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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. 
By a letter received over land from St Peterfburgh, twe 
‘days ago, the Editor has the satisfaction to be informed, that 
‘Dr Pallas, the celebrated naturalist, ‘has just obtained an 
order from her imperial majesty, to visit next summer the 
southern provinces of that vast empire, where he has not 
yet been; and he has been so very condescending as to 
make offer, in the most obliging manner, to have a parti- 
cular eye to the Bez in his researches, and_to forward hi- 
ther every information that he thinks will prove new and 
interesting to the people in Britain. It will, therefore, 
be obliging in any of my readers, who have any particular 
objects, respecting which they wilh for elucidations in 
those regions, to give notice of them to the Editor with 
their first convenience. . 
By the same letter notice has been received, that a parti- 
cular account of all the different breeds of fheep that have 
been discovered: in Rufsia, is now making out from Dr 
Pallas’s notes, and under his inspection, to be transmitted 
for the Bee as soon as ready, accompanied with figures. 
From Calcutta and Madras he has also received letters 
by the Dutton, which had left those places before 
the Bee, for last year, had reached them; but it must 
have arrived in a few weeks after the departure of that 
wefsel. Several gentlemen there, informed my corres- 
pondents, that they only deferred sending communicati- 
ons till the Bee reached them, that they might the better 
judge of the kind of communications that would suit it. 
Thus slow are the returns from such distant paces. 
From Pisa, Leghorn,and Naples, there are great complaints 
about the irregular transmifsion of parcels. Severals have 
been sent long ago that have not yet made their appear- 
