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mulant; isdiuretic and fudorific. It has 
been made ufe of in Corfica, from time 
immemorial, as an excellent vermifuge— 
a Greek hufbandman firft made known 
its nature and properties. HAEMMER- 
LIN enumerates the -writers,who have 
treated of the Coraline of Corfica, from, 
Vacher, phyfician of the faculty of Paris, 
Stephanopoli, and Fleuri, furgeon and 
pharmaceutifi of the military hofpital 
at Adjaccio, to LATOURETTE, of Lyons, 
one of the prefent literati of France. 
This fucus abounds in Corfica, adhering 
to the rocks wafhed by the fea, and fome. 
times to the fiones and fhells thrown 
upon the thore. It is found in little 
tufts. It is generally of a yellow colour, 
with a reddith tinéture. When dried, as 
“it appears when offered for fale, it con- 
tains a ftrong fmell of the fea. It con- 
fits of little cartilaginous ftalks, with 
full threads, gradually cylindrical and 
tubulated. Its tafe is falt and unplea- 
fant. In the fyftem of plants of Linnzus, 
it belongs to the clats cryptogamia. Its 
moft common names are, fea-rock mofs; 
the Grecian herb; lemithochorton; and 
the Coraline of Corfica. It is the confer- 
va bhelmintbortos of Schwendimann, and 
the fucus belmin'bocorton of Latourette. 
There is reafon to think that all thofe 
fpecies of fucus whofe texture is foft and 
fpungy, might be applied to the fame 
medicroal ufes. ‘There-is a fort of red 
coraline. found in Sweden, which, ac- 
cording to fome writers, is a greater de- 
ftroyer of worms than any other known 
fubfiance ; being not too ftrong for the 
ftomach, either of infants or of adults. 
Schwendiman afferts, that the conferva 
élichotoma of Linnzus, which is found in 
the ditches in England, bears a ftrong 
analogy to the coraline of Corfica. The 
fucus flum; and the fucus fafiigiatus in the 
Danifh fora, by OrperR, have a great 
refemblance to it. ForsKAL relates in 
his fora of Arabia in Egypt, that the 
fucus mufcoides, is often made ufe of by 
the ‘Turks, to deftroy the worms in chil- 
dren, who take it two days fucceflively, 
in vinegar.. It equals the virtues of the 
Corfican vermifuge, if it does not furpafs 
them. ‘This fucus grows in great abun- 
dance in the neighbourhood of Conftan. 
tinople; its ftalk is round and red, with 
a yellow top; it is ramified with foft 
fpinule. The doétor adds a chemical 
analyfis of the coraline of Corfica, and 
gives rules how to ufe it in various dif. 
orders which originate in worms. ‘he 
deétor, in his own pratiice, has ufed it 
very fuccefsfully in a number of com- 
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plaints refulting from verminous affec- 
tions. ‘This vermifuge is in great efti- 
mation in the pharmacies on the Conti- 
nent. In the Geneva pharmacopzia, a 
recipe is given to prepare a fyrup of it. 
A jelly is alfo fometimes prepared of it. 

For the Monthly Magazine: 
Tue Porrry or HYWeEr aB Owain, 
(CONTINUED). 
(THE FIFTH PIECE. 
Hywel ab Owain a’i cant. 
puM acer uced pan acubed Fraincy 
Pan far’don foed, 
Pan vu yrv am gyrv amgaled ; 
Pan vai arv am varv a vwried, 
Y’nghoez gorvynwy yn gorzibed ‘ Loegyr, 
‘lygru ei threved ; 
‘Law ar groes ‘lu 4 zygryfed, 
A ‘Jaz a ‘livaid, a gwaedled y ‘lavyn, 
A gwaed-liw ar giwed, 
A gwaed-len am ven a vaned, ~ 
A gwaedlan, a grdn yn greuled ! 
f *' THE TRANSLATION. 
Hywel, the Jon of Owain, compofed it. 
Five evening-tides were celebrated, when 
France was faved, when barbarian chiefs were | 
made to fly, when there was preffure round the 
fteel-clad bodies; fhould a weapon yet be 
brandifhed round the beard, a public triumph 
yok my wrath procure, feouring the bounds, | 
f Loegyr, and on her habitation Fanline ruin ; 
oe fhould be the hand of the haftening boft 
upon the crofs, the keen edge flanghtering, 
the blade reeking with blood, the blood hue 
over the abjeét throng, a Hosa veil hiding its 
place of falling, and a plain of blood, and a 
cheek furraled’ with gore ! a“ 
MEIRION. 
eee 
. Tv the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
STR, ; 
TH AT the funding fyftem which this 
country has puriued fhould not leng 
fince have involved it into entire ruin, 
has been matter of univerfalaftonifhment ; 
or that the flourifhing ftate of the coun- 
try, previous to the prefent unfortunate 
war, fhould furpafs all our former prof- 
perity, under the enormous expenditure 
of the American war, would be abfo- 
lutely incredible, was it not confirmed by 
experience. Various have been the opi~ 
nions and fpeculations to account for a 
phenomenon founnatural, that the deeper 
a country plunges into debt, and the 
more it 1s burthened with taxes, it fhould 
more quickly refume its former prof- 
perity, and that profperity keep pace. 
with its incumbrances. To connect 
caufes and effects fo oppofite, and unlikely 
to proceed from, or to be produétive of, 
each other, has, from the commencement 
of 
