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pansion by ill-chosen models ; exclusive admiration, want of counsel, or access 

 to the most excellent compositions and performers in the class for which nature 

 has fitted those on whom it is bestowed. 



XIX. Account of a netv Method of Cultivating the Sugar Cane. By Mr. 



Cazaud. From the French, p. 207. 



This paper will require but little room and attention in this abridgment ; there 

 are extant in the English language so many separate treatises on the sugar-cane, 

 and so many accounts of it in various books of voyages and travels, that it would 

 be useless to dwell upon it in this place. Mr. C. first makes some observations 

 on the climate. In the Windward Islands, he 



says, the weather is commonly dry from the j^^g '9^3" 



15th of February to the 15th of May. The July I3 9 



rains are moderate till August; they are very Sep^mber '!!....!!.'. 19 



copious the 2 or 3 following months, and after- October 12 7 



wards decrease till February ; consequently there December 18 8 



is a succession of 9 months rain, and of 3 Januar)' 9 5 



months dry weather. The annexed table shows March"^ 2 6" 



the quantity of rain fallen at Grenada in the east April 8 



quarter from the 1st of June 1772 to the first ^^^' _1_^ 



of June 1773, and this is the rain of a common Total 9 ft. 8 in. or 116 



year. 



Then follows the natural history of the cane ; the history of the roots of the 

 cane, and of its productions under ground ; the history of the joints and growth 

 of the cane in different soils ; the history of what Mr. C. calls a revolution in the 

 inside of the cane, and of the arrow which comes out in consequence of that 

 revolution, and constitutes the last stage of the plant's existence ; history of the 

 cane according to the two different methods of cultivation, and in different years, 

 favourable, dry, and rainy ; and lastly a view of the cane in its different stages. 



XX. Account of the Free Martin. By Mr. John Hunter, F. R. S. p. 279. 

 Reprinted in Mr. H.'s Observations on the Animal Economy. 



Meteorological Journal kept at the House of the Royal Societi/, by Order of the 



President and Council, p. 295. 

 This is the usual annual account of the thermometers, barometer, rain, 

 winds, and weather, taken twice in every day of the year 1778 ; the epitome of 

 which is contained in the following table. 



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