch a fevere firoke with his fpurs ashe was going to © 
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