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health, and showed no symptoms of disease. Sixty-two 

 oxen, all evidently diseased, and of which eight were al- 

 most dying, were shut up in two cow-houses where similar 

 fumigations were made : fifty-two of them were perfectly 

 cured, though housed with the infected cattle. The author 

 asks, whetlier they might not have been cured without the 

 use of the fumigations ? 



PETRIFACTION. 



A very curious petrifaction was found lately at Vaucelles, 

 in the dcjDartment du Nord. A workman, in attemptmg to 

 square a stone obtained by demolishing the abbey of Vau- 

 celles, split it into two parts; one of which exhibited the 

 impression of a fish, and the other the fish in relief. The 

 fish was examined by the professors of the college of Cam- 

 bray, who repaired on purpose to the spot. It results irom 

 their observations, that it is one of the most beautiful and 

 best preserved ichthyolites ever found. It is from twenty- 

 eight to thirty-one inches in length, and seven inches in 

 breadth. Every thing gives reason to think that k belongs 

 to the class of the abdominals, and that it is a salmon. The 

 scales are of a violet colour mixed with yellow : a lateral 

 line of a pale v.hite, and nearer the back than the belly, 

 traverses the whole body, and describes on it a curve. The 

 colours of the impression a,re the same as those on the re- 

 lief. 



It has been ascertained that this stone was originally ciug 

 ■up from a quarry in the neighbourhood, but long since 

 neglected- The proprietor of this natural cariosity has 

 made a present of it lo the museum of Cambray, but ou 

 condition of its not being given to any other museum. 



ARTS AND SCIENCES IN SPAIN. 



The amateurs of foreign literature will learn with plea- 

 sure, that a new journal has i>een published at Madrid, 

 under the title of Miscellanies in the Science?, Literature, 

 and the Arts. The subjects which form the object of this 

 journal are divided into five parts: — 1st, The phvsical and 

 mathematical sciences, and the application oi tbem to 

 useful purposes: 2d, Natural history: 3d, Agriculture, me- 

 dicine, and the arts of industry : 4th, The dificrent branches 

 of literature: 5th, The fine arts. Besides original pieces 

 and translations from foreign works, W'hich will lorm the 

 principal part of the journal. Each number is to contain 

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