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wounds of trees, and fhould have ruined 
ali mine had I perfevered in the ufe of it; 
which, inttead of healing, a€ted diametri- 
cally contrarily; but they are gradually 
recovering under the operation of the late 
William Forfyth’s compofition, which is 
the cheapef and the beft I am acquainted 
with. The medicated tar recommended 
by the Vice-Prefident of the Society of 
Arts, T.S. D. Bucknall, Efq. is com- 
pofed of ** one quarter of an ounce of 
corrofive fublimate, reduced to fire pow- 
der, by beating with a wooden hammer; - 
and then put into a three-pint earthen pip- 
kin, with about a glafsful of gin, or other 
{pirit, ftirred well together, and the fubli- 
mate thus ditfolved. The pipkin was 
then filled by degrees with vegetable or 
common tar, and conftantly ftirred till the 
mixture was blended together as intimate- 
ly as poffible,” p. rg. 
He imagines that the fublimate will de- 
deftroy the infects of truit-trees whiitt the 
tar heals the wounds; in both refpetts, 
however, it failed with me, and the tar 
proved very injurious to the wounds, and 
I am perfuaded that very mild applica- 
tions are much more beneficial. 
About feven years ago Rebert Mar- 
fham, Efq. of Stratton, inferted in the 
Philofophical Tranfactions of the Royal 
Society, an account of the increafe in the 
growth of trees, fram merely ‘* wafhing 
them with water, aided by a brufh or 
flannel, from the ground to the beginning 
of the head.” 
Indeed any mild application, as I have 
| jot obferved, which »athes off, er removes 
the mofs and infects, tends to promote the 
health, growth, and produét of trees, fup- 
pofing other circumftances of foil and fitu- 
ation favcurable; but the compofition re- 
commended by the late William Forlyth 
3s, in my cpinion, the moft fimple, cheap, 
and effectual method hitherto publithed, 
which is ‘* Merely fcrape off ihe loofe bark, 
and apply a mixture of cow-dung and 
wrine only, made to the canfiitence of a 
thick paint, with a painter’s bruth, cover- 
ing the ftem carefully over. This foftens 
the old f{cabrous bark, which pee!s off 
guring the following winter and {pring, 
and is fucceeded by a fine {fmoo:h new 
bark.” 
"In moft of the proceffes on fruit trees 
tco much is done by art and too little left 
to nature. A good orchardif& is fill 
wanted 5 one who ftudies nature, and by 
centemplating the noble trees of the foreit 
and icrulinizing into thofe laws which 1e- 
gulate their srowth and render them the 
~pride of veg<table nature, and applying 
Sketches of the prefent State of Lyons. 
[ Nov. 1, 
them to the obje&ts of horticulture, fhall 
know how to direé&t thofe operations 
which conduce to their vigorous health, 
‘beauty of growth, and richnefs in product. 
Joun COAKLEY LETTSOM. 
Sambrook-court, OG. 20, 1804. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
SKETCHES of the PRESENT STATE of 
LYONS, dy an ENGLISH TRAVELLER, 
wha bas jufi returned from that City. 
YONS isi10* French leagues (or 306 
Englifh miles) from Paris, 36 from 
Dijon, the ancient fource of ambition and 
intrigue; 44 from Avignon, the theatre 
of Papal fovereignty for more than feventy 
years; 70 leagues from Toulon, and 63 
from Marfeilles, now the decond city of 
France. _[t is in latitude 45° 46’ N. and 
is fituated at the bottom of a ridge of hills 
on the confluence of the Soane and Rhone, 
not very improperly denominated, by Po- 
lybius and Livy, an ifland, of a triangular 
ficure, the bafe of which is a chain of 
mountains and highlands tolerably pice 
turefque. 
Ancient and Modere State of Lyous. 
‘Lhe numerous and pompous defcrips 
tions of this city, with which the French 
have augmented the volume of their lite- 
rature, would make the ftranger, »whe 
had read’ them before his arrival there, 
doubt that he was in Lyons. 
fent and former ftate are, no doubt, very 
different ; yet fill enough remains — 
fhew what it could have bees# before the 
Revolution and the deftra€tion made by 
Collot d’Herbois. True, great numbers 
of houfes have been levelled to the ground, 
and even almoit entire ftreeta at entering 
the town on the road from Paris 3 yet 
thefe in general were old houfes, the natu- 
ral ruin of which was only a little haften< 
ed, and which might add to the magni- 
tude, but moft affuredly not to the beauty, 
of the city. Few public buildings, ex& 
cept the convents, have been totally dila- 
pidated, and ftill fewer have efcaped fome_ 
kind of mutilation. In general,all churches, 
chapeis, and other public edifices have 
been difmantled of their ftatues, bufts, and 
other ornaments, not only in Lyons, but 
throughout al] France. ‘The infcriptions 
too are moftly de‘aced ; and in many in- 
ftances, where the hardnefs of the ftone or 
the imperfectnefs of the inftruments ren- 
dered it d.ficuit to erafe totally all the 
charaéters, every fecond letter has been - 
* The authors of the Statiffique of France, te 
magnify the extent of the French territory, 
roake it 315 leagues, Mee 
molt 
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