46s Intelligence atid Miscellaneous Articles. 



of hydrostatics, and'' the fourth of pneumatics. In these 

 four books the subjects are prosecuted as far as could be 

 dqne without introducing the fluxional calculus ; but to 

 render the work of more general utility, and to accommo- 

 date students in the higher classes, a fifth book is added, 

 ill which several branches in the preceding books are very 

 much extended. The work wilt be comprised in one oc- 

 tavo volume, and will be accompanied by thirteen copper- 

 plates. 



M.ViBOUG, professor in the Royal Veterinary School, in 

 Sweden, has published a dissertation " On the use of the 

 flesh of horses/' — The publication of this paper has had 

 the effect of introducing: the use of this article as food 

 throughout Sweden, and the butchers' shops are now sup- 

 plied with the carcases of horses, in addition to those of 

 oxen. M. Viborg assures his readers, that the flesh of those 

 animals, when roasted, is preferable to that of oxen. 



LXXI. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles, 



DE LUC'S ELTXTRIC COLUMN. 



J- HE small bells noticed in our last three numbers, still 

 continued to ring on the 25th instant (June), as they had 

 done since the 23th of March, without being known to 

 have once ceased ringing. We are happy to be enabled to 

 add, that those who wish to possess electric columns, fitted 

 up in the form of rod.-^, as described in our number for March 

 last, may obtain them of Mr. Blunt, optician, Cornhill. 



The success of the several charitable institutions for the 

 relief of the indigent blind, has suggested the humane idea 

 of bringing forward, for the equal relief of their opulent 

 brethren in this country, a plan, similar to that by which 

 M. Haiiy, in Paris, taught them, several years ago, reading, 

 writing, arithmetic, music, and the rudiments of the 

 sciences generally. 



LOCUSTS. 



Rome, 29th May, 181C. 



For some days past crowds of people, excited by curio- 

 sity^ have been thronging the b'anks of the Tiber to wit- 

 ness a singular phaenomenon. A wind from Africa has 

 brought into these countries an immense swarm of locusts. 

 These insects, having wasted the country, and now unable 

 to find subsistence, have waged war among themselves, and 

 devour each other. The weaker party take flight, and, pur- 

 sued 



