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Seriously, he has left nothing in the 

 composition capable of producing the ef* 

 fects ascribed to it ; for whatever may be 

 the virtues of cow-dung and urine*, still 

 the manner of application precludes them 

 from operating to any beneficial purpose ; 

 as the first or second heavy shower of rain 

 must inevitably displace them complete- 

 ly, when laid on of the consistence of 



" bark, and apply a mixture of cow-dung and urine 

 *' onliji (made to the consistence of a thick paint) 

 " with a painter's brush, covering the stem carefully 

 *' over. This softens the old scabrous bark, which 

 " peels oflF during the following winter and spring, 

 " and is succeeded by a fine smooth new bark." On 

 which we need only to remark generally, that if such 

 astonishing effects may really be produced by such tri- 

 fling means in this case, it would be similar in any 

 other ; and therefore, all the extra means *' heretofore" 

 used, were perfectly useless. 



* In the Preface to the First Edition, the author 

 mentions Cow-Dung, as an article applied by others 

 to the same purpose; and by himself " but with very 

 '* little success." 



