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‘rti the riebt sec, and Roes which the mast 'Olsten-
. .1 bets. fits might be expected to arise. These
rasing, its the tint instance, should be made one
3st ipitYivirle, and ooe spit deep ; they should
r:iterieci each other at a and es-pert over the whole
*4411 'Or the hog; by these drains the iltronfal
+titers wool.'" imlnediktely escape. nod the aroma'
s.,loply of water mice chucked. the morose would
,:Sodnally bemone more hrm and consistent on the
NI, at which tim", as snotty of the foot-drains as
•Aoncr nereenetry might be petserverl, deepened,
emerged, and merle the direction for rubes..
ova% demote, and liabillinsions of the moor.
" As it is plain, in ell drew eases, that miter
'nominates a I tree proportion 7.f -the hulk of rest
:wogs, the regulur th•eltar4e of it *mitt occasion a
Amer nation mut counolidstiou of the vegetable mat.
..er, which, once relievedof its red IsorosoiXture,
Woottl grednally tinders:* a ehAirge from the red,
roirtogy stoti, to tftet of the:Mirk ?weir, or peaty :
charioteer. When sufAcientlY)fiin rb lepport a
Yoke of ottin, the paring-planet elnestd‘ii applied,
for two or three tittinrsorcessiveVY.• in thetnifnctinu
1 she red spongy stilmninee ; *skids; Care.elwaya to
the /treittis etr..the .serf4et lowered ind be-
iota intwe'com port ind'solid. -The intelligent eon-
rtuctin'Yof such imProvernents will hest judge the
• 'line wheltsto trial should he trade to procure a crop
fermi laitittloorfeelainord. In the jortgitieut of the
shrteryor it wattle' loot be ed•isible omit the red hog
r. art' itiolergoiie rr Med, or perhaps fourth, paring
. al ',ardor, oldm the: anemia should he made
.41 the last burnt ground, by merely sowing rape or
.41eseed in- the month of July, upon the spread
;dote. about half a peck to the sere, and on which
•ocessimt neither ploughing. hairroving, or hush.
t orrowitog, is In the smallest degree necessary.
The appearatrice or the colt-seed by the Ist of
4:Petolter, together with that of the upproaching sea.
son. and the condition which the hog may be in
with regifil to moister?, will he the best direction to
the farmer, as to the property of feeding the cote-
ered for a mouth or six week. before the frost sets
in. or in Jetting the wbote Maid over, mired, for
c'op. 'ln either cam the Molested. will be ready in
tee coshing month of sely; when. after being rut,
and wretherings'eerlithr time, it should be thrashed
tat and prepared roe market. on the moor, and the
houltn or stalks removed. and mode into substan-
tial walls about the house or homestead, in order
TO attrni shelter, doting the etistnog winter, to the
Ahvep. sod other Mock of the farm.
" The red hog thy, subdued, and brought for-
went to cultivation, the repeated poring and burn.
log to which it may afterwards be subjected, can
produce /60 possible injury to a substance of such
; it will era' the means oT procuring
obuirtleut crops of coleverd, turnips, flat, potatoes,
cabbages, pram, beans. aud every sort of legu-
sti;nous vegetahle that eon be Herd mid appro-
priated in a green state; and may be coutiuued
s-ithout danger, until all the morass and former
onlventitious covering is reduced within a lout or
fifteen inchis of the ordinary bed or stratum of
mound comb below. A few oats, provided they
were put in proportionably curly, might perhaps
1.• brought to ripen at a late period in the season;
Out. as this may be found difficult to accomplish,
it were much better to abstain from their culture,
till such time as the melioration of the climate of
the moor affords better grounds for success. than
it rail or does at present. Hemp would most pro-
1-ably be fouled. towards the completion of the irn-
proveassia, to roarer very wall ; but neither this nor
cots rhombi be attempted in its early stage. Ray.
grew. or him., would be Abend to flourish very
soon after the second or third crop of colesced ; and
a the mass of the hog below obtained relief from
adurations clover mid other valuable grasses might
be cultivated to advantage upon it.
" As the improvement progressed, it would be
'or the tint comet:pence., at times when it lay upon
its greets side, to endeavour. by all gentle means,
to mix anal incorporate with the surface, small but
Petrol's le 'lion. of the under-stratum of white and
rf.liattr The outfit-drains being required pro.
port' !ily large to issue the water they may re-
c. ire. Illigh/ oecasionelly tarot(' this supply in coo-
t-sinew plimitionv. This alterative dressolg should
oat, r, he omitted, although it were necessary
4.) form I.)ts or excavations expressly for the purpose;
ii would opt rate by giving that &mans and con.
I.4teove in ordistien,ably required, to the loose vege-
table matt, r cemposing the subject of our present in.
q oiry. 11'InIst these works were carrying on upon the
ied hose) parts of the forescits depasturable parts
'‘`-raild not be passed over, but in like manner, be-
t time relieved of their surplus water. by foot-drains,
i•orrsectitig each other at two, or perhaps three,
rods a-part, sod their *item conducted non °olio'.
properly' devoted and constructed to re-
'es, we it.
•u Tl,is nteory soil has relieved of its sap's',
Kates. "wl(' readily assiinilate frequent but light
•ei•vssinge of its under stratum. fux-inutilit, which
thug applied in small dose,, would gradually in.
eraporate with the surface-mould, and as gradually
produce considerable improvement in its present
herbage. No consideration, however, should
-tempt the Coated of his Royal Highness the
I'ttrte of Wales to permit this species of moor to
Ire Woken op. of opened to any farther extent than
may be absuleitely necessary to complete its drain.
sire lend subsequent subdivisions, should such be
deemed necessary or advisable to be made on a fu•
lure do)) ; tor lbe present covering once destroyed.
ages would nut renew it with an herbage equally
,ts
" As the *hole of this forest will stand eminently
•.red of the calcareous principle, and es so its.
Ca eirstible supply of strong peat furl may slap
be ;arrears' (you this moor (were roads properly
l.id 601; front die Bridestow, Oakliaruptoo, and
Iftrisse: or Buckfastleigh lime-rocks, limestone
to the bet clotted into the interior of the moor. and
to' proper ly constrocted kilns, to almost
ell lotted. and incalculable advantage."
1-* frillowirig account of a commuoicatioo re.
mwetitsg tits Furest, lertueru the Marquis of /last.
10,/46../146/t wine Scutcla FlUldlell. is extracted from a
16/001:11) t—
•• Woe's the Alatquis of postings was resident in
eirroendo* Commander-ite-Chset, lie assrailsted a
toadies of Vie most intelligent latment, and p, o.
pea. u to them. with toe authority of his Royal
firgioleme to allot ;mimesis of this forest to lite mt.
wriyu. of Highlanders who were emigrating
to cur mate bleak deserts of Atllett4.ll. We resew.

bee the Noble Nlnrcinis's report or this'iliterview,
the result of which, he will, strongly evinced the
sagacity of the Northern Agrictiliiiri% s. The Niihie
1.0,11 stated to them the beni-volent intentinlia of
his 11 tysl [fig ;—here was a most exieusivt,,
tract of elevated table laud, shunted in one of lite),
finest comities of England, near to the !crawl oars',
station of flynhowth. &c. &t. instead of their wait.
seeing to • (baton, and a miaerable climate. away
from all their friends. f all ono kris, and nearly
from all Cis:bard society The company were.':
mightily pleased with this de.crivtioni ; bat they .
proceeded to ask iiiformat as in the sod and pro.
&tiers of this Etymon'. What lid D art ((((( or pro.
rflice in its natural state ? What weeds ? Kees.
there soy who,. (that is. lung itemili), or ()MOW, or,
nettles, or vitro ? To all these *qiiestionsit
the Noble Nlaiiinis candidly owned *hit he never
asw soy one of these spootaneons products. except
••is narrow ittteltereA.iipiit'S; and the cm.elostoil
t{tyt,a Moor, opoo alnch there wns not to he seen
herdseresweilles nor thistles, was not likely to be
wortleessisivetion.

4' It is very fiver that the went of heath, whiri;,
&c. is a very but alga of wayte land ; hut another
fact shoislit have been taken along with this. It is
weli'known that none. Of shear eau. grow in a soil
constantly stet; and it is equally 'known that
certain itefir.s4flf Kr: ores eatiliot groat in a (kr sot!.
Dartmoor ice:ran-reel with the latter, .11 d
would not only disalipcio, were the Moor drained, '
but, by rotting. wouliffiforfoce.i,kind of first ma-
nure to the surface. It la imposstisle Ay tell what
would be the first natural products of the lost, were
it properly drained ; only we know, that they would .
be quite tlifferesit from those which now slew them-
selves. The first grand stele towards the improve-
ment of this extensive waste, should he several
very large drains; and this .laring Tic!: commenced
on a proper scale, the agricoltOral mierroveimeniss
might instantly commence on the nmettits of the
Moor—never otteirtpttog to prortrdir I.olter or
fa-ter towards the centre th to the drainage hail
effected a complete change oil the outface. By
such a process as we now rmouttnend, there can t!.
little doubt that the larger portoro of Dartmoor
might he brought jute cultivation; but it must be
• work of considerable time.

" A railway his been formed from the summit to
the sea shore, by which the chipoingsof atone, which
are accumulated in aboodatice nt the 11, vend parts
may be carried tip, and burnt into lime by the turf
found nn the Nlcor, nod by which the tiaturul po-
verty of the soil to.iv be enriched. Experience has
been made of the efficacy of this course of ptuceed-
ing for the lost two years by Sir Thomas Tyrishitt,
who has thereby produced a crop of viduable fit*,
and for which lie has received the thinks soul Ilse
medal of the IVesit-rio A g;tcultnral Society. We
sincerely approve of the t ioleavour to bring too mach
waste into cultivation, since it IS out only the 6o
or 80,000 acres, of who h the oinked forest itself
corist•is. that would bc tatde profitable, hut the
300,000 acres of waste hod, that beloogs to dill.--
rent proprietors that surround it, would alt.() parti-
Pate in the improvenxent. The plan, we under.
stand, is to form a joint stock company with an ex-
tensive capital--to proctor an Act of Ii curpiqx-
tion--nod with provisions to settle till tlartlss of
right to ptistor.ir.,e, &c. to convert Dartmoor pro•mi
lido a Metiopoliton School. to which the Loudon
parislie. mat' @rod their clit!dreti,
tit the elements of edification, will be employed io
the several proceetes of lin-paring and mailuiNcturilig
eax—and who, when they arnve at the age of man-
hood, inuy have iillotmems of the Moor on 1ea..., to
establish themselves its the litisbatoloy they hive
been taught—the produce of their owls labour, while
apprentices, being bestowed on them, as a capital
with which to set out. This it the outline of the
new project, and we sincetely wish it success."

ON CERTAIN SIMILARITIES BETWEEN TILE
phiablir ANN) EAGLISII LANGUAGt:S.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

The learned Sir William Jones was of opinion,
that Intuit. or Pessiw, way the country from whtrlt
101 l the nations of the earth derived their origin, It
being, according to hint, the piker whence people
migrutert in all directions, and in which migration
►hey Or COlllSe carried their furgutig,hitniK with them.
lie supposes that the Lolgtrtge of the first Per-tsar
empire was the inoi her of the Solookrtit, and roil-
sequently of the Zrml Hutt Par-i, as well as of
Greek, Lotto, and Gothic. Ile goes farther thisay
the iiihubitittits of Britain that cause front Artneots,
and that the Goths or Scythian' first clone Irmo
Persil', vide issiotie.liesearelses. pp. 14, 65.; and
Flowers of Persia's Literature, pp. 46, 47. 'Flint
the ancietit Illintions copied their form of worship
front the Persians, we are assured in Mastrice's AO.
tiquities, where it is particularly mentioned in
pp. 195, 196, corroborating the opinion of Sir
William Jones ; for if oar twist, adopted the re-
lights, of another, can there be a doubt of its adop-
lion of part of its language alma ?
To oppose such authorities as those just stated,
and they borsie out, too, not only by the creed of our
forefathers, but many other strong and presumptive
existing proofs, would be little better than ques-
tioning the truth of fact, which the following in-
stances will place it heyoad the power of the most
ardent lover of quibble to rebut. Here I shall
only refer to a few cases, in winch two languages
are so strictly alike, both in sound and tnearting,
that the most superficial ob-erver must perceive
their affinity, and then it will require but little saga-
city to separate the parent from the °Mitring. Out
of at least 1,000 words that I could easily ii.stance,
I shall merely take a few as they oreserit themselves;
and first let us take " which in Persian
means " wicked or bid ;" " burider" is " brother"
in every sen.e; " bandy," a "slave,' " nise that is
bound ;" " butt" a a •• bun" for shooting at—
query, whence comes the F./flitch word butt ?"
The Persian comparative of the adjective good.
viz. " bet her." is precisely our English sword " bet-
ter ;" bill."lo '• pick-axe." in Persian. with a
hooked " bill" or " billhook ;"
" ader." " fartier"—Latio. " pater ;" "peal,'
" fairy ;" " peer," in Persian, a title of harbour.
sprucing "111t1110(... or " old." " wise," " burned."
Of " man of (rah', ;" dnkhier,” " daughter ;"
"der,' a " gate" ur " door ;" " shekher," " sugar."

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