1799] 
is hoped that he will, at laft, ceafe to po- 
lifh and improve, and give it to the world. 
The Right: Honourable Lorp Mac- 
DONALD, with a degree of antiquarian 
euriofity, worthy of the reprefentative of 
the line of the ancient Norwegian princes 
of the Hebude, has employed a perion to 
colle&t all thofe ancient Gaelic poems, 
which are ftill preferved in oral tradition 
among the inhabitants of the Hebudian 
Ifles, yet have efcaped the notice of Mac- 
pherfon, and other former collectors. 
Mr. DanreEL LEzaRs, a portrait en- 
graver in Edinburgh, whole talents are of 
firft-rate excellence in his art, has nearly 
finifhed an engraving of a figure of the 
Lord Juftice-Clerk of Scotland, froma 
painting by Raeburz ; which is likely to 
prove one of the fineft f{pecimens of this 
art, that has yet been produced in Scot- 
land. 
Dr. MaccarpD, of Oldenburg, in his 
treatife ** On the Pradical ufe of Baths,” 
recommends to women in pregnancy to 
drink fimply the acidulated mineral wa- 
ters, particularly Seltzer water, as a 
means of relieving or at lealt mitigating 
the fymptoms of naufea and vomiting 
frequently attending this flate, and which 
although it can,only be a palliative is of 
equal benefit as if it performed a radical 
cure. 
C. TeEssrerR, has published in the 
Philomatical Society of Paris a memoir 
on the period of geftation of animals 
from which we extract the following par- 
ticulars.—Of Cows, there are 160 cafes. — 
Of thefe 14 calved between the 221ft and 
the 266th day—3 the 270th day—so 
from the 270th to the 280th day—63 
from the 280th to the 290th day—zo the. 
3ooth day—s5 the 308th day. So there 
are 67 days between the two extremes. 
Of Mares, there are 102 cafes. Three 
foaled on the 311th day-—one the 314th 
—one the 325th—one the 326th—two 
the 380th—a7 from the 340th to the 
- 350th day—z26 from the 350th fo the 
360th day—zr from the 36oth to the 
367th day—and one on the 390th day— 
there being thus 79 days between the ex- 
tremes. Of Stweme, there are only 15 
cafes. One farrowed the rogth day—io 
from the 110th to the 120th day—two the 
121ft day—one the 122d—one the 123d. 
Of Rabbits, there are 130 cafes. One 
kindled the 26th day—two the 27th— 
three the 28th—53 the 29th—s>so the 30th 
—2z0 the 31ft—nine the 33d—makine 
feven days between the two extremes. H& 
alfo gives the following obfervation from 
Varieties Literary and Philofophical. 
321 
an €xperiment publifhed by C. Darcet, 
on the eggs of fow.s. Of thefe in one 
brood there were hatched, one on the 13th 
day—two the 17th—three the 18th—and 
five on the 19th and 2oth days. 
The French Council of Ancients have 
given orders, that a monument be ereéted 
in the National Garden of the Thuille- 
ries, to the memory of Rouffeau. The 
artift who executes this tribute to the 
philofopher of Geneva, is Citizen Ma- 
SON. 
The French Citizen Leroux, well 
known for his proteffional talents, is 
about to publith a very extenfive elemen- 
tary work on Archite€ture, in. which he 
propotes to treat of that art from its 
origin to its higheft ftate of perfection ; 
from the fimple cottage to the magnificent 
palace. ‘This work from the eminent 
abilities of its author, the maferly defigns 
prepared for it, and the vaft plan it em- 
braces, will when completed be itfelf a 
fplendid monument of art. 
The firft part of the gallery of the Cen- 
tral Mufeum of the Arts at Paris, was ope- 
ned tothe public on the 18th Germinal 
(7th April). But from the numerous 
additions: requifite to the building, the 
indifpenfable repairs neceflary toa great 
number of the pictures to be exhibited, 
the difficulties which have attended many 
of the enquiries neceflary to afcertain the 
chronology, originality and painters of 
the different pictures, have obliged the 
adminiftration to defer to this time the 
opening of this magnifrcent exhibition, 
which contains fo many matter pieces of art. 
The Economical Society of Batavia, 
have offered a prize of 600-florins for the 
beft anfwer to the following queftion— 
‘* Are there any means altogether fatif- 
factory and hitherto unknown, fo com- 
pletely to purify corrupted water, as en- 
tirely to remove its tafte and {mell, with- 
out the mixture of any noxious ingre- 
dient, and render it a clear, refrefhing and 
wholefome beveridge ; and what are thofe 
means ?”’—The fociety requires the. fol- 
lowing circumftances to be attended to, 
—rfi, That the procefs be not expenfive, 
but be fuch as, without much confump- 
tion of fuel, can be employed at fea in 
fhips deeply laden and expofed to violent 
motion.—2zdly, That it can be ealily ex- 
ecuted by the feamen.—3dly, That it 
muft anfwer equally in all climates; and 
4thly, That it muft produce no pernicious 
effect in the coppers in which the feamen 
prepare their food.—The Memoirs to be 
addrefled to J. J, Deffout Secretary of the 
focietv 
