1 66 Astronmny. 



SUBSTITUTE FOR CINCHONA AND FOH WHKAT. 



M. West ring, ofNorkoping, in Sweden, in a letter to 

 M. Bergman, at Paris, sa\s : " Tell M. Vauquelin that I 

 liave fonnd that the inner bark of the Piniis sylvestris aets 

 in the same manner as yellow quinquina {(inckova regia), 

 and that for two years I have made use of the powder of 

 this bark with the same advantage as quinquina; and that, 

 in certain cases it is even of superior utilitv, 



*' M. Tutin announces, that in some provinces of the 

 north of Sweden the poor inhabitants form with the spha- 

 gaimm pcdnstre a kind of bread, which is white, and of the 

 same quality as wheaten bread. M. Tutin has analysed it, 

 and found that this vegetable substance contains a great 

 quantity of saccharine matter ; — a proof that nature has 

 given us the means of supplying the place of wheat in times' 

 of scarcity." 



ASTRONOMY. 



A table of the right ascensions and dcclinalions of Pallas 

 and Ceres for November and December 1801. 



SMKAUING 



