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injuring, the reptiles havea sort of at- 
tachment for their master. He makes 
no secret of a remedy for their bite; 
first washing the mouth with warm oil, 
and after sucking the bite, drinking 
abundantly a decoction of serpentary 
root, till it operates as an emetic, after 
which there is nothing to fear. M. 
Neale, haif opening the mouths of his 
serpents, shews their venomous fangs. 
They adhere to the upper jaw, are two 
in number, on each side, and if plucked 
out, grow again. They are sharp point- 
ed, curved backwards, and inclining to- 
wards the throat, when the animal is 
not making use of them. The venom 
issues from a little vesicle that adheres 
to the root of the tooth. In summer, 
these animals drop their skin every two 
months. Every. year, except the first, 
they acquire a new corneated or horny 
rattle. It is but seldom that they shake 
them, and never, unless provoked, or 
when they would fix the attention of 
their prey, especially if volatile animals. 
as birds and squirrels. A sort of charm 
has been attributed to the rattlesnake. 
The effects are fully verified by M. N., 
but he.considers them as produced by 
apprehension and terror. In his own 
garden, and by his own serpents, he has 
seen the victim dropping, from rock to 
rock, and from branch to branch, till 
seized by its. terrible assailant. "The 
breath of the rattlesnake is not fetid, as 
is currently reported. M.N. has tamed 
serpents, of all kinds, and they all rea- 
dily obey him. 
GERMANY. 
The following exhibits the population 
respectively of the seven principal states — 
of the German Confederation, as taken 
from the latest lists in the archives of 
the Diet: Austria, 9,482,277; Prus- 
sia, 7,953,341; Bavaria, 3,523,000; Sax- 
ony, 1,203, 000; Hanover, «1,305,351 ; 
Wurtemburg, i. 3095,462 ; ‘and Baden, 
1,002,000. 
M. de Lang has lately published, at 
Munich, a “ Digest of the Bavarian His- 
tory,” volime ‘the Ist, by direction of 
the minister, M. de Montgelaz. All the 
archives of the state were placed in his 
custody ; and documents to which Lud- 
wig and many. others sought access in 
vain, have been explored. Herein titles 
and monuments, from the eighth century 
to the end of the sixteenth, appear in 
chronological order. The’ author makes 
three divisions, Bavarians, Allemanni, 
and Franconians. 
ply many chasms in the national annals, 
in family genealogies, lists of bishops, 
Literary and Miscellancous Intelligence. 
This ‘work will sup- - 
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abbots, public functionaries, &c. The 
first volume commences with the year 
773, and reaches to 1200. On this oc- 
casion, portals, locks, bars, were opened, 
and folds, long enveloped, which shrunk 
from investigation, pierced through: 
PRUSSIA. 
Construction of a Museum.—The king 
of Prussia has just granted more than 
half a million of crowns for the building 
of the new museum. It is imagined 
that the necessary labour for the erec- 
tion of this magnificent monument will 
last three or four years. The exe- 
cution of it is confided to the architect 
Schinkie. Among the subjects of art 
which are to be deposited there, is the 
fine collection of the paintings of Solly, 
which the Aulic Counsellor, Hirt, has 
just purchased for 100,000 crowns. 
HUNGARY. 
During the last three years, the pro- 
gress of literature, in Hungary, has been 
considerable. .The Zebchonge, or Alma- 
nack of the Muses for 1821, a work that 
has gained much credit, is rendered 
doubly interesting, from the circum- 
stances of country, so as to excite a sen- 
sation something like astonishment. It 
affords much curious information, and is 
comparable to the most. popular pro- 
ductions of the kind inGermany. There 
appeared in it a Translation of the 
Qdes of Horace; Travels in Italy ; va- 
rious poems of no ordinary kind, and 
the praiseworthy exertions of Baron 
Louis de Podmanitzky, in a novel after 
the French manner, replete with exalted 
sentiments, and affecting incidents. The 
Aurora, Hasai, or Patriotic Almanack, 
was first published two years ago, and is 
no less remarkable in the selection of 
its materials, the beauty of its engrav- 
ings, and the elegance ofits printing 
and binding. The Aurora of 1822, con- 
tained three musical compositions, which 
excite admiratiou by the chaste. and 
beautiful simplicity of their style and 
manner. 
SCANDINAVIA. 
M. Becken, of Copenhagen, who has 
published a journal of his recent travels 
in Sweden, observes, that out of the 
sixteen printing-offices in Stockholm, 
there is not one with two presses, and 
that most of the works which issue 
from them: are printed in half sheets. 
There are eight’ or nine booksellers’ 
shops,: but one only merits the name. 
It would be useless to inquire for any » 
work printed abroad, unless it has been 
some years upon sale. Provincial towns 
are still worse provided, without except-: 
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