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THE ROYAL AMERICAN MAGAZINE, For DECEMBER, 1774.


"we who never, if you had thought it proper, should have ceased living for each other, and enjoying together all those gifts which fortune has bestowed on me, and love on you. You cannot conceive the pleasures which wait you; if you had the least idea of them ; if you knew what you renounce.  
Without knowing, I am sensible of them ; since I have seen you, every thing but yourself I despise. At first, my mind was busied about the fine things you promised me ; and since that is vanished, I have thought of it no more ; I have thought of you alone. Ah, if my father was but willing. What occasion have you for his consent! Do you wait his leave to love me? Does not our happiness depend on ourselves ? Love and honour are your guarantees. Is any thing more sacred, or more inviolable ? Believe me, when the heart is bestowed, every thing is said ; the hand follows of course. Give me then your hand, that I may kiss it a thousand times, and bathe it with my tears. There it is, replied she, crying. It is mine ; this hand, so dear, is mine ; I hold it from love, and will part with it but with my life. Yes, Lauretta, I die at your feet if I must be separated from you. Lauretta believed, in good earnest, that, in losing the sight of her, he would cease to live. Alas ! says she, I am the cause of this misfortune ! Yes, cruel girl, you are the cause of it ; you desire my death. Oh, my God ! No, I would lose my own life to save yours." Give me a proof of it, replied Luzy, seeming to make use of some force, and, go with me, if you love me. No, I cannot, I cannot without my father's consent. It is well ; leave me then, leave me to despair. At these words, Lauretta, pale and trembling, her heart pierced with grief and terror, dared neither keep nor let go the hand of Luzy. Her eyes, full of tears followed, with dread, the wild looks of the count. Deign, says she to calm his passion, to look at me without anger ; I was in hopes to make you accept this token of my acknowledgement ; but I dare not to offer it to you again. What fruit for me ! Ah ! cruel, do you insult me ! It is poison I request ; and throwing away the basket with disdain, he went away almost furious."
[To be Continued.]

Of the CULTURE of MADDER in General.
C H A P. III.
Of Managing a CROP of MADDER the second Season.

WE have brought the husbandman through the first summer with his Madder, and have put him into a way of making it much finer than it can be by the common methods in that time ; at autumn the stalks die away, and the weeds die with them : and from this time, according to the manner of speaking in the Madder countries they date what they call a second season.
 
All the winter the ground is to lie perfectly quiet : in spring a fortnight before the plants begin to shoot, the horse hoe should be sent in to cut a deep furrow in the center of every large interval, and the hand hoers to cut up those weeds that rise in the partitions. After this there will be no more care needful about them, for the growth will be too strong to suffer any annoyance ; but the intervals will have weeds and should be horsehoed just as in the preceeding summer, to prevent their farther growth, and to give new supplies of nourishment to the main roots, as well as to cut away and destroy the side or horizontal ones.

This is to be done exactly in the same manner as before-mentioned for the first season, and therefore needs not to be described more at large here. By this means the crop will proceed as it ought in every respect ; and this season the whole care will be over.

In autumn, when the plants wither, is the time to take up the roots, this must be done with care and circumspection, for the more they are broke in the ground, the more of them is lost. The regular method of planting them comes in here to be of great use, for the people
employed to take them up know where to look for them one by one, and where they may, and where they may not, work about them.

When they are all taken up they must be cleaned from dirt, and after a quantity of fine Setts are separated for a new plantation, they are to be dried for sale. The dyer will be always a ready purchaser, nor needs the husbandman fear to overstock the market. The use of the root is to die reds and purples, and as an ingredient in many other colours ; and the quantity imported annually from Flanders, Germany and Holland, amounts to fifteen, twenty, or twenty-five thousand pounds.
[To be Continued]

As much ever depends on the air, situation, food, &c. of Bees, that they may for the future be regulated to greater advantage, we here lay before our readers, as a matter worthy of attention, the choice of a situation favourable for the labours of that insect, not only as to the air, but also as to the quality and quantity of food, and ease and safety of coming at it.

REFERENCES to the annexed, curious, PLATE .

Fig. I. Is the queen bee.
2. Is the drone.
3. Is the working bee.
4. Represents the bees hanging to each other by their feet, which is their method of taking their repose.
5. The proboscis or trunk, which is one of the principal organs of the bees, wherewith they gather the honey and take the nourishment.
6. One of the hind legs of a working bee, loaded with wax.

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