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.l Card.
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Cheap Goods in Store.
50 lhds Prime N 0 Sug-ar
10 Hhds. common N. 0. Stmar,
20 choice Porto Rico, Sugar,
25' Barrels clartlied
5 " crushed
2 " powdered
5 Boxes Woolsey & Woolsey double
refined loaf sugar,
2 " Charleston double rcfined lon
sugar,
20 Hhds. M uscovado Molasses.
5 " Trinidad
- 50 Barrels New Orleans"
100 Barrels No. 3 Mackerel (large size,)
20 Kiis No. 1"
125 bags prrne Rio Ceffee
40 " " Lagsigra"
20 "-" old Cuba "
30 " " old Java "~
6000 Lbs. Uni.on brand white Lead (No.
extra and pure,)
-300 Gallo,ns Linseed Oil,
2 Barrels'1Train"
300 Lbs. Putty in Ltadders,C
125 Boxes wi~ndow glass (all sizes,)
75 Hegs Eastern tnls (assorted)
20.000 Lbs. assorted Swedes Iron,
.500 " Casteel (Sandersons,)
German and Blister steel,
* 400 Pieces heavy Dundee bagging,
100 .Cols hemp rope,
10 Bales homespun (Augusta manufac
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8 " heavy cotton Osnabuigs,
.20 boxes sperm. candles,
2(1 " Adamnanrine candles.
-10 " Hull & Sons patent candles,
30 IIhds. bacon sides (western,)
- 4000 Lbs. coutntry Bacon.
- 3 Tierces Rice. &c. &cr..
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Dane-seat Chairs, Wood seat C7hairs, Grind,
istones. and many othier articles too tedious to
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Hamburg, July 11, 1849, if~ 25
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.O)0GALLONE iamp Oil, a choice
200 Gallons Lamp Oil, (summer strained.)
200 - " Train Oil.
15 Boxes Sperm Candles.'
15 '. Adamantine Candles.
.t 1" Hall's Candles.
For sale by HI. A. KENRICK.
Hamburg Sept. 5, 1849, rf 33
Brass lioundl BucketIs.
DOZEN Brass Bound Buckets, a supe.
rior article' For sale by
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bug.... J..l. 24 1849, tr 27
Froni the Charleston Courier.
The Land of the Palmetto.
AuR-Carrj me bak to Old Virginny.
U' -. F. PORTER.
Oh take me back to my native land,
By Ashley's flowing tide,
Her fragrant woods and verdant glades,
Are still the pilgrim's pride:
God bless her forest hills so green,
God bless her wave wase'd shore
It would break my heart to thinik I
Should see that land no more.
qee her hospitable homes
Their gon'rous.rites display,
Ilerdatk-eyed maids, with souls as war'M
As spring-time's genial ray;
And. as I look, my throbbing breast
Thrills, as in days ofyore
Oh break my heart, for shall I sei
That dear lov'd land no more?
Mother of heroes ! land of fame!
The wanderer loves thee still
To thy boinm clasp thy banish'd child,
H is heart's fond wish fulfil.
Then take me to nay native land,
To Carolina's shore
'Twill break -my heart, if I do not see
That dear lov'd land once mure.
I Love not Now.
Tie from me all thou once didst give
Thy mainiles and tears-shy sighs-that vo*
No longer in my bosom live;
I love thee once-I love not now;
,Tis better in this wretched hour,
To fling from memory every trce"
Each shadow of thy broken power,
And all memorials fond erase!
Haply, in after- times, the wrong
Thy fickle speech hath done to me
May'strike thy sonl. fas borne along,
Thou gaily sailest o'er life's sea;
And then, amidst the wreck of love,
That will thy sinking hope surround,
Some long forgotten thonght may move
Thy fluttering heart with grief profour'id
A SNAKE STor.-An old Deacon
in Yankee land, unco told us a g6od
story. ie was standing berido a frog
pol--we. _b.xe-hLY -.W d In h-an
saw a large gaiter sua 'e make ah at
lack on an enormous bull frog. Hb
seized 'one of the frog's hind legs, and
the frog, to be on a pai.with his snake
ship, caught him by the tail, and both
tnnmenced sWiallowing one another,
and continued this carnivorous opera
tion until nothing was left of either of
them!
A Hi.-Two cardin:als objected to
Raphael, the great master of the pencil,
that in one of his pieces he had too
much red in the countenances of St.
Peter and St; Paul.
"Be not astonished at that my lords;
I have painted them as they are in Hea
ven blushing with shame at seeing the
chutch so badly governed."
It is time cruryoung ladies dropped
the old plan of ref-rring the boys to their
paternal relative, on receiving an offer
of marriage. Come g.irls, lay aside the
old fashion, and on a young man of the
right stamp offecring himself, don't look
off on one side and stare some particu
lar fingure in the carpet out of counten
ance and simper, "ask pa." kint fling
your arms about his neck, kiss him, lo'ok
him in the eyes, and say, Well I raill!
-Albany Knick.
*"I'll bet a sheep," said an old Mere
dith to his other half, "ithat.our boy Otho
is going crazy. For lie is grinning at
the plough, and he is grinning at th-e
table, and lie is grinnine to himself
whterevrer he noes. "Pohi," replied the
woman, "adon'it you knows he got a love
letter this morning."
A striking evidence of the wisdom of
the settlers of M~inesota is afforded hy
the action of the Legislature in passing
a vote directing the Secretary to sub
scribe'for all the newspapers published
ia<the Territory from tho time of their
commencement. These papers are to
be bound yearly and depositod in the
library. as a valtuable history of the time
for future reference.
MORE FoRtCBLE 'rHAN ELEGANT,
Bishop Chase. an exchange paper.. told
his congregation a short time since, in
one of his sermons, that there was-among
his female auiditors, corset boards suf
ficientto shingle a hogpen.
"[ rather not take a horns with you,"
as the loafer said to the bull; but the bull
treated him to two horns, and the loaf
er got quite high."
"I always think,'' satid a reverend
guest "that a certain quantity of wine
does a man no harm after dinner." "aOh
no', sir,"' replied' his host, "ait is the in
certain quantity that does the mischief."
Why i; a tight shoe like a fine summer?
Benas it makes corn grow.
NATURE AND RELATIONS OF
WATER.
No living thing can, exist, except it
contains water as one of the leading c6n
slituents of the various parts of its sys
tem. To so great an extent does this
go, that, in a thousand parts of human
blood, nearly eight handred are Water.
The distribution of organized beings all
ovei the world, is to a great extent. reg.
ulated by its abundance or scarcity. It
seems as if the properties of this sub
stance mark out the plan of animated
nature. From man, at the head oPall,
tj the meanest vegetable that can grow
on a bare rock, through all the various
orders and tribes, this ingredient is ab
stlutely required. Insipid and inodo
rous in itself, it takes on the peculiari
ties of all other bodies; assumes with
readiness the sweetness of sugar; and
the acidity of vinegar. Disiihed with
flowers, or the aromatic paits of plants,
it contracts from them their fragrance;
and with equal facility becomes the ve
hicle of odors the most offensive to our
sense.
We talk about the use of watir, 6nd
imagine that nature furnishes us a pa
rennial supply. The dommon ihiloso
phy of the people, is doubtless, advanced
so far as to admit that, in an unknown
manner, this substance is created in the
clouds, descends as rain fdr the usd of
ahimals and plants; but whence it came,
or where it goes, never enters intd tl*ir
consideration.
Men .constantly forget that in this
world, notling is even annihilated; an
atom, once created, ran by no process
be destroyed ! The liquid that we drink
to-day has been drunk a thousand times
before; the clouds that obscure the sky
have obscured it again and again ; nd
and if the sorrows of mankind aie as
many as the, [ihilanthropist may well
fear, lie might suspect a great part of
the ocean is. perhaps, made up of tears
that have fallen frohi the human family,
in the air their sighs die away, and in
the o ean their tears are all lost. This
Ehai-acteristic of the: ways of natore; the
beautiful and the vile-the great and the
small-are all mingled. together i the
tears that you shed in the depths of grief
to-day, may be squirted to-morrow
through a hose-pipe to clean the dire of
the stieets, or whistled away through
the squeak of a locomotive, to scare
some dilatory cow off the track. So
much for the sorrows of man.
What then becomes of the immense
quantities of water, which; this entering
as a constituent of the bodies of animals,
gives to their various par is that flexibili
ty which enables them to execute wove
ments or combining with vegetable
structure fits them for carrying on their
vital processes? After the course of a
few years, all existing animals and vege
tables entirely pass away; their solid
constituents disintegrate. and take on
other conditions, and the waters lost
perhaps, for a tihrie in the ground, or else
eseapes in'the form of vapor into the air.
In that great and invisible receptable,
all traces of its ancient relations disap
pears; it mingles with other vapors that
are raised from the sea by the sun. From
the bndies of living animalstand plants,
immense quantities are hourly finding
therr way into the reservoir.
In a crowded city, from the skin and
by the breath of its numerous inhabi
tants, clouds of vapor are continually
escaping-we see this visibly going on
in the cold weather of winter, and though
invisible, the process is eqnally active
in summer--the escape arising from the
drink we take, or from all those various
portions of the system that are dying
each moment, for the life of individual
being is made up of the successive death
of all its constituent particles. In the
same manner, from thme forests and mea
dows, and wherever vegetables are found,
water is continually evaporating, and
that to an extent far surpassing what wve
might at first be led to suppose. In a
single 4ay, a sun flowver of moderate
size, throws from its leaves,, and other
parts nearly 20 ounces weight.
Howv enormous, then must be the
quantity wvhich escapes from the sur face
of a great continent! Yet all this' is
thrown into the air ; and there it min
gles wvith other portions, some of which
are coming from living taces,- and some
derived from the surface of the ground-,
and some from the remote regions of the
sea. It seems as if- nature had taken
sure means that hero all tracesof iden.
tity should be lOSt. .The winds- prover
bially inconstant, blow at one time from
the coast of Europe,. at another from
Africa, at another from Asia.
In the republic of the universe there
is a steam equally, the breath of the
king intermningles-with the breath of the
beggar, and the same quiet atmosphere
receives the exhalations of the Ameri
can, the Etuopean, the Asiatic, the Af
ricn: the'-narticles that have risen from
the intermingle with those from
the lil ;And if thit were not enough,
the arid the tempests obliterate
every inction, and dash in one com,
nio'n ibn these relics of every part
of the e
, A '.f average size requiies a half
ton we of wate a year; when he has
reache eneridian of life, he has con
stimed three hundred times his
ofn M of this. liquid. These are
state*t liich may seem to those who
hear I the first time very wonder.
fulland'7 eRre easily verified, might
lead y 4 oubt whether the existing
order i. ure, as dependent on the
waters' e sea, could for any length
of time ept tp under such'a heavy
Consump nh"t
family conssts probably
of a III millions of .individuals; it,
would- b ery moderate estimate to
suppos, I- ,the *rious animals, great
and' ' ten together, consume five
times a oh water as we do, and the
vegetab1 orid two hundred tines as
all the a mal races. Under such an
immensi 0rin it becomes a curious
question. arovisions-nature has made
to Meetj deTiand, and how long the
waters o i_sea supposing none returned
to them (furnish a sure supply 1
The qd stion involves the stability of
existence arimated nature and the
world of anizition; and no'man, save
one wii nr d is .thordughly imbued
with an. feciatiou oi 'the resources
upon whi e.-ects of the Creator are
founded," d, I am sure justly guess
at the _Tes 0-There exists in the sea,
a supply. 7 Iwould meet this erior
mous dthan a quarter of
a nilIion' feaa.
Schi 7-gan of nature, and such.
are the r uit on which she depends
for carryi puior meastures. For the
well beig eieorganized creations, she
can fall na .gigantic supply.
Profess er.ggg .
Two ;N+hedgtd Charley
wer
was jo si- that he .codild get in either
side-that s to uay that there were two
fore sides to his bed aiid no bick side,
which Ned found very convenient.
One night Ned and Charley, hail been
nut, and on returnidg, which they (lid near
morning, both were considerably elevated.
Ilowever, they walked up to their rooms
with an air that seemed to say, "not so
Very_ daraed drunk after all," attd sought
long and patiently for matches and a
lamp.. Arter knocking over the pitcher
and the wadlistand and smashing the look
ing glass, they finally gave up the search
und went to bed.
Went to bed-yes. that's the word, but
owing to.he darkness and confusion of
iheir sense, they made a'slight mistake.
In short, Ned's bed had the honor of
receiving the two friends-Charley getting
in on one side, and his companion rolliug
in on the other.
"I say, Ned," cried Charley, torching
somebody's calf, 'there's a fellow i- tny
bed !'.
eWonderful coincidence!" exclaimed
Ned, feeling a strange elbaw in the region
of his ribs, "there somebody in my bed
too."
"In there though ?" cried Charley,
"let's kich 'em out 1" "Agreed" said
Ned.
And a.ccordingly, the two friends hegan
to kick. It. lasted nbout a nminute and a
half, and Ned was sprawling on the floor;
Charley was left in possessio- of the bed.
For a moment all was silent.
"I say, Ned" cried Charley..
"What 1"-asked Ned, sulkily.
"I've kicked my fellow cul !"
"You are a d'evilislr sight luckyier than
I am. then," said N'ed;"for niie has kick
ed me out."-Spirit of the Times.
A-VOLUrTFti WIFE AND BoitoWED
BAnY,-A:man wvas arrested in this vil
lage on Wednesday for a violent assault
upon another, and while undergoing ex
amination,' before Justice Arnold; young
wvomain made her appearence in court,.
with a smaill child in her arms, wvho re
presented herself to be the wife of the
prisoner. 'She cried pitifully, and her
sad appearance'- with the babe at her
breast much affected- cite bystanders.
[Her tears, however, could not turn.the
scales -of~jstice, and the prisoner was
sent to jail to await his trial in Septem
ber next.
-Now for. the denouement. it has
since been 'ascertained that this won'an
was not the culprit's wif6, nor the child'
his. She is another man's wife, and to
eff'ect the heart- of the magistrate to
leniency, she volunteercd in the 'charac
ter we have described, and to heightetn
the "cefer," she actually borrowed an
other woman's bab.- Woonsocket Pa
triot.
'Soutc men so- dislike the dust kicketd up
by the generation to which they belong,
that, being unable lb pass, they lay be
bind.
Who follow.not virtue in youth, can.'
not fly sin in old age'
Front th St. Louis Republican.
In the hurry of bussiness, and the multi
pliclty of other subjects, the late Conven
tion in this city adjourned without mak.
ing provision for the publication of the
numorous letters' from gentleman inved
to attend. The whole. we presume, will ap
pear in the regular published proceedingb,
in pamplilet form; in advance of that pub.
Ilcation, however we hVe obtained the
following 66jiies of letteis. whibh we gite
to gratify the public curiosity to kndw how
ceitain eminent statesmen view the pro.
positiod.
Letter frn General Casi.
bETaoIT,-Oct. 1.
Gentlemen :-I have received your let
ter inviting me to attend the Convention
proposed to be held at St. Louis, for the
purpose of deliberating upon ihe eipediency
and necessity of uniting at an early day
the Pacific with thi Mississippi valley.by
means of a rail road and telegraph.
While thanking you for this invitation, I
am obliged to decline it, as it will-not he
in my power to be present upon that in
teresting occasion.
But, though absent, I shall not '-eeard
with the less interest the progresi of this
effort to direct public attention to one of
the most important as well as one of-the
most useful works which has ever been
offered to human enterprise. It is difficult
for the mind to grasp the immense aclan
tages which, politically. socially, and com
mercially, this route is destined to bring
with it. It would become a highway, if
not of nations, for their products, minis
tering to the wants of the extensive regions
and opening such a channel of internal
communication as the world has never
seen it, would bind together the diflerent
portions of our country,'adaing the facilities
of rapid intercourse to all the other mo
tives for perpetual union. And the idea
ofrransmitting information from the seat
of Government to the shores of the Paci.
fic in an hour, while it startles the jnagi
notion, is pronounced easy and practica
ble by experience, and is calculated to
exert a powerful influence upon the pro
gress and duration of- our Confederation.
For all the purposes of intelligence, pub
lic or private, .the telegraph has rendered
our country far more compact than lt*Vas
the day the constitution ,vas ado0.te4 ot
I'trist that suicess will crown ynUr.1A'
bors, and that such a spirit will be awaken
ed as will insure the speedy commence
ment of this work, and its final bompletion
as soon as cir6unstanaes will peirmit.
I am. gentleman, with great respect,
your obedient servant.
. LEWIS CASS.
Mesrs. A. B Chambers, Phillips Do
by O'Fallon, Walsh, Committee. &c.
Lditerfroni Mr. Calhotin.
FORT HiLi., Sept. 16, 1849.
Gentlemen : 1 regret that I cannot ac
cept your invitation to attend the Con
iention to be h6ld at St. Louis, on the 160h
of next month, to deliberate upon the ev
pediency of connecting the Valley of the
Alississippi with the Pacific. My engage
ments are of a nature that ivould not per
mit me to be presen(.
No one more highly appiediaties the
3pbject of your meeting than f do. I have
made up no opinion as to its eastern or
western terminus, or the. ioute that should
l'e adopted; nor shill I until 1 am bett6r
informed. My wish is that the best route,
all things considered, should be selected,
including both termini. The work1should
look to the wiole Union, 'and the general
commence of both the A tlantic and Pacific
oceans. Such will be the views that will
governi me, whettever I may be called on
to act on thelsubject! I regard the work
to be one of too great magtitudoeand im
portanice to be inftluenced by local or pri.,
vate considcrations..
With great respect, I am, &.
J.-C.CALHOUN.
(A ddressed to the;Committee.)
Letter fromi Mr. CIiy
AIuLAND', Sep. 19, 1549.
GgYNTLEXIr:- 'I haie received gour of
ficial letter, in hbalf of a mass meeting'of
the citizens of St. Louis, invi'.ing me to
attend a National Coventiott int that city
on the JGth of next month, to deliberate on
the expediency of connecting the Atlanrie
and Pacific oceans in the Valley of the
Mississippi, at an early day by rail road,
&c. I am sorry that it is aot in tity pow.
er to attend the props'ed Convention, olhar
indespensabile engagements itnterferi'ng.
As to the project itself, the means of its
execution, and the termini of the road, I
stand perfectly uncommitted, and feel no
perjudices nor predilectioris whie'h would
away my judgment. .Before an, etnterprtse
of such vast importande is undertaken all
the light of which the subject is susceptible
ought to b-e obtnined. Among these is
thtat to be derived from accurate surveys
of conttemplated routes,' aud their practi
cability, tas well as estimates of the cost.
F hope that the deliberations and proceed
logs of the proposed Cotnvention at St.
15ouis wvill affords useful aid in-nrivming at
a proper.conclusion.
I am, with great respectj your obedient
servant. . H. CLAY.
HOGGSH.-A Paddy writing from the
WVest says porke is so plenty that "evety
third man yoo meet is.a hog.''
The world is a workshop, and none
but ih'e wise no how to use the tools,
THi BRITISH WEST INDIES.
The 'bondition of the British 1et in
dies is at this M-Ov nierit interesting and -
itsirtletivb. These 'coloaiieshad foFIerin -
two great-soui-ces or conbequencetila
mother cintry.. They enriched it-17" the
great amount of valuble pfoducii poured
into the stream of British commerce, edht- -
they afforded many :a fat and' haiy offied -
for those aons of the nobility whlso badad '.
suitable lounging. plAce aghdme; Thbey . be
helped io adorn tfii Palaces of hi iner. -
chant nobles of London. and .urnislied .Ad
a few elegant palaces of their "wn 6'o tfi
nobles who l"cked thi convedien;; A -
is 'changed now. The sitedr 'of iir
merce has lotig flowed 6n without 6arrln;
any memorial of tihe fUrmed fertility of b
British West Indlii.. The ir iir a
njaica has become as historical. is %i.P $at
tery and figs of Athens. The Biitiih
Merchants have quietly dubmitted.to tilt
necessity, snd sought else.wheFe 'or tl1e
loading of thwii- shipi and the harveit-oi
their capital. It seems to be obftitted
that for the present and fdture' British
philanthrophy has coisigned tieje-ibloniel
to poverty add insignificance. It i i sib
ficient hiit to tbh merchabti to - rbrget
their existence.
But the race df Offie-holderi, liinS"
fewer res6drces, lesi sdgaity and o6 ie
signation, cannot even yet see thitthey
too must share in the iscrideos madi 116
ce.saiy by the conversion of gaidei iitI
thickets, and lilooming ,felds. into diefts,
They persist in the assertioi tbat the dig.;
nity of British rile shall noibe dishb684d;
thai ihe ialohes idiui be kept iip-bid il
officials be clothed in Ane linehi hu6 ted
with dainties. The colonies deimand iw
ful reductioni In salaries. They iag it ' -
not a qupsiton or ihe eipedienc of high
or low revenue-:of fne oi coari fihd'old
aries; tt' they are miserably liooi, and
have no choice; that they 'cannt p bes .
cause the money is not; that ixactions; only
aggravate ihe 'ist-esier, and itfd 16 h*itbi6
the .at asirophii orutier into. . . -
On this questidi of reducing the .ep
ses of the colonial governments Wiihe
Idwest possible figure, the British West
fudies have bsen-,eviisly distiiret foi
iwo-years. pgsti Th honie gArihieInt
appears to sidiWvith tfu o -*eisf.i, hile
the pulationin'.Jamaia inniGi&
n.... - -iral i--- - - .
uru ui- , .unsun -T1 ki.usu
en ttioi born. Parligmeis have beetr dig
solved only to lie followed by ilf itore
intractable successors, Finally, fif last.
news fron Jamaica is, that the ree*ee for
the sup[iorf df government [in aml ij tune
(iois has ceased. with no piope6i of an
adjustnient of the dispute. out of hiih the
confusioIn has sprung. Great Britain ap,
parenily shrinks froni a' pUb"lie 6onfessiotr
dh'at eh'e . hat pbiloiopi6allf, i-Migiously,
and philan*thiopically been wblking with
infinite fuis and p'retension for t*enty years,
foi th iiiable end of iedu6ingieieral rich
and flourishing colonies to; such a ceidi
tion of beggary, that they an no longer
beai the burden of ftyi6g for a decent
gh'vernmnent.
.'' MEASURi C0NN I2 'fHE CRIV.- -,
First find the solid cor.ints of yout
crib in feet, so far as it is filled with iood
slip shucked coin'. 'This. will show i;V
the number of solid fee: or corn youn crib
contains. We suppose 6'a-third o' these
contents to be of cob, one-third 61 shuck,
and one-third only of pure coi'. Now di.
viding the above ascertained solid contents
by three, would give you tAe number of
bush'6f of putre corn, pr6iided a solid foot
of shellid corn made ' bushel, and three
solid eet of slip-s'huked corn made a b.
shef. But this is'dnot Coyrect, because it'
takes fr've solid feet to make four bushewt.
'I"hen' you: ment deduct one fifth from the' - -
nu-mber of dolid feet in order to set'tans'
the n'u'mber of bushels which the house'
could hold or does hold of shelled torn.
Remember if the corn isonty sIlp.rhucked,
then one-third only of the tditber of On
shels unust be counted,. foy the rett is only - .
of cob and shuck. . .
Soppose a crib is 14 lfeet wide and 2G
feet long, and th'at the torn in-it is ten feei
deep. Thes' ilti'ply the width by thee
lenigth of thie inside of the crib, and multi-.'
ply that prodni'et by 10. This gives yet
thi.number of' solid feet of corn, viz:
'14 by 20=280 by 10=2,800 solid' fes
2800' by .5=560 to be suhrraeted~
2800-560=2,240 bushels; it) shel1led
cor'n.
2800 by 3=746 bushels, if id the shdtlfr.
Thus, if I wass to measure a gentlerman'.
crib es described in volame 6, page 93, --
I would do it as follows :-The crib; 20'feet
long, 14 wide anti JH feet liigh; 1 would
calculate thus:- . A
20 by 14=280- by 19==li3b0-Gl6=- -
2404 by 2=B88' bushels to be the contents
of the body of his crib wshen with good
slip-shucked corn. -
Paoof.-One solid: f'oot contains. 17285.
solid inches, and' one buishel contains.
215d-4solid inches. Now,. -..
1728 tnultiplied' by 5 is equal to 8640 -
2150 mutipled by 4 is equal to 8601.
You see it-is near enough for measuring
corn t'o say that 5 solid feet malte 4~ bush
els ; and from this .simple fast' the rule is.
detived.
In measuring a roof that is full of corn'
I multiply the length,.: breath and height
together. the.vatme us the-body of abhouse,
and then divide by.2, before making other'
calculations, for the .roof, contains :enly
half .as much as b pen having the 'skme
length, breadth and height;but;.not,taper.
ing. L.-M.BoErn