Vol. VIII.— No. 22. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



17S 



"111 ce of what we have to sell to enable us to 



* ke the exchange. The British luanufacturer 



y sell to ushis cloth at a price nominally cheaper 



il.n our own will comniand for several years to 



licome, and yet it may be actually cheaper for 



fanners to buy of our own manufacturei-s. If 



S )ay the British manufacturer, the farmer must 



his produce for a less price than he would be 



iiafiged to sell it in order to pay the American 



'•''ff nufacturer, he can as well afford to buy the do- exchange for them, and may entirely exclude them 



particular chonnels, aud that the greatest value of wished with Darwin, to take away all the wonder- 

 annual product would be produced by suffering ful from the constructiveness of birds, and refer 

 iudividual industry to pursue that course which j it, as men, to practice. Nonsense! There are 

 the sagacity of the individual should find mo.st | creatures, the silkworm, for instance, which work 

 profitable. That profound political economist had j once, and but once, and which could have had no 

 no reference to the continuance of a system by instruction, 

 which Great Britain would compel other nations 



to buy her manufactures and her colonial produce, 

 whil.st she refuses to buy what they may desire to 



itic manufacture, if he pays no more for it 



n the difference which he obtains for his own 



duce under this system of encouragement, and 



'«i le pays less than this difference for the domes- 



"oii manufacture, he can better afford to buy it ; in 



frii sr words, it will be cheaper to him, though ra- 



'"^ 1 at a higher money price than the British nian- 



Ibture, if he bought it for a less quantity of his 



P«i luce. 



ait is one of the simplest proposition.s in political 



noiuy, that a nation can only buy in proportion 



fvhat it has to sell, and can sell to buy with. If 



tnnot sell its surplus produce, the nation is in 



"ill same situation in reference to what it wishes to 



11 with it, as if it had no surplus produce. The 



nish nation, whilst in tlio full enjoyment of the 



es of South America, could buy British inanu- 



ures with the produce of those mines, though 



in was more prosperous when she manufac- 



ryi d for herself. But we have no means ofobtain- 



iraa the silver and gold which are necessary to buy 



ish manufactures, but by selling our produce, 



er to tlie British or to some other nation. Great 



il ain will not allow the produce of our grain 



iving slates to come into her home market in 



(petition with the productions of her own soil, 



;ss under some peculiar circumstances which 



om occur; and the cry now is, that there is no 



5t in navigation and foreign commerce, which 



i: 3 nuich as to say that there is no place abroad 



ID ;re we can carry our produce to a profit. IIow 



m 1 are the grain growing states to jiay for Bri- 



manufactures? Does not the duty of self-i)re- 



ration require that we should raise up manufac- 

 ai irs among ourselves, who will consume tlie 



1 dus produce of the firmer, and pay him with 

 il r manufactures .' Tliis creation of the home 

 I! ikct will raise the price of agricultural pro- 



e, and though the farmer may jjay a higlier 

 linal price for domestic manufactures than he 

 1 for foreign, yet he may be a gainer by the ex- 

 thougii he pays more money, he has 

 re money to pay with, and therefore he may 

 II actually cheaper, and grow richer than when 

 jave less and got less. It is not universally tru 



from her colonies. Nor did he suppose that other 

 nations were to be regardless of their own resour- 

 ces and industry, and while no respect was had to 

 wliat they could produce at a less price than the 

 manufacturers or farmers of England, except by 

 an exclusion from the British market, they were 

 to be deluded by the cry of cheap ! cheap ! and 

 required to purchase whatever England might be 

 willing to sell, at n ])rico intended to break down 

 their infant manufactures and to render them sub- 

 servient to the overwhelming influence of British 

 capital and monopoly. The philosophic mind of 

 this great man, contemplating the wealth of na- 

 tioii.s, considered the whole human race as one 

 family, and bound togetlier by the ties of com- 

 merce and mutual interest \s one nation, pursuing, 

 undirected and untramelled by human laws, that 

 species of industry best adapted to their condition 

 and climate, and freely interchanging with each 

 other the produce of different countries and varied 

 industry in a manner most conducive to the wel- 

 fare and happiness of the whole. Such conside- 

 rations, in such a mind, were well fitted to excite 

 disgust at the petty contrivances by which the few 

 were endeavoring to monopolize the i)rivilcges of 

 the many, and nations, deceived by the representa- 

 tions of the interested, were doing violence to the 

 ordinances of nature, and striving to paralyze that 

 industry it) other nations, which, under a different 

 system, w'ould contribute to their own comfort and 

 happiness. Great Britain has felt, and is now suf- 

 fering under the evils of her system, which has 

 taken so deep root that her wisest statesmen must 

 despair of a remedy. Wliilst therefore Great 

 Britain may be compelled to persevere in her sys- 

 tem of commercial and municipal war against the 

 industry of all other countries, other nations are 

 compelled to adoj)! some measures of defence. 

 And let not our statesmen be deceived by those 

 beautiful theories which the statesmen of Great 

 Britain would gladly recommend for our adoption, 

 that their own condition may be ameliorated un- 

 der a system which they dare not abandon, but 

 which theories are no more applicable to the ])re- 

 sent state of the commercial world than the Uto- 



Singular phenomenon. — Near the village of Kil- 

 kee, on the western coast of Ireland, is a natural 

 curiosity which I do not recollect to have seen any 

 where mentioned by traveller.'^. It is called the 

 " Puffing Hole," and consists of a cavern at the 

 base of the cliff, the mouth of which opens on the 

 xVtlantic, aud which after burrowing to a consider- 

 able distance, runs up to the surface in a narrow 

 neck, resembling at the top the mouth of a well, 

 when the tremendous sea from abroad rolls in, it 

 is as though the great body of water was forced 

 into an inverted funnel, its impetus of course in- 

 creasing as it ascends through the narrow neck 

 until it reaches the upper opening or " Puffing- 

 hole," through which il jets to an astonishing height 

 into the air, sometimes several hundred feet, and 

 then falls in vain on the mossy fields behind. No- 

 thing can be more stupendous than the sight 

 of this gigantic jet d'eau when the strong westerly 

 wind sets in with force so as to completely block 

 up the mouth of the cavern. 



il refiire that a nation should buy what it wants I pia of Plato to the present condition of man. 



those who will .sell it for the least money, but it (To he continued. 



uld buy what it wants of those who may ena- — 



it to sell what it has to the best advantage. Potatoes.— It is stated in the St Johnsbury (Vt.) 



iffhe maxim of the celebrated Adam Smith, that | Herald, that William Cobb, of Morgan, gathered 



should not manufacture at home, what we can ! '' '"^'^ ^'''"'t_ "^ ''"'<^e bushels, weighing one 1 



cheaper abroad, was predicated upon the en- 



rtl freedom of trade between nations. Having 



)re him the system of monopoly and exclusion 



Bvhich the British farmer was obliged to buy 



clothing, furniture and implements of husband- 



I if the British manufacturer, and the British 



1 lufacturer was obliged to buy his provisions of 



British farmer, though he might buy them 



iteper, if imported from other countries, he 



bted as to the policy of this system, and sup- 



d the nation would be more prosperous and 



Ipy if its industry were not thus forced into 



dred and eightyseven pounds, from one potato, 

 planted the past spring. 



To prepare camphor without the use of alcohol. — 

 Take two drachms of gum camphor, and the same 

 quantity of quirk lime ; rub them well together ; 

 then, putting this mixed powder into an earthen 

 vessel, pour upon it six ounces of litne water. — 

 Let it stand about thirty minutes for the grosser 

 particles to settle. Then pour off the clear liquid 

 into an earthen vessel, and you will have a strong 

 solution of caui|ihor. "iTou will not find ihixt pun- 

 gency in the smell, which you would if it were 

 dissolved in alcohol, for the plain reason, that J9urc 

 loater has not the pungent odor that spirituous 

 liquors have. 



I know of no case where camphor is used in 

 our families, where the lime connected with it 

 can be of any injury. 



In fact, in most if not all cases, it will be a de- 

 cided benefit. 



This mode of dissolving gum camphor has one 

 decided advantage over that in common use. If 

 camphor, dissolved in alcoholic liquors be mixed 

 with water for use, as is frequently necessary, the 

 gum immediately separates and sinks to the bot- 

 tom, an inconvenience which is avoided by this 

 method. 



In point of economy, likewise, the method above 

 proposed has a decided advantasre. 



HERVEY N. PRESTON, M. D. 



JVewton, Mass. JVov. 9, 1829. 



Instinct. Blumenbach asserts the absolute 



blindness of instinct ; in short, instinct in all its 

 usual senses. Birds of passage, kept in cages, 

 with plenty of food, and in warm chambers, yet 

 at the given season of migration, manifest the 

 greatest restlessness and attejnpt to escape. Ca- 

 nary birds, having the materials given them, build 

 exactly like the wild one in the Canary Islands, 

 although reared under other birds. Coudillacl 



CARD MAKING MACHINE. 



The invention of Mr Amos Whittemore, of 

 West Cambridge, formed a new era in the me- 

 chanical ingenuity of this country, and the real 

 importance of the machine can hardly be esti- 

 mated. As a piece of mechanism, it has never 

 been excelled ; strips of smooth leather and rolls 

 of wire are placed on one end of the apparatus, 

 and the intricate process of cutting the leather to 

 the exact size, and pricking the holes is jjerform- 

 ed, while at the same moment the wire is cut, 

 bent, and the teeth are inserted in their respective 

 places ; the card then comes out, [icrfectly formed, 

 and completely finished for immediate use, occu- 

 pying but a few moments in the operation. 



