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Vurcar ERRORS ma) be 5 into two classes; Were 
are the mere result of superstitious in- 
such as n arisen 5 the imperfect | € 
ar phen 
i han in the 
on of sai it deserves, we now wish to 8 5 15 
t that vipers permit their young, 
a s 2 down their throats, is on 
ae antiquity : and if — p> 3 ar the o 
dani and poets posse any v 
il beno doubt a about he. mitte er. 
any 
if we had not felt i in some 
Pinion as to the pov | 
occurred, This an 
elioves that he he has seen the brood of 
oe the vi 
y it will be better to adopt co pinion: of our corre- 
$ reproach by so 
RI truth of the 
the | might “ore been expected. In such cases the crop 
ed 
ves | the blight — the 
their | The truth 
themselves out t of the mouth, if they were in — 
animals are 
would not venture to — or 2 
e manœuvre h t 
“ de t a vr ich the 
“viper converts, for the nonce, her 1 g and wide 
gullet into a supial pouch ; but, yet, I have 
‘seen no evidence in proof of it, ight get as 
to the ca hen vi a cow 
many eye-witnesses, I suspect, 0 
gt “by a wa ae 
e the name of = writer of these | i 
observations they » uld eme d the respect of 
- But it is needless 
N 0 
do not declare it to be 3 for vipers to diow 
a, hair mouths, but 
they ask for pr roof. so ; that is to say 
for the only proof dach can be i viz., a 
np into whose gullet the arsi have been seen 
glide, with its mouth tied up, a 
. * that the eye m 
Who witnessed 
W. 
t has been proposed to r Th in this con- 
ne Bas conn 
dition to Professor HENSsL 
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hata and to forward them to the Hunterian | | 
Museum, incoln' 's-inn-fields, London, 
ecepted we shall be obliged 
= infer that the tales about the viper really belong 
o the class of vulgar errors. 
The 7 of e has sn r a 
of our ¢ = nden 
of them has . to sneer at their scientific 
doubts te bear r. given very 
neti t re 
n for their continuing = be sceptical 
a t popular notions which ‘are at variance wi 
scientific ideas. It i k 
which they ates to have 
cautious and laborious research that is 
paa of 1 such r ee Alt by ugh t 
iable experiment perform 
— 3 ened th 
fact in dispute, we will engage to say 
that ti is not one man of 
would w 
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en ni — — wis e 5 
dropped. Words have Pini — their ele 
GENTLEMEN will find 3 3 if the 
idle f the 
to 
— ere near Bristol, co 
„view, e be to sepa 
Y | plan —— 
a — 2 it yields — no 
by 
i scepticism about the | yoo 
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sons would infer, but lost in the same e sense as a 
‘genera action, onek multitudes are 
will not 
Harvest neing 3 — 
wie crop of Oa ts r Bailey. But I 
say the Potato o murrain is 
and they are worse than any of the v 
So much for those who (without any reason) say that 
that the Potato is run out for want of being renewed 
from the seed. Several frosts so severe as 29° ahr. 
have taken place here lately; but with the exce 
of Potatoes, and in som tances hry me and Barley, 
there is not much damage done as t; meet i 
ontra me sup- 
especially one from 
m the opinion. But 
concerning this Pat sah subject we wait for 
further informatio 
on thee 
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fir 
TORENIA ASIATICA, 
RDER PLANT, 
y records of gar- 
are comparatively worthless from 
n, n, had 
r in the open air, . that 
mi county, was 
experiment, —.— it be at all . that 
te — pao su Yet, ten to one but ch 
a failure he w pom . the first kp 
|, O 
eriment asa 
when utility is t the es 
ously to. 
dation of this 
increase b 
plant, r common. 
lants last autumn, I inserted 
ich : 
e 
igctmprehensible changes in this malady ma here 
d there effect, mer cannot alter the course of 
~ 
was — 1 — raised my Potatoes, writes the 
3 farmer, and “there is nothing under them: 
any one seriously imagine that whe ere nothing | than th 
to is sander them anything will come, the leaves 
and 
stems—the source from which the undergrou 
crop is derived—being removed? The notion is 
childish. 
That the early Potatoes have proved apparently 
sound in many places, . the blight, 
is doubtless true, and so it is that in many p 
the loss under such —— as is not so large as 
ee of growth before 
had re tien 
is that, as we ne ae long foreseen and 
e we 
“iar 
e e the public, the Potato crop is lost. Of 
* our 
do not mean wholly, as some dull here 
Ry 
e shi specimen to ; 
c 
at at Hitehain, n near Hadleigh, 
| one of our correspondents has proposed, 
every of a tend Guy Hants 5 
. of Wight, * i 
