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health of the inhabitants, but to bleach- 
ers, dyers, and other manufacturers, are 
duly considered, we cannot doubt that it 
will be adopted in all future undertakings 
for supplying towns with water. Hither- 
to all branches of manufacture connected 
with the use of water have been obliged 
to be carried to the water, and the neces- 
sary bands along with them, and much ex- 
pence for carriage and extra labour has 
been added to the price. But, should 
this system become general, manufac- 
tures will be carried on where the neces- 
ary supply of labourers can be most easi- 
‘dy procured, and the goods find the most 
ready market. 
The Rev. Dr. Rees, the Jearned editor 
ef the New Cyclopedia, has, at length, 
yielded to the repeated requests of hisnu- 
merous and respectable congregation, by 
putting to press two volumes of Sermons, 
on practical and interesting subjects. 
‘They will be published early in the 
spring. 
. The-Rev. Russert Scott, of Ports- 
mouth, has in the press a Sermon on the 
New Creation by Jesus Christ. 
A volume of Letters from Bishop War- 
BURTON, to the late Bishop of Worces- 
ter, between the years 1749 and 1776, is 
in the press. They were left for publi- 
cation by the late Bishop Hurd, with the 
title of, Letters trom a late eminent Pre- 
Jate to one of his Friends. 
Mr. Tuomas Newenuam, author of 
an Inguiry into the Progress and Magni- 
tude of Ireland, is about to publish a 
View of the Natural, Political, and Com- 
mercial circumstances of that country. 
Mr. R. H. Cromex has collected an 
octavo volume of Reliques, of Ropert 
Burns, consisting chiefly of letters, 
poems, and critical observations on 
Scottish songs, and they will speedily 
make their appearance. 
Dr. Reip will commence his spring 
course of Lectures on the Theory and 
Practice of Medicine, on Monday the 23d 
of January, at nine o’clock in the morn- 
ing, at his house, Grenville-street, Bruns- 
wick-square. ‘he course will be conti- 
nued on Mondays, Wednesdays, and 
Fridays, at the same hour. 
On Monday, the 14th of last month, 
an Anthem was performed at the music- 
school, Oxford, before the vice-chancel- 
Jor, and heads of colleges, composed by 
Mr. Jutray Busny, son of Dr. Busby, 
as an Exercise for the degree of Ba- 
chelor in Music, and which afforded the 
highest gratification to the learned audi- 
tory, Mr. J. Bisby is, we understand, 
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Luterary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
[Dec. 3, 
the youngest candidate by several years 
that has ever received that academical 
honvur from either of our universities. 
Mr. Writram SkRIMSHIRE, Jun. has 
made some observations on the fecala of, 
potatoes, and some other/ British vegeta- 
bles, which, during the present high price 
of bread, seem particularly worthy of at- 
tention. One thousand grains of the for- 
mer roots yielded 111 grains of fine white 
fecula, when perfectly dry, which he re- 
commends not only as the mast economi- 
cal means of fattening cattle and pigs, 
but also as a very palatable and nutri- 
tious food for man. This fecula, which 
is generally known to laundresses by the 
name of potatue starch, is obtained by the 
process which they employ. Formed m- 
tosmall cakes, and dried in the open air, 
or by a gentle heat, this preparation will 
keep for many years. When the fecula 
and pulp are mixed together, and thus 
prepared, half an ounce of it will, says 
Mr. Skrimshire, gelatinize so large a 
quantity of boiling water as to afford a 
sufficient meal for any labouring person in 
health. It may be sweetened either with 
molasses or sugar; or being boiled with 
an onion of pot-herbs, and seasoned with 
pepper and salt, it will make a very pala- 
table, wholesome, and nutritious soup. 
If this preparation be boiled with milk, 
sweetened with sugar, aud flavoured with 
a little wine or spice, it forms the-most 
nourishing and restorative food that can 
possibly be administered to the sick aud 
convalescent. From the ease with which 
it is digested, it is peculiarly adapted to 
the impaired organs of the debauchee, 
and the feeble powers of infaney.. With 
a larger proportion of the preparation, a 
stiff jelly may be formed, which, acidu- 
lated with lemon-juice, or any other vege~ 
table acid, becomes the best domestic re- 
medy that cay be employed in every spe- 
cies of sorethroat. ‘The pure fecula, the 
author asserts, will be found superior in 
every respect to salep, saga, arrow-root, 
or any of the vegetable preparations of 
that kind, which have been so pompously 
advertised and recommended to the pub- 
lic by persons interested in the sale of 
them. Another use to which Mr. Skrim-. 
shire has applied potatoes, is likewise 
worthy of notice: —* 1 have frequently 
formed a very grateful and nutritious be- 
verage (says he) from potatoes sliced, 
roasted to a coffee colour, then ground in 
amill, and mixed witha sixteenth of its 
weight of the best Turkey coffee.” The 
other vegetable productions on which 
Mr, Skriwshire has made experiments, 
are’ 
