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LITERARY NOTICES.» 

M® MAaRsHALL, to whom the nation 
is in great part indebted for the 
prevailing {pirit of agricultural improve- 
ment, is preparing for the prefs an Ac- 
_€Ounmt-0b the Rural Practices of the 
Southern Counties. Thefe volumes will 
complete his propofed Regifter of the 
Rural Pra€tices of England. New edi- 
tions of his former volumes on Rural 
Praétices of Yorkfhire—of Gloucefter- 
ghire—and of the Midland Counties, are 
now reprinting. 
The Hurricane, a theofophical: and 
Weftern eclogue, with copious notes, by 
Mr. WILtiaAmM GILBERT, is in the 
Briftol prefs,  _ 
M-. Corrts, of Briftol, has in the 
preis, a fecond edition of his Poems, con- 
taining John the Baptilt, War, a Frag- 
ment, &c. with various additions. 
M. Bone, the aftronomer of Berlin, 
has announced his intention to publifh a 
Grand Celeftial Atlas, containing every 
modern difcovery. It is to confift of 
twenty fheets, three feet two inches, by 
two feet two inches, and to be publithed 
in five parts, of which a part will be 
completed annually. A Catalogue of the 
Stars wiil clofe the work. 
- Dr. Saver Waker will fpeedily 
publifi a Treatife on the Difeafes called 
Nervous, with fome remarks on the func- 
tions of the Nervous Syftem. 
Mr. Benjorn, of Jefus College, Cam- 
bridge, has in the prefsa Tranflation of 
one of the Minor Prophets ; with Notes 
philological and explanatory. 
Montauiy Mage. No. VIII. 
Literary Notices. 
65 
Dr. BucHan, the well know author. 
of the Domeftic Medicine, is about to 
publifh a fecond volume of that work.— 
He alfo announces an intended work, on 
the Offices and Duties of a Mother. 
Mr. Benjamin Donne, of Briftol, 
lately appointed mafter of mechanics to 
the king, is preparing for publication, an 
Effay on Mechanical Geometry, with an 
apparatus, which promifes to render the 
acquifition of that fcience eafy and en- 
tertaining. The apparatus will confift 
of fifty {chemes and models, in card, 
paper, wood, and. metal. - 
A volume of Imitations, from the Per- 
fian of Achmed Ardebeili, by Mr. 
Cuarwes Fox, of Briftol, is nearly 
completed. 
The Profeffors of the univerfity of 
Leyden, who have the management of 
the Stolpian prize, have announced the 
following queftion for the prefent year < 
‘© What are the principal points in which 
nations differ from one another; and 
what are the phyfical and moral caufes of 
the difference of national character ? 
Ought moral teachers to pay any atten- 
tion, or in what degree, to this diffe- 
rence, in the precepts of morality, they 
deliver to the people ?”’—T he efflays muft 
be written in latin or dutch, and fent, 
according to the ufual reftriétions, before 
the firft of July, 1797, to profeffor Nich. 
Paradys, fecretary. The prize isa gold 
medal of the value of 250 fl. £221. 10s. | 
The Frencu REpPuBtic has lately 
adopted the following very fimple ciaf- 
fification of terms expreffing WEIGHTS 
and MEASURES :—In meafures of length 
10 metres, are called decametre ; 100, bec- 
tometre; 1000, kilometre; 10,000, myri- 
ametre. In land meafure, 10 ares are 
called décare ; 100, beétare ; 1000, kilare 5 
10,000, myriare. In mealures of capa- 
city, they proceed in the fame way, and 
form. from the “tre, decalitre, heéolitre, 
kilolitre, and myrialitre. Andin weights, 
from the term gramme, they form deca- 
eramme, bedtogramme, kilogramme, and 
Myt 1ALTAMME.« 
N.B. ‘The metre correfponds in Eng- 
lifh meafure to 3 feet, 3 inches, 1°708 
lines. The are to 10°’000fquare metres, 
or 107623°048 Englifh{quare feet. The 
Lire, in our Winchefter meafure, corref- 
ponds to 1°766 pints; or In wine meafure 
to 2°08% pints. The gramme, in our 
Troy weight, is 2Ibs. 802. 4dwts. ro8grs. 
andin our avcirdupoife is 2lbs. 302. 6,274 
drach. ; 
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