Vol 1— No. 24. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAJL. 



191 



Amount of Sales on Orange Farm for 

 1830.— Milk,# 1,822 20 ; Butter #1,779 36 ; 

 Beef, #1,201 84; Veal, #184 79; Pigs, #7,- 

 i50; Vegetables, #455 98; Hay, #1,143 

 08 :— Total, #9,659 73. 



Facility of Swimming. — The larger the 

 body >s in relation to its magnitude, the 

 more easily will it float, and a greater por- 

 tion of the head will remain above the 

 surface. As the weight of the human 

 body does not always bear the same pro- 

 portion to its bulk, the skill of the swim- 

 mer is not always to be estimated by his 

 success; some of the constituent parts of 

 the human body are heavier, while oth- 

 ers are lighter, bulk for bulk, than water. 

 Those persons in whom the quantity of 

 the latter bear a greater proportion to 

 the former, will swim with a proportion- 

 ate facility. — Larch ter's Cab. Cyclo. 



Submarine Laborers. — If a rope be at- 

 tached to a heavy block of stone at the 

 bottom of a reservoir of water, it may be 

 raised to the surface by the strength of a 

 man; but as soon as any quantity of it 

 emerges from the surface, the same 

 strength will be insufficient to it ; it loses 

 the support of the water, and requires as 

 much more force as is equal to the weight 

 of the water which it has displaced. In 

 building piers and other subaqueous 

 works, this effect is rendered peculiarly 

 manifest; the laborer feels himself endu- 

 ed with prodigiously increased strength, 

 rising with ease, and adjusting in their 

 places, blocks of stone, which he would 

 attempt in vain to move above the water. 

 After a man has worked for a considera- 

 ble time in this way under water, he finds, 

 upon removing to the air, that he is ap- 

 parently weak and leeble ; every thing 

 which he attempts to lift seems to have 

 unusual weight ; and to move even his 

 own limbs is attended with some incon 

 venience. — lb. 



Difficulty of Walking in Water. 

 — Every one who, while bathing, has 

 walked in the water, is sensible how 

 small a weight rests upon the feel. If 

 the depth be so great that the body is im- 

 mersed to the shoulders, the feet are 

 scarcely sensible on the bottom. The 

 want of sufficient pressure in this case 

 renders the body easily upset. In at- 

 tempting to ford a river in which there is 

 a current, considerable danger is produc- 

 ed by this cause ; even though the river 

 should be sufficiently shallow to leave a 

 large portion of the body above the sur- 

 face. The pressure on the bottom be- 

 ing diminished by the buoyancy of the 

 liquid, the feet have a less secure hold on 

 the ground, and the f rce of the current 

 acting on that part of the body which is 

 immersed, without affecting that part 

 which is above the surface, has a tenden- 

 cy to carry away the support of the f. et. 

 Lardnei's Cab. Cyclo. 

 Easier to swim in the sea than in 

 a river. — Sea water has a greater buoy- 

 ancy than fresh water, being relatively 

 heavier ; and hence it is commonly said 



to be much easier to swim in the sea 

 than in a river; this effect, however, 

 appears to be greatly exaggerated. A 

 cubic foot of fresh water weighs about 

 1000 ounces ; and the same bulk of sea 

 water weighs 1028 ounces ; the weight, 

 therefore, of the latter, exceeds the for- 

 mer by only 28 parts in 1000. The 

 force exerted by sea water to support the 

 body, exceeds that exerted by fresh wa- 

 ter by about one thirty-sixth part of the 

 whole force of the latter. — lb. 



Savings Bank. 



We call the attention of our readers to the 

 act of the Legislature establishing a Savings 

 Bank at this place. Some have entertained 

 an idea that so unpretending an institution as 

 a Bank for Savings, was only calculated for 

 the business of people in straitened circum- 

 stances. This is a mistake. It is a safe and 

 convenient place for laying up small sums, to 

 people of limited means of support, and also 

 to laborers and persons engaged on the lake 

 and on the canal, and who ought to lay up in 

 summer something to support them during 

 the rigors of winter, when employment fails : 

 trustees of estates, guardians, widows, single 

 women and minors, can deposit their funds, 

 and have them safely invested, without any 

 care, cost or trouble to the owners. It is a 

 good institution, and well deserves the confi- 

 dence of the community. 



So far from occupying the attention of the 

 poorer class only, deposits of #1000 have of- 

 ten been made at the Savings Bank in New- 

 York. 



At a meeting of the Trusteesof the Roch- 

 ester Savings Bank at the Mansion House, 

 May 10, 1831, Doct. Levi Ward was cal- 

 led to the chair, and Elihu F. Marshall ap- 

 pointed secretary. 



Resolved, That a committee, consisting of 

 Dr. L. Ward, D. Scovill and E. F. Mar- 

 shall, be appointed to obtain information 

 relative to the manner of transacting the bu- 

 siness of Savings Banks, and report at a 

 subsequent meeting, to be called by them. 



At a meeting of the Trustees, held at the 

 Mansion House June 13, — Present, chair 

 man, secretary, J. Child, E. Peck, D. Sco- 

 vill, J. Medbury, A. W. Riley, H. Frink, 

 E. R. Everest, and J. Graves : 



Levi Ward, Jr. was elected President, 

 Jacob Graves Vice President, Harvey Frink 

 Treasurer, and David Scovill, Secretary and 

 Accountant. 



E. Peck, J. Child and E. R. Everett, 

 were duly elected the funding committee. 



David Scovill resigned his station as trus- 

 tee . 



Resolved, That all deposits which may be 

 made in the banks in this village, be equal- 

 ly divided between the two banks. 



New York Deaf and Dumb Institution. 

 The situation of the Deaf and Dumb porlion 

 of the human family naturally excites the most 

 sowerful emotions nf sympathy. The atten 

 tion of the philantfropist has long been direc 

 ted to the melioration of the condition of these 

 •nutes, and which is now accomplishing with 

 much success : they have been instructed li. 

 -eadand write, — to converse bysigDS, — learn 

 useful trades, and above all, have had theii 

 minds emhued with the valuable precepts o( 

 religion and virtue. Of the progress of these 

 attainments in the New-York institution, we 

 have the most gratifying evidences, by perns ' 



ing the "Twelfth Annual Report of its Di- 

 rectors, for 1830," from which it appears that 

 the directors have in sorr.e instances received 

 scholars beyond the vacancies [see advertise- 

 ment] which yearly occur, on Ihe charity list : 

 and some on (lie part pay list. The whole num- 

 ber o/ pupils on the 1st ol January last was 85, 

 average ex pence of full-pay scholars, $135 pr 

 year. The males labor in the garden, at tail- 

 oring, and shocmabing, and Ihe females assist 

 in needle work and house-work, when not en- 

 gaged in studies. 



From the munificent hands of the legisla- 

 ture, and the receipts of small sums fi om oth- 

 er sources, an assylum has been erected, near 

 the city of New-York, and which has cost in- 

 cluding out-houses, improvement of grounds. 

 &c. about g30,000. The principal, Mr. H. P. 

 Peet, and Ins Lady, reside at the assylum, and 

 have in charge the intellectual and moral im- 

 provement of the pupil*. The President, Dr. 

 Milnor, has visited Europe, and obiained val- 

 uable information in regard to these semina- 

 ries, and an accomplished professor from Par- 

 is. 



There is another institution at Canajobarie, 

 in this state, devuted lo a similar purpose. Ol 

 its success or prospects we are not informed. 

 The New-York institution is well located ; and 

 it having been suggested that a union ot the 

 Central assylum with that of New-York. Would 

 be desirable, the directors of Ihe latter state 

 that they are re?dy to receive the teach 

 ers and pupils of the institution at Canajoharie" 

 upon such terms as the Legisbtnrc may deem, 

 equitable. Wishing the most complete suc- 

 c(ss to the high purpose of those engaged in 

 ihis exalted charity , may the consolidation eti- 

 iue. 



Emigrants to the United States — 

 The London "World" of February 31st, 

 has the following article. "We find by 

 letters from the country, that numbers of 

 excellent persons, in various parts, are 

 arranging to leave their native land for 

 America. From one town, a minister. 

 Sunday school teachers, and many fanr- 

 ilies, are about to embark and form a 

 colony in the Valley of the Mississippi, 

 and, indeed, there seems to be a general 

 impression prevailing through the coun* 

 try, that Europe is about to undergo a 

 terrible convulsion, and that Providence 

 has provided an asylum for the peaceable 

 and the pious in the New World. Now 

 ardently as we desire the prosperity of 

 America, we confess that we arc unwill- 

 ing that good men should quit their na- 

 tive land, a land blessed by heaven a- 

 bove all lands, and requiring only a real 

 union of Christian souls to render it the 

 praise of the whole earth." 



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