1802.] Vegetables recommended— Correction propofed in Flomer. 
years, has rendered large expreffions of 
numbers fo familiar to us, that many per- 
fons will mention 234,000,000 with as 
much coolnefs as they would the price of 
a fewacres of land; and if this dilpofition 
did not very generally prevail, it would 
be difficult to conceive that the gigantic 
firides of unbounded profufion fhould not 
have been regarded with more attention 
and concern: the fact feems to be, that 
the majority of the public have never 
attempted to ftretch their. faculties to any 
diftin& idea of the degree of quantity ex- 
prefled bya million. It may not be very 
ealy to read, without learning to fpell; yet 
I conceive it poffidle, that moft of the per- 
fons I have alluded to may be capable of 
forming fome notion of the magnitude of 
the fum of 234 millions, which I have af- 
fumed as the expence of the war. With 
this view, it may be ufeful to inform 
them, that it a greater fum than all the 
money which bas ever been coined in this 
country would amount to; that it exceeds 
all the money exifting in all Europe ; that it 
would require more time to count it out 
in guineas, than the whole period in 
which it has been fpent, or nearly eleven 
pears; ana that, if laid down in hhillings 
touching each other, it would extend very 
nearly three times round the world. 
Dec. v6, 1801. yefrG. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Wi. many others of the readers 
/Y of your Magazine for December, 
I was much ftruck with the efforts of Ci- 
tizen André Michaux to benefit his coun- 
try by the introducing of foreign ufeful 
trees and plants.—Having a with to in- 
duce fome of our countrymen to imitate 
his example; I fend you the following 
inftance of its pra&ticability, viz. Early 
in September lait, I fowed fome feeds, 
called gram, which are brought by our 
fhips from Bengal, to feed pigs and poul- 
try ; in fize they are nearly as large asa 
- marrow-fat-pea, the plants frém them 
have ftood the feverity of the weather 
till the 4th of January (at which time T 
write this) as well as chick-weed and 
groundfel.—I would advife firft to fearch 
thofe countries, which we are about to re- 
ftore to France, Spain and Holland: and 
allow me to point out one fruit-tree lately 
difcovered in Caffraria, and called by the 
Natives izgonja. Itisa large tree, bearing 
a fruit of the drupa kind, which is of a 
felicious flavour, refembling that of fu- 
gar acidalated with lemon-juice: it is of 
an oval form, about two inches in length. 
a, 
I have lately been informed by a cap- 
tain of a merchant fhip, that it is the prac- 
tice of our fhips bound to Ruffia, to fend 
a boat’s crew to fome iflands in the Bal: 
tic, to gather wild ftrawberries, which 
grew on them in the greateft abundance : 
thefe are moft probably different from our 
wood-ftrawberry, and with culture might 
prove a very valuable fort, and are ealily 
procured, E. S. 
To the Editor of the Meathly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N my little communication of the 24th 
of December laft, I propofed pointing 
the following line of Homer, Il. 1. v. 133. 
Epyov aeines exovra wm Eupuosnoc ato, 
not as it ftands in the editions of Barnes 
and Dr. Clarke, who fhew that they have 
miftaken the conftruétion by tranflating, 
Jub Euryfthei laboribus, but after EugucSaag 
as wellas exovra, that efacv may be go- 
verned of epyov. ‘This correction is indif- 
putable, In confirmation of the force gi- 
ven to ume, Compare Mofcnus Megara, v. 
4, 5, where {peaking of Hercules and 
Euryftheus he fays, 
Hiort adyse Tacyer amerpira dasdinos vsog 
Avopog “VII etidavoro, Aewv weed “YTIO veGce 3 
See alfo profeffor Porfon’s note in v. ror8 
of the Medea of Euripides. 
In defence of epyov azdawy, fee Megara, 
V. A2, ToAEwY yap os EPION éroiov MOXOQN, 
Walthamflow, Iam Sir, Your’s, &c. 
Fan: hy 1802. E. CoGan, 
~~  ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
S I am of opinion, in common with 
many others, that the queftions 
now agitated refpecting the caules of the 
dearneis of provifions, and the policy of a - 
free trade in thofe commodities, are of 
the utmoft permanent importance, I beg 
permiffion to lay before the public, through 
the medium’ of your Magazine, a few 
ideas which have occurred to me, or been 
revived in my mind, by the perufal cof 
your correipondent Miforhetor’s obferva- 
tions upon the fubject. I do not defign 
to notice ail his pofitions and conclufions, 
fome of which I think juit, fome ftalla- 
cious, and one or two incomprehenfible, 
I am not inclined to fubfcribe to all 
the popular prejudices regarding the trade 
in provilions; but neither can I affent to 
the doctrine of fome liberal and not ill-in- 
formed perfons, who, after Dr. A. Smith, 
contend that this trade thould be entirely 
free. 
It is, I believe, allowed that the price 
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