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jn virtue of a standing order, was servéd up’as soon as he 
entered the ‘house from transacting his businefs in the mor= 
ning. 
- He was fond of brelan, but angry hens he lost. Habits 
of method and temperance protracted his life paris nine- 
ty years. 
- He was addictéd to-superstition, and firmly believed 
that his fate in this world was linked to that of a black 
hen, which he fed and treated with special care. This 
fowl gave up the ghost in January 1739, and Bernard re- 
signed his breath in the course of the same month. He . 
left behind him thirty-three millions of livres. 
_ dam, Mr Editor, your most obedient humble servant, 
‘ ‘R. W. 
ARCTIC NEWS, 
Continued from p. 78. 
Silk worms. 
Wirn regard to the large cocoons of coarse silk found by 
‘Sir William Jones in the east, Dr Pallas says-he has seen - 
something like them from China ;.and he remembers likewise 
to have seen about the year it or 1761, when in London, 
a large species of cocoon containing a strong silk, at the 
house of the late worthy Mr Collins, (the Sir Joseph 
Banks of that period, ) which he had received from Ame- 
rica, probably Philadelphia, where his principal correspon-' 
dence lay on that continent. However, all are inferior to 
the produce of the true silk worm; although in the hands 
of the interprising and inventive manufacturers of Great 
Britain, many things become articles of commerce and 
“public use which lay despised and neglected in lefs indus- 
trious states. Dr Pallas’s time is so completely occupied 
at present, with the different works he has in hand at the 
Emprefs’s expence, with the arrangement of her cabinet of 
natural history, and with intsructing the great duke ia 
