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induced to mix salt with the provender 
of thew cattle, which produced in those 
thus. fed, a manifest superiority. It 
will hardly. be necessary, after relating 
this strong fact, to insist on the inference 
to be drawn from the concurrence of all 
natians in the use of salt as aculinary in- 
gredient; from the predilection shown 
for it by some of the feathered race, or. 
from the salutary properties. of the salt 
marshes, either in. preventing or ,reme-, ,, 
dying the diseases of sheep. . Can we 
wonder then that Cheltenham, liberally 
supplied as itis with saline springs, should 
be so much frequented ? Ifere the ac- 
tive agency or common salt is heightened 
_ by the addition of other saline materials 
(Epsom and, Glauber salts) whose ape- 
rient gualities are more decisive, while 
their debilitating effects are counteracted 
by carbonic and chalybeate principles, 
whose renovating influence upon the 
stomach is universally recognized. Here, 
according to the nature of his complaint, 
the invalid may have recourse to the sa- 
line chalybeate of the old spa; a suiphu- 
retted saline, approachifg to the nature 
of Harrogate water; a simple saline, Nc. 
&c. at Montpelier "Wells; and a simple 
_Chalybeate, like that of Tunbridge, at 
Barrett’s, and at Riddel’s. These waters 
will doubtless always retain some degree 
of credit, although the manner of taking. 
them may perhaps hereafter be some- 
what varied. Reason, in many cases, 
would seem to prescribe an alteration of 
the evacuating and bracing systems; but 
asin allthese points the ‘savest doctors 
disagree, every individual mast be left to 
the direction of his ‘own medical oracie, 
unless, having attained the age of forty, 
he has acquired temerity enough to be- 
come his own physician, 
The waters of Cheltenham are from 
their nature eminently calculated to re- 
lieve those distressing trains of bilious and 
nervous symptoms that are now become 
éo prevalent.. The fashionable modes of 
€¢kiiling time,” in which so many are enga; 
ged, and the sedentary lives that others ar 
compelled by necessity, or induced = 
choice, to lead, prodice debilitating eflects 
that assume a thousand hideous shapes. 
Relaxation of stonrach, and consequent 
indigestion, is often the origin of thase 
evils; and Cheltenham water, ‘while it 
removes the crude accumulations that op- 
press the digestive powers,imparts to them 
% degree of strength and tone, that is 
speedily diffused through the whole body ;’ 
‘while pleasant walks, charming rides, 
aad innumerable objects, that i interest 
Reply to a Criticism on Shenstone’s Pastorals. 
Sa :; 
the ae promote exercise, which 3 is: nas 
ture’s best restorative. 
Ta liver complaints, that arise. “from a 
long residence in torrid climes, the, sus. 
perior ese of these waters Is friely 
established; and many whose health 
been thus injured, annually resort to- this 
lace, and bear away in their altered 
ae ample testimony of the benefit they 
have ceceivenl 
i he baths which I wae before noticed, 
yare likely to be of incalculable advantage 
to those who are tormented with extra- 
neous affections, for the cure of which, 
the internal use of these waters has long 
been efficiently employed. The bathing 
plan, however, would be greatly improv ed, 
if it supplied artificial sea-water and sul- 
phurated baths. The addition cfa pro- . 
per proportion of salt to the mimeral wa- 
ter might easily be made; and surely some 
chemical process might be devised, to 
approximate the strong sulphurated saline 
nearer to the nature of Harrogate water. 
It would be worthy of the enlarged 
views of Mr. Thompson, to procure, if 
possible, the completion of the colonnade, 
and to open from thence a grand avenue 
to Montpelier wells. | 
I fear my prolixity has been tiresome, 
and therefore hasten to conclude. We. 
have made a party for a rural excursion 
to-morrow, that will, perhaps, afford mate 
ter for my next letter, Adieu, : 
Your's, 6c. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
SHOULD be glad if some of your 
correspondents would inform me, 
why Dr. Johnson, in his Lives of the 
Poets, says, that John Tughes was the son 
of a citizen of London, and Ann Burgess ; 
William Shenstone, the son of Thomas 
Shenstone and Anne Pen; and that 
“ Mark Akenside’s father, Mark; was a 
butcher, of the presbyterian sect; his 
mothei’s name was Mary Lumsden.” ; 
Are we to understand by this, that 
they were not the offspring of marriage? 
It hath often occurred to me, that the 
eae merit of Shenstone and Aken- . 
side has been much under-rated by the 
criticism of Johnson, In your Magazine 
for May last, appeared some strictures 
on Shenstone’s Pastoral Ballad, witha 
sneering quotation frem Polwhele, wha 
must surely have been hard driven to find 
a rhyme for numby pamby, by instituting 
the infantile word, lamby. 
‘He cannot pretend that it was done in | 
unitation of Shenstone, since such 
/— nousenst 
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