3S4. Notices respecting New Books. 



island, and have been surprised that cottagers and others 

 livino- on or in the neiglibourliood of moors and heaths co- 

 vered with soil suitable for their growth, have not been ad- 

 vised to cultivate them for the sake of profit. According to 

 Witherino-'s quotation from Lightfoot*, twenty or thirty 

 pounds worth of the berries are sold by tiie poor people each 

 market day for five or six weeks together, in the town of 

 Langtown, on the borders of Cumberland. This is a consi- 

 derable sum for berries picked up from barren wastes and in 

 a <listrict so thinly inhabited, and it is remarkable that the 

 ready sale for them has not tempted some person to make 

 the trial to supply the market in a more certain and regular 

 way : if they could not be consumed or disposed of in the 

 innnediate neighbourhood, where they may be grown, they 

 could easily be sent a great distance without the hazard of 

 beino- spoiled. There is one very strong argument in favour 

 of their cultivation, which is, that they may be made to grow 

 widi little trouble in places and on soils where few other use- 

 ful plants yet known will grow to advantage. It may be said 

 that the demand for them will be limited and uncertain ; but 

 that may have been said of a number of other things of a si- 

 milar nature which now meet with a regular sale, and which 

 the growers of course endcxavour to cultivate according to the 

 demand they have for diem. If, to supply the whole of Great 

 Britain, only the produce of one hundred acres were required, 

 it would at least be one step towards making that quantity of 

 waste land useful in some degree, and probably suggest some 

 other improvement in various ways. Should any person be 

 induced to make the trial, there can be no doubt the Ameri- 

 can Cranberry would be the easiest managed, and most pro- 

 ductive for general use ; but as many prefer the flavour of the 

 Eno-lish Cranberry, there would also be a demand for it on 

 that account, though at a higher price. 



I am, sir, your obedient servant, 

 Fulham, Dec. 10, 18i?:2. ' Thomas MilNE. 



LXXIX. Notices 7-esjjecting Ne-dO Booh. 

 Ilecentli/ jmblished. 



"DART II. of The Philosophical Transactions of the Roj-al 

 -■- Society of London, for 1823, has just appeared : the fol- 

 lowing are its contents : 



On a new Phaenomenon of Electro-magnetism : On the 

 Application of Liquids formed by the Condensation of Gases 



* Withering's Syst. .\rr. of British Plants, 5th edition, vol. ii. p. 4G2. 



