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BOTANICAL WORKS.

1. The BOTANICAL REGISTER, No. 144, (con-
tinued Monthly), completed the Twelfth Volume. Price
48. With an Appendix, containing an Alphabetical Index
to the Volume, a General Index to the Twelve Volumes,
&c. Price Is. By Sydenham Edwards, F.L.S. and others.
2. CISTINEX, the NATURAL ORDER of CISTUS,
or ROCK-ROSE, No. 11, to be completed in one volume,
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month. Price 3s.

3. GERANIACEIE ; or Natural Order of the Beauti-
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tinued Monthly. Each Number contains four coioured
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with their Scientific ansl English Names and Mode of Cul-
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5. The. HOT-HOUSE and GREEN-HOUSE MA-
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6. A TREATISE on BULBOUS ROOTS, contain-
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heretofore included under the Genera Amaryllis, Cyrtan-
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coloured Plates. By the Hon. and Rev. Wm. Herbert. ss.
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By John Lindley, Esq. F.L. S. royal Bvo. 1/. Is.
8. HORTUS GRAMINEUS WOBURNENSIS; or,
an Account of the Results of various Experiments on the
Produce and Fattening Properties of different Grasses, and
other Plants, used as the Food of the more valuable do-
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G. Sinclair, F.L. S. and F.S.H., Gardener to his Grace.
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9. An ESSAY on the WEEDS of AGRICULTURE;
with their Common and Botanical Names, their respective
Characters and bad Qualities, whether as infesting Samples
of Corn, or encumbering the Soil. Also, Practical Re-
Onl" their Destruction by Fallowing or otherwise.
he Posthumous Work of Ben. Holdich, Esq. late Editor
oft he Farmer's Journal. Edited by. G. Sinclair, F.L.S.,
F.H.S. second Edition, Price 3s. 6d;
10. The FRUIT GROWER'S INSTRUCTOR; orp
I Practical Treatise on Fruit Trees, from the Nursery to'
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Canker in Apple

I would beg to refer you to Macqueen's Af-
rica," in connection with Clapperton's last and
present discoveries; the field for traffic is immense,
they have gold, ivory, and ebony, the first of which
gives us direct payment for the immensity of Eng-
lish manufactured goods which would be caught at
with avidity by those people. But the accursed
,Slave Trade must be abolished ; this would be,
I will venture ro say, done by establishing a
trade of merchandize with them ; an indifferent
gatherer of gold can get from 2s. to 2s. 6d. per
day. Now, they sell those poor creatures for M.
each, and get the vilest trash in payment that
can be made ; how soon would those chiefs, who
supply the slaves, see the advantage of keeping
them to gather gold dust and realizing twenty
times the sum they sell them for. I will now
come to the means we have of abolishing the
Slave Trade; trading with Africa, and keeping a
sufficient force to protect all our merchant ships,
as well as to be ready to oppose any enemy who
may present himself on the American side.
Ascension must be the rendezvous for supplying
the squadron, St. Helena is too far to windward,
Annabon and Fernando Po too near Africa,
(the latter out of the question, from its being
continually deluged with rains), there is always
what is termed a soldier's wind from Ascension
to each continent, and either can be reached in
nine or ten days, more or less. Now to remedy
the geographical disadvantages of the one and
the natural defects of the others, I imagine the
possession of the three Islands of St. Helena,
Ascension, and Annabon, by the British, would
ensure them the entire command of the whole
coast, and the South Atlantic : what one will not
produce, the other does, we cannot, I fear, grow
corn, Annabon will, St. Helena will supply
water in case we fail. - A steam boat would
counteract all the impediments of the trade winds,
when opposed to us, and thus an immense mart
for commerce would be opened with the power
of maintaining a complete monopoly. One Go-
vernor might have the three Islawis4 anti visit all
alternately with the greatest met
We have facilities for making a dock, or, at
any rate a slip ; ships could then be repaired
here. Several persons who have examined the
place called Comfort Cove, think the making a
dock quite practicable ; we can land at this Cove
with a jolly-boat during tlie heavieSt rollers, and
nature has done a great deal toward the proposed
purpose ; indeed, the Colonel is convinced that
the settlement ought to have been there instead
of where we now are. A brig of war has been
hove down in our tray, for 'though we have
rollers (the effects of distant
storms), we have
no storms, they are utterly unknown here.—
Cordage and naval stores keep incomparably
well here ; we have lately taken the trappings of
our crane to pieces, fearing some accident ; but
though it had been put up a very long time, the,
y a probbl
cordage was entirely sound. It is one
of the most healthful places in the world, in-
deed, sickness is a stranger here—be but tem-
perate, and, comparatively speaking, you are
immortal. Our capabilities of defence are before
Gen. Stapylfon—they are manifest, defended