Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



1824.] 



poet, is preparing a New Shepherd's 



Calendar. 



Dr. Darling is preparing a Prac- 

 tinal Treatise on Diseases of the Liver, 

 and on some of the Affections usually 

 denominated Bilious, comprising an 

 impartial estimate of the merits of the 

 nitro-muriatic-acid bath. 



Mr. IIayward has prepared a se- 

 cond edition of the Science of Horti- 

 culture, comprising a ))ractical system 

 for the management and training of 

 fruit-trees; to which are added, an 

 Essay on the Cultivation of the Pine- 

 Apple. 



The Ancient Poetry and Romances 

 of Spain, selected and translated, with 

 critical and historical remarks, by J. 

 BowRiNG, esq. will soon appear. 



A most extraordinary performance 

 in penmanship, has just been exe- 

 cuted by Mr. J. Beedell, of Ottery 

 St. Mary, Devonshire. The unrival- 

 led production is displayed on a sheet 

 of paper, four feet five inches and a- 

 Iialf by two feet six inches and a-half, 

 exhibiting upwards of forty different 

 kinds of writing, a map of the world, 

 with various characteristic and emble- 

 matical designs, an exact represocta- 

 tion of Ottery St. jMarj Church, the 

 roj'al arms richly adorned, with nu- 

 merous other ornaments, the vhole 

 surrounded by a most elaborately- 

 worked and elegant border. 



A second edition is nearly ready of 

 jVTr. Goodwin's Account of tlie various 

 Modes of Shoeing Horses. 



Letters to the Marquis of Lans- 

 down, on the reputed excess and de- 

 preciation of Bank notes, on the nature 

 and operations of coins, and on tiie 

 ctinscqucnces of the new metallic cur- 

 rency, are printing, by DB. Payne, esq. 



A late Calcutta journal contains the 

 following corrected heights of the 

 Himalaya mountains: — 



By till' Barometer. Feet. 



Sliatool Pass lD,5=i4 



Booreixlo Pass ih,09o 



Kcoobiimg Pass ...^... 18,418 



Pass between Suongniim and Manes 18,743 

 Bed of the .SutleJ under Beklnir • • 10,792 

 Highest hircli-forest near Soongnum 14,000 

 Highest rultivalion at Ijckhiir ••••13,000 



Top of Choor Monntain IS!, 1 13 



Station on Piiigeool Mountain ••••19,411 



Hifrlust niiihl-canip 18,1 '^<> 



Bckhur Village ■ • • .• - • 12,07f; 



Nako • 12,003 



Shipki 2<»,.')97 



Sliealknr Fort 10,103 



Hiitlon, or W'liartuu ^ 10,(io6 



l63 



Aminonites found at 16,000 



Highest sandstone 16,700 



Kampoor 3,398 



Soobathoo • • 4,20.'» 



Dehra 2,319 



Suharnnpoor 1,093 



Bij Ti igonomdry. 

 Pnrsreool, or'J nzliee^ung Mountain 22,488 



Rulduns Mountain 21 ,103 



Undraj iVIoiuitain 7,502 



Bliyrat Fort 7,592 



Liniestoue at Iea«t 20,000 



RUSSIA. 



The University of Moscow has pro- 

 posed the following question for a 

 prize competition: — The Florentine 

 copy of Justinian's Pandects is consi- 

 dered as the most correct and ancient 

 of all at present known in Europe, the 

 otliers being for the most part tran- 

 scripts of it ; it becomes, then, a matter 

 of consequence to trace the means and 

 course of its arrival at Florence. The 

 prevailing opinion is, that this original 

 copy was sent among others to certain 

 provinces ; that it was found at the 

 taking of Amalfi; given afterwards, by 

 the Emperor Lotharius II. to the inha- 

 bitants of Pisa ; and, at the conquest 

 of this city, v,as removed to Florence, 

 «hcre it is slill preserved witli great 

 care. But, during the ia^t fifty years, 

 many doubts having been started on 

 these points by the learned, a critical 

 exposition of all that has been ad- 

 vanced on cither side is required ; as 

 also to fix in a positive mauncr on the 

 most crcdifaiile opinion. Prize 2-50 

 roubles ; the iMemoirs to be in Russian, 

 Latin, French, or German ; and the 

 term April 182.5. 



Down to the year 1817, only 400O 

 publications had appeared in Russia, 

 a number merely equal to what is 

 produced in an annual fair at Leipsic. 

 In 1820, the library of the Academy 

 of Sciences at Petersburg contained 

 nearly 3000 national works, among 

 which were 1.50 romances ; at present 

 there arc more than 8000 publications 

 in the Russian lanj^ua^e. At Moscow 

 are nine libraries, and ten printing- 

 oHices ; at Petersburg, seven libraries, 

 and fifteen printing-offices; at Wilna, 

 are one library, and five jjrinting- 

 offices ; in the towns of Revel, Dorpat, 

 and Khatkow, iespe(;tively, are one 

 library, and two printing-odices; and 

 in the empire at large arc eight or nine 

 loundriesof types. 



A statistical paper lately published 



makes the fifty governments of Rns.'iia 



contain an extent of 298,960 .square 



geographical 



