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volume of Domesday Book; and has a 
volume nearly ready for the press, which 
comprises the counties of Middlesex, 
Herts, Bucks, Oxon, and Gloucester. 
The remaining volumes, five in number, 
will be published in due succession; as 
will also the counties of Essex, Suffolk, 
and Norfolk, which are comprised in the 
smaller volume of the original. 
Dr. Kemp's second course. of lectures 
at the Russell Institution, on music, will 
‘commence at the rooms of the Insti- 
tution, on Monday evening, the 22d inst. 
at eight o’clock; the remaining lectures 
on each succeeding Monday, ull the 
course is completed. 
FRANCE. ‘ 
Messrs. A. Porreau and P. Turpin, 
have commenced a work of greatinterest 
to the French botanist, entitled, Flora 
Parisiensis, containing a description of 
the plants which grow natarally in the 
environs of Paris. 
M. Watckenarr is engaged on a 
Natural History of Spiders, which will 
€xtend to $00 plates, designed, engraved, 
and coloured, by the most celebrated ar- 
tists of Paris, and accompanied by de- 
scriptions in Latin, French, English, and 
German. 
According toa report made by Messrs. 
Deyeux and Thenard to the first class of 
the [ustitute, M. Zanetts has discovered 
a mode ef extracting from inaize a very 
fine syrup, the flavour of which is com- 
parable, in every respect, to the syrup 
made from the sugar-cane, Tustead of 
pressing, as had heretofore been at- 
tempted, the entire stalk of the maize, 
M. Zanetti removes the leaves and the 
external skin, so that he submits to the 
pressure only that portion of the vege- 
table which contains the most saccharine 
matter. M. Zanetti has also proved 
according to the same report, that the 
syrup of maize is susceptille of passing 
into the vinous fermentation,, and that 
by distillation may be obtained from it 
an excellent alcohol, little.or not at all 
diferent from that obtained from mo- 
Jasses which has been subjected to fer- 
mentation. 
A person of Verdun has discovered a 
method of producing an imitation of 
Chinese tea, by heating the leaves of 
_ the hora-beam in anew earthen vessel, 
placed in the midst of boiling water, tll 
they have acquired a brown bue, lighter 
or darker at pleasure. They are then 
scented by being placed in a bos, toge-, 
ther with the rout of the Florence irss in 
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powder, for several days; after which | 
they may be used as tea. The imitation 
is said to be so. perfect as te deceive 
persons not previously informed. 
M. Sacer, -has lately stated in a me~ 
tnoir read to the national institute, at 
Paris, the efficacy of fluor volatile 
alkali, in cases of severe apoplexy. 
«< For at least forty years,” says he, I have 
had opportunities of witnessing the effi- 
cacy of volatile alkali, taken internally, 
as an immediate remedy for the apo- 
plexy, if employed on the first appear- 
ance of the disease. One of the keep- 
ers of my cabinet, aged 72 years, robust, 
though thin, and very sedate, was seized, 
while fasting, with an apoplexy. ‘He 
fell down deprived of sense. When 
raised up he had the rattles in his throat 
his eyes were closed, his face pallid, an 
his‘ teeth fixed together. I drew out 
his under lip so as to answer the purpose 
of a Spout, into which was poured a 
spoonful of water, containing 25 or 30 
drops of fluor volatile alkali, At the 
same time two slips of paper, the edges 
of which were wetted with volatile alka- 
li, were introduced into his nostrils. The 
teeth were speedily separated, and the 
eyes opened. A second dose of alkali 
was instantly poured down the throat. 
The rattles ceased ; speech arid recollec- 
tion returned, In the course of an hour 
the patient recovered sufficient strength 
to’ proceed without assistance about 
three hundred paces to his own cham- 
ber. In another hour he got up, asked, 
for something to eat, and has since ex- 
perienced no return of the disorder.” 
lle reports another instance in the per- 
son of one of his friends, who was a 
great eater, and was struck with the 
apoplexy while at table. ‘ The volatile, 
alkali excited a vomiting, and after that 
had abated, the patient tock twenty’ 
drops of volatile alkali in half a glass, 
of wine. His senses returned, and in, 
two hours he was able to walk in his 
garden.” ; 
A premium of a million of livres 
was ofiered by the FRENCH GOVERNMENT, 
in May last, to the inventor of thé best 
machine for spinning thread.—1. To 
spin thread for woof and warp, proper 
to be made into a piece equal in fineness, 
to muslin made with cotton thread, 
No. 400,000 metres; corresponding to 
No. 164,008 ells to the pound weight. 
‘The method of obtaining thread of this 
fineness, must be’such .as to effect a sa~ 
ving of eighteteuths of spinning by 
hand, 
