Niles' Weekly Register Volume 32 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ...are the materials which possess the wonderful power of depriving substances of their offensive odours, and of checking the putrefactive process. The chloride of lime has been applied to the purification of lazarettos, infected ships, hospitals, manufactories, the persons of soldiers, sailors, merchandise at quaruu t.he laws of commons; while those belonging to indivi- tiur; and with the most triumphant success in the cleansduals are subject to the right allowed to the marine de-, ing of sewers. partment, of selecting, marking and removing timber for. One instance in proof of the latter occurred in a "horthe navy, at prices fixed by assessors. This lias indue-rid sewer in Paris which had been impassable for more cd proprietors to cut down their fine trees before they j than forty years." Eight workmen lost their lives in atnttam such a size as to render them fit for the public ser-tempting to penetrate it, in l8i. It had been left to h upplie ecently vice; and although the public forests furnish lar they arc not sufficient. A new system has beer adopted: that of planting trees along the courses ot stream, without forming a forest; and this plan is commended. There is another restriction to which private wood-lands are subject--it is unlawful to clear them for cultivation. Mr. Sebastiani represents this prohibition as highly oppressive to the proprietor, and at the same time injtu'ious to the country, instead of producing any public benefit The price of wood in France is very low. An arpent of wood land in Picardy, he asserts, yields an income of nearly two per cent and in Berry and some other provinces not so much. The rcstrictiotis laid on the clearing of it, however with the claims of the government on mines of different kinds, discourage the digg...