3 1 6 Native Magnesia. — Meteoric Sio?ics. — Coffee, 



" No, father, they won't bite; they only eat the bread I 

 give them." 



NATIVE MAGNESIA. 



Although magnesia enters into the composition of many 

 mineral substances, yet its existence in the mineral king- 

 dom, in an uucombined state, has, till within these lew 

 years, been unknown. 



At Hoboken, in New Jersey, on the estate of Mr. John 

 Stevens, is found a mineral which, agreeably to the experi- 

 ments of Professor Bruce, of New Jersey, contains in the 

 hundred parts, 



Magnesia 70 



Water of crystallization 30 



100, 



SHOWER OF METEORIC STONES IN NORTH AMERICA. 



Raleigh, New Connecticut, March 1, 1810. 



On Tuesday, the 30th of January last, at two o'clock 

 P.M. there was a fall of meteoric stones in Caswell county. 

 Their descent was seen for a considerable distance round, 

 and two reports distinctly heard at Hillsborough, a distance 

 of 50 miles. — A fragment weighing a pound and three 

 quarters struck a tree in the new ground of a Mr. Taylor, 

 r.ear where some woodcutters were at work, who, appre- 

 hending the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, ran home with- 

 out once looking behind them. Encouraged, however, by 

 a woman, whose curiosity was superior to her fears, they 

 returned with her to the place, and brought away the stone, 

 which was still hot. We understand that Governor„Williams 

 of the Mississippi territory, now in Rockingham, intends 

 sending it to the Chemical Society in New York to be 

 analysed: it is, he informs us, of a dark brown colour, 

 porous, and probably contains iron. 



COFFEE. 



A foreign journal announces that a M. Bamas, a cloth- 

 manufacturer in the department of the Seine and Marne, 

 has succeeded in growing coffee in France. He sowed 

 some Mocha coffee, and obtained a produce of about 15 

 pounds of beans possessing the proper flavour and form. 

 Perhaps the most important circumstance attending this 

 experiment was his neither employing a green -hou<e nor 

 glass frames, nor any unusual shelter, but simply preparing 

 the soil with some care. 



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