¥800.] 
time, did not poflefs. The idea of a pub- 
lic library, on a liberal plan, was fuggett- 
ed, and immediately adopted. ; 
The number of fub{cribers at firft was 
twenty-five, and the collection amounted 
te about roo volumes (chiefiy donations). 
The former are now increafed to 170 ; and 
the latter to upwards of 1050, confilt- 
ing in general of hiftory, a collection o 
voyages and travels, and a few novels. 
Subftance of ‘the Regulatisns. 
The fociety is declared permanent, and the 
whole books the property of all the mem- 
bers, collectively, and their fucceffors. 
Every fubfcriber, at entry, pays five fhil- 
lings, aad two fhillings in advance every half 
year, 
A fubferiber, after being five years a mem- 
ber, becoming unable to pay the half-yearly 
contribution, fhall have the ufe of the li- 
brary gratis. 
A general meeting fhall be called twice 
every year, to infpeét the tunds, and choofe 
2 committee for the enfuing half year, con- 
fifting of atreafurer, fecretary, and ten fub-~ 
feribers, whofe bufinefs it is to choofe and 
order new books, and if any beoks have been 
injared, to infpeét the fame, fining the fub- 
teriber in wheie poffeflion the book was, 
fum equivalent to the damage. 
Books delivered out and received back eve- 
ry evening, the librarian attending from 6 
o'clock till 9. Fourteen days are allowed for 
reading each book, and a fpecific fine if it 
thall be kept beyond that time. 
{t will readily be allowed, that the 
above regulations are on a liberal plan, 
caiculated for,,and within the reach of 
the many; and, as a pleafing inftance’ of 
the liberality of thofe ‘members who are 
able, let it be recorded, that, at a late ge- 
neral meeting, it was propofed to buy the 
Univerfal Hiftory, 60 vols. by voluntary 
finb{cription, and 131. were fub{cribed ina: 
few minutes for that purpole.—Y our | in- 
ferting the above, for an incitement tothe 
eftablifhing i in a more general manner fuch 
inflitutions, will oblige, 
' Dundee, Your’s, &c. 
April 30; 1800. A CONSTANT READER. 
a 
To the Editor of the Month! yy om 
“SIR, 
UMEROUS imitations in the poems 
‘of Gray have been acknowledged 
by him{iIf, and pointed out by others, 
but Ido not recolleét any notice of the 
following : |. 120 of Ar mitrong’ 5 Ecau 
-nomy f Loyc”’ suns thus, 
To thed thy bleffoms through the pe air. 
In Gray’s “* Churchyard Elegy,”’ 
dines are better known than 
Dundee Public Library— Apples Preferved, 
ima 
get at them, the body of the heap remain. 
Full many a flow’r is born to bluth unfeen, 
And wafte its fweetnefs on the defert air. 
It is enough to obferve, chat Arm- 
ftrone’ S poem was publifhed in 1737, 
thirteen years prior to the Elegy. 
CoricuLa. 

To the Editor of the Mouthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Writer in your Magazine of laft 
month, under the fignature Simplex, 
has, in order to prevent fatsher miichief, 
ftated as a fact the ineficacy of throwing 
a linen cleth over apples, on the appraach 
of froft, to preferve them from its effeéts. 
Now, Sir, I will bee leave for his and 
your readers’ 
manner of preferving them, a method 
which I have followed for fome years 
with complete fuccefs. The chamber in 
419 
information, to ftate my ~ 
which I keep them is ufed in the fummer ~ 
for the drying of cheefe ; it is in the upper 
ftory of a low building, covered with 
pantiles, lathed and caft, with only one . 
window (a {pline one), opening to the 
eaft, fecured Deen ore) with a’ falling 
fiiveeer: the floor of oaken boards. [I 
generally gather them mytelf very care- 
fully into bafkets; carry them upftairs 
immediately, and lay them in heaps next 
the walls, one or two feet thick, without 
any ftraw underneath them, which from, 
experieuce I have found, when once moift. 
with the fweat of the fruit, will foon 
caufe them to rot. In mild weather, the 
fhutter is kept up to admit the air; in 
fharp frofts, it is carefully clofed, and the 
“apples are then fecurely covered with fome 
thick cern. facks. In the very fevere 
winter of 1798-9, I had feveral facks of 
apples, that were fecured in this manner, 
among them fome excellent nonpareils, 
that kept quite found and good till the 
latter end of May. I felt tome fatisfac- 
tion, when [I xead in your Magazine for 
lat May,that a fimilar method was purfued 
in America, and I was forry, when I 
found your correfpondent had.confidered 
it aserroneous information. He fays, “* We 
immediately beftrewed a garret-floor with, 
part of our winter flock, and {nugly con- 
cealed them beneath a large fheet or two :*” 
Did he do this hefore or after the froft 
had fet in? This 1s a point thatought to be 
known: if after, itwasa moft effectual me- 
thod to deftroy them, and I do not wonder 
at his difappointment. I make it a rule, 
to difturb mine as little as poffible, 
Nee aes in frofty weather, not even 
to take out the decayed ones, only as we 
me 
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