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Diseases *)f Cattle. — To the person who shall write, and 

 produce to the Board, the best practical essay, founded on 

 experiments, on the diseases of neat cattle, their symptoms 

 and cure — the gold medal. The essays to be produced on or 

 before the first Tuesday in May 1806. 



Diseases of Sheep. — To the person who shall write, and 

 produce to the Board, the best practical essay, founded on 

 experiments, on the diseases of sheep, their symptoms and 

 cure — the gold medal. The essays to be produced on or be- 

 fore the first Tuesday in May 1806. 



Diseases of Siuine. — ^^To the person who shall write, and 

 produce to the Board, the best practical essay, founded oa 

 experiments, on the diseases of swine, tlicir symptoms and 

 cure — ten guineas. The essays to be produced on or before 

 the first Tuesday in May 1 806. 



XXXIII. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



HERCULANEUM MANUSCRIPTS. 



X HE literary world will rejoice to learn, that the six vo- 

 lumes of Papyri, presented to the prince of Wales by the 

 king of Naples, arc arrived in London ; and thus, under 

 the immediate auspices of his royal highness, the learned 

 and the ingenious will be invited to exert their skill in en- 

 deavouring, not merely to develop their contents, but to 

 contrive some more spocdv and efficacious means than have 

 been hitherto practised, for unrolluig and transcribing the 

 many volumes that yet lie in the ashes of Herculaneuni and 

 Pompeii. It is a most important event to the cause of lite- 

 rature, that the prince has patronized this undertaking with 

 so much ardour and liberality, since in no other countiy 

 could tlie resources of science and art be so uell applied to 

 the object as in England. Our artists will vie with one an- 

 other in the suggestion of means to facilitate the decypher- 

 ingof thenearlv obliterated manuscripts ; and if some happv 

 contrivance should be found to preserve the tinder from 



ficrishing until it can be traced and read, what treasures of 

 iterature may not yet be brought to light, and what ho- 

 nours and gratitude Vv'iU not be due to his royal highness for 

 his noble patronage of the design ! 



Our readers may wish to have a short statement of the 



Gircunistanaes tliat induced the prince to tak(^ steps to fur- 



tluT this great work. In the year 1 SOU he directed the rev. 



John ll.ayter, a oentlcman eminently qualified for the task, 



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