Guthrie,'  the  editor  says,  p.  92,  v.  xxi :

"  '  I  add  a  notice  of  the  following  facts,  communicated  by
Mr.  Guthrie  in  his  letters,  not  for  publication,  but  which  I
conceive  are  honorable  to  the  rising  chemical  arts  of  this
country.  I  presume  it  was  little  suspected  that  such  things
were  doing  in  a  remote  region  on  the  shore  of  Lake  Ontario.'

'"  Mr.  Guthrie's  method  of  preparing  it  (chloric  ether)  is
ingenious,  economical  and  original.'     Ibid.,  p.  69.
"'The  above  notices  (Pure  Oil  of  Turpentine  and  the
manufacture  of  Chlorate  of  Potassa),  as  matters  of  fact,  will
probably  be  interesting  to  the  chemical  public  of  this  coun-
try.'    Ibid.,  p.  93.
" '  Mr.  Guthrie's  preparations  have  all  arrived,  and  although
I  reserve  the  trial  of  most  of  them,  to  my  winter  course  of
experiments,  I    am   impressed    with   admiration  both  at  his


.J


OLD  HOMESTEAD— SACKET'S  HARBOR,  N.  Y.
Residence  of  Dr.  Samuel  Guthrie  at  the  time  of  the  discovery  of  chloroform.  The  old  home-
stead is  in  an  excellent  state  of  preservation.  At  the  right  of  the  house  there  still  stands  a  large  red
cedar  gate  post,  which  guarded  the  passageway  to  the  laboratory.  The  laboratory  stood  on  the  bank
of  a  brook  about  five  hundred  feet  in  the  rear,  and  which  was  built  almost  in  the  shadow  of  a  pine
forest  (see  map  of  Sacket's  Harbor,  next  page),  has  long  since  gone  to  decay  :  but  around  the  old  site
are  scattered  powdered  charcoal  and  fragments  of  glass  from  broken  retorts,  to  mark  the  spot  where
that  historic  structure  stood.
