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SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Means and ad- the cartage and market expences which are saved by its being 
vantages of consumed at home. I put id. per day for fire, though I do not 
with steamed believe it costs me any thing, as the water from the steam 
food. boiler serves to clean the milk utensils, for which the firing 
used to cost me as much j besides which I apply the steam to 
many culinary purposes, having a pipe communicating from 
my steamer to my kitchen. 
ISAAC FRANKLYN. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Geological Society. 
April 2d, 1813. 
W. H. Pepys, Esq. Treasurer, in the chair. 
The reading of a memoir by Mr. John Farey, Sen. on the 
Ashover denudation in the county of Derby, was began. 
The first part of this paper consists of minute local observa- 
tions, incapable of abridgment, relative to the inosculation 
ridges, the Basset ridges, the partial incurvation of the beds, 
and the ascertained or supposed faults. 
April 23d, 1813. 
The president in the chair. 
Thomas Gregory, Esq. of Bayswater, 
Thomas Botfield, Esq. of Hopton Court, near Bewdley, 
were severally elected members of the Society. 
A notice by the Rev. J. J. Conybeare, M. G. S. relative to 
the state of Tintagel, in Cornwall, was read, and thanks were 
voted for the same. 
The slate quarries of Tintagel are situated close to the sea, 
about six miles N. W. of Camelford. They are worked on 
a large scale, and are celebrated for the excellent quality of 
the roofing slate which they afford. No dykes of granite or 
of porphyry have been observed in this rock, but there are 
veins which afford quartz, rock crystal of great transparency 
