276 ®^ VARIOUS EAST INDIA DRUGS. 



that o? split slraw, we gwiu a sure means of bringing our 

 waste and barren lands into cultivation ; au<l, by the employ- ' 

 ment of our poor children, we acquirean iutallible means of 

 greatly diminishing our poor's rates. 

 The rye should In order that the British plait may equal the Italian in 

 the most bar- fin«»esJs, I particularly recommend, that the rye should be 

 ren land. sown on the most waste and barren land, without any refer- 



ence to its produce but merely of the straw, the sale of 

 which would aiford ample remuneration ; and I should be 

 happy to take the produce of from 50 to 100 acres of suck 

 laud, provided it lay convenient to the place of my manu- 

 factory. By such means, the most unproductive wastes will 

 become valuable, and a great source of advantage opened 

 for the employment of young children, and persons inculpa- 

 ble of hard work. 



An opportunity is thus offered for benevolent persons to 

 build cheap schools in villages, and asseaible the children 

 of tlie poor together, to whom literary instruction might be 

 given, and the children enabled to earn their own bread ; 

 and the v/hole effected at a trifling expense, 



I flatter myself, that it will give pleasure to the Society 

 to find, that T have not neglected an object, which has me- 

 • rited their attention ; and which will be the means of saving 

 immense sums to this country, which have heretofore been 

 sent abrotid for the purchase of an article, which our poorest 

 lands and feeblest people <'an furnish. I remain, dear Sir, 

 Your obliged and obedient Servant, 



WiLLIAM CORSTON. 

 Ludgate Street, May 10, 1810. 



VI. 



Correspondence of Dr. William Roxburgh, of Calcutta, 

 with Dr. C. Taylor, Secretary to the Society of Arts, Sfu 



on various Drugs,* > 



SIR, 



fever batk "^ ffAVE the pleasure to send you a quantity of my East 

 swietenia ' India fever bark, f]iscovered by tne about fifteen years ago; 

 n uga, since which period it has had numerous fair trials in many 

 * Trans, of the Soc. of ArW, vol. XXVIII, p. 308. 



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