C 161 } 
ver the surface ; otherwise the atmosphere will 
greatly hurt the efficacy of the application. 
Where lime rubbish of old buildings cannot be 
easily got, take pounded chalk, or common lime^ 
after having been slaked a month at least. 
LETTER 
TROM THE HON. R. R. LiVIN G STON, TO EzRA 
L‘Hommedieu, ESq. 
Dated^ Paris^ 1th Nov, 1803. . 
Dear sir, 
I HAVE written you two letters, but I have not 
had the satisfaction of learning whether they have 
reached you. It is probable, that by the time this 
finds its way to you, the agricultural society will be 
about to assemble, and as I shall under every cir» 
cumstance feel am interest in their prosperity, I 
could wish to have been able to collect such infor¬ 
mation as might be useful to them : But I fear that 
this wish will be very imperfectly answered in what 
I am enabled to offer. The fact is, that the life of 
a public man in Paris affords very little leisure.— 
Business, ceremony, society, that your duty, your 
improvement, your pleasures lead you into, occupy 
every moment ; and perhaps it is the only place in 
the world in which a man is never at a loss for 
something to do. I have indeed availed myself of 
the few days that I could be spared from Paris, to ^ 
