of that spoil which led them to make the same sacrifices you have done.

I shall, however, take the most favourable view of the picture, and suppose that your endeavours are crowned with success ;-that you have in the course of 20 years acquired a large fortune, and return to your native country with the approbation of your employers, and your constitution unimpaired;-your mind filled with the recollection of the happiness of your early years, and of those friends who contributed most towards it; and your thoughts occupied with plans of future gratifications, which you look for in the enjoyment of your fortune, in the society of such friends.

Alas! how miserably will you be disappointed!-you will find that those friends have transferred their affections to other objects; you will find them surrounded with affectionate wives and lovely children, while your dusky progeny are with reluctance admitted to a seat at their hospitable boards, and that only as it were by stealth, when they have no other company.

In place of finding yourself surrounded by slaves and dependants, devoted to your will, as in India, you will find yourself in the society of men ;-men, who, if they are not so rich as yourself, will consider themselves as independent, and who are conscious that in their exertions to improve their own fortunes, they have contributed, in a greater degree than you have done, to promote the prosperity and interest of Great Britain; that in the prosecution of their respective employments, they have given bread to many of her subjects, and have suggested many useful improvements in her laws, her agriculture, her trade, and her manufactures; that they have presented her with children entitled to all the privileges of society, and whose nervous arms will contribute to secure to themselves and their fellow-citizens the enjoyment of these advantages.

In this statement of things, I have put the situation of your mother and myself out of the question. It is true all the fond expectations we have formed of happiness from an intercourse with you throughout life, we must give up for the cold satisfaction of receiving a yearly letter from you, containing, perhaps, the accounts of the increase of your fortune, and the escapes you have made from the dangers that accompanied the attainment of it. Long ere you can revi

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your native country, our gray hairs will be laid in that dark and silent mansion from whence there is no return: When have reflected on what I now write to you, I shall be glad to have your final determination. If you persist in your desire of going to India, I shall write to your uncle, whose best offices in your behalf I know will not be wanting; if, on the other hand, you wish to employ your talents at home, there is a wide field for industry and exertion, whether you incline to enter into any of the learned professions, or apply yourself to commerce or manufactures, I can assure you the advantages to be reaped. from either are fully sufficient to recompence your labours.

I am, &c.

(Signed) A. F.

ACCOUNT OF THE MINERAL WATERS OF
GLENTIRRAN.

To the Publishers of the Cheap Magazine. HAVING in one of your late Magazines observed an

account of the waters of PITCAITHLY, it has occurred to me that some account of those above-mentioned, which are similar to the other in their nature and effects, will not be without its use; and will at least have the effect of making known WELLS, which, if they are not yet distinguished by any charitable or benevolent institution con

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nected with them, as those of Pitcaithly are, can lay claim to several distinguished cures.

The GLENTIRRAN WELLS are situated on the brink, and in the channel of the small rivulet Boquhan, which divides the parish of Kippen from that of Gargunnock.. There are three different places at which the waters make their appearance above the surface. One of these, and the one that springs most copiously, is in the very channel of the rivulet above-mentioned; the other two are in its. immediate vicinity; one about three yards from the former, just where the bank and the channel of the rivulet at its greatest extent meet; the other is situated about six yards from the rivulet, and about ten, in a northern direction, from the first of those described above. A fourth, which is said to be equally copious and powerful with any of those above-mentioned has never been seen by your correspondent, and is situated on the banks, or in the bed of the river Forth, about two hundred or three hundred yards from the others.

The medicinal effects of these waters seem to be the same as of those of Pitcaithly, in scrophulous and scorbutic habits. The qualities ascribed to those of Cheltenham, may with equal justice be affirmed of the springs at Glentirran— of being gentle in their operation, having an agreeable effect in relieving the stomach of cruditics, &c. Great quantities have been drunk without injury. One very prominent quality in this water, and not hitherto published of any of the others, so far as known to your correspondent, is its great lightness. Upon a comparison of one mutchkin of it, with the same quantity of common spring water, it required a silver tea-spoon, (perhaps 12 dwt.) and five shillings in silver, making a weight of about 1 oz. Troy, to make the mineral equal in weight to the other. It ought however to be mentioned, that the weight

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of equal quantities of Pitcaithly and Glentirran waters exactly agree. The most apparent chemical substance entering into these waters seems to be lime.

The wells here described, are situated about a mile from the village of Kippen, about two miles and a half from Gargunnock, and half a mile from the Stirling and Dumbarton turnpike, where it crosses the burn of Boquhan. Kippen, October 7th, 1813.

J. A.

RULES AND REGULATIONS To be observed by MOTHERS and NURSES.—By Th. N. R. (Continued from p. 88.)

ON THE FOOD OF INFANTS.

THE wisest maxim in treating infants, is to follow the simple dictates of nature; yet some people withhold the food provided for them by unerring providence, and give them wine, spirits, spices, sugar, and many things that the stomach of a puny grown up man or woman would reject. The first milk a baby can squeeze from his mother's breast is medicine and nourishment for him, and if she is too ill to bestow it, he would be more safe in allowing him to sleep three or four hours to wait her recovery, than in giving him any aliment. If he seems to crave it, mix two tea-spoon fulls of milk, warm from the cow, with four tea-spoon fulls of soft boiled water, and give him half a tea-spoon full at a time, a little warm-but observe, his mouth cannot bear so much heat as your own; and at all times the utmost care will be necessary to avoid hurting his gums, when feeding him. His mess should be cooled by little and little, in a saucer, and it should be given to him in a small spoon, only half filled, which will save his clothes from being dirtied, and keep his bosom dry. Let him swallow one little portion, before you offer another, and raise his head that it may pass the gullet easily. Never entice, nor press him to take more, if he once refuses it. He knows best when he has enough, and if you make him exceed, you tease him, and may perhaps disorder VOL. II.

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his stomach, or train him to gluttony.

By forcing his appe

tite you will deprive him of calm sleep, which is as necessary for his growth as food.

As soon as he can have his mother's milk, no other sustainance will be wanting if she is a good nurse. If there should be the least doubt of her having milk enough, the child may have cow's milk mixed with two-thirds of soft boiled water presented to his lips very frequently; but he never should be urged to accept it.

Asses milk is lighter than cow's milk, and requires only one third part of water. Goat's milk is next best, and takes an equal quantity of water. If milk cannot be had, a teaspoon full of the yolk of a fresh egg, well beaten, and mixed with five tea-spoon fulls of soft boiled water, will supply the place of milk. A piece of the lean of well-fed veal, three inches square, and one inch in thickness, will make coup for a baby for two or three days; and no rich family would refuse it to the poor, if the mother is sick, and cannot yet suckle the little one. Only half the meat should be boiled at once, in two gills of soft water, till one-third of the water is consumed. Strain the soup, and set it to cool. When cold take off the scum, and pour the clear liquor from the sediment. Warm a little for use, as it is wanted. Any lean fresh meat will do; but veal or the flesh of young animals is best, If that cannot be had, a thin gruel made from rice, or fine pot barley, or shelled oats, will do. Some attentive ladies with their own hands, offer some milk and water every two hours to their baby, to guard him from the dreadful fate of perishing for want of sufficient nutriment-A fate to which the heirs of affluence are more exposed, than the infant who is cherished in a cottage at his mother's bosom. How attrocious is the guilt of a nurse who conceals her want of milk, and for base, selfish ends, can endure to see a defenceless innocent pining for want, or crammed with unwholesome food. Mothers should often represent this to their girls, charging them never to conceal, or to do any thing as servants, that they would fear to make known to the whole world. More especially, neither to withhold, nor give to a

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