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N E W K N G L A N D V Mi M K U 



MAY 4, IHDfi. 



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{Fnrtlie New lingliiRil Farmer.) 

 TO MAY MORNING: 



IN IIUNOK OF THE FAlh. 



Let Others gieet, dear May, thy blami approach. 

 And make their congees to thy liveried coacli. 

 I, lovelier sii.iles than nature's chaplet slion'9, 

 Cdinit in the cheeks which eniuhite the rose. 

 1, more harmonious soiuids than wake the grove, 

 Hear in the voice of lier, v. hose voice is love — 

 No petals lav'd in morn's anibiosial haze. 

 Delight me, wlien on dimpled charms I gaze — 

 May the first thoughts eacli lais imparts today, 

 A^)prove my tribute to the first of IMjiv. 



(From the N V. KniikLTl'ocker.) 

 THE BREATH OF SPRING. 

 Hav lilesfledly it eieals my laiiicr ihrongh ! 



Fron« the * sweet Sniiilr ii conies, where Summer weaves 

 Eternal garlands. Laugh, ye waters blue— 



Rejoicing hurst, ye liud-linprisoned leaves ! 

 Ye blossoms — Nature's censers -ope and fling 

 Your incense forth, on the first breath of Spring ! 



Sweet wooer of the flowers !— thy kiss oflahn 



Shall wake tliem, blushing, to the shower and beam : 



Through wood anil vale thou nendest like a charm, 

 MHUtling each slope, am! fringing every stream : 



O'er quickened pastures bound the frolic herd. 



And all tilings living seem with rapture stirred. 



Nature's elixir !— the exulting eartli, 



Drinking thy freshness, is no longer sere. 

 And, in the glory of its vernal birih,. 

 Seems but coeval with the opening year. 

 ' Who could believe six thousand years had flown. 



Since Spring's first garland in her lap was thrown 1 



Welcome — most welcome ! Now no longer creeps 

 The half-chilled blood reluctant thro' each vein. 



But with wild glee my weakened heart upleape. 

 As springs the troutlet to the summer rain : 



And forth my spirit sends its greeting lay. 



As Memnon's harp its tones at blush of day. 



A world of wings Is bursting from the brake. 



And twinkling, darting, soaring through the air : 

 Love'sdiinples circling in the silver lake. 



Tell that thy pinion light is dallying there : 

 While a soft film of warm and dreamy haze- 

 Half beams, half mist —o'er dell and mountain plays. 



Sweet courier of May ! — sent forth to dress 



With leaves the bowers she soon shall be:iutify. 



E'en as man's spirit o'er life's wilderness 

 Sends Hope to vivify futurity. 



I would that like thee I the world might rove, 



Enkindling all things into life and love ! 



0*ir least sensations are a mystery, 



Fee<iing that mightier mystery — the mind ! 



In fancy, now, a far-off shore 1 see : 

 There seems a fragrance on the wings, sweet wind, 



Like the young violet's when its leaves expand 



In the green valleys of my nati\e land ! 



And k> ! uprise, of that sweet odor born. 

 My cott.ige-home, and its far-shadowing trees — 



The leaping rivulet, the daisied lawn. 



And eowslip'J meadow— beautiful are these 1 



And though they lie but phantoms of the mind, 



9 thank thee fur their presence, gentle wind. 



• U'liHre was your laitli berojo Fox'.s time ? ' said 

 » Iit||,'iiacioii8 sctrturian to tin holiest Quaker ; 

 "^ Where, 1 fenf, thine never was, friend: in the 

 Soriptiires.' 



CuiUOUS JJiSCOVKKIES IN PRACTICAL SCIENCE. 



— AhiMKlaiit exaiiiples inij;lit ''c oiled of cases 

 where the remarks of ex|ierienceil artists, or even 

 ordinary workmen, have led to the discovery of 

 natural qtia'ities, elements, or conihination.s, which 

 have proved of the highest importance. 1 hus, 

 (to fjive an instance.) a soap fnannfacturer re- 

 marks, that the residniitii of his ley, w hen exhaust- 

 ed of the alkali, for which he emjiloys it, produces 

 11 corrosion of his cop; er boiler, (brwhicli he can- 

 not account. He puts it into tlie hands of a sci- 

 entific chemist for analysis, tiiid tlic result is the 

 di.scovery of one of the most singular and impor- 

 tant chemical elements, ioiline. The [irnperties 

 of this, heinff studied, are found to occur most 

 appositely, in illustration tjnd support of a variety 

 of new, curious, anil instructive views, then gain- 

 ing ground in chemistry, and thus exercise a 

 marked influence over th ; whole body of tliat 

 science. Curiosity is excited ; the origin of the 

 new substance is traced to the sea-plants, from 

 whose ashes the principal ingredient of soap is 

 obtained, and, ultimately, to the sea water itself. 

 If is Iieiice liunted through nature, discovered in 

 salt mines and springs, and pursued into all bodies 

 which have a marine origin ; among the rest, into 

 sponge. A medical | lactitioner (Dr Coindet, of 

 Geneva,) then calls to mind a reputed remedy for 

 the cure of one of the most grievous and unsightly 

 disorders to which the liunian species is subject, 

 the goitre, ['arge wens or swellings about the neck 

 and throat,] which infests the inhabitants of 

 mountainous disriicts, to an extent that in lliis 

 fiivored land we have, happily, no experience of, 

 and which was said to have been originally cured 

 by the aslies of burnt sponge. Led by this indi- 

 cation, he tries the eflect of iodine on that coin- 

 [ilaint, and fhe result establishes the extraordinary 

 fact, that this singular substance, taken as a medi- 

 cine, acts with the utmost promptitude and energy 

 on goitre, dissipating the largest and most invete- 

 rate in a short time, and acting (of course, like all 

 medicines, even the most ajiproved, with occti- 

 sional failures,) as a specific, or natural antagonist 

 against that odious deformity. 



fn needle manufactories, the workmen who 

 point the needles are constantly exposed to exces- 

 sive minute particles of steel, which fly from the 

 grindstones, and mi.x, thi ugh imperceptible to the 

 eye, as the finest dust in the air, and arc inhaled 

 with their breath. The eflect, though iiii]>ercep- 

 tihle on a short exposure, yet being constantly 

 repeated from day to day, produces a constitutional 

 irritation dependent on the tonic properties of the 

 steel, whicli is sure to terminate in ))uliTionary 

 consumi)tion ; insomuch that persons employed 

 in this kind of work, used scarcely ever to attain 

 the age of forty years. In vain was it attempted 

 to purify the air, before its entry into the lungs, 

 by gauzes, or linen guards ; the dust was too fine 

 and penetrating to be obstructed by such coarse 

 expedients, till some ingenious person bethought 

 him of that wonderful power, which every child 

 who searches for its mother's needle with a mag- 

 net, or admires the motions of a few steel-filings 

 on a sheet of paper held above it, sees in exercise. 

 .Masks of magnetized steel-wire are now construct- 

 ed and adapted to the faces of the workmen. By 

 thcsi', the air is not merely strained but searched 

 in its passage through them, and each obnoxious 

 atom arrested and removed. 



Who would have conceived that /men rags were 

 caj'able of producing more than their own weight 



of sugar, by the simple agency of one of the 

 cheapest and most alinudant acids, the sulphuric? 

 That dry bones could be a m;igazine of nuirin.eiit, 

 capable of preset vation for years, and ready to 

 yield up their sustenance in the form best adapted 

 to the support of life, on the application of that 

 powerful agent, steam, which enters so largely 

 into all our | rocesse.s, or of an arid at once cheap 

 and durable ? That sato-dust itself is suscejitible 

 of conversion into a substance hearing no remote 

 analogy to bread ; and though certainly less pal- 

 atable than that of flour, yet no way disagreeable, 

 and both wholsonie and dig-estible, as well as 

 highly nutritive ? — Sir John HcrschelVs J^Tal. Phil. 



FAUM FOR SALE. 



For sale a Farm in Bed ord, County of Middlesex, 17 miles 

 from Boston and 10 from Lowell, coiilaililng lOt a< res inclu- 

 ding aboil 15 acres covered willi a vuluahle giuwih of wood 

 wliich has been preserved wilh great rate for the last :20vears, 

 ilie garrlen contains about 3 acres under the highest cultiva- 

 lion and is furnished willi a great variety of flowers and 

 slii^iis which have been collecled at much labor and expellee j 

 ailached In the garden is a Green Mouse filled with ihrifly 

 bearing Grape Vines, and choice and valuable plants which 

 will be sold or not as the purchaser may choose. The Farm 

 is under good cultivation and together wiili the Garden is 

 slocked with ilie choicest Fruiis, such as Apjiles, Peais, 

 Peaches, Uulnees, Plums, Sirawberr-cs of various kinds, 

 Kaspherrics, Gooseberries, &c &;c., which the pre^eiii owner 

 has spared no expence in oliiaiiiing. The Farm is bounded 

 on the west by Concord River, which is well supplied willi 

 fish, and the cnuiilry around aixiunds wilh game, making it a 

 desirable retreat to the gentleman who is loiid of fishing or 

 shooting. 



Possession will he given on ihe 1st April next — for terms, 

 which will be liberal, apply to the s'tbsciiher in Boston or at 

 the Farm. JAMES VILA. 



March IG. tf 



FRUIT null ORNAMEKTAL TREES. 



NuRsi':aY of Wilmam Kinrick, Nonanliiin Hill, in 

 Nfwton, near Bosli.ii, and near the Worcester Rait Road. 



'i'he excellence of ihe varieties, ihe qualily, llie size of all 

 Ihe productions here cuhivalod conlinually inipnne as Ihe 

 numbers are augmenlctl. These now comprise nearly 40U,( 00, 

 covering coinpaclly about 20 acres. 



Selections of the finest varieties of New Flemish Pears. — 

 also Apples, Cherries, Peaches, Plums, Nectarines, Almoiifls, 

 Apricots, Grape Vines, Currants, Raspberries, /ine imported * 

 Lancashire Gooseberries, Slrawherries, &c. — 



8000 I'eacli Trees of finest select kinds are now ready 'or 

 sale. 



Ornam'nlal Trees and Shrubs, and Roses of about 1000 

 finest kinds. — ,.\ls i Herbaceous flowering plants, Pseonies and 

 splendid Double Dahlias. 



All orders left with Gf.o. C. Barrktt, who is Agent, at 

 his Seed Slore and the Agricullural Warehouse and Reposi- 

 tory, Nos 51 Sf 52, North Market street, will be in lik • man- 

 ner dul;, r.tteiided to — (,*atalogues gratis, on application. 



March 7. 



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