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he has conferred will be fuitably acknow- 
ledged by all who know and value the 
luxury of complaining, by all who are 
tired of colds, which are indeed too general 
to confer any merit, or difturb the har- 
mony of a party, and who have found 
more livelinefs and variety in the family of 
fpafms. 
Although, as before obferved, the prin- 
cipal objet of this letter is rather to ac- 
quire than impart information. I may 
add, in point of fat, a few other circum- 
ftances which have come under my obfer- 
vation. I would therefore briefly ftate 
that nerves, from whatever origin they 
may have {prung, are principally confined 
to large and populous cities, and I think 
more peculiar to Weftminfter than toLon- 
don ; not to deny, however, that there are 
many perfons in the city, who are perfons 
of property, keep their carriage, and are 
very nervous. Indeed I have obferved that 
nerves very much follow the f{cale of pro- 
perty; and I fancy that if I could procure 
a peep at the books of the Commiffioners 
of Income, I could pretty exactly point 
out thofe whofe tex per cents amount to a 
decent trepidation. But as thefe gentle- 
men are fworn to fecrecy, I muft be con- 
tent without this difplay of the phyfic- 
gnomy of income, and perhaps it would, 
like other phyfiognomenical ftretches, 
be rather a fubjeét of curiofity than uti- 
lity. 
In the country thereare very few nerves ; 
even in places not more than twenty miles 
from London, they are {carcely heard of, ex- 
cept in the newfpapers. But in the adjacent 
villages they are fufficiently plenty. You 
may trace them on the Hammerfmith road, 
as far as Kew or Richmond. Their ten- 
dency is weftward ; for, although they are 
exceedingly common on the Bath road, and 
at the fouth-weftern villages of Roehamp- 
ton, Wimbledon, Putney, &c. we do not 
hear much of them about Rotherhithe, 
Limehoufe, or Stepney. Indeed I do not 
know of what fervice they could be in the 
fhip-building line, On Hounflow-heath 
they are oceafionally found in perfons who 
travel after dark. Iam told likewife that 
they are general in affembly-rooms, and 
that the poffeffion of nerves is a fine qua 
wow in the fubferibers to dances and card- 
clubs. In Wales and Scotland, they are 
unknown—a circumftance which is _parti- 
cularly fortunate for the natives of the 
latter, as they. would travel. very flowly 
on the London road with fuch an incum- 
brance. 
Having flated thefe circumflances as 
Ue of Kilu-drying difcoloured Barley. 
107 
mémoires pour fervir a Phiffoire, 1 truit 
that fome of your correfpondents will fup- 
ply my deteéts, and anfwer the chronolo- 
gical queftions above required. In this 
expectation, I remain 
Your humble fervant, 
NEUROLOGUS, 
SE 
Feb. 10, 1300. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, ! 
I BEG leave, through the medium of 
Ji your magazine tocommunicate tothe 
farmers the following faés. .And I hope 
they will receive the advice which I take 
the liberty of offering them, as it is i#- 
tended. ; 
Out of a coomb of difcoloured barley, 
more than two bufhels will not in moft in- 
ftances work on the malting-floor. In all 
the difcoloured barleys, tne proportion 
which will not work is very gfeat.  ~ 
Though the difcoloured barleys work 
better now than they did at the beginning 
of the malting-feafon, and though it 1s 
probable they will ftill further improve as the 
fpring advances, [ do not think they can 
be relied upon for feed, as they do not 
vegetate better in the ground than they 
do on the floor. By kiln-drying difco- 
loured barleys with a very mederate heat, 
fo as only to expel the moifture not com- 
mon to them, four-fifths, {peaking gene- 
rally, may be made work on the floor, or 
‘grow in the ground, befides the further 
advantage that they vegetate regularly to- 
getner. 
_L advife the farmers to fow bright bar- 
Jey, if they have it ; if not, kiln-dried, 
which I know from experience will vege- 
tate; or dried by expofure to the fun in 
the fpring, which may probably produce 
the fame effe¢t:as kiln-drying. I would, 
however, earnefily recommend to thofe 
who have not bright barley, to fow a {mall 
quantity of what they referved for feed, 
that they may afcertain whether it will 
grow or not, before they fow their general 
crop. 
If the farmers willlook at their Rubbles, 
they muft be convinced that the difcoloured 
barleys would net vegetate. in the ftate in 
which they were harvefled; and that they 
will not even now as they come from the 
‘flail, I pledge myfelf tobe a fact, as a 
maliier.—-Iam, Sir, 
Your obedient fervant, 
Joun KERRICHs 
Harlefion, Feb. 10, 1800. 
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