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tural organs, while they excel in the pro- 
duction of forcible and impreffive founds,’ 
are lefs at our command than the organs 
ef palatine, and ftill lefs than thofe of 
Jabial and dental, articulation: and as we 
advance in the arts of focial life, of com- 
mercial intercourfe, and of civil. policy, 
we become inclined to facrifice energy for 
facility of fpeech ; and confider the lofs of 
expreflion and vigour as amply compen- 
fated by the acquifition of fluency and 
ALY. 
seftnel Se 
* London, April 15. 
Be —— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE Rev. Dr. Pike's letter, in your 
laf{ Magazine, page 109, recommen- 
ding the traniplanting of wheat, is the oc- 
éafion of my troubling you with this, 
which is to requeft a further explanation 
of what feems to me a practice beneficial 
in itfelf, but attended with difficulties. 
fis I live ina county where neither dib- 
bling nor tranfplanting has yet taken place, 
Tam not able from experience to form an 
opinion whether or not either or both of 
_ the practices are beneficial or otherwile, 
but what Tl wifh to be informed of is, when 
( 
and in what manner: the tranf rae of 
wheat to advantage is recommended. © In 
Dr. Pike’s letter, above alluded to, Fe- 
bruary is faid to be the month in which 
the tran{planting i is to take place; but if 
this is the only month in which the prac- 
tice is beneficial, I think there 1s little to 
be expected fom it in this climate, the 
Jand in that month being generally either 
covered over with fnow or locked up with 
froft; or even fuppofing a great part of 
the month fhould be open, yet the fucceed- 
ing month, March, is frequently. fo very 
fevere, as to endanger the life of new-plan- 
ted wheat. This is the roth of March, 
and the ice two inches thick, with an al- 
moft unceafing froft for the lat three 
weeks. If, as I faid before, February is 
the ovly month fit for tran{planting of wheat, 
I fear, from the too general feverity of the 
weather at fhat feafon of the year, little 
expe€iation is to be had from it. If it 
would do equally well in the month of 
April, that of all others feems the proper 
time: the plants would fooner take root, 
would thrive fafter, and, if the work is to 
be performed by women and children, 
_ would not at all interfere with the fpring 
bufinefs of the farmer. I with to be un- 
derftood that Iam now writing only the- 
oretically, not having ever (ean a blade of 
wheat tranfplanted, and wifhing either 
from the Rev. Dr. Pike, or any “other of 
Tranfplanting Wheat—Inchofure Bills—-Paris, 
[June ty 
your correfpondents, fuch information on 
the fubject as may be uleful. Being orf 
the fubje& of wheat, I cannot but remark 
hew contrary to generally-received notions 
is the late declaration of the Speaker of the 
Houfe of Commons, that the bran is the 
rroft nutritious part of the wheat. He 
fays his knowledge was acquired in exa- 
mining the papers of his late father, whe 
was a phyfician. How true this may be, 
I know not; but I will take upon me ta 
fay, that another part of the fame fpeech, 
in which is contained the foregoing decla- _ 
ration, 1s fo contrary-to truth, that it is 
little lefs than an infalt upon the under- 
ftanding of every man who has attended 
the Houfe-of Commons, on ‘inclofure bills. 
He fiates that the heavy expence in pro- 
curing acts for inclofing waite lands ori+ 
ginates with the country. folicitor. I would 
afk whether the fee of sol. to the Speakers 
on every Inclofure Bill, originates with 
the country-folicitor ? does the fee of sl, 
‘on every reading of the bill, originate with 
the country- folicitor ? do the very heavy 
fees to the clerk of the Houfe of Commons 
originate with the folicitor ?- Although he 
allows that importation, and inclofing the 
waite lands, are the moft likelysmearg te 
lcflen the high price of wheat, yet no di- 
minution is to be made in thefe enormous 
fees; but the fee-fimple of the land, in 
many inftances, is to be nearly eat upt be. 
fore it is made capable of producing a fin- 
gle ear of wheat, or a Single blade of grafs. . 
Your publifhing this in your Momthly 
Magazine, will oblige 
4 STAFFORDSHIRE FARMER. 
March roth, 1800. 
acacaumeaipeeane 
ABSTRACT of PROFESSOR THO. BUGGE *s 
JOURNEY 70 PARIS, in the Year 1798 
and 1799. 1 
(Tranflated from the Geo. Erpwem.) 
N confequence of the invitation of the 
{ French government to all the neutral 
powers, and to thole allied with France, 
Mr. Bucce’, Profeflor of Aitronomy at 
Copenhagen, was fent to Paris by the 
Danifh government, to affift at the delibe- 
rations of the commiffioners of the French 
National Inftitute, and of the other foreign 
comnmiffioners, relative to a fundamental 
unity of weights and meaifures. M. Buggé 
has publifhed an account of his journey, 
which will prove a moft acceptable prefent 
to the mathematician and natural philo- 
fopher, to the geographer and ftatiftician. 
For, when fo great a mathematician and 
natural philfopher as Mr. Buggé under- 
takes a literary journey to Paris, where 
the mathematical and phyfical {ciences in 
: nomers 
