text:  Thou preservest our horses from flies our fruit from birds; and who has not felt how thou cheerest the weary length of continental travelling by the crack of thy whipcord at the approach of a new relay? Here our friend _Anamnesis_ seemed fatigued as if he thought he had spun a sufficiently _long yarn_ on the subject; so we prevailed on him to prosecute the walk as evening was beginning to close in--not indeed without apprehension that he would make a stand at several other interesting plants on which it might suit him to prelect! Hemp when cut is left to dry for a week; it is then immersed for an other week in water; after which it is flayed of its skin--a process which is conducted either by the hand leaving the stem in this case entire; or by subjecting the whole plant to a bruising process conducted by a machine