TOPOGRAPHY. 106. Each second or third year, the seed was exchanged from one manor to another. 107. When any abbots and lords travelled through this lord's manors, his farm their hostries. houses were their inns, and his granaries 130. Wool was become the king's (Edward III.) sole commodity, for the better support of his great wars. 132. In the two fairs at Newport, Lord Berkeley was guided in the choice of the days by his own name, and his sons. 140. A vineyard at Berkeley: Edward III. 141. Enormous price of lampreys in that age. 142. Funeral feasts,-geese fattened for them. in kind, all turned into money, upon these 145. About 1620, service and rents paid estates. in his dispute with the Talbots, beat their 152. James Lord Berkeley, (Henry V.) messengers, and made one of them eat a subpæna with which he served him, wax parchment and all. This is a horrid story of the spirit in which the disputes between noble families were carried on. The great Talbot's wife must have been a perfect she-devil. 153-4. 156. William Marquess Berkeley, Edward IV. "kept close to his castle, as a subterfuge from debts, outlawed statutes, and the like. Corruption of porters was the chief means of getting possession of the castle, and the object was to secure the lord, that he might be compelled to sign over his estates." 177. Smyth is of opinion that the family would not flourish out of Gloucestershire; and advises them not to spend their days in London, in the court, which none of their forefathers did, except the marquess, who wasted all. 188. There cannot be a more characteristic example of sporting high life than in this Lord Berkeley and his wife, of the Norfolk family. 197-8. And of the lady's stateli ness. 205-8-12. The anecdotes of Dr. Jenner at the end of this volume contain some admirable specimens of style! 221, 227; upon gardening. 228. Topographie Physique et Medicale de Strasbourg, par J. P. GRAFFENAUER. 1816. P. 11. METAL stoves inconvenient, because they are liable to be overheated, and they soon cool, and occasion an unpleasant smell. Headaches and colds are occasioned by them. Earthern stoves, which the wealthier classes use, have none of these inconveniences; their fault is, that they are long in heating. Coals have been tried in stoves, because of the high price of wood, but the experiment was not liked, though during the first year (1811) the consumption of wood was diminished about 20,000 stéres. 12. Police concerning privies. They may only be emptied during the night, and certain means of rendering the clearance safe must be taken. The contents are in the greatest request for manure, and immediately laid on. 15. Many infants killed by taking them to be baptized, "le lendemain de leur naissance." The cold and damp of the church producing convulsions. 17. Sepulture in the churches or churchyards forbidden in 1791, the first exception having been when the Bishop was buried in the Cathedral, 1813. 33. Tobacco seed brought from England, 1620, by Robert Konigsmann, a merchant. The place in which he cultivated it is still called Engellandischer Hof. In 1697 more than 5000 persons were employed at Strasburg in the preparation of tobacco or snuff. 37. Onions. Strasbourg seed famous, while the gardener's company retained their privileges, and sold none without their seal upon the packet. Since that custom was taken away, it has lost its character; and the measure which used to sell for from forty to sixty francs, is now worth from twenty-four to thirty. This whole branch of commerce used to be possessed by Strasbourg and Bamberg. 43. Seven months of winter. 62. No tumults there during the revolution. 63. A tolerant and beneficent, and hospitable people 64. Alsacian German still the language of two-thirds of the citizens, though French has greatly extended itself there, and even in the country during and since the revolution. Children learning the two languages at the same time, are long in learning to speak. 65. The cold bath frequently fatal to new-born infants. 67. "On n'a que trop d'examples que des nourrices mercenaires ont transmis aux enfans leurs vices avec le lait." 72. Prostitutes have their carte de sureté, which must be inspected every two months, and renewed yearly. They themselves also are inspected by an officer of health monthly. This seems to have been introduced in 1815. 73. Formerly they had sixty privileged houses, and had separate quarters of the city assigned them. It is said here that some were lodged in the tower of the cathedral, and of other churches. These were 26. A branch from the Rhine into the called Münster-Schwalben. Ill; it is called le Rhin-tortu. 30. A school of natation; none may bathe anywhere but in the authorized baths, which are in the river; and none without drawers, and no women are admitted. 85. In great houses, one meal per day,which is eat at four or five; but this one meal is after having taken a fork-breakfast at ten or eleven. In citizens' houses, dinner at twelve or one, supper at eight and nine, breakfast being unknown. 87. Goose-feeding, to make the liver monstrous. 91. Potatoes, the main food of the poor, and preservative against famine. 95. Test for litharged wine. 98. Cases of excessive drinking. 99. Substitutes for coffee. 193. A child infected by playing with patients of the hospital. 193. Cancers much more frequent during the revolution. 216. In Lille and other towns, the garbage which is thrown in the streets is poisoned, in order to destroy the dogs. 217. The author advises that one who dies of hydrophobia (la rage), be buried 108. Population increased greatly since deeper than other bodies, ten feet, and the revolution. 115. Most monstrous births are female. Most births in March and April ; fewest in June and November. 116. Number of marriages greatly affected by war. 117. Births about three and one-third to each marriage. 118. Jews degenerated by premature marriages. Deaths for the last ten years exceeded births. with quick lime on the corpse. 221. 220. Vaccination (1814) enjoined by the law within three months of birth. Not yet entirely enforced. 228. Sœurs de la Charité, and Infirmières, one to twelve patients. 230. Pensionaries received in the hospitals,—a most wise and salutary practice. 290. First school of midwifery at Strasbourg; where also the first treatises thereon were published. 297. Zeal in young physicians, and the 120. One child in three dies in the first desire of keeping pace with the progress of year, and more males than females. science,-"leur tiennent lieu d'expérience," 123. Number of still-born children in- he says! creased as bastardy increases. 298. "Il faut, en général, populariser la 125. Hasty interments-forbidden, 1812. médecine le moins qu'il est possible." 126-9. 131. Infants recovery from apparent death. 301. Barber-surgeons. 305. Sage-femmes. 302-3. Their regulations. 303. They ought not to prescribe 140. Rheumatic catarrh the prevalent remedies, and "surtout des remèdes hédisease. roïques, tels que l'opium." 149. A man swallowed a piece of copper money, and voided it after twelve days. Did it contribute to his recovery? 152. Mild purgatives best in erysipelas. 155-61. Small pox and vaccination. 174. Nervous diseases common, and produced by political troubles,-and suicides not unfrequent. YOUNG'S Survey of Sussex. 1813. Ed. P. 3. THE salt spray, with a west or south-west wind, in very exposed situa 176. Mad dog; cautery the old religious | tions, penetrates the houses, though built application. 177. Epilepsy caused by fear, and cured by Valerian, orange leaves, and steel. 183. Itch sometimes fatal. A fragrant remedy for it. with brick, even at a considerable distance from the coast. The hedges seem to be cut by the spray, as if it were artificially. 6. Strip of deep rich soil on the northern 185. Goitres endemic, and mostly among side of the downs. women. Cretins. 186. 190. Siphylis when it first appeared there. 7. Shraves-what we call scars? or screes? Flints in some places lie so thick as effectually to cover the ground, and it is curious to observe how vegetation flourishes through such beds of stones. The general opinion is, that if the farmers were to put themselves to the trouble and expence of picking them off the land, the soil would be most materially injured. Some indeed who have tried this experiment are thoroughly convinced of the loss thereby sustained, the land having never since produced such fine crops of corn as before. This land is admirable for the turnip husbandry. 8. Hanbrook, 136. Dwarf hop desiderated. 140. Parsnips the most nutritious food, carrots the next. 145. Chicory cultivated to advantage. 164. Sussex oak the best. 167. Alder the most profitable for underwood, then ash. Chesnut the most durable for hop-poles, then ash. 168. Ash for hoops. Alder for gunpowder charcoal. 174. Trees, when worth 40s., never pay interest if they are allowed to stand. 197. Paring and burning—pro and con. 203. Chalk burnt for lime. Extent of the practice. Sixteen sloops employed in 9. The weald, and its shaws. 62. 164. carrying it from the pits at Beachy head 181. 469. 11. Sussex marble-much in Canterbury cathedral: it is there called Petworth marble. 20. Tile facing very common all over the county; it effectually checks the fury of the storms, and preserves the inside of the house air-tight and dry. Stacking corn on circular stone piers. 21. Foundation for barn floors. 22. The poor. 28. Low rents do not always generate exertion and activity, A correspondent observes in a note, "I am glad to find this idea in the minds of so many of the reporters!" 69. Turn your fallows to crops that shall feed cattle; do not depend so much upon hay; mow less and feed more; and do this upon an enlarged scale, and never fear but you will grow corn if you can keep cattle and sheep. 97. Potato yeast. to the Bexhill, Hastings, and Rye kilns. 205. A change in manure from chalk to stone lime, or contrariwise, beneficial. 209. 209. Query, whether limestone might not better be used when simply pulverized than burnt? 219. Rags and sheep clippings good for hop-grounds, as keeping the ground moist in dry seasons. 221. Charloc often kills lambs. 222. Three weeks' irrigation in December entirely kills the moss. 228. A splendid passage about breeding cattle! 229. Red cattle, the Sussex breed. Prejudices in favour of that colour. 230. Doubts whether white be a sign of degeneracy. 231. Descent of a thorough-bred Sus sex ox. 253. "The Sussex cows keep themselves almost beef while they give milk." What 105. Double crops of tares instead of they give is little, but very rich. fallows. 109. Choice of turnips for seed. 131. Hops-a gambling crop. 132, 254. The fine-fleshed cattle give the best milk. 258. Water thought injurious in churning. 274. Bakewell's notice of crossing. 299. In proportion to the fineness of the wool is the disposition to thrive, and the quality of the mutton. 305. Till lately ten guineas was the highest price that was heard of in Sussex for the sale of any ram. Now Mr. Elwood letts many of his three-year old rams for fifty; inferior ones for thirty, twenty, ten guines; and he has lett at one hundred. 309. The few breeders on the Southdowns who have tried the Spanish breed found two capital defects, not to be compensated by any improvement in the wool -tender constitution and bad shape. 323. Ponds on the South-downs. 324. Those best which have no run of water, but receive only the rain. 325. Wethers pay best at a year and half old. The sheep continue improving as long as their teeth remain sound, which is usually six years. 331. The older the mutton the finer the flavour, though this is a circumstance not thought of by the grazier. They who are connoisseurs will find that a spayed ewe kept five years before she is fattened is superior to any wether mutton. 335. The rot was never known to be caught upon the South-downs. A marsh occasionally overflowed with salt-water was never known to rot sheep. | den, and he keeps some bee-hives; the quality of the honey is excellent, and from each hive he gains 12lbs. in favourable years. 393. Fishponds innumerable in the Weald: carp the chief stock; but tench, perch, eels, and pike also are raised. A Mr. Fenn, of London, has long rented, and is the sole monopolizer of all the fish that are sold in Sussex. Statements of their value. 401. Male tench are good for nothing, and are thrown away; hen tench only are preserved. Evil of the London monopoly of fish. Every market-town in the country should be obliged to keep open a fish-market. 404. Extent and profits of smuggling in this county. "Unlicensed gin-shops are without number." 411. "It is hardly possible that a labouring family, honest as they may be, and industrious as their strength and activity renders them (if numerous), can be maintained upon the present wages of labour with ease and comfort." 424. Lord Egremont, in cutting his ca 336. The flounder found in the liver of nal, employed his own labourers, who were the animal is taken up with its food? 353. A little clipping and ducking a month before washing and sheering. It keeps them clean and cool in hot weather. Clothing the sheep has been attempted, but it failed. 360. Classification of English wool. Hereford, Shropshire, Upland, Welsh the best, North-country the worst. 374. Lord Egremont has in his park three large flocks of the Hereford, Southdown, and Dishley; and these three flocks keep themselves perfectly distinct, although each has as much opportunity of mixing with the other as they have with themselves. 375. Astrachan sheep there, and the Thibet goat: the wool combs off, about a pound to a fleece, and the hatters give a guinea a pound for it. 393. Dungeness. By much industry the man who lives in the lighthouse has inclosed a small patch of ground for a gar all natives. "In the usual method of cutting canals, these men are a constant nuisance to the neighbourhood, and the terror of all other descriptions of people." 437. Ill condition of the labouring poor. Land required for their own cultivation. 415. The right application of potatoes for human food is, beyond all question of doubt, roasted or baked; they are then superior to bread. 445-6. Lord Egremont's rewards for industry. 445. Evil of allowing the poor to ramble without a certificate, according to the old law-all changes in which Lord Sheffield thought had been for the worse. 459. Ague disappeared from Pevensey Level since 1783 or 1784. |