The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-07-18
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$. MISSoOLAH BOAT.
This boat, so common on the coast of the pen
| insula OF Hindostan, is one ofthe most extraord
nary inventions that navigation has to boast.-Ts
all appearance any other kind of vessel, would
be safer on the water /; but the fact is, that no
boat OF any kind dare venture over the violent
surf which breaks along the sea shore at Fort St
George-It is unique in its construction, equally
unlike the solid canoe and the European inven-
ton OF, caulked vessels. 1t is fiat bottpmed and
the planks of which it is composed are literally
sewn together by the fibres Of the kyar rope,
made from the ccago tree; ard the stitches, it
they may be SO called, are so little connected,
that it should seem there could be no security A.
gainst. its leaking so much to injure its safety.
To prevent an accident of this nature, each boat
is always provided with baler These boats
are used to convey goods and passengers to and
from ships in the Madras roads and On their re-
turn from the ships, they are sometimes thrown
with such violence against the shore, that if they
did not, by their singular construction, yield to
the shock, they would be dashed in pieces The
steersman stands on the stern of the boat, and
the rudder IS simply an car. The dexterity with
which he balances himself in heavy sea, is per.
fectly astonishing The number of boats used
there is l20 and they furnish occupations for up
wards of 1000 natives.
Visconti, one ofthc directors ofthe Musee I'm
perial DIES Arts, in late report ON the state of
that celebrated repository, records $50 paintings,
242 rare and precious MSS many of them ORR
entail, so statues, 80 buss, 49, articles of bronze,
armour, &c. as the spoil which {" The protcc-
tor of the Arts" had collected during his last
campaign in the north
Menx's Brewery, concern, which for mag
nit,de is scarcely equaled in the world, is soon
70 be sold by auction, under a decree of the
court Of Chancery.-The following particulars
will afford some idea of the extent of this estab-
ilshment. The first lot comprizes the whole of
the plant, that is, the brew houses, ware houses,
mills, coppers, watts, with the dwelling houses,
counting houses, stables, and every other build
ing ON the premises. These cost the proprietors
2o0ioo0t But the Buyer Of this lot will not par
chase the bindings alone he will also secure
an establishment which has brewed 10000
barrels oTporter in heyear, the sale OF the great
est part OF which will in all probability, remain
with the house while II continues to supply good
beer. One third Of this quantity is sent into the
country and this part consists of highpri
porter, which yields much better profit to the
brewer than the inferior kinds.-The present
owners have actually bought and pulled down
three breweries, the whole trade of which is now
accumulated i'll this in addition to part or the
whole OF them. The amount Of the freehold
houses is l4,000l. The very patronage of this
concern is all object. The proprietors appoint
broad -cooPers, appraisers, surveyors, &c. who
are pad by the customers, without any charge
10 the house, and get nett incomes of sO0l or
1oO0l and one of them, it is said, 2,O00i per an
num- The house has for these ten years paid an
nualy into their bankers hands from half mlli-
on to eight hundred thousands pounds.
An interesting analysis of coffee has recently
been made by M. Cadet, apothecary TO the French
imperial household, from which it appears that
the berries contain mucilagc in abundance, much
gallo acid, resin, concrete essential oil, some
albumeD, and volatile aromatic principle. To
these may be added such as are found in most
vegetables, viz, Inns, potash, charcoal iron, &c.
Roasting developes the soluble principles /:
but it ought to be moderated, if it be wished to
preserve the aroma, and not decompose the a
cid, the gum, and the resin Mocha coffee is of
all kinds the most aromatic and resinous. M.
Cadet advised that coffee be neither roasted nor
infused, till the day it is intended tosbe drank.
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