below the foot of the urn into the flat plinth on which it stands, and to which it is united.

The Fig. 5, Plate XIII., represents an urn with two long spouts which serve at the same time as handles. Its size is such as would be proper for making either one or two cups of coffee. The strainer which is represented by dotted lines is of a proper size for making two cups.

Both these urns are destined to be heated over spirit lamps or small portable furnaces.

It is hardly necessary that I should observe that, in case the forms of either of these urns should be thought inelegant, their sizes may without any difficulty be considerably augmented; but when spouts are used with large urns they occasion a good deal of inconvenience.

As coffee is very wholesome and may be afforded at a very low price, especially in countries which have colonies where the climate is proper for growing it, many public advantages would be derived from the general introduction of it among all classes of society.

One most important advantage, which on a superficial view of the subject is not very obvious, would most probably be derived from it. As coffee possesses in a high degree an exhilarating quality, it would in some measure supply the place of spirituous liquors among the lower classes of the people.

Those who work hard stand in need of something to cheer and comfort them; and it is greatly to be lamented that the strong liquors now used for that purpose are not only very unwholesome and permanently debilitating both to the mind and the body, but that their operation is accompanied by a peculiar species of madness which renders those who are under the influence

of it very mischievous, and so lost to all sense of decency and propriety as to become objects of horror and aversion.

The pleasing flow of spirits that is excited by coffee has none of these baneful effects.

Instead of irritating the mind and exciting to acts of violence, it calms every turbulent and malevolent passion, and is accompanied by a consciousness of ease, contentment, and good-will to all men, which is very different from that wild joy and unbridled licentiousness which accompanies intoxication.

Coffee is not only very wholesome, but when sweetened with sugar is very nourishing.

Sugar is supposed to be the most nourishing substance known. Its nourishing powers are even such that the use of it has been recommended in fattening cattle.

—, a physician

An ingenious young man, Doctor who resided in London, made a long course of experi ments on himself several years ago, with a view to determine the relative nutritive powers of those substances which are most commonly used as food by mankind; and he found that sugar was more nourishing than any other substance he tried.

He took no other food for a considerable time than sugar, and drank nothing but water; and he contrived. to subsist on a surprisingly small quantity of sugar. If my memory does not fail me, it was no more than two ounces a day.

It is much to be lamented that this interesting young man should have fallen a sacrifice to his zeal in promoting useful science; but his health was so totally deranged by these experiments, which he pursued with