THE
RURAL MAGAZINE,
AND
LITERARY
EVENING FIRE-SIDE.

PHILADELPHIA:
PUBLISHED BY RICHARDS & CALEB JOHNSON,
No. 31, Market Street.
———
1820

INDEX.

ADDRESS, preliminary 1
—— Tilghman's to the Philadelphia Agricultural Society, 104
Adams, John, original letter from 50
Agriculture, treatise on [13], 54, 90, 129, 165, 211
Arabian horse, account of [31]
Ants of Valencia 115
Agricultural education 100
Antediluvian oak 148
Antique nugea ib.
Anecdote 149
—— ib.
Air jacket ib.
Africa 154
Agriculture, essay on 169
—— letters on 332, 370
Agricultural memoranda 172, 227, 317, 380
Appraisement act 182
Agricultural discourse 267
Almanacks, origin of 276
American ginseng 380
—— saltpetre 397
Anecdote of Lycurgus ib.
Agriculture, honour paid to, in China 407
Agricultural school at Hofwyl 205
—— hints 292
Abstracts from Philadelphia Agricultural Society's memoirs 293
Absence of mind 429
American plants and minerals 172
Anecdote 432, 315
African people, the 325
Ants, natural history of 448
—— wars of 458
Advice and Caution 475
Antidotes to poison, vegetable 474
Anecdote 472
Boerhaave, notice of 78
Barrett, Starr, decease of 116
Backster, George, decease of ib.
Botany bay, a view of 141
Bear, sagacity of 147
Boring, legalized 152
Breweries, London 154
Brewing, family machine 248
Benezet, Anthony, anecdote of 273
Bulls, Irish 278
Boots without seams ib.
Bones, &c. as manure 216
Bank note exchange 280, 240, 320,360, 400, 440
Benevolence 394
Books, on 234
Bees, attack by 422
Banks, Sir Joseph 427
Boon, colonel, death of 472
Botany, curious fact in 475
Cotton, rice, tobacco, sugar, wine, statistical account of [23]
Coffee plant [27]
Cow tree [29]
Cattle, Herefordshire, breed of [35]
Cowley, Robert, decease of 117
Congress, list of members of [39]
Cottage Society, account of [36]
Chestnut wood, for dyeing 115
Cobb, Christopher, decease of 117
Cattle, mill feed for 127
Cow, singular account of one 147
Coaches 148
Charity, ladies ib.
Chimnies ib.
Catwg, wisdom of ib.
Combustion, spontaneous 151
Cold, severe 153
Cotton, exportation of, from New Orleans ib.
Cameronians, account of the 185
Comfortable discovery 196
Cambricks, flax for 380
Characters, weight of great 394
Cave, Weir's in Virginia 396
Camels 398
Corn pounder, Lincoln 220
Caterpillars 172, 223
Curious phenomenon 231
Cattle, valuable breed of 295
Chester Agricultural Society 306
Cider, on making 339
Cabbages for cattle 340
Culinary poisons, letter on, &c. 348
Correspondents, notice to 120, 160
Carpets, cheap and elegant 453
Cement, Turkey 473
Chemistry applied to industrious economy 475
Corrosive sublimate, gluten an antidote for 471
Council Bluffs 473
Christians, new sect of 474
Desultory Remarker 45, 81, 121, 161, 201, 244, 283, 321, 361, 401, 441
Domestic economist noticed 78
Deaths, list of, in the principal cities of the United States 117
Deaf and dumb marriage 197
Delametaire, Etienne, death of 236
Death, instance of premonition of 290
Diving bell 120
Domestic manufactures, premiums for 174
Drink, parallel of enjoyment and suffering, 314
Diamond, the 461
Drought 474
Druids 477
Dreaming ib.
Disputants 476
Education, agricultural 100
Ellery, William, decease of 116
Economy of Nature 150
Ephraim, my neighbour 262
Education 382
Ellery, Mr. account of 75, 232
Earth, the productions of the 328
Europe, statistics of 352
Edgeworth, Richard L. esq. memoirs of 412
Excursion from Edinburgh to Dublin 444
Economical bread, receipt for making 465
Fig tree, American [28]
Fire places, improvement in [37]
Franklin, Dr. original letter of 44
Fry, Mrs. account of 126
Flax, on dressing 170
Franklin, Dr. anecdotes of 179
Fulton, Robert, steam-ship 192
Family brewing machine 248
Foreign tongue, the English a 274
Franklin's, Judge, address 366
Farmers, hint to 380
Flemish husbandry 219, 303
Fruit trees, on the oiling of 222
Fruit garden 226
Fruit trees, method of forcing 228
Firmity and Hominy 291
Farmers, encouragement for, on poor land 332
Fuel, economy in 339
French women 352
Forest trees, on the culture of 223
Fiction, works of 231
Flax for cambricks 280
Fata Morgana 451
Flowers in Holland 453
Food, cheap 457
Fox, Charles J. character of 467
Gas lights 151
Green crops, manures of 168
Glass, method of rendering it less brittle 195
Grape vine, native 247
Gossip, view of a 262
Glass making, introduction of into France 273
Gimcrackery, on 326
Garrick, anecdote of 355
Ginger 457
Governors, mode of electing 477
Gil Blas and Don Quixote 476
Gourd, Jonah's 465
Grape vine, on the 69, 101
Horses, disease among [30]
—— wild, of the west [31]
—— cheap food for, &c. 246
—— cure for foundered 227
History, on the study of 49
Holkham sheep shearing 379
Honey, on taking, without destroying the bees 224
Historical sketches 229
Horse, the Arabian [31]
Hams, to cure, Westphalia fashion 172
Hartford fair 431
Horse, running 470
Jewish emigrants 76
"Is it peace, Jehu?" 88
Indian jurisprudence 116
Jones, David, decease of 116
Intemperance, expose of the causes of 133
Iron boat 277
Indian corn, its good and bad culture 364
Internal wealth 397
Indian corn, new method of preserving 228
Ice, power of 235
Ivory paper 474
Indian, double-jointed 473
King, the, death of, &c. 145
Letters of a citizen, to his friends in the country [5], 47, 89
Letter to the editors [3]
—— from an Englishman in this country, to his friends at home, [11], 51
—— original, from John Adams 50
—— —— from Dr. Franklin 44
—— On Mrs. Fry's proceedings in Glasgow 126
Light, without heat, or combustion [36]
Libraries, public, of Germany 80
Law case 113, 231
Longitude (new theory of) 115
Lane, Thomas, decease of 116
Library, apprentices' 146
London 151
Laplandv152
Leeches 153
Lybia 154
Longevity, extraordinary 155
Law suit 184
Lord Thurlow 277
Locust tree, the 412
Lincoln corn pounder 220
Lycurgus, anecdote of 308
Law work, new 476
Ladies, learned ib.
Lands, public 468
Moral plough boy [15], 59
Mummies 79
Miscellany 75, 115, 145, 193, 223, 274, 314, 354, 394, 433, 471
Modes of salutation 115
Mill feed for cattle 127
Mine, silver 150
Missouri, boundaries of 152
Maple Sugar, on the culture of the 164, 218
Manufactures, domestic, premiums for 174
Manner, on the importance of 177
Mortgage act 184
Maine 275
Modern inventions 278
Madeira, island of 387
Missouri, staples of 418
Marivaux 230
Microscope, beauties of the 345
Martial glory 233
Marriages, list of 155, 197
Mammoth cave in Kentucky, account of 464
Nicholson's prize essay [17], 62,93
Natural curiosity 386
Niagara falls, route to 289
Needle, variation of the 351
Natural history, curious facts in 428
Nunneries in Rome, visit to two 454
Narrow resources, advantages of 462
Otto, Joseph, decease of 117
Oil spring 145
Oil stones 276
Oxen, on the use of, &c. 309
Oranges 227
O'Groat's, John house 430
Oil, cotton seed 470
Political Economics [26]
Peruvian bark, singular effect of [29]
Pumpkin seed, oil of [30]
Pleasure, on the pursuit of 43
Phenomenon! 147
Paint, a newly discovered 149
Potatoes, seed 151
Portugal 153
Poultry houses, method of preserving from vermin 155
Peaches, to dry 173
Plum trees, canker on 174
Poultry 196
Pickle, Frederick, decease of 197
Pennsylvania hospital 276
Prices current 239, 280, 320, 360, 400, 440
Parmesan cheese dairy 376
Punctuality 384
Prompter, the 391, 417,466
Plaster, remarks on 223
Pear tree, on the 226
Potatoes, young, in the winter 227
Peaches, to preserve from frost 227
People, the African 325
Pompeia, present state of 341
Potatoes 338
Pyroligneous acid, antisceptic power of 456
Population in America, increase of 474
Ruth, story of 125
Ralp, Elizabeth, decease of 116
Russia, 153
Republican manners 175
Rain gauge, state of, at Philadelphia 197, 239, 280, 320, 360, 400, 440, 479
Rhode Island 275
Rivers, machine for crossing 277
Rain, cattle scenting 278
Rice, wild 377
Rags, conversion of, into sugar 224
Ruta Baga, experiments 225
Rural Magazine, a friend of, to its readers 281
Riddle, Baron Smyth's 476
Raindeer 475
Slavery, extension of [6]
Sugarcane [27]
Savannah, fire in 76
Straw bonnets 80
Seeds (from the plough boy's cottage) 85
Starch, to make 115
Staughton, Don Juan, decease of 116
Sweden, latitude of, trees in 150
Spider, anecdote of ib.
Snow, red 152
Smokers, hint to 155
Shoes, wooden scaled 175
Sentiments of an old soldier 179
Shepherd's dog 190
Snow Storm, the 253
Seeds, on 378
Salt, remarks on, as a manure 411
Speech, natural to man 419
Strawberry, improved method of cultivating 222
Spanish inquisition 232
Sullivan, O. Theodore, death of 236
Sugar, domestic, on the increase of, in the United States 330
Steam coach 419
Subscribers, address to 240, 281
——, notice to 480
Scottish adventurers 355
Salt mines of Meurthe in France 357
Stone Floors, &c. 421
Sounds, increase of, during night 476
Silk, domestic sewing 476
Seduction 472
Thermometer, state of, at Philadelphia [40], 240, 280, 319, 360, 400, 440, 479
Trees, new method of inoculating 173
Turkeys, cheap food for 272
Tortoise, land 276
Turkmans, the 383
Turks, account of the 392
Trees, to prevent decay in 223
Turnips, on the culture of 308
Thrift, lessons on 344
Transplanting wheat, on 434
Travels, Burckhardt's 469
Tooth, drawing the wrong 475
United States, congress of the 471
—— —— square miles of the 474
Vine dressing, near Vevay [25]
Village teacher 41, 83, 123, 163, 203, 241, 286, 322, 403, 443
Vine grape 173
Variety 363
Vineyards at Vevay 295
Watt, James, Life of [32]
Whale fisheries [36]
Wool, imports of, into England, 74
Wolf bounty 78
Water, preservation of, at sea 116
Writing, legible 150
Webb, Margaret, decease of 156
Wayne, William, decease of ib.
Winchell, J. M. decease of ib.
Whimsical conflict, 184
West, Benjamin, death of 232
Whale, surprising vigour of a 310
Wild horses and asses, 313
Workmanship, premiums for 313
Waste of life 343
Wooden soaled shoes 175
Whale, Spitzbergen, zoology of the 423
Wonders of nature 452
Wirt, extracts from 461
Whale fishery, Nantucket 470
Wheat, cutting, before it is ripe 472
Yeast, receipt to make 278

POETRY.