Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-11-25

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by Mr.. Graef, collector of the revenue at
Lancaaer to Gen. T. Muhlenberg, fuper-
vifor of Pennsylvania difritt, and by him
tranfmitted TO Mr.. Miller, comminionef
Of the revenue. Having been by This lar
ter Office laid before the Secretary Of the
Trealury, it was by him fubmitted to
Congrefs. The hyperion advantages of
this mode of difilling would probably
have rendered it necehary fer the excite
to have been laid not merely upon the
capacity Of the fill, but upou The qnautiy
d54ilNed. ALTO, Mr.. Michael Kraft is re-
ported to have made great improvements
in dittilling, whereby there is remark
able aving in fuel and labour and the
fpirit is increafed in quantity and equal in
quality to thar procured by the old mode.
Baron Carondehex has made number
of experiments upon the Platina lately
brought from the mines of Chaco, far up
the river Magdalera, in Terra Firma. =
Three hundred pounds of this rare and FIN
gular metal have been exhibited in New
York; and Baron Carondehex has fuc-
ceeded in refining and melting a portion
of it.
Gypfum continues to do wonders in A.
merican agriculture. So cheap and pow
erful manure has given fpring to farm
ing, beyond any thing ever known. But
its beneficial effects are almoG entirely
limited to the interior country. On the
Seacoatt and illands, it does very little
lervice. 1t has become a general article
of export from the Bay OF Fundy but
our cultivation can well afford to pay for
it, with their increaied crops. 1t is Of
fuch an unfpeakaDle benefit to our hufban,
dry, that all the landings on the Hudfon
between New York, and Albany, are
loaded with pile MATES of it.
The Whale Fihery, on the South fde
Of Long Iland has comfortably increaled.
Latterly it had been very much neglected.
But laif winter, number of whales were
caught and killed by the inhabitants, who
attacked them in boats, LAUGHED from the
lhorc.
DR.. Woodhoule has publi(hed fome We
~ decifve and friking experiments on the
function atcribed to vegetables, ofrecruit-
ing the atmosphere with fupplies Of ozy-
genous or vital air, He denies that they
pon.ls fnch function in the manner that
has been afcribed to them, they do not
necefariiy nor always afford pure air when
eXpofed to funlhine, but On the contrary,
afford it only occaGonally. And when
this is the cafe, the vital air is not ie-
cretion from their leaves, as has been
taught for twenty years paf, but mere
extrication Of its oxysene from the fixed
air, which plants decompole for the fake
o! IFS carbon to be added TO their food and
nouriihmenr. Thefe experiments are di-
realy oppoied to a very fashionable and
celebrated doctrine.
The Introduction Of Snanil, fheep into
the United States by our two foreign mi :
nii}ers, HUMPHREYS and Livingfon, re-
fleets much honour on the enterprise and
patriotifm Of tho{e gentlemen. 1t is fin
cerely TO be hoped that their enterprise
will be attended with luccefs; but in a
country where II is the eeablifhed fafhion
to feed upon the hralings of the flock, and
fend the bef lambs to the butcher, there
is reafon to fear that the offspring of the
merinos may be doomed to premature
Death with as little compunction as our
ordinary breed.
The Kinepock is gaining more and
more lpread and credit in America. Dr..
Waterhoufe in Bottom, DR.. Seaman in
New York, DR.. Coke in Philadelphia,
DR.. Spence in Virginia, and D. CAN'T
in Maryland, have difinguihed them
felves very honourably in Introducing and
propagating this mild fubRitute for the
fmall pox. In New York there is
regular a(Ioc,,t;o1 &c re,.I.o.n g.. J:nc