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remarkable swell of the sea without wind occurred about noon; 

 it was followed by a gale from the west, of which such a 

 phenomenon was considered to be a certain prognostic as 

 long ago as the time of Aratus. 



Sept. 6. — Cichorium Intybus and Papaver Rhceas by the 

 roadsides going to St. Omers. 



Sept. 7. — I noticed the extreme scarcity of plants in flower 

 all the way to Douay. Fine moonlight night. 



Sept. 8. — Proceeding from Douay to Valenciennes and 

 Mons, I had occasion to notice the greater luxuriance of ve- 

 getation, particularly of trees, when I entered the Flemish 

 territory. The horses and cattle in general, too, are larger 

 than those of France. 



Sept. 9. — Travelled to Tournay : weather fine. 



Sept. 10. — Weather very fine with light breezes. I saw 

 the Crepis Meluni in flower in a ditch between Tournay and 

 Courtray. We passed through Ypres, and slept at Dunkerque. 

 The hops seemed very fine and abundant in Flanders this 

 year*. China Asters, African Marigolds and Michaelmas Daisy 

 in flower in various places. 



Sept. 11. — Violent gale from the S.W. The packet how- 

 ever sailed from Calais. 



Sept. 12. — High wind, rainy morning and fair evening. The 

 wind fell at night and got more westward, and I distinctly 

 saw the South Foreland light-houses from the pier at Calais. 



Sept. 1 3. — Fine day, but a stiff breeze : slept at Dover. 



Sept. 14. — At Hartwell I found Crocus autumnalis in flower 

 in abundance. Nasturtium still abundant. Stocks and many 

 other flowers still ornament the gardens. 



Throughout all France, I learn that this has been as bad a 

 fruit year as in England ; the same is the case in Belgium. 

 Cholera and other autumnal complaints prevail much. 



T. Forster. 



LIST OFNEW PATENTS. 



To John Vallance, of Brighton, Sussex, esquire, for his improved method 

 or methods of abstracting or carrying off the caloric of fluidity from any 

 congealing water (or it may be other liquids). Also an improved method 

 or methods of producing intense cold. Also a method or methods of ap- 

 plying this invention so as to make it available to purposes with reference 

 to which temperatures about or below the freezing point, may be rendered 

 productive of advantageous effects, whether medical, chemical, or mechani- 

 cal. — Dated 2rtth August 1824. — (J months allowed to enrol specification. 



To James Neville, of High-street, Southwauk, Surry, engineer; and 

 William Husk, of Broad-street, London, esquire, for certain improvements 

 in propelling ships, boats, or other vessels or floating bodies — 16th Sept. — 

 'I mouths. 



* Latt • car we found the hops as scarce and bad at Poperingue and in 

 the neighbourhood of Ypres as they were in Kent. - Edit. 



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