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domestic animals of all kinds have en- 
creased; while the race of sheep is 
greatly meliorated, and geese and ducks 
form a branch of lucrative speculation. 
In addition to this, manure of every kind 
has been encreased greatly, and is dis¬ 
tributed, not only in a better, but in a 
more abundant, manner. The corn is no 
longer subject to the blight, at least in 
so great a degree as formerly; the po¬ 
tato, unknown in that portion of the 
French empire twenty-five years belore, 
is cultivated to an astonishing extent; 
the artificial grasses are now almost every 
where recurred to; the culture of the 
vine and the distilling of brandies have 
both been carried to a great perfection; 
while no less than three thousand quin¬ 
tals of grape sirup have been produced 
in this department alone. All these im¬ 
provements are attributed to the con¬ 
struction of roads and the liberty of com¬ 
merce; the general result has been the 
conversion of an arid soil into a produc¬ 
tive one. The population has encreased 
in exact proportion to the sale of the 
various commodities, and the amount of 
the labors required for carrying theta 
into effect. 
VARIETIES, Literary and Philosophical. 
Including Notices of Works in Handf Domestic and Foreign. 
Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully recehed. 
T he remarkable pase of the Hon, 
Robert Grosvenor of supposed 
small-pox after vaccination, having ex¬ 
cited public alarm, it deserves explana¬ 
tion. In 1801 this young gentleman was 
vaccinated by Dr. Jenner, and in the 
month of May, 1811, he was attacked 
with febrile symptom, succeeded, on the 
third day, by an eruption, which had the 
appearance, in its early stage, of small 
pox. This eruption became confluent, 
and was accompanied with fever and 
delirium of such violence, as to indicate 
danger. On the eighth day the fever sub¬ 
sided, and the eruption took on the ap¬ 
pearances of confluent variola. Facts, 
however, arose in the course of the dis¬ 
ease, which shewed that its progress was 
much influenced, and its character mo¬ 
dified, by the previous vaccination. A 
Report of the case is preparing, which 
may be expected to contain all the ma¬ 
terial facts. The other children of Earl 
Grosvenor had been vaccinated, and 
were, in consequence of this alarm, sub¬ 
jected to variolous inoculation ; but were 
found to have been secured from its ef¬ 
fects by the previous vaccination. 
A marked instance of the re-appear¬ 
ance of small-pox twice in the same per¬ 
son, has just occurred in the case of the 
Rev. Mr. Rowley, son of Lady Rowley. 
About forty years ago Mr. Rowley, then 
a child, was inoculated for the small-pox, 
by Mr. Adair, surgeon general; and had 
a consideralile eruption; but on the 5th 
of June last, he was seized with fever, 
and an eruption appeared on the third 
day; there were two hundred pustules 
on the face, and the distemper proved 
a severe case of distinct small-pox. 
Another instance of repeated small¬ 
pox after inoculation lately happened to 
Miss S. Booth, of Covent Garden 
Theatre. At five years of age this young 
lady was inoculated for small-pox. The 
progress of the arm was regular, she had 
considerable fever, and the whole of the 
appearances were of a nature to afford, 
it was believed, a perfect security from 
any future attack of the disease. On the 
20th of June, she was seized with febrile 
symptoms, which proved the precursor of 
small-pox: on Sunday, the third day 
from the attack, pustules appeared on 
the forehead and scalp. The eruption 
spread to other parts of the frame, ac¬ 
companied with sore throat. This erup¬ 
tion passed through the usual forms and 
stages of the disease, and constituted an 
undoubted case of renewed variola. 
The resouices with w-hich nature is 
provided for distributing the vital fluid 
throughout the bodies of animals, when 
the principal trunks of arteries are de¬ 
stroyed, has been remarkably exempli¬ 
fied in experiments lately made by Mr, 
Ashley Cooper. That gentleman tied 
the aorta descendens of dogs, very near 
to the heart, in a way to stop the current 
of blood passing, by that vessel, to all 
the lower parts of the frame. The ani¬ 
mals seemed to sustain no great incon¬ 
venience by tiiis; the wounds soon healed, 
the health was not impaired, the secre¬ 
tions proceeded as usual, and the crea¬ 
tures remained active-and lively. When 
they were destroyed after some weeks, 
or 
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