"Goddess (fhe faid,) fince poor Squalina more

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Thy favour gains, than e'er did cat before, "O grant me yet one day to breathe the air, "In the lov'd prefence of my miftrefs fair, "To tell her with my laft, my parting breath, "Thy faithful puffy loves thee after death!"

Love, a Rondeau.

PEACE! thou fond flutt'rer! prithee peace;
Why fhak'st thou thus my troubled breaft?
O let thy painful throbbing ceafe,
And give me back my wonted reft:
For now forlorn I waste the day,
And now forlorn I waste the night;
I court the fun's declining ray,
I languish for the morning's light;
Then peace fond flutt'rer! prithee peace,
And let thy painful throbbing ceafe.

"While my refiftlefs troubled head,
"Rolls the warm tide thy veins along ;
Still fhall thy pulfes madly beat,
"Irregular, and wild, and strong.
"Ne'er fhalt thou quell the inward storm,
"Till Ifabella's heavenly charms,
"Her gently yielding, lovely form,

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Shall pant within thy circling arms: “Then I'll ease thy troubled breast, And give thee back thy wonted reft."

CARLOS.

A refpectable correfponden communicates the following account of the method of making Parmesan cheefe, in hopes it may prove useful for improving the quality of the chefes of his country. The receipt was brought from Italy by Mr Arthur Young, well known for his labours in agriculture.

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& Cimpster M.P

THE Lodifan chiefly low grounds, and moftly watered. A dairy farm of 100 cows, makes daily a cheese of 70 lb or 75 lb. of 28 ounces. The cheeses in winter smaller, but better. The cows fed only four or five hours a day upon pafture, the rest on hay at home. Eighty cows for the dairy, 20 for calves, and the farm 1000 perticas of land, 800 of standing meadow, and 200 in corn and grafs. Rotation; the cows milked twice a day, and give, one with another, about 32 cocallis, of 30 oz. of milk. The evening's milk is put to the morning's. At 16 Italian hours or fo in the morning, the evening and morning's milk, after being fkimmed, were put together into a boiler, 8 feet diameter at top, 5 feet 3 deep; at the bottom, about 2 wide, about 272 cocalli, and put under it two faggots of wood, which made the milk rather more than lukewarm; then the boiler was withdrawn from the fire, and a ball of rennit about an ounce weight diffolved in the milk, turning it in the hand in the milk; it was not fufficiently coagulated till about noon, being early in the Spring; but in Summer it is done in half or three quarters of an hour; but they then ufe half as much more rennit as was coagulated, fo as to be taken in pieces from the furface of the boiler.

The foreman with a ftick that had 18 points, or rather 9fmall pieces of wood fixed by their middle in the end of it and forming nine points on each fide, began to break exactly all the coagulated milk, and continued to do fo for more than half an hour, from time to time examining it to fee its state. He ordered to renew the fire, and four faggots of willow branches were ufed all at once. He turned he boiler, that the fire might act; and then the underman

began to work in the milk with a stick like the above, but with only four fmaller fticks at the top, forming eight points, four at each side, a fpan long each point. In a quarter of an hour, the foreman mixed in the boiler the proper quantity of faffron (about one third of an ounce) and the milk was all in knobs, and finer grained than before, by breaking continually. Every moment the fire was renewed or fed, but with a faggot only at a time, to keep it regular. The milk was never heaped much, nor does it hinder to keep the hand in it, to know the fineness of the grain, which refines continually by the flick work of the underman. It is of the greatest confequence to mind when the grains begins to take a confiftence.. When it comes to this ftate, the boiler is hurried from the fire, and the underman immediately takes out the whey, putting it into proper receivers. In that manner, the grain fubfides at the bottom of the boiler, and leaving only in it whey enough to keep the grain covered a little, the foreman, extending himself as much as he can cover, and in a boiler, unites with his hands the grained milk, making like a body of paste of it; then a large piece of linen is run by him under that body of pafte, while another man keeps the four corners of it, and the whey is directly again put into the boiler, which facilitates the raifing the pafte, which is put for a quarter of an hour into the receiver, where the whey was in the linen: The boiler is then put on the fire to extract a poor cheefe; after a quarter of an hour, the pafte is put into a wooden form without top or bottom; a piece of wood like a cheefe, put on the top of it, putting, and gradually increafing weights upon it; in the evening, the cheefe fo formed is carried into the ware-house, where, after 24 hours they begin to give the falt. It remains in that ware-house 15 or 20 days, but in Summer only from 8 to 12, where the cruft will be formed, when it is carried into another ware-house. They turn all the cheeses under fix months every day; after that, once in 48 or 60 hours, keeping them clean, otherwife they acquire a bad fmell, distinguished by the name of grained cheese.

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In our third number, we had occafion to mention the patriotic exertions of Sir John Sinclair, for restoring to Great Britain its long loft fuperiority over other nations, in refpect to the quality of its wool. We are happy to add, that the people in this country feem to be now fo fully fenfible of the benefits that may be derived from this article, that many patriotic individuals have eagerly inrolled their names as members of this patriotic fociety; and several towns and refpectable corporations have contributed liberally towards the fame end. It will always afford us particula: pleafure to mark the progress of improvement in this branch; and with that view we fhall be careful to acquaint our readers with fuch tranfactions of this fociety, as have a claim to attract the public attention. 102 x 2102 The firft general meeting of this fociety was held at Edinburgh on Monday the 31ft of January, At this meeting, among other fpecimens of fine woollen manufactures of Scotland, was produced three fhauls, one made of the belt English worfted that could be obtained, one made of fine Spanish wool, and one made of Shetland wool, all manufactured by the fame perfon, and treated in every respect alike, to afford a fair comparative trial of the quality of thefe kinds of wool refpectively. The gentlemen there met were unanimously of opinion, that in refpect of foftnefs as well as of pure whitenefs, the Shetland wool exceeded both the others in a very high degree, though the manufacturer owned, that the wool of which this fhaul was made, had not been properly forted, much coarfe wool being intermixed among the fine; and that if it had been properly forted, the quality of the fluff would have been greatly fuperior to what this was.

After a full examination of the fpecimens offered, and a free difsculsion of many interefting particulars connected with the bufinefs of the day,

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SIR JOHN SINCLAIR of Ulbfter, Bart. was called to

the chair,

And opening the meeting with a fpeech of confiderable length, pointing out the objects of the propofed inftitution, the means by which they were the most likely to be attained, and the material advantages that would refult from it.

The earl of Hopetoun next rofe, and entered very warmly into the national importance of the objects in view and after feveral other Gentlemen had delivered their fentiments in favour of the propofed inftitution, the meeting

RESOLVED,

That the eftablishment of a fociety for the Improvement of British Wool, is one of the most likely means of promoting the commercial interefts, and permanent profperity of thefe kingdoms.

382. That the Meeting here affembled, and thofe for whom they are empowered to act, together with fuch other perfons, whether in Great Britain and Ireland, or its dependencies, as are willing to co-operate with them, will conftititute a Society for that fole purpofe, either to act feparateTy, or in conjunction with other focieties of a fimilar nature, as may be thought most advise able.

3. That the important objects of the inftitution be re*fpectfully laid before his majesty, by the chairman, in name -of the Society, in full confidence, that a Sovereign, whose attention to the welfare and happinefs of his fubjects is fo well known, will be graciously pleafed to take this fociety under his royal protection.

4.That application be made to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, that he will honour this inftitution by accepting the office of being Patron of the Society; and that the Chairman be alfo requested to make that applica-tion to his Royal Highnefs, in their name.

195.1 That the affairs of the Society be conducted by a Board of Directors, confifting of a Chairman, deputy Chairmar, and fourteen Directors, to be annually chofen on the