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to this town, from the Lee ; but moft.of 
the heavy fhips ftop a few miles below, 
and {end up their goods in lighter craft. 
‘This town carries on a confiderable trade 
with the Weft Indies: the manufatures 
are trifling; a little fail cloth is made, 
and fomething done in cotton printing: 
a good many fhips are built here, and 
fome excellent cabinet work done. Lan- 
cafter contains about $000 fouls. ‘This 
was the laft place in my tour, where I 
propofed continuing the political enquiry, 
and therefore feit fome mortification on 
being denied aceefs to the parifh regif- 
ters, for the firft time. 
( To be continued. ) 

To the Editcr of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ERMIT me to correct an error, 
which unintentionally crept into my 
letter of February laft, on ‘‘ the antivene- 
real qualities of the nitrous acid; wherein I 
ftated, that this remedy was recommend-.~ 
ed to our notice by Mr. Wiliam Scott ot 
Bombay, whereas, I ieant to have iaid, 
Helenas Scott; and I have to acknow- 
ledge my obligations to a lady in Scot- 
land, whe has kindly informed me, in 
a letter from Dundee, dated May rit, that 
there is no furgeon, on the Bengal efta- 
blifhment, of the name of William Scott. 
Hatton Garden Yours, &c. 
May 16th, 1799. CHARLES BROWN. 
——e 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
HE fubje&t of hat making by 
engines, Mr. Editor, not being 
vet noticed by any of your other corre- 
fpondents, I with, through the medium of 
your Magazine, to give an an{wer to one 
of the queries propoied in the 355th page 
of your 6th volume. In that letter, Tvaik 
your corre{pondents, ** if any engines for 
that purpole had been erected?” # find 
in the courfe of my enquiries fince that, 
that at leaft two are at prefent at work ; one 
belonging to Mefirs. COOPER, BIBBY; 
and Dow NAT, at Lea Wood, near Crom- 
ford, in Derbyfhire ; and the fecond, the 
property of Meffrs, WELLS and CHa- 
TERTON, Brenchly, in Kent; what the 
plans are of either of thefe, or how far they 
go in the procefs, I could with to be in- 
formed through the medium of your mif- 
cellany:—it is faid, that Mr. Saxton, 
No. 45, Queen Street, Southwark, 
has alfo a concern in one; he will, no 
doubt, oblige fome of your correfpondents, 
by his intormation.—Looking over the 
Queries on Hat-making. 
[*May 
article *¢ hat,’ in various Encyclopedias, 
as fuggefted by your correfpondent, 
W.H, in your Magazine for Jan. 1799, 
p- 27, Icouid not help remarking the very 
great difference between the accounts, as ~ 
exhibited in thofe publications, and alfo in 
the Univerfal Magazine, for 1750, and the 
procefs of that manufactory at prefent: I 
wilh any of your correfpondents, who are 
hat makers, would give us a regular ac- 
count of that bufinefs; for, I may fay 
with truth, that the contributors of that 
article, in the above publications, dave, 
comparatively fpeaking, known nothing of 
the bufinefs they took upon them to lay before 
the public. I tind the fame account is co- 
pied, ornearly fo, by Prifcilla Wakefield, 
in the 94th and following pages of her 
‘© Mental Recreations,’ 2d edition.—The 
friend, whofe manufactory 1 went to fee, 
in confequence of my enquiries, informed 
me, that Dr. Aikin, in his * Hiffory of 
Menchefter,’ in the 162d page, of the 
edition of 1795, whilft he 1s giving an 
account of the hat making there, ufes this 
expreflion (after informing us, that the 
hats are bowed and bafoned), he fays, 
that they are boiled in ‘* common affrin- 
gents of native growth.’ My friend cb- 
terved, that he did not underftand that 
fentence; but it might perhaps be ex- 
plained to him by fome of your ccrrefpon- 
dents. Pray, Sir, can you inform me, if 
there be any engines conftructed fer cut- 
ting the fur from hair, rabbit, or beaver 
fkins ? 
Newcafile, 
May 9; 1799. 
Iam, Sir, your’s, &c. 
MunnNoo. 

To the Editor of the Menthly Magazine. 
SIR, . 
Pie ait with a defire of pro- 
moting the too much neglected 
{tudy of praétical, or economical botany, 
I have long cherifhed the defign of pub- 
lifhing a fele€tion of thofe untrantlated 
papers from the ** Amenitates Academice,” 
which are either conneéted with, or illuf- 
trative of, this interefting department of 
botanical fcience. While I was arrang- 
ing the plan of my work, and preparing 
to tranflate the papers which I had felect- 
ed for the purpofe, a profpectus appeared 
from “* a member of the Univerfity of 
Oxford,”’ ftating his intention of publifth- - 
ing a tranilation * (with modern difco- 
veries and improvements,) of the Gexera 
and Species Plantarum, of Linnzus, which 
was to be followed by a fupplementary 

* Notice of this work likewife appeared in 
the Monthly Magazine, Vol. ii. p. 59. 
work, 
