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1604. 
tion of the people of the country, a {peci- 
fic remedy for certain complaints. A 
{pecies of cheele called Wyfe Smar Off is 
prepared here from whey; and another 
fort named Kuage-O8 is made of butter- 
milk, There is a fugar-work at Dront- 
heim, large, and in a thriving fate of 
of manufaéture and trade. In Angel's 
Orphan-houle, fixty orphan children are 
brought up trom eight to fixteen years of 
age, and are educated in reading, writ- 
ing, and the principles of religion. 
Mr. Angel was alfo the founder of an. 
hofpital for old women in which fixteen 
are entertained at an allowance of 43 rix- 
do\ars annually for each of them. The 
hofpital is a ftone edifice, and was built 
at an expence of 76,000 vixdollais. Milk 
is here curdied. by pouring a {mall portion 
of it quite hot upon the leaves of the plant 
pinguicula vulgaris. Ut becomes thus 
curdled and vifcid, and difayreeable to the 
tafte ; but acquires at the fame time the 
quality of coagulating other milk. It is 
preferved for ule, and fo employed in 
{mall portions whenever cheefe is made. 
It has the name of Tate. FEnttead cf vine- 
gar, the inhabitants of Drontheim uf four 
whey; giving it the name of Syra- The 
warer of Drontheiim is not very agreeable 
‘for drinking. 
(To be Continued.) 
ao 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SiR, . 
ES a fele&t colleEtion of Britifn plants, 
A. formed by the late Mr. Weighell of 
Sunderland, A. L. S. were two {pecimens 
of plants never hitherto confidered indige- 
nous, whof< real claim to a place in the 
Britith Flora it would be wel) worth the 
attention of any northern botanift to af- 
certain. ‘Fhe plants I allude to are the 
Plantago unifiora, found intermixed with 
the P. maritimaj near Sonderland ; and 
the Scheuchzeria palufiris, {ound amongft 
fome Carices in a boggy ground near Hil- 
It ig poflible that thefe plants 
might have been only naturalized with fe- 
veral others introduced by ballaf, of 
which a large lift difcovered by Mr. 
Weizhell, on and about the ballaft bills 
in the vicinity of Sunderiand, is inf rted in 
the “ Plance rariores Agri Dunelmenhs,”’ 
publifhed, fome time fince, by Mr. Rob- 
_ fen, of Darlington, A. L.S. introduétory 
to a more complete Flora of that County. 
It is certain that no coynty, from the co- 
pioufnefs of its habitats of rarer plants, 
and naturalized {pecies, as well as its rich 
_ collection of Cryptogamia, efpecially of 
Lichens and Fuci, could afford a more-cx- 
4 
Rare Plants at Sunderland—St, Albans. 
VIS 
tenfive or important Flora. The com- 
pletion of this defideratum would be con~ 
fiderably aided by a collection of the na- 
tive plants of Northumberland and Dur- 
ham, now formirig under the dire&tion of 
a Mr. Wincly of Newcaftle, for the Lite. 
vary and Philofophical Society of that 
town, Should no fuch work be already in 
agitation, a plan has been digefed, if fuf- 
ficient materia's could be obtained frony 
feveral botanical gentlemen whofe loca¥ 
fituation peculiarly enables them to afford 
them, for forming, under the title of a 
Flora Borealis, a complete history of the 
vegetable produétions of the four Northern: 
Counties of England. And it isnot, per- 
haps, too much to premife, that, theuld 
fufficient encouragement be given fo fuch 
a plan, whenever effectually undertaken,’ 
feveral very important accuifisions to the 
Britis Flora would be the refult of an ac- 
curate inveftigation of this diftritt. The 
counties of Weftmroreland and Cumber- 
land have already afforded: many- additions 
ta our National Flora; and that of Nor- 
thumberland, which has been, perhaps, 
lefs explored than any other in the king 
dom, 13, prefumed to contain much inter- 
efting matter for the attention of the bo- 
tanical enquirer. In a future letrer Lmay 
enter more largely upon the objects of fucly 
an undertaking, and detail the means by 
which it would be moft fuccefsfully effeé&- 
ed, RBS, 
January, 1204. 
Errata.—In my laft letter, vol. xvi. p.532. 
line 22. for BGell’s read Hull’s Britith Flora. 
Page 533. line 6. for Wiggen read Wizgers, 
&c. 
ae 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SER, 
MONG the valuable, thoughnecleét- 
ed, relics-of antiquity, furnifhed by 
the neighbourhood of London, I think E 
may include St. ALBans, A year ago 
I paid it a fhort vit witha friend; and 
as our walk included other objeéts of cu- 
rioue refearch, I venture to communicate 
the particulars : | 
We fat off from London December 26, 
1802, upon the road to Hoddefdon, whofe 
courfe is nearly parallel with the Roman 
Military Way, fince called Ermin-fireet— 
The Hermen, or Ernun-ftreet, came from 
the Sea fide, in Suffex, by Stane-freet, 
Croydon, and Streatham, pofled the 
Thames at the termination of a (treet in 
the parish of St. Mary Overy, ftill calied 
Stone or Stoney ftrget, and branched off’ 
on the oppofite thore to Bifhop-Gate. Ic 
afterward ran by the priory of &. Maury 
Spiral, 
