HUE 
MONTHLY 


‘No. 59- - 
MAGAZIN 
VUNE 1, 1600. 

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[| No. 5. of Vor. 9° 


ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, ; 
HE projected Union with Ireland has 
caufed much alarm to fome of our 
manufacturers, from a fuppofition, that, 
in confequence of labour being cheaper 
in that country, the manufacturer there 
will poffefs a confiderable advantage when 
the impediments which now exift are re- 
moved. This is particularly the cafe with 
re{fpect to the woollen manufactory ; and 
the perfons interefted therein have lately 
brought forward much evidence to prove 
its value and importance to this country, 
as an inducement for the continuance of 
the reftri€tion on the exportation of wool, 
aflerting, among other things, that the 
number of perfons interefted and employed 
immediately therein is not iefs .than 
1,500,060, and that there are 1,500,000 
more who are collaterally employed in the 
manufactures connected with this main 
branch, making 3,000,000 of perfons de- 
pending for employ. on this manufacture. 
Jam much inclined to think this an exagge- 
rated ftatement, and that it might be eafily 
proved, there are not 3,000,000 of the in- 
habitants of this cquntry employed by all 
its manufactures. I am the more difpofed 
to entertain this opinion, as there is no 
proof that the whole population exceeds 
7 or 8 millions ; but, if any of your corre- 
fpondents can furnifh information tending 
either to eftablifh or refute the above affer- 
tion, it will particularly oblige, J. J.G. 
May 8, 1800. 
SS 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ROM the, purport of part of Mn. 
Cumberland’s letter in your Maga- 
zine for April, Iam induced to queftion, 
whether the cultivation of the fugar maple, 
~for the fake of its fap or juicé, has not 
been attempted in this country. Itisa 
fa&t, which, together with the refult of the 
experiment, it would be ufeful to alcertain, 
and any particulars relating to it, which 
Mr. Cumberland, or any of your corre- 
{pondents may be enabled to furnifh, 
would, I doubt not, be interefting to many 
of your readers befides mylelt. From 
circumitances which have come under my 
own cognizance, I have no hefitation in 
believing, that the true fugar-mnple 
Montury Mac. Ne. $9. 
of 
Pennfylvania, would flourith in parts ‘of 
this country as @ tree: but whether it 
would be of any value in the point of 
view moreimmediately interefting to every 
real friend of humanity, muft remain to 
be proved by farther a&tual experiment 
than my trial of it has yet reached. A 
fugar-maple, which'] received from Phila- 
delphia the ift of June, 17,8, after a paf- 
fage of fix months (having been taken and 
retaken on its voyage), was planted in the 
midft of the very hot weather of that fea- 
fon, without much appearance of life, is 
now, notwithfanding, become a very flou- 
rifhing tree, and has fucceffively put out 
as vigorous and healthy thcots as any tree 
in my pofleffion. lam, Sir, 
The Boyce, Your’s, &c. 
May, 1800.. Joun H. MoccripGE. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
A S none of your correfpondents have 
taken any notice in your valuable 
‘Magazine, of a parhelion, or mock-fun, 
that appeared on the 18th or 19th of latt 
month (I am not fure which of thefe 
days, not having made any memorandum 
of the circumftance for more than a week 
after), I fend you the following imperfeét 
account of it. | 
This appearance was vifible at four 
. o'clock in the afternoon at this place; the 
true fun was then enveloped in thin white 
clouds, fo that a perfon might well bear 
to look at it, without much offending his 
fight, and its regular form was in fome 
meafure Joft; on each fide the fun, ona 
line with it, and at equal diftances from 
if (about twelve degrees), were two 
images of the fun; the one on the right 
hand was by much the moft vivid, indeed 
ithad a luftre nearly equal to the true fan, 
as it then appeared ; the imageto the left 
was much more faint, which I attributed 
to its being in a fituation more ‘free from 
clouds. The images defcended with the ° 
fun, diminifhing in luitre continually ; 
but I could difcern a particular brightnefs 
in the fpot they occupied for nearly an 
hour, and in the one to the right hand, 
till within half an hour of fun-fer. I was 
in hopes, that fome of your aftronamical 
correfpondents would have given your 
readefs a more particular account of this 
3H curious 
