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Drakefwd, James Dugle*, !?*, OlmMe?d, Artillery Sworti Extra's,. *--??? :? .* ' ,i, yjZ-Z ~i , ,* N?T Z * <* ? . <i Hi* Printing, _xA '1*^1 ?*i? ^ HF F.VRRY DtSCItlPTlO^ fcXtCUfXD Wit* jieatnkss AND AC?\l*ki* At TBB orincKOF tiif ' ' CA'MDKN tlAZKTTEj ' Where may be had '; BLANKS FOR LAWYERS, MAGTSTllATIS, SU C RIFFS, &C. From the ( Chatrjentcn) CitygGnzrftr n J C itutGazr IMPdkTAN CHEMISTRY 'ANCE OF X>N THE UTTtrnr AND ~ ' THE STUDY CrF TKat particular quality which ch^ubstance called tannin posses sts/of striking black with ferrugen hniy preparations is a singular fact which has given rise to the rn^^c interesting speculations. On this angular phenomenon probaf 4<SI pends our present state of advance^ mem in liceraturejthe arts and civil ization. Were irw&t flbtf this inci dent, civilized man would, now be srrking rhe means of subsistancc with the savage hordes of Ts tary, Arabia, and Africa, wh 1st I i aborigines of our country wouH _ have enjoyed quiet possession of |v their unexplored ftretts. How awfully sublime is the thought ; myriads of beings whose existence would have been known to nope but tjjtynsefoes and their God, now tra municate their thoughts to each oth er althoigji separated by an ocean 3000 miles in width. ? Events of the remotest antiquity are . now it i* j ?* v ' 1 I themes of our daily conversation, which otherwise would have been | consigned to the<Brjcest oblivion. T? mm U.L 1 1 ? ly chemical, is equally entitled to our attention. There is probably | no part of the globe better calcula * '--1 to ensuro, success to a factory thjsJkindJhmdur country, r has supplied us most li istituent of the bodyuo\ ?mparativeJy no inconvenience, I 5Br' *fl glass 1 have ever ieen; ^Wl)r do - J e any impediment to the establiih ?>tofe?en.iV in the vicinity ol country is found mens o(?largil]aee< ever beheld. Upon treating it with sulphuric acid, th^whplewl con verted into A beaiitifulty fchrystaU loycdfoi the purpose of absorbs, se from floors. I only the artl Which I have ???Hpof cul owledge of chemistry, ious fossti productions! our country require analyst for detection of their constituents re they can be successfully e#H h reward th? husl labour, that we shall be' | to apply that kind of manure I calculated to rtnder tracts lastingly productive. gyp sum, which in the northern states is one of the most durable and enrich ing manures that can be utcJl, is here wholly useless. Thia arises probably from the very sandy na ture of our soil. Carbonate 6f lime, common ? ?ah, and potash are all valuable manures when thrown up on suitable soils, but are almost e i ; t qually inadmissible in our country. From what experiments I have made in the analytical way, I am induced to believe that a proper admixture of the different earths^jsvith certain quantities of some of the fictttral saltfc, and decayed vegetabl^ consti tuting the mould, affoids a soil the Jmo^t productive. Here it may be ^ how those pi eparations^of rfitne, which are generally so hard as to be denominated stones, ?should subserve any important purposes in , assisting the growth of plants. They do it probably in J>yo wayjr.^ ist. Ry attracting humidity, con r acquendy keeping up a certain share I of moisture in the earth, and ; * 2d. By affording nutriment. They, are compound bodies^us ? ? lc of decomposition, capable chemically upon those * ey are surrounded, and ly gfv e ?off one or more of It appears then that agriculture, hitherto, supposed to be one of the barren and mechanic# profes "raws from, the treasures of istible supply Vegetable of useful ry an~, SS&SV** intimately connect ? 1 - - ' ? 1_ | / most insti .studies which hi attention pf roan, sequent growth ;SSiri>ns sq,. ini mm Metalwrgy is likely to call more loudly for an intimate acquaintance I with chemistry than h hatevet.done yet, in our country. There tj got a state whose metropolis docs not contain specimens of native ore for investigation. The mineral waters of our coun try possess medicinal virtues, rival ling those of Buxton or Bath, and ehe wahtof a knowledge of their 'Composition is the circumstance which prevents a successful appli cation of thrm, for rhr rrlirf of af fltcted humanity. .It is . chemistry alone that will enable us to supply this desideratum. ^ With a small share of knowledge ?nd a little experience hi the en* perimental way, we shall be enabled to gratify a laudable curiosity, and furnish the iffost interesting fa<^s. ? What shall we say with respect to those natural phenomena which haunt our low gronnds, infest our places of burial, and traverse our woods j are they explicable upon the generally received principles ot chemistry ? -Most assuredly., The disengagement of Carbureted Hy drogen, from vegetables in a state q? decomposition, (among the moat im flammable of -yHes) from its comparative levity mounts above the surface of tfigyjam, to distant c<fc corresponding its specific Where itSEmes fired, probably through the fi.edium of electrical agency j constituting what has ?been denominated nutcors. * " v ^ he ignis U ousappcat doccni by cul be the We undent*** that this work, shift the death of Major John Heid, *>as been undertaken by John H- Ealoa, e^ and ha* already considerably progressed. It wilt be- particularly announced ill our paper next week. JVashviUe Whig, lEsjp i jT Honesty is a foans best rdbe, his choic est apparel; many people as if fearful of wearing it out, lay ?t carefully by, as their tynday co at* ? ' v