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tioned by Mr. Lacepede. (Hist. Nat. Tom. VI. pa. 496.) 

 The detailed description of this new Salamander is given in 

 the Bibliotica Italiana, No. LXV. Rev. Ency. 



5. Meteorolite. — There fell in the commune of Juvenas, 

 France, on the 15th of June last, an Aerolite which weigh- 

 ed 220 pounds. The inhabitants of Juvenas, as well as 

 those of the neighbouring country were so terrified with the 

 frightful noise which accompanied its fall, that it was not un- 

 til the 28th of the month that any one dared to venture up- 

 on an enquiry after the object which they had seen falling 

 at some distance from their habitations. But when the 

 stone was found, the inhabitants eager to turn it to some 

 profit, broke it up into small pieces. It was known only 

 that a portion of it examined by the hydrostatic balance gave 

 a spec. grav. of 2.80 and that it had no action on the magnet. 



Rev. Enc. 



6. Remarkable Diamond. — The East India Company 

 have sent to England a Diamond which was taken from the 

 Pacharva of the Mahrattas, which weighs 358 grains. Next 

 to the regent diamond, and one belonging to the Emperor of 

 Russia, it is the finest stone in Europe. Rev. Enc. 



7. Circulating Libraries. — According to a published ac- 

 count there are in England about 600 reading companies or 

 associations, (consisting of from 10 to 25 or more members) 

 which procure for their own special use such publications 

 as they may wish to peruse, and at certain periods those 

 books which have been the round among the members, are 

 at a general meeting of the company sold to the highest 

 bidder. The funds are thus replenished, and knowledge 

 and entertainment of the best kind agreeably, and cheaply 

 provided. 



8. Traveller's Society.— A social company has been formed 

 in Liverpool under the name of the traveller's society. No 

 person is eligible to membership who has not been 500 

 miles from home. At their meetings, it will readily be im- 

 agined there must be a variety of amusing and instructive 

 anecdotes, and much information imparted that will natural- 

 ly tend to enlighten and liberaUze the mind. 



