Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-10-09


Archipelago, produce the greatest atund- |
ance Of this spice.
Ginger grows both in the East and
West indies. Ii has a perennial root.
with annual stems TIE roots creep and
extend under ground in joints, from each
of which slender stem shoots forth in
spring, and attains height OF two or
three feet. On the top of the stalk is
scaly spike, from each of which scale
blue flower appears. When arrived at
maturity, the root is taken up, and forms
the ginger of commerce. Il is afterwards
ground in -four or other mills for use.
Natmeg and mace are the produce of
the same plant. It has its male or bar
rem flowers upon oae tree, and female or
fertile flowers upon another, being d.
ecious plant. The flowers are white,
bell shaped, and grow al the extremities
of the branches, two orthree together
The embryo fruit lies at the bottom ofthe
female flower like lille red mob, which
afterwards expands and at the end of
nine or ten months IT has the appearance
of a peach. The outer coat is fibrous
and hard, about half an inch thick and
when arrived at maturity, this bursts and
a membraneous covering of fine red
color Is seen, enveloping the thin black
shell which eneloses the kernel or nat
|meg. This covering is the mace Of COM
merce. The mace resembles a verdant
net work; and when collected, is left in
the shade to dry, after which it is pressed
closely in bags and exported. The shell
of the nutmeg is hard, and is subjected IA
the heat of fire before being broken
The kernel thus shivers up, and is then
subjected to the action OF lime and sea
water to destroy the vegetating principle.
CHltiUator.
STEAM PLoUGH.-Among the new in
ventlons in France is one which is much
talked OF among spectators and manufac-
tufers. 1t Is steam plough OF very
peculiar constructions, with which il IS
said four miles of ground can be excavat.
ed with IAN engine of only eight horse
power, to the depth of foot and the
breadth of two feet in single hour
The protector of the canal from Orleans
10 Nantes, which, under ordinary ciIcum-
| stances, would require at least 5 wears for
It's construction, pretends that in wear
the Whole would be completed by the use
OF this machine, and tha. the saving in
mere interest of capital would amount to
forty thousand pounds sterling. A friend
OF mime, whu is one Of the best engineers
IN Europe, tells me tha. he has seen
the instrument, and that with some anne
lloratlons he believes it would ACCOMPLISH
all that has been stated. The earth as Il
Is turned up, is thrown into sort of sail
which throws it TO distance of sixty feet
Letter Correspondent of Gardner's Ga
zette
ART OF WRITING OR PRINrINe.-
That eminent Christian philosopher. DR..
Mason Good, draws the following con.
trast between oral tradition and the art of
writing or printing.-N. Y. Ojsercer.
Such Is brief history OF the noblest
art that has ever been invented by the un.
assisted efforts Of human UNDERSTANDING
an art that gives stability 10 thou gh;, forms
a cabinet for our ideas, and presents. in
lmpe rlshable colors, a speaking portal
ture of the soul. Without this, hard in
deed would be the separation of friends
and the traveller would become an exil,.
from his native home, vainlv lancnishipo
Tor the consolatory Information. that his
wife, his children, his kinsmen. his conn
try, were IN state of health and prosner.
lty, and he himself still embalmed in their
affections; without this, whatto us ,vould
be the wisdom of past ages, or the history
OF lormer states p? The chain of nature
would be broken through all its links and
every generation become an isolated and
individual world, equally cut of. as bv an
irremedIable abyss, from its ancestors and
from poslerity. While The language of
the lips is fleeing as the breath itself and
connned TO single spot, as well as 10 a
single moment; the language of the pen
enjoys, in many Instances, an adamantjne
existence and will only perish amidst the
ruins of the globe. Before its mighty
touch, time and space become annihilai-
ed ltJolns epoch to epoch, and pole to
pole; 1t gives unity to the works of crea.
ton and Providence, and enables MS 70 |
trace from the beginning of things 10 the |
end. IS the great sun of the moral |
world, that warns, and stimulates. and
Ylvlfies, and lrradiates, and developes, and
natures the best virtues of the heart, and
the best faculties ofthe intellect. But for
this, everything would be doubt, and dark
ness, and dealh-shade; all KNOWLEDGE
would be tradilionary, and all experience |
local; civilized life would relapse into
oarDarlsm, and sman would have 10 run
through his little and comparatively in
significant round OF existence, the perpet-
ual sport of ignorance and error, unin-
structed by science, unregulated by laws. I
and unconsoled by Revelation