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London, England, 1809-12-16 00:00:00

THE PALMETTO.

invn as Tile nrallrtT or WPM •OIttIar&TIPIIAL
SOCIETY OF SOUTH C•R•LIN
IE !RCS! DENT AND 11F.NTAR.R3 OP TIM%
AGItIGULrcn AL geICIETT.
Ilelvedere. Feb. 1, 11109-
I..ritatt—As every diseuvely which stay tend to
the interests of our eountry by the application of
hie prodnetions to beneticial purposes, toast be •
of importance to, aud come within the view of, a
established few promoting the aericailtural eoueerus
I take the liberty of rommunicateig to you an ac-
'some experiments which I have made, and 'hick
hove conspietely suceetided
mg that the palmetto trees, which hail be en hitherto
only as logs, itflie construction of wharves, restated
attack ofthow worms which are so injurious to all either
Is of wood ler water, and that it did not decay, Into
`se contrary, azquired, in that element a three of
.apable of mustn't the stroke of as axe ; it oreureed
Ibnt if it could he made use of in the form aboard*,
be applied to many valuable uses, particalarly lit
proteetins' the bottoms aunt ships, trading in southern bd.
from the ravages of that dem roctive imect ; hut,
roily of a loose spun! texture within, I was dotal=
result. I. however, deternimed to mike the expert.
sad niceordingle sawed a member of board, soflicient
N sassed rowing • host, which I kept moored throne's
slimmer of 174/, in a situation expose,l l 3 their
Is the fullowing wiener Rile 'NW ray saws
remoter of liidgesent, concerned in shippie^ aud coos,
- who derided In 'twos,. ado. experiuseet alwatio.
-urn in he perfect iy and lis.l wetehmenlajorei
smallest degree he the worm. I also, a the owee•-
_ sheathed I two-inch Ow plonk with a palmetto board,
lIIMM-fvurtles of an inch thick, =dowered it neartiehtlet
-• was takes up M the winter and tea...loot, trims Hot peak
's was Anna to he .is tree trom worms as the day liras
?Li. water, but thi: pine was perforoteel isist vericry
, and alienist entirely destroyed. This boat was
{rent ale yeses, after baring been sheathed, due.
time iintb"-ig was dune to her buttons, except pay-
bares year.
•
ihe bitter roil of tho immin-r of teniG, I sheathed with
hoards one of coy of ton t,! !s. of rare Is/e-
-'en., whirls time Ow was constantly cambered bete 'ea
soil Cleirlestiiii, until last lecemither, yob. n she was
1 the Hard and gr wed ; her t,ottcsos was foomt to ...I
ii, with lame oi rs' hurarrlva, earl aced. upon it,
perfectly mold and field and, than** tb whole
of two 'emit, in which she lea coustantly eisiployeel
t being scraped or graved) in carrying lice from use
!harken:is, or in transporting, from the tomato of the
the mill, the cargoes of rough rice' principally in
:might theic by the roaster*, she 'lid nit iojure a
of it. I aim sheathed with these toorila, all the
works alinnt my mill, exposed to the wane, which
e: hue folly preserved them from injury, cud I am
iloycd in &nag the Senn: to all my Bats awl boob., of
:empties, sod, in sleet, to every thing within the
/this pernicious insect..
iderstaiid that pius sheathing will sot last, with the
• tare, more than two year., that copper, of the best
pa la a-cesseis, will be worn mit in abut four 01. five
and that it eweeot be used at all upon vessels liable to
the Remind, as comics arc; whereas the palmetto
as sound as the day it was oat on. when the nes-
eas sheathed with it skull be entirely decayed;
at it is not more lied* thee pout to injury from the
Ming of the vessel. The expease of .this sia•slhwg, iu
tat instauce, will, I "opium, he less thaw that of pine,
boards will not cost marls more thou pine, and it is
tessary to put any sbeatlinie.paprr between it amid
i of the veered. The i xpen..e of sheathing with copper
t times se murk as sheathing with ; one. It ap-
lerefore, that after • vessel is sheathed with palmetto,
—to cud of tilt cxprnse upon this score, bet if pee
copper are made sac of, the former must be renewed •
e•oni, and the latter every four or lye, when the smile
:wet first meat be mono lectured.
got nit- shall be of opinion, 'het any further exile.
should le.: made to ascertain the superior advantages
told of sheathing over every usher, at present is
i wit node: take throe wills pleasure.. 1 have, however,
that they will appoint a Committee to examine is
triettst manlier the esperinsents that have been site,
• nkr alms the Merits of the discovery, end whether it
c. 0.., sees 'Lose .aperumr Advantages, that 1 suppose it does.
pr. anal .be Society speeimeiss of the boards.-1 have the
to bi , very tt,p,tfol;), row iibeilvent 'errant,
T/111111AS SHURRICK.
P. S. I omitted mentioning. in its proper place that the
alscoc-euenthined millninat, which I sheathed in the; loiter roil
• 11n6, was *ben so le:sky. from being worni.esten, that I
' have given her as eutire ucw bottoms, if I boil ant
sheathed her.

Some letters have barn received from Para, a
trading part. situated near to the month of the
River of Amazons. Nothing of a political kind
had occurred, but the trade had been consider-
ably injured by the want of communication with
Europe, ■nd ►he Southern Settlements of Bra-
zil. The cotton of this country is of an infe-
►nor quality to that of the oth.,r districts depend-
eat upon Portogal ; hut, from the deficiency of
buyers, it might he obtained almost roc nothing at
this market. Sarsaparilla, a vegetable of great
imminertial and medicinal importance, and of which
there has been a scarcity in other parts of South
American, was in great abundance on the contiguous
territory.

NAr.4L INTELLICEACT.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 14.
Arrived the Goshawk, is gums Capt. Inner, from
Madeira.—Came ,uto harbour, the Haughty gua-
brig. to be docked.
Last night, a small French privateer was cap-
tured off the Needles ; but we hive not heard by
filch of our erui,ers.—Wind S.W.
_ _

PLYMOUTH, DEC. 13. •
Arrived the Proviiksee cutter, from Scilly; and
the Friends, flarmoud, from the bay of Honduras.
DOVER, DEC. 14.
This afternoon two of the three privateers, lately
captured and carried into the Downs, were brought
into the harbour. 'They
.ure tuggers, and about
the same sige and form of those sent in before ; the
other, which is sent in to Ramsgate, is said to he
larger ; they had on board the three, upwards of :WO
ineu. IVe are told the former captain of one of
them made a handsome fortune; but that the one
who succeeded him was taken the tiro voyage.
The cruisers off this port have been so numerous of
late, that it is surpriOtug they venture out at all.—
The wind still continues to blow fresh from the
westward. DEEI. DEC. 14.

Arrived the Kangaroo, from the Mediterranean ;
and the Undanated transport, in a leaky state, hav-
ing been run foul of in the lute gale.
The outward-liund still remuin.

HERRIAG FISHERY'.

The herring fishery at Yarmouth having beet&
inure prialtictive the last seasou, Qom ever known at
any former ',trio], the following aecoent of the
mode in which the said fisher• is carried on may
not be unacceptable to our readers. The number
of boats sent .to Yarmouth from the Yorkshire
coast, was 40, viz. 15 from Stlllthb-5 from RUM..
wick-5 from Robin hood's flay-9 from Scar-
borough—ft from Filey—and 4 from Flambotoo.;lo.
These boats etlineasure from 50 to Go tons,. ~re
lugger-rigged, and manned with six meu,iucluding
the master, who is generally the nailer, and u but.
They were furtuerly constructed without a dick,
and it was long before many of the old fishermen
could so far uses come their prejudices in favour of
the former prit.:iite, as to adopt a measure calculat-
ed to contribute nut less to the strength of their
vessels, awl to the comfort and security of the
people on Wart:. Each of the men, exclusive of
the owner, ia.i.hibutes . his proporti:m of nets,
called a dole, consisting oftvrenty-four, making one
hundred an.; twenty fur each boat. The period of
the fishery is comprised hetween thi• '25t11 Sept. and
. the Ist of !November ; during the first half of this
period, the people drive: in the uight, with one-half
of the nets ; thr r :.re exchanged fur the remaining
hull; which h. neen left on shore, and.which are
used till the of the fishery. 'Vie boats
employed 1.10. season caught al•on an avereete
.33 •.• maga, (a last contuinir.,•• 10,000), fox
y nereallow. 1 by the merchants gh 104.
• hid), with 801., a &maur to the owner
of the boat, &led Piet rage money, makes a total
of 4101. per bout. This sum, with the exception of
the steerage money, is divided into six ►hares, one
called the befell share is appropriated to the owner.
the rest •fistributed among the people. The de-
parture of these boats for the fishery is celebrated
as is period of festivity by the parties esneerued,
with their friends, at the respective places whence
the), ail.

tla
01rlatteee
Ifet!,, warm
by way o;
Mr. Rita.
trade, to
/mord, se
Theo clout
it, nod I
• 'Loci:tots
• mateesrediattl
'with Irian
titer till
rounded, r
A outman
biting hit.
lar.
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and the 6I
of Luck.
mimes am
They g..mt
the E
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lotrtel
IMO:rills I
riniptrion •
ice it on a
Tito% C
the r,,;ua,
Inset' T. ;
jar, iim
the elsild
tura, and
foil grown
the body *
eight or a
b.orn alive
uhich it ti
There
•
%lively oil
at Temple
[yentas's
TO THE
f ettTL
'townie I
its reeete'm
oulneet of
society eat,
thereof, I
count of se
, I think, Is,
Know ail
used mile
tb. *thick
kiwis of w
on time con
dity capab
to tor,thr
it might
protectin4
tudes, fromm
orrareotlir
i• • Of the 11.141
acid, and
to sheath a
the whole
atteek. It
rat parser,
tarfrr, wtti
isg
in the *mu
time, shrsi
• three.foort
• it was lake
%Hello won
.• . ru.
of plee.,A.
NMI shoot
:41. 'omen
log it once
lo the IN
thilit hoar,
doe,
the mill at
pot open
airy foul,
but was pm
period of
(offbeat I
sill to CY
track ►oil
Int,lt„ hire
bushel of
woaat
low 'Ando
every de,
reacli of II
I nude.
gm eatest
upem
y aru, till
touch th.
itrr omit be a
eel whieb
and that
proemial!.
the find i
as the km
tot roves
the *kin
. • is about
pram.. the
Caere is
or copper
two ye.r,
espresso
If the
rinments
of *is k
I.mr, I wi.
ri
*he strict
Is lee
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Ao.tour t.
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almorc-est
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stmtuthed
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trailing
River e
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