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Lo the Editor of the Monthty Magazine. 
SIR, - 
OTICING, in your Magazine for 
November, the with of [. P. for 
information as to the utility of the fruit 
of the horfe-chefnut, I am induced to 
fend you the following obfervations, if 
you deem them w orthy “of infertion. 
“The horfe-chefnut was brought from 
the northern parts of Alia, about the 
year 1550. It was called caftanea from 
the thape of its fruit, and the title of 
equine was added to it from its being a 
good tood for horfes, when ground. In 
‘Turkey the nuts of this tree are ground, 
and mixed with the provender for their 
horfés : efpecially thofe which are trou- 
bled wie coughs, or are broken-winded, 
in both which diforders they are reckon- 
ed very good. Deer are very found of 
the fruit, and atthe time of their ripen- 
ing will keep inuch about the trees, and 
greedily devour them as they fall.” — 
Mitler’s Gardener's Dict, Ato. 
Mortimer, in his Art of Huthandry, 
Svo. vol.ii. page 52, corroborates the 
above refpecting food tor horfes. 
And Weiton, in his Traéts on Agri- 
culture and-Gardening, page 192, {peak- 
ing of rearing and fattening poultry, 
amonefi other cheap feods which he re- 
commends, expreffes hinfelf thus, “ and 
(what [ fhould apprehend the beft of all) 
horfe-chefnuts: thefe lati Libs be either 
fieeped in boiling water, or boiled a lit- 
tle, to take off the hes Mies to tempt 
fowls to eat them at firft, a little barley 
meal fhould be mixed with them,” &c. 
_ In your Magazine for November latt, 
page "$82, you mention the Polyauto- 
graphic art. I do not recolleét your 
having ever publifhed any account of it 
amonett the New Patents. 1 could with 
to be formed, through the channel of 
your ufeful Mifcellany, what are the fub- 
jects of the numbcrs already publithed 
as {pecimens of the art, by Mr André 
and Mr. Vollweiter, and ey each, 
and where fold. ‘To many of my brother 
ruiiics this mformation would be as 
pleafing as tomyfelf, no doubt. 
I recollect having fecn mention made 
in fome old agricultural book of a threth- 
ing machine, faid to have been invented 
at Dalkeith in Scot land, which in-a mi- 
nute gave 1320 ‘ftrokes, as many as 
thirty-three men. It was (om to go while 
a water-mill was grinding, but might be 
turned cither with wind or horfe. Query, 
on what confiruction. was it, and whe- 
ther Ww is the foundation or the. plans. 
New Generic Names for the Coyntry 
and awkwardly, on the fubje@. 
[April 1, 
for the threfhing machines of the gee 
day? 
T beg pardon for fo long trefpafiing on 
your tine, and am, Sir, your's, &c. 
Lidlington, R, RurrHEAD. 
near Woburn, Bedfordshire, 
Feb. 16, 1807. 
SS ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
= Jearned friend, Dr. Mitchill, of 
Mx New York, the refpectable repre- 
icidative of that city in the American 
or Fredonian government, has commu- 
niecated to me the following propufal for 
delignating that immentfe republic; which, 
from the bigh charaéter and great imflu~ 
ence of the doctor, will probably be fome 
thie adopted; and if you think it of 
importance or curiofity enough to occu- 
py a {pace in your valuable Mafeellany, 
it is at your command. ~The Doétorcon- 
cludes his letter to me in the following 
words: “JT with that in writing, hence- 
forward, you would diftingu'th the United 
States by the name of Fredon, and the: 
inhabitants as Fredes, purtuant to the 
enclofed nomenclature.” 
The communication of this propofal 
may perhaps be acceptable to’ the pub- 
IC. 
Joun Coakley Lerrsom, 
Sambrook cba hi Nov. 20. 
aaiiies ‘>? 
GENERIC NAMES for the coUNTRY and 
PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES Of AME~ 
RICA. 
The portion of terraqueous globe compre- 
hended by the great Lakes, the Saint Law- 
rence, the Ocean, and the Mifiiflippi, has 
no general dedcanieege by which it can be 
conveniently diftinguished in geography. Its. 
fubdivifions and local names are appropriate 
enough, and fufficiently well underitood. But 
there is ‘ill wanting one broad and univerfal 
appellation, to defighate and characterize the 
whole appropriated and unappropriated terri- 
tory of fhe United States. 
It was a great overfight in the convention 
of 1787, that they did not give a name to 
the country for which they devifed a frame 
of government. Its citizens are fufiering 
eyery day for lack of fuch a generie term. 
Deftitute of a proper name for their own foil 
and region, they exprefs themfelves vaguely 
By fome it 
is termed United States; this, however, is 
a political, and not a geographical title. By 
others it is called America, and the inhabi- 
tants Americans. But thefe epithets equally 
belong to Labrador and Paraguay, and their’ 
natives. New England.and New Englanders 
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