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there were 13 focieties exifting in France, eftabliihcd under 

 the patronage of government, for promoting agriculture; 

 and thefe 13 focieties had 19 co-operating focieties belong- 

 ing to them, whenever it happened that a diftrict was too 

 large to be effectually taken care of by one fociety. All 

 packets and letters of correfpondence to and from thefe 

 focieties were exempted from pottage. 



Paris, June 22, 1798. 



Citizen Baudin, commander of la Belle Angiliqtu y 

 who, with feveral botanifts and naturalifts, was fome time 

 ago fent on a voyage of difcovery by government, has juit 

 returned from America, and has brought with him the 

 richeft collection of living plants ever feen in Europe. He 

 has brought home in all 3500 exotics, among which are 

 feveral cabbage trees, cocoa-nut trees, and alligator pear 

 trees (laurus Perfea). Some of the trees are 25 feet in 

 height, and from 12 to 15 inches in diameter. Befides the 

 colleclion of living and dried plants, he has brought with 

 him various fpecimens of wood, birds, infects, and many 

 other objects of natural hiflory. 



Captain Baudin on his arrival attempted to enter the port 

 of Havre, as being the moll convenient for tranfmitting his 

 colleclion to Paris, but was prevented by the Englifh fquadror* 

 which blockades that port. The Englifh commander told 

 him his orders were fuch, that he could naffer no veffel to 

 entre Havre ; but, in a very handfome manner, directed him 

 to proceed to the eaft of Fecamp, the only place in the chan- 

 nel not blockaded by the divifion under his command. 



MINERALOGY. 

 A VEIN of cobalt was fome time ago discovered in, the 

 Wherry mine near Penzance in Cornwall, which, we are 

 happy to announce, has turned out very rich ; but as they 

 have no pcrfon there perfectly acquainted with the procefs of 

 fmelting it, it is to be feared that its true value will never be 

 fully known. It is to be lamented that there are few or no. 



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