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that the fhortnefs of their duration does 

 not always render it neceflTury to ha\ e 

 lecourfe to the agreeable ipccilic. 



It is not without finrere fatisfm^tioii 

 that the adnjirers of Gelfner's Mufc, and 

 the amiiteurs of the arts, will karn that 

 his family has engaged Ciiari.ls Wil- 

 riAM KcLBE, an eminent German en- 

 graver, to give to tfie public, at a mo- 

 derate price, a feiies of the beft land- 

 fcapes executed by (.iclfncr. That arrift 

 has obtained permillion of his patronufs, 

 the princefs of Delfau, to de\ote fonic 

 years to this purpofe at Zurich itfoif, 

 amidll the family and the friends of the 

 amiable poet. The firll number of this 

 work has recently made its tippenrance. 

 It contains four prints in large folio, re- 

 prefenting two of the bed pieces in wiitcr 

 colours in the collection of CJelfnei-'s wi- 

 dow, and two drawings in the cabinet of 

 the piincefs of DelVau. The two firll 

 are known by the titles of the Fifiiermcn 

 •and the Fountain in the Wood. Thefulj- 

 je6ts of the two others are paliornl Icenes 

 taken from the Idyls : Daphnis, and I'hil- 

 lis and Chloe. The execution proves 

 that the honourable talk of introducing 

 thefe performances to the notice of tlic 

 public could not be confided to abler 

 hands. M. Kolbe, deeply impreflcd with 

 the fpirit and the manner of liis model, 

 has rendered his conceptions with equiU 

 feeling and accuracy. 



An important fart with regard to the 

 theory of electricity, has recently been 

 difcovered by M. Bienvfnt'. By vary- 

 ing his experiments he bus found, in con- 

 tradiction to the received opinion, that 

 glafs and rofm produce the fame kind of 

 eWtricity, and that the diTcrence de- 

 pends upon the rubbers. With a cal"s 

 ikin he ele&ri/es an olectrophorus of ro- 

 fin, which manifcfts negative elec>ricity : 

 an electrophorus made of a piece of 

 glafs. and rubbed with a cat's fkiii, ma- 

 nifefts exa6tly the fame kind of eloctriritv 

 as that of rofm. Thisexperitueiit proves 

 that if the conductor of an electrical ma- 

 chine conftantly gives pofitivc elettricity, 

 the reafon lies in the morocco culhious, 

 which poficfs the property of developing 

 the eleth-icity of glais, which, received 

 on the conduetor, communicates to it a 

 pofitiv'e elet-tricity. To pro-ie this, he 

 fubftitutes cufliioiis of cat's ikin in their 

 flead ; the glafs is then negutivelv elec- 

 trized, and the condu<''{or furnilliinu; it 

 with the eleitricity it has loft, niauifelts a 

 negative electricity. 



The following receipt for keeping flies 

 out of apartments and itablcs, aiid driv- 



ing them away from horfes was fold, in a 

 fealed cover at the Leipfic Michaelmas 

 fair, at a high price, and had a very e\- 

 tenfive fale. Put into an eurtheu pot 

 half a pound of cantharidcs, an ounce 

 and a half of gourd feed ; motljcr-wort, 

 fadafras, root of the St. ,f ohn's wort, and 

 fpirit of ants, of each half an ounce : a 

 quarter of an ounce of orpiment, a good 

 handful of favin, the whole cut fmall or 

 refliiced to powder : clofe the pot lier- 

 nieticaily, luting the intedliccs of the 

 lid wirii rtour-pafte. After the contents 

 of the pot have boiled futhcicntly, take 

 it from the tire, and let it Hand 24- hours 

 in a cool place ; then uncover the pot, 

 and with a feather finear the frames of 

 the windows and doors, both of apart- 

 ments and (hibles, from which you are 

 delirons of keeping the Hies. A fingle 

 coat is futficient for the whole feafon ; 

 but if the rain (hould chance to take it 

 off, care mull be taken to renew it. The 

 fmell of this preparation, which is fcarce- 

 ly perceptible to man, is 16 iiil'upportable 

 to Hies that there is not a fmglc inftaiicc 

 of one having entered by an 'Spen win- 

 dow or door to which this liquid has been 

 ajiplied. To keep them away from 

 horfes, it is fufticient to bcfinear the har- 

 nefs, the girth, or the faddlc, with this 

 liquid. 



A fecond enlarged and revifed edition 

 of the valuable Xarrativeof a Tour in 

 England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, 

 by ProfeflTor Goftr., has appeared in Ger- 

 many. 



M. SciirTzr, who four years fince pub- 

 lifhed the third volume of his Holjlrinifihe 

 Idiulicon, has completed the fourth and 

 lali volume of thutwork. 



In the Scandinavian Literary Society 

 at Copenhagen, RI. Ninuiin,, fon of the 

 celebrated traveller of that name, recent- 

 ly made a memoir, in which he lliewod 

 how far the nations fubdued by the Ro- 

 mans mii:lit have maintait»ed or recovered 

 their independence. 



A fplendid edition of the Poetical 

 W"orks of the celebrated Sciiiller, with 

 plates, will fpcctlilv make its appearance, 



The worthy Abbe Maxn, who, as a 

 menilier of tlie academy of BrulTols, for- 

 merly \Mote various interjftiag treatfies, 

 and among the reft, a very interetting de- 

 fcription of that city, is about to pub- 

 li(h at X'icuna, a work entitled, Prin- 

 cipex Mctap/ii/Jique.i des Connoiljances it 

 den ctres. 



Stip.z is about to publidi Miiiffaire de 

 lint^rue gracee diulecth opus audum et 

 cmcndut u»t. 



Dr. 



