. Boston Thomsonian manual and lady's companion . now employed upon the bed ofthe river, the construction of dams, &c. : besides340 carts and 500 carpenters from provide for any deficiency of laborers, fourregiments of infantry are encamped in the neigh-borhood. This gigantic bridge will be erected on thesouth corner of the Delta, twenty-five miles fromCairo, just at the point where the Nile dividesinto two branches. It is intended to cut a sluiceto keep up the waters in winter and spring, andcanals are to be cut from the river to irrigatethe land. A railway, eleven miles in leng
. Boston Thomsonian manual and lady's companion . now employed upon the bed ofthe river, the construction of dams, &c. : besides340 carts and 500 carpenters from provide for any deficiency of laborers, fourregiments of infantry are encamped in the neigh-borhood. This gigantic bridge will be erected on thesouth corner of the Delta, twenty-five miles fromCairo, just at the point where the Nile dividesinto two branches. It is intended to cut a sluiceto keep up the waters in winter and spring, andcanals are to be cut from the river to irrigatethe land. A railway, eleven miles in length,has been commenced, to communicate betweenthe stone quarries of Motratum and the bridge, A bottle of fresh water, corked and let downthirty or forty feet into the sea, often comes upagain with the water saltish, although the corkis still in its place; the explanation being, thatthe cork when far down, is so squeezed as to al-low the water to pass in or out by its sides, buton rising resumes its former size. No. v.] AND LADYS COMPANION. 73. Purgatives should not be used in any case whatever. Theyare at variance with every principle of my system, as will beBeen by reference to the New Guide. They irritate the bowels,and destroy the equilibrium of the circulation, which we shouldalways endeavor to avoid. The sudden deaths of which we of-ten hear as occurring among the Thomsonians, are no doubtprincipally owmsr to the administration of cathartics. * * *Since my Asents have discarded the use of butternut and bitter-roiH they are mush more successful in their practice. Samuel Thomson. BOSTON, JANUARY 15, 1840. DR. THOMSONS GUIDE. In another part of this days paper will be founda letter signed An old Right Holder, and Friendto the Thomsonian cause, in which the writerwishes to know what the prospect is of Dr. Thom-sons Guide being revised. We would refer himto a communication-of the Drs. which was pub-lished in No. II. of the current volume of the Man-ual, where he will find the Do
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