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rab horses, to judge from wliat I haveseen in lliis 

 :)Uiitiy. It is not ilie fiery, dasliing animal I had 

 ippnsed, but with more raiioiiahty about him, 

 lid more iip|iarent confidence in his rider, than 

 le majority of English horses." 

 The kindness with which iie is treated from a 

 )al, gives him an affection for his master, a wish 



I) please, a pride in exerting every energy in obe- 

 iciice to his commands, and, consequently, an 

 i( pp:irent sagacity which is seliloin seen in other 

 irei reeds. The mare and her foal inhabit the same 

 '« t silt with the Bedouin and his children. The 

 I H eck of the mare is oflc.i the pillow of the rider, 

 'irl nd, more frcquenlly, of the children, who arc 

 >|ling about upon her and the foal ; yet no acri- 

 ent ever occur.', and the animal acquires that 

 li( riendship and love for man which occasional ill- 

 ■eatment will not cause )um for a nioinent to for- 

 (To be conlinued.) 



NOMENCLATURE OF GRAPES. 



Further extracts ficm Prince's Treatise on the Culture of 

 the Vino, now in press, -ind speedily to be published.] 

 [Continued from paire 235.] 

 ELSINGBURGH. — Pr. Cat. No. 380. 



Elsinburgh. 



Blue Elsirigburgh. 



Elsingborough. 



Smart's Elsingborough. 



YiUslabrusca v. Elsinghinghii. 

 This grape was found near the town whose 

 laine it bear.->, in Salem comity. New Jersey, where 

 t would probably have rcm;iijied unregarded, had 

 t not been brought into notice and cultivation liy 

 )r HuLiNGS. It is a very sweet, juicy fruit, and 

 fa blue colur ; it is very hardy, exceedingly pro- 

 luctive, and promises to be valuable for wine ; the 

 eaves assimilate to those of the European vines 

 nuch more than those of our native varieties gene- 

 ally do, and in color they resemble the Bland's. The 

 junches are of middle size, an<l tiie berries hang 

 oosely ; it rip«ns nt the same time as the Meunier, 

 iiid is free from pul[) or nmsky taste, and has ge- 

 lerully but tivo seeds. It is undotd)tedly a native, 

 ill the characteristics of which it bears. Its wood 

 resembles that of the Isabella, but the fruit ap- 

 proximates more to the Meunier of France than 

 liny other American grape. 



RAistN DE COTE. — Pr. Cat. No. 395. 

 Of this grape, a native of Louisiana, there are 

 vro varieties, which are found through a vast ex- 

 tent of territory from the Attakapas to the Missoin'i. 

 The variety, or species, most known, is dark blue 

 and round ; skin rather thick, and the fruit some- 

 what pulpy, extremely sweet, and not musky. 



eland's pale red. — Pr. Cat. No. 374. 

 Bland's. 

 Powel. 

 Bland's Fox grape. 



Virginia. 

 Red Scuppernong. 

 Vitis Blanda. 



labrusca Blanda. 

 Vitis Blandi. 

 The foliage of this vine is of a pale green hue ; 

 the bunches of grapes are shouldered or divided, 

 and are five or six inches in length, and sometimes 

 more. It is a round grape, of a pale red color, of 

 good size, juicy, sweet, and of very pleasant flavor; 

 it is an agieeable table fruit, and is also a wine 

 grape of very superior order to the Alexander, 



and many others cidtivated as such ; indeed, a 

 person has but once to taste this grape to form his 

 decision on this point. It has been supposed for 

 many years to be a native of Virginia, and its ori- 

 gin has been the subject of much comment. A 

 Virginian gentleman, whose opinion 1 highly re- 

 spect, stated to me that it w.ns an Italian grape, 

 and was brought from Italy by Mr Mazzf.i, aiul 

 his statements had so much weight with tnc that I 

 almost resigned tny own judgnu:nt thereto; but 1 

 have now to aver that it is certainly a native, ami 

 that vines sent to Col. George Gibbs, of this 

 island from North Carolina, under ihc name ofthe 

 Red Scuppernong, have proved to be idvn'ically 

 this same variety, and vines have also been re- 

 ceived by others from that state, which have af- 

 forded the same result. It nppears, also, that this 

 grape was cultivated in our country before Mr 

 Mazzf.i visited it, and the vines he brought, how- 

 ever closely they may have resembled it, could 

 not therefore have been of this kind. 



Another fact is certain, that several native vines 

 which I have received from different parts of our 

 coimtry so greatly resemble in foliage, wood, and 

 manner of growth the real Bland's grape, that 1 

 stnmgly suspect further examination will identify 

 thcni with it, and prove that this variety is found 

 wild in more than one state of the Union. And 

 even among those native varieties, whose fruit es- 

 sentially differs, there arc several whose foliage 

 pos.-jesses the same general characteristics, partic- 

 ularly in regard to color and form, insomiu-h that 

 I doubt not but further investigation will class 

 them under one head as the varieties of a single 

 s;<ecies, distinct from V. labrusca. 



It appears that Cfd. Bland, of Virginia, was 

 among the first that brought this vine into notice 

 and culiivation, from which circuinstaticc liis cog- 

 nomen was attached to it at that time, by which 

 title it has been most generally known since. 



sections of the union. Were not " the sinews of 

 power" with us, of all coniinoilities in natine, the 

 scarcest, we should siot desire a better investment 

 than a rail-road would have been for the Union 

 Company years ago, one member of which could 

 have supplied the needful. But no, we are too 

 much the slaves of the " wait, wait, wait, time 

 enough" policy. The Baltimore and Oliio Rail- 

 road is an illustrious instance of that sagacity 

 which knows when to s;iy, now is the accepted 

 time ; and verily its projectors shall have their re- 

 ward. 



From the American Farmer. 



CHESAPEAKE AND DELAWARE CANAL. 



Strange that for passengers this work is not sti- 

 pcrscded by a rail road! — We have seen it stated 

 that the toll paid by the canal boats of one line 

 is $14,000, but be that as it may, there arc two or 

 three simple acknowledged facts, that in all con- 

 science ought to be suffit'icnt to satisfy any rational 

 mind. We know that at six miles ai! hour, with 

 six horses, the banks sustain almost irreparable in- 

 jury, and it has been said to be matter of delibe- 

 ration whether the company will not have to put 

 a stop to passengers' boats, which take two hours 

 and a half to pass through. On the other hand, 

 we know that even with horse power, the greatest 

 number of passengers that ever cross at luie time 

 might be taken across in half the time, with fom- 

 horses. But horse power will give way to locomo- 

 tive engines that will take their passengers over, 

 whether many or few, in half an bom' I Why then 

 hesitate to construct one at once ? the ground is 

 of all others best adapted to it. The topography 

 is suitable, the distance short, the travelling great; 

 and altogether, it is only surprising that the first 

 rail-road in America shoidd not have been con- 

 structed on this route. The incomparable advan- 

 tages of these structures fiir travelling, would have 

 been there demonstrated under the eyes of travel- 

 lers from all points of the compass, who would 

 have spread the knowledge of their principles and 

 facilities through every state, and to the remotest 



Temperatvre of December, 1829. — The most re- 

 markable feature in the weather of the past month 

 is its mildness. It has been about two degrees 

 warmer than December last year, five degrees 

 warmer than any other within our observations, 

 rind more than seven wanner than the average 

 of December for the last fourteen years. The sur- 

 face of the ground has been frozen slightly a few 

 times, but only for a few days ; and at the end of 

 the month there is no ice in the streams, the 

 steam-boats are jilying as easily as in summer — 

 and the farmer may plough most of his grounds 

 as well as in May. Rains have been frequent but 

 not very copious. But the frequent changes and 

 prevalence of clouds have made the menlh to be 

 nut more agreeable that it has sometimes beCB 

 when it was colder. House-keepers of every 

 class have had ample opportunity to prei)are for 

 severe weather, aiul cannot much longer fail to 

 experience it. — tViltiamslown jldvocale. 



STUDY OF ANATOMY. 



[Extracts from a pamphlet recently published, on the im- 

 portance of piotecling the study and investigations of 

 anatomy by legal enactments.] 



During the past year, a mechanic from a seaport 

 town, being on a visit to his friends in the country, 

 trod upon a scythp, in such a manner as to cause 

 the point to wounj him just below the ear. 

 Notwithstanding the plugging and stufling [irac- 

 tiseil by the medical attendants, this inan died of 

 bleeding on the fourth day, without an attempt 

 being made to tie the great artery of the neck, 

 which probably was wounded. 



A woman, in a neighboring State, fell down 

 cellar, and wounded the carotid artery with a 

 broken earthen pot. She bled to death after se- 

 veral days, without an attempt having been made 

 to put a ligature on this artery, which wouhl have 

 been an effectual and comparatively safe me- 

 thod of stopping the bleeding, and which a mode- 

 rate knowledge of Anatomy would have enabled 

 any resolute practitioner to perform. 



A child, in a town not many miles from tho 

 metropolis of Massachusetts, having got a bean in 

 its windpipe, was suffocated, after several days 

 of great torment and distress. After its death, 

 the body was examined, and, on making a slit 

 into the air tube, the bean drojipcd out. A by- 

 stander, not medical, instantly exclaimed, "Why 

 coidd not this have been done while the child 

 was alive ? " The answer to this question can oidy 

 be (build in the humiliating acknowledgment, that 

 the ])hysicians, in whose hands the case had fallen 

 were ignorant of Anatomy. 



A farmer, in the county of , struck the 



I)oint of a scythe into the left leg. A violent bleed- 

 ing was the consequence. A physician in the 

 neighborhood being called to him, stuffed the 

 wound with balsam and lint, and put on a band- 

 age as tight as possible. The force, of the t3«ocl 



