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Works of Sir Walter Scott, bart. from 

 original pictures by R. Sniirke, r.a. 



The Popiilnr Superstitions and Fes- 

 tive Aniiisemenls of llie Highlanders 

 of Scotland, will soon be published. 



The second portion, comprising the 

 Sea Songs of England, is in the press, 

 of a Series of the Loyal and National 

 Songs of England, for one, two, and 

 three, voices, selected from original 

 manuscripts, and early-printed copies 

 in the library of William Kitchiner, 

 M.n. 



Mr. Wiffen is engaged upon a 

 translation of the Works of Garcilasso 

 de la Vega, surnamed the " Prince of 

 Castilian Poets ;" with a critical and 

 historical Essay on Spanish Poetry, 

 and a life of the author. 



Durazzo, a tragedy, in five acts, by 

 James Haynes, will speedily appear. 



Mr. Lawson, of Crooms-hill, in Kent, 

 has found the average depth of rain 

 caught there at four feet above the sur- 

 face, in the last six years, to average 

 25"flq inches : the least annual depth 

 being 23 27 in 1820, and the greatest 

 .3M4 in 1821. The evaporation at the 

 same place and height of four feet, 

 averaged 22"36 inches in the same six 

 years ; the least annual depth was 

 19-63, in 1820; falling short of the 

 least depth of rain (as above mention- 

 ed) 364 inches, and the greatest eva- 

 poration was 2706, in 1818, when the 

 anomalous circumstance occurred of 

 the rain being the least, by 2*81 inches. 

 It was perhaps less anomalous or un- 

 common, that in the rainy year 1821, 

 the depth of the same exceeded the 

 evaporation by 10"64 inches ; while the 

 annual average of this excess in the six 

 years, was only 3"59 inches. Mr. Law- 

 son's weekly average of rain and eva- 

 poration in 1822, are inserted in the 

 " Philosophical Magazine ;" whence it 

 appears, that the greatest weekly eva- 

 poration occurred last year in the be- 

 ginning of June, and amounted to 1-28 

 inches, out of 23'34, the year's amount: 

 it was decidedly lowest during Decem- 

 ber and the two first weeks of January, 

 averaging in these six weeks about 

 •06 inches weekly. The weekly mean 

 evaporation of '45 inches, was attained 

 about the first week in April, and the 

 variations from such mean were not 

 considerable, in about a month which 

 preceded, and another which followed. 

 The same mean was also attained 

 about the end of September, with no 

 very decided variation therefrom, in 

 the preceding and following months : 



[May 1, 



so that, during almost one-third of the 

 year, the evaporation continued nearly 

 stationary at its annual mean : only 

 twice in the year did it exceed on« 

 inch in a week. 



The Geography, History, and Sta- 

 tistics, of America and the West In- 

 dies, as originally published in the 

 American Atlas of Messrs. Carey and 

 Lea, of Philadelphia; are reprinting 

 in this country, in one volume octavo, 

 with much additional matter relative 

 to the new states of South America, 

 and accompanied with several maps, 

 charts, and views ; so as to concen- 

 trate, under the above heads, a greater 

 fund of information respecting the 

 Western Hemisphere than has hitherto 

 appeared. 



Mrs. HoLDERNESs has in the press a 

 volume, entitled New Russia; being 

 some account of the colonization of 

 that country, and of the manners and 

 customs of the colonists. To which is 

 added, a brief detail of a journey over 

 land from Riga to the Crimea, by way 

 of Kieo ; accompanied with notes on 

 the Crira Tatars. 



Mr. Oliver, surgeon, has in the 

 press, and will publish in April, Popu- 

 lar Observations upon Muscular Con- 

 traction, with his mode of treatment of 

 diseases of the limbs associated there- 

 with. 



The second edition of the Pictu- 

 resque Promenade round Dorking, in 

 Surrey, with numerous engravings, 

 will be published early in May. 



Early in June will be published, a 

 Funeral Oration on General Dumou- 

 rier ; with considerations on the ex- 

 traordinary events of his life. 



Dr. Shaw's " Nature Displayed," 

 and " Atlas of Nature," will certainly 

 appear about the middle of May ; and 

 Mr. Mackenzie's Collection of Five 

 Thousand Receipts in all the Social 

 and Domestic Arts (except ordinary 

 cookery), will appear early in June. 



Shortly will appear, the Forest Min- 

 strel, and other Poems, by William 

 and Mary Howitt. 



Mr. Rutter's work on Fonthill Ab- 

 bey, is nearly ready for publication, 

 and will be illustrated by an interest- 

 ing series of highly-finished engrav- 

 ings. 



Dr. William Burney, of the Naval 

 Academy, Gosport, from a register 

 kept of the heat of spring-water in his 

 well, at eight o'clock each morning of 

 the year, infers, that the mean heat of 

 the surface of the earth at Gosport, in 



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