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TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1831.

interested purposes, and scarcely over delivered
with that candour and singleness of purpose which
should alone stamp its value.

PURLAND ON THE TEETH.

A few days ago, we briefly noticed a short trea•
the by Mr. Purland of Long Acre, containing
practical directions for preserving the teeth. Since
that time, we have critically eNaniined Mr. Pur-
land's book, and find that it merits the atten-
tion of all dames— fathers and mothers more espe-
cially--as adapted to the common sense 0$ every
reader, end 'altogether free from theee'despicable
mystification', and technical absurdities, which
abound the namaions pretenders .to this de-.
licate bra= surgery. Einpiricinn among pseudo-
dentists has been carried to such a pitch, that a
really useful book, now and then, from a &ni-
-1 end-bred-dentist like Purland, becomes important,
I were it only to call back the victims of irreguictr
practitioners to a simple and efficacious means of
working their own cure. Purland, on the present
occasion, has given an opportunity to his friends—
that is, the public —" of learning the philosophy
of the teeth, and of benefitting by an acquaintance
with their structure and use." We cannot afford
room to e:arac, largely from the work before us;
nor would Mr. Purland, perhaps, thank ns for
doing so. Fo- the Genet of our readers, however,
and in anppport of our recommendation of the
work under notice, we take leave to transfer to our
columns Mr. Pu. land's general rules for cleansing
the teeth, and keeping them free from tartareous
,incrustation :

On Tieing, wash the mouth with spring water, (cold in
summer, lukewarm in wither.) Afterwards, use a mode-
r.ttd y soft brush, cold water, and a small quantity of
powder, to clean the teeth and gums ; observing to move the
mush in a perpendicular direction, that the hair may pass
between the teeth, and remove any small particle of food,
that may have insinuated itself, and, which if not removed,
would upon deeemposiden, cause a roughness of the tooth,
accumulation of tartar, and eventually, decay, and loss of
teeth. T:te mouth should also be rinsed with water after
meals.

Picking the teeth should be avoided if possible, but If
dam, a quill is the best tomb-pick ; a continued use of gold,
or silver, will injure the enamel Pins should always be
wide&

Sonnies, of A. Teeth.—When the teeth, co, a tooth, that
is sound, is sore, the guru should be scarilled, and " the
astringent tincture" used i this done immediately, will re-
move the inconvesiescs.
Testis with This rwasonsl._Some teeth are very suscep-
tible, in consequence of the mous state oP the etnasel,
which being very thin. is liable to auk- In inch

cams, ems should be taken, of biting any very bard sub-
stamen
Las of ribs Arremei.--Ilensetinses tbs enamel disappears
from the external Name DIM. indescs, as ifilied &mess...
For this disease, which cannot be accounted for, them is
neither preventive nor cure known.
Gum-boils, Abscesses, and Facresenues.--It frequently
happens where the teeth have been neglected, er hom con-
stitution': diseases, gumboils, or excrescences, are gene-
rated ; in such eases, it is necessary to open them with a
lancet, washing the mouth with hot watber to cause a co-
pious discharge. For boils, the part should be kept open for
a day or two that a new skin may form on its internal
surface, and thereby prevent a recurrence of the disease.
Sponginess of the gums may be caused by tartareous in-
crustetion, or cold; scarifying and cleansing ought to be re-
sorted to. The tame treatment applies to ulceration of the
gums where the teeth becotr.e denuded ; the use of " The
Astringent Tincture" will facilitate a cure.

Tenderness or the gums may be cured, by gargling the
mouth with equal parts of distilled vinegar, and campbo.
rated :lAA's of wine diluted.
In conclusion, it is essential, that, in order to preserve the
teeth inn sound state, they must be kept perfectly clean,
cleanliness being the only antidote to disease ;and it is ne•
cessal y for those who have hitherto neglected so to do. first
to have them cleansed by a professional gentleman, and af-
terwaids use a dentifrice, especially provided for them.

An eminent practitioner, in writing on this sub-
ject, says—" When it is known, that scaling, and
stopping the teeth, scarifying the gums, and ordi-
nary attention to cleanliness, will, in general pre-
vent those evils, the dentist will be in greater re-
quisition, and the public tt ill experience less pain."
To prove the inde;tendence, the liberality, and
freedom from jealousy of Mr. Pmland, we need
only add, that far from depreciating the abilities
and labou s of other practitioners and writers, he
brings to the aid of his illustrations and arguments,
nassages from the treatises of the celebrated Clark,
Fuller, aad Murphy. We catinoi held mar-
velling, at the same time, that hz? has given nu in-
stances of the easy and successful proctiee of Grey
or of Gordon—the last of whom, rieticitlarly, has
afforded proofs, to our personal knowleily!, of emi-
nent skill, and tenderness in his operatimia.

FRICTION AND COLD WASHING.—An in-
attention to the condition of the surface of tie body
is a fruitful sumce of stomach ailment; mid one Of
the Principles upon wliicii exercise proves bene-
ficial zo the dyspeptic is, Cult of its tendency to
setre the excretions from the skin in good condit.ion.
Friction or tae surface ought to a enjoined as oae
of the most useful remedies for indigestion. This
should be had recourse to every morning, imine,-
dia,ely on rising from bed t nud with it should be
combined a sort of shower bath by n sponge. I have
not been so satisfied, in my own case, with any sin-
gle article of preventive manageinent as the one I
now refer to. It is preventive both of stomach
derangement and that of inordiaate saace~ttii laity
to cold which is usually a concomitant of stomas,,
weakness ; and 1 t rive no hesitation in say
it ought to be employed by nll whose nerves and
digestive inane are in any degree disposed to be
out of order. Of cold, since I have adopted the
practice, I am comparatively careless, and my di-
gestive energies arcrimproved, to say the least, in
an equal proportion. It is a practice in my mind,
far superior to the plunging in the cold
Unwins on li:digestion.

PRICE SEVENPENCE.

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR JULY.

July has sustained pretty well this year its proper and
legitimate character of a summer month. The nights, until
of late, hare not, indeed, been very warm ; but an alteration
in that respect has now taken place, and vegetation con.
dandy rejoices in a nightly temperature that makes ut
throw aside the counterpane and the blanket. The charter
of St. Swithin has this year been forfeited, for, although it
rained ea the Saint's anniversary, yet so far have we been
from experiencing forty exaseutive days showers, more or
less, heavy and lasting, that a large portion of the time
which has already elepeed has been dry, and unmoistened
by a single drop of rain. /tape have however, at va-
rlets times sad pima, during the weeks course' of the
month, ocenered storms of tlsueder and IWimingu;;a7
various in their degrees of intensity in various q
accompanied in atom gots by destructive, hail or violent
rain, in oases by toodwate or IMO sprinkling showers. In
the southern counties, and the ally districts of the king-
dom, the wheat harvest has now pretty generally com-
menced ; partial beginnings took place ten days ago, or
mom, but now the week is more fully entered upon. It
is mud at this period to hazard some conjecture as to
the probable amount of the wheat crop, in which all are
more or less interested, and so many depend either dimly
or indirectly for maintenance and support. Indeed, it is a
subject on which almost every one feels gratified to form a
judgment. The pedestrian, the horseman, the traveller in
gig or posuchaise, the outside or inside passenger in a
stage coacb—nay, the inhabitant of the city, who takes his
evening walk round its outskirts, and peeps over the first
gate beyond its suburbs—all feel qualified to speak of the
character of the wheat crop. Yet in truth it is a question
an which, from the multiplicity and variety of the premises,
it is very difficult to arrive at a fair conclusion. The diffi-
culty of forming any estimate at all approaching to truth,
respecting the produce of the ensuing harvest, is this year
enhanced, as it has been for several preceding ones, by the
varied qualities of the crops, which, particularly wheat, have
been more than usually affected by the accidents of soil,
situation, and exposure. The few remarks which, in corn.
playa wish our customary duty, we may venture to make
on this complicated subject, will rather be directed to an
enumeration of some of the circumstances which may be
supposed to influence the productiveness of our crops, than
to attempt to calculate the exact amount of this influence,
fully aware that this can only be comedy ascertained by
time, and the flail and the bushel. One observation may
be pranised—that prindple which, on the eve of each
reenniog harvest, disposes the public mind to magnify overt'
favourable circumstance, and to diminish or overlook those
of an opposite tendency, seems this year as usual, to be in
full operation. In accordance with this 'principle our wheat
crop Is ptunouneed to be most abundant ; and in some of
our fe the districts it probably is good. The strong deep
soils carry a fine even head of wheat; the ears are good, and
the straw stiff, and for the most pan upright. There is but
little mildew or rot; but, on the other band, the plant,
when examined, is by no means in general full on the
ground ; and, wherever coldness and wetness of soil have
prevailed, there it Is very thin indeed, however fair it may
look on a cursory ion. The defect is not seen by
the nun who stands at the gate, or looks over the hedge,
or rides or drives along the turnpike-road; but the farmer
knows it, and complains of it, in several of the western
and midland counties, in the North of England, and in
the cane lands of Scotland. In the rich sands in the

Jeep yet mallow Alluvia/ or diluvial soils of the yelloyeid
there the wheat, as is almost always the cue, is fine ; it is
Indifferently good on the better loams of the uplands; but
on our light, thin. chalk, downy tracts, which, under our
improved system of husbandry, frequently yield a good
sroduce, there is every grade of mediocrity and inferiority
except total failure. The redeeming rim-
stinigellrhablet t pervades*. *tole of our wheat crop Is the ids-
' senee of any very decided cases of blightor mildew. The
ears are certainly Daum filled than they were last year, with
fewer empty capsules, or seism, m they are provincially
termed in the southern roosters. From them ;itemises aa
abundant crop will be inferred by any. The rhyming pro-
verb of former days tells us that
44 When the clay doth feed the sand,
Then it is merry in old Ragland;
But when the sand doth feed the clay,
Then old England cries ' Well-a-day "

The clay this year undoubtedly bears the bell; bat thee h
must be remembered that, by the aid of live steak and
artificial grasses, and green crops, the culture of wheat
has been extended over an immense user of light uplink
and that perhaps not less than three-fifths of our wisest is
now grown on soils which, in the days of the prows* our
ancestors would never have dared to sow it. If hems par'
' mina could be relied on they would seem to lead to a can-
elusion that our wheat crops will not exceed, or hardly at.
taro *to, an average produce. The barley is neatly as
variable as the wheat ; in thin weak Polls it is but an in.
different crop ; scarce better than in some of the middling
ones, where adverse circumstances have affected it; but in
some of the fertile and weal-managed districts; it is heavy
and well-eared. Oats, for the most part, promise to yield
well; yet beans and peas have been so much attacked by the
insects which prey on their juices as to present in many
places a melancholy appearance, and can be but partially
productive. Notwithstanding the flattering prospect with
which the turnip season commenced, it has not continued
with uninterrupted success. The tankards, and Swedes,
I which were sown early, have been hoctl out, and wear in
general a flourishing countenance; although, unless under
the stimulus of rich soil, or a profusion of manure, they
have not grown so vigorously as In some years, checked
perhaps by the intervention of chilly nights. taut the main
sowing, of turnips on harsh dry soils, of middling quality,
have made little progress, although they came up well at
first. In some situations the drought has been too potent
for them, and. on hot dry chalks they have absolutely
withered away; in other places they have been overtaken,
when just passing out of the ground, by hasty tinting
thunder showers—one of the most fatal accide:sts that can
happen to the turnip plant in its infant state; for, after
being thus enveloped in fluid mud, it is a long time, if
ever, before it can struggle into growth and vigour again.
Favourable circumstances of soil and situation of course
give happier results, but on the whole the main crop of tur.
nips is still placed under circumstances of hazard and puce.
riousncas. Its growth on middling soils has been more blow
and feeble than usual; luckily the fly has not been pea.
sent. at least in very few instances. The accounts front iha
hop districts arc hardly so favourable as they were, com-
plaints 'wing made that the mould increases ; but, however
this disease may partially prevail, there are several quarters
which are quite free from it, and where the general appear.
ante of the plantations is promising and thriving. The
Guru Market, as might be expected on the eve of a harvest
not very unpromising, is dull, and prices have declined in
some degree. The Meat Market has been rather Hat during
the month, but there seem now symptoms of a re-action.
The variation at present is not likely to be great. There has
been a e.maidetable demand for sheep in the rations fairs
that have lately occurred, and they have sold at :id vanceel
prices : wethers and wether lambs have been much in re.
quest, and, although ewes have not been so much inquited,
fur, yet they have in many instances been di.pes:d of on
terms-which leave no cause for complaint. Wool is at pre-
, sent Bat, although prices have not very materially declined.
I The mutability of fashion seems to have lowered the 'th-
rive value of teg wool, but an expectation prevails that in
the course of some months an advance ou all qualities will
I take place.

In the intersection formed by Paul's Chain, God-
litnan-street, and Carter-lane, St. Paul's, there is
now a steam-engine of ten horse-power daily
working the water out of the sewer,which is under
repair. This sight, so novel in the streets, attracts
much notice.

iLASD AND

WASTE LAND.

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Table of the larger quantities of Waste Land, and
Counties containing the same, in the United King-
dom; about two-thirds of which are convertible
into arable, gardens, meadows and pasture; and
one-third for planting young trees, and the Tutu,.:
procuration of turf, peat, &c. for fuel :
ENGLAND AND WALES. SCOTLAND•
. Acre& Acre,.
Bracknock .! berdet..
Cardigan ,.. Argyle
Carmarthen .-.V... 0 Ayr
Carnarvon
Cornwall ....
Cumberland .. 130 Bute
Derby lOO Dumfritx l-..1,t/f.",
Devon
Durham .... 1 Farm
Inverness
=• • • •...4.... • bright .. lOO,OOO
Lincoln
Montgomery ...... 1110. Peck ... OO,OOO
Non humbciland ... 160,0 M Ross •545.40
Surrey
Westmoreland .... 110, luthetland
Wilts ROO, Wigmern
Yorkshire