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Ebenezer Jones, June 20, machine for sawing stone, wood, See, 
Simson Stewart, Ebenezer Hovey, and James Henderson, June 
21, machine for shearing cloth. 
David Burt, June 22, a hydrant for drawing water from aqueducts 
Osborn Parsons, June 23, improvement in rectifying spirits. 
Winslow Lewis, June 24, improvement in lighting the binna- 
cle of ships. 
Robert Ramsey, June 24, improvement in making conduit pipes, 
See. from clay, &c. 
John Henry Ross, June 24, an illuminator for lighting stair cases 
James Armour, jr. June 27, folding or spiral springs for carriages. 
Ezekiel Olds, June 29, machine for splitting boards, planks', See 
(To he continued. J 
INTELLIGENCE. 
Curious Fact.* 
In the capital of the beautiful kingdom of Valencia, I learned 
the following facts from eye-witnesses. A silk weaver kept a 
stallion and a mule in the same stable. One night in winter the 
mule was taken ill, rolled on the ground, and appeared ready to 
die. At last it brought forth a foal, so well formed that the finest 
mare could not have produced a better. The stallion and mule 
were left together during eight years, in which time the latter 
brought forth five male and two female foals.f Now the mule was 
half horse, half ass; its offspring were half horse, half mule. But, 
will it be said that the latter, which were perfect horses, contained 
a portion of the ass, which portion of ass might have passed by the 
mule to become horse ? Most assuredly no sensible person will 
say so. Nature has not instituted the mule species ; and when in 
successive generations all traces of the ass are effaced in the foals 
of the mule, it is Nature which resumes her rights, and puts a limit 
to a race of monsters. 
* Tilloch, vol. 36, p. 390. From Reflections on some Minera logical Systems. 
By R. Chenevix, Esquire, F. R. S. &c. 
-j- As this fact has been questioned by some French theorists, from the forced 
and miniature experiments of Buffon, it is not foreign to the present subject to 
say, that the writer of this note has also heard it from unimpeachable eye- 
witnesses who were well acquainted with the whole circumstances, and that he 
knew a gentleman, an amateur mineralogist in Valencia, who found one of the. 
offspring of the mule the most serviceable horse that he ever possessed.— 
Translator. 
