1821.] 



Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 



Dr. Forbes, of Penzance, is prepar- 

 ing for publication a Translation of M . 

 Laennec's late work on the Pathology 

 and Diagnosis of Diseases of the Chest. 



A view of the Stiuctiire, Functions, 

 and Disorders of the Stomach and Ali- 

 mentary Organs of the Human Body, 

 with Physiological Observations and 

 Remarks upon the qualities and effects 

 of food and fermented liquors, by 

 Thomas Hare, F.L.S. &c. will soon 

 be published. 



In the course of the month will ap- 

 pear, from the pen of a favourite writer, 

 a satirical novel, entitled " Money 

 Raising ; or, a Day in Cork Street,"' 

 containing sketches of character of 

 many sprigs of nobility and fashion, 

 interspersed with original letters from 

 Lor<Is A—, B— , F— . H— , K— , IM— . 

 W— , ike. &c. 



An individual, actuated by a com- 

 passionate regard for the sufferings of 

 the Brute Species, and lamenting, in 

 common with every feeling mind, the 

 wanton cruelties which are so fre- 

 quently exercised with impunity on this 

 unoffending part of God's creatures, 

 earnestly appeals to the public, in their 

 behalf. He repeats the suggestion of 

 the formation of a Society, by whose 

 united exertions, some check may, if 

 practicable, be applied to au evil which 

 disgraces the country, and is equally 

 repugnant to the dictates of humanity, 

 and to the benevolent spirit and pre- 

 cepts of the Christian religion. Per- 

 sons whose sentiments accord with those 

 of the writer on this subject, and who 

 are willing to promote the cause be 

 recommends, are requested to address 

 a few lines (postage free) toClericus, 25, 

 Ivy-lane, Paternoster-row, or to the 

 Olficeof this Magazine. 



It has long been a desideratum with 

 engineers and numerous scientific men, 

 to obtain with tolerable precision the 

 heights of numerous places in the in- 

 terior of our island, above low-water 

 mark, on its coasts ; with a view to sup- 

 plying data for removing this defect, a 

 number of gentlemen, possessed of good 

 barometers, have concerted to make 

 careful and corresponding observations 

 at the hours of 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 on 

 the forenoon of every second Monday 

 of the month, and to communicate the 

 same to the Editor of the Philosophical 

 Magazine, accompanied in the first 

 instance, by the result of a careful le- 

 velling with a spirit level, either from 

 the low-water mark, if residing on the 

 coast, or froiu the nearest canal, or 



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bridge or wharf on a river, or fiora the 

 nearest well-defined top of a hill, &c. 

 if residing in the interior, to the mercu- 

 rial basin of their barometer ; the state 

 of an attached and detached thermo- 

 meter being noted at each hour, with 

 the direction and strength of the wind 

 and other atmospheric appearances, 

 will, it is hoped, when these simulta- 

 neous observations shall have been 

 greatly multiplied, throw much light 

 on the causes of local and temporary 

 variations in the atmospheric pressure, 

 which hitherto have puzzled meteorolo- 

 gical observers. 



A practical and experimental culti- 

 vator of Kent, Major-Gen. Beatson, 

 has addressed his plan to the farmers 

 of the three kingdoms, and has made 

 an estimate of his expense, in cropping 

 29 acres of wheat, at Knowle Farm, in 

 which he states that his rent and taxes, 

 at 30s. per acre, with seed, labour, and 

 manure, on these 29 acres, in 6 fields, 

 amount to 1061. 14s. ; the quantity of 

 seed at 31| bushels ; and calculating 

 the produce at only 20 bushels an acre, 

 and to sell for only 121. a load, his pro- 

 duce vvill he 1741. leaving a balance of 

 fijl. <>s. ; but as a part of this land was 

 not manured this season, the allowance 

 should be made for the manuring of 

 the whole in this method ; which would 

 then cost 14IJ1. 2s. 6d. or 40s. a quarter 

 for his produce, instead of 80s., the 

 cost of wheat, as fixed by the Com 

 Committee in 1815. This expense of 

 less than 51. an acre differs from the ge- 

 neral expense of cropping an acre of 

 wheat in Sussex, which has beea 

 shewn to be 161. 4s.; and from Mr. 

 James Buxton's evidence to theHouseof 

 Commons in 1SI5, in three statements, 

 of 141. 15s. lid. per acre, for Essex. 

 The expeuce of labour in pulverising 

 stiff laud, on Gen. Beatson' s plan, is 

 10s. Id. to lis. 4d. per acre. The cost 

 of manuring, by his method of burning 

 or roasting the stubble and clay, is 11. 

 per acre ; by the old Sussex method is 

 71. 10s., and in Essex 31. — All the 

 operations of his new implement of 

 cultivation, are performed by one horse, 

 and will work three acres a day. The 

 effect counted on from this process, is 

 its great economy with equal produce, 

 from the combined operation of the 

 calcined soil as manure, and from a 

 fine pulverisation of (he earth as in gar- 

 dens. — In using clay, ashes, or the 

 calcined soil instead of dung, there is 

 less chance of filling the arable lands 

 with weeds. 



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