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1800.] 
tions, which he ought to have termed it, ' 
CNo. 550 p. 422.) ot conceived that I 
had obviated the objection, by ftating that 
T had heard the cry of the birds, a cha- 
raéteriftic fo peculiar as to preclude mif- 
take. Indeed my opportunities of exa-) 
‘mining them were fuch as to render it 
more probable that I fhould miftake the 
rook for the daw, than ‘that bird called 
(from what caufe I know not) the goat- 
fucker, for the cuckoo, Ihave met with 
‘more than one perfon whofe obfervations 
corroborate mine. - Thofe made by Mr. 
Jenner and W. D. (of the correftnefs of 
which I do not entertain the leaft doubt), 
are certainly fufficiently interefting to the 
curious, without~eftablifhing a fyftem of 
natural economy fo contrary'to all analogy. 
It is, Tam apt to believe, no eafy matter 
for the cuckoo to obtain a refidence, and 
procure a fufficiency of food ; and cuckoos, 
as well as men, mutt fubmit to neceflity. 
“They may each have their foundling-hot- 
pitals: but I fhould fufpeét the one as 
readily as the other of a natural propen- 
fity to abandon their offspring. The 
means and leifure neceflary to purfue the 
enquiry, Mr. Editor, are dented me, 
otherwife IT fhould be ambitious to com- 
municate, through your medium, what I 
now folicit fromothers.. But W. D. may 
reft affured that the fame difpofition which 
leads me to reject the marvellous will fe- 
cure an acknowledgment of error, when- 
ever conviction may demand it from 
. A poor NoRTHUMBRIAN, 
Fuae 10, 1800. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE fuccefs that has attended : the 
cultivation of the Ruta Baga, and 
the Turnip.cabbage ; and the great benefit 
this nation is likely to receive from both, 
has led me to requeft you will, by means 
of your wide {preading publication, oblige 
me, by pointing out to the public another 
northern plant; I allude to that of which 
the Ruffia mats are made, feeds of which 
might eafily be procured by thofe who 
trade there, 
I here add a fubftitute for brewer’s 
yealt; not that I duppofe it wholly un- 
known, but fuchas I can recommend from 
trial, 
Take a finall tea-cup or wine-glafs 
full of {plit peas, pour on it a pint of 
boiling water, and fet the whole in a vet- 
fel all night on the hearth, or any other 
warm place; the water will have a froth 
@n its top the next morning, which willbe 
Receipt for Yeaft—Mr. Toulmin’s Letters. 
‘without foundation. 
54y 
good yeaft. ‘The colder the place the 
longer it will be forming. Jo NV 
eo 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
LETTERS from MR. TOULMIN Of KEN= 
TUCKY. (Continued from p. 224.) 
PETER Ds eve 
Gian: I wrote to you fo lately by’ 
the packet, and again yefterday to 
Mr. ———»—= by a fhip from George 
Town, on the Potowmac, to Falmouth; 
yet, finding that a veflel is to fail to-day, 
from this port to Falmouth, and knowing 
how anxious the ficknefs prevailing in this 
country will render you refpecting our 
health, I cannot let flip this opportunity 
of informing you, that I centinue perfeatly 
well, and have no reafon to fuppofe that 
N. and the children are otherwife. 
_ The hiftory of America does not furnifh 
any inftance of a calamity -fimilar to that 
with which Philadelphia is now afflicted. 
But as the greateft pains are taken in every 
place where there can»be the leaft dan- 
ger, to prevent a communication with that 
‘unfortunate city, I have the greateft hopes, 
that the difeafe will be nearly confined to 
its prefent limits. There have been re- 
ports of its extending to neighbouring, 
towns, but they are, I believe, in general 
Guards are ftationed 
at the entrances of moft of the towns on 
the roads jeading to Philadelphia ; and no 
one from that place is ‘permitted to enter 
without performing a quarantine of feven 
or fourteen'days. I came hither yefterday 
from Lancafter and York, and fome of the 
people got it into their heads that I was 
from Philadelphia, in confequence of which 
two magiftrates, one after another, came 
to examine me, 4nd to require an oath 
that I did not.. However, I thewed them 
a letter from a gentleman of York to one 
in this town, which fatished them. Even 
Mr. Jefferfon,- when lately paffing this 
way, had the greateft difficulty to procure 
admiffion, though he had not been in Phil- 
adelphia fome weeks before. 
Wrinchefter, where I leave N. and -to 
which place you will pleafe to direct any 
letters, is happily two hundred miles from 
Philadelphia, and there is no immediate 
communication between the two towns. 
No bufinefs is now carried on at Philadel- 
phia, and the fhips which are bound for 
that port, generally lie in the bay, or go 
elfewhere. The various fects in this 
town, have agreed to have a faft-day to-~ 
morrow. Many French are ftill here. 
The houfe Iam at is fo full, that feven 
gentlemen were forced to lie upon ae 
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