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The thin or tender shelled varieties usually produce the best 

 flavoured kernels; of the green fruit a favorite pickle is 

 made, and for this purpose the entire fruit must be gathered 

 before the nut becomes hard. The outer covering of the nut 

 is useful to the dyer, and the juice of both it and the macerated 

 leaves, diluted with water, and applied to the ground, will 

 either kill or expel earth-worms. The sap of the tree yields 

 sugar. 



The kernels are cooling, but difficult of digestion ; when 

 old, acrid; yields half its weight of oil by expression, and 

 will also yield a small quantity of sugar. Leaves detersive, 

 and diaphoretic, anti-athritic, anti-syphilitic; inner bark 

 emetic, and also cathartic, when given in pills. 



The wood of this tree is a favorite with the cabinet-maker ; 

 and from its proportionate lightness to its strength and elas- 

 ticity, is mostly used for gun-stocks. 



The walnut is a native of Persia, and the southern side of 

 Caucasus ; and was introduced to this colony, from Europe, 

 previous to 1695. 



Abstract of a Journal kept at the Mauritius, of the 

 Barometrical Movements during the Hurricane of the 

 23d Febrnarrj, 1824. 



The weather, for the greater part of this month (February), 

 had been very stormy, though not unusually so f..rthe season 

 of the year, as, duriug this period, which is the rainy, and in 

 common language called the hurricane season, the island is 

 constantly liable to severe gales, and storms of thunder and 

 lightning. In them, however, there is scarcely any variation 

 in the direction of the wind, or any sensible alteration in the 

 barometer. 



From the 18th to the 22d, it blew a succession of short 

 gales, seldom continuing beyond 6 or 8 hours, with constant 

 rain, and frequent thunder storms. The barometer, however, 

 on Which alone every reliance may be placed on these occa- 

 sions, us to the threatened danger, was but slightly affected, 

 — nor did it indicate by its tardy movements, any sudden 

 change. Its extreme variation having never exceeded one- 

 tenth below its usual standard. There were yet at this pe- 

 riod, many indications of a coming storm : — The air was op- 

 pressive, — the sky was heavy and gloomy, — the mountains' 

 were enveloped in clouds, — and the sea rolled heauly in on 

 the coast, with much noise. 



