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fociety at Harlem, previous to the 28th 
of February, 1800. 
In North America, as well as in Ger- 
many, the inhabitants preferve apples 
during the moft fevere frofts, by keeping 
them in an apartment immediately under 
the roof of the houfe, and without a fire; 
a linen cloth being thrown over them 
before the commencement of the froit.— 
‘The following fimple means is alto {aid 
ta be effectual, in preferving the bioffom 
of fruit trees from being damaged by the 
early ipring frofts,—namcly, to bring 
a rope through the branches of the tree, 
fo as to terminate the one end of it in a 
bucket of water; and fhould a flight 
troft take place the tree will not be affec- 
ted by it, but it will form a confiderable 
film on the furface of the bucket.—This 
experiment, which is certainly worth 
trying, is taken from a paper in the 
memoirs of the Royal Society of Agricul- 
ture in Paris. 
A French Dramatic writer, Citizen 
Laya, has introduced on the Paris {tage 
a ‘Tragi-Comedy, intitled, «* Uze Four- 
nee du Feune Neron’’, which is an imita- 
tion of atruly novel kind, of Skake!pear’s 
-Henry IV. The Roman Emperor Clau- 
dius 1s the King Henry—Nero the Prince 
of Wales, nor is Falflaff omitted, but 
brought forward under the name of Aulus. 
There has been lately eftablifhed «at 
Munich the capital of Bavaria, at the fole 
expence of the ELECTOR, an inftitution 
for the inffru€tion of the deaf and dumb: 
where children from 8 to 14 years of age, 
and having no other bodily defeét, are 
admitted and maintained free of every 
expence. The Director of this Academy 
is M. BERNARD ERNSDORFER. 
The Goettingen Library truly deferves 
the name of Public. Not only has every 
perfon without diftin@ion free accefs to 
it at ftated hours, but any ftudent enga- 
ged in a particular work or purfuit inay 
eafily obtain permiflion to carry to his 
Own apartments from twelve to twenty 
volumes ; and every Profeffor may, borzow 
what books he thinks proper: nay, known 
literary men, refiding at a diftance from 
Goettingen, have frequently been allowed 
the ufe of books from the public library. 
—Although fo great a latitude might be 
inconvenient, and perhaps impofitble in 
the Brito Mufeum; yet furely that Na- 
tional collection might be made fomewhat 
more eafy of accefs to the Natiox. That 
the few literary men who have fufficient 
interefi, may be allowed to fiudy there ; 
and that other perfons may, by confidera- 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
[May 
ble trouble, and after a fortnight’s appli- 
cation, be permitted to walk through the 
houfe, and fee the collection as a fhow, is 
furely not making this valuable and ex- 
penfive inftiiution generally ufefui. And. 
if thefe objections lie againit the Britith 
Mufeum, what thall we f2y to fome of 
the principal libraries at Oxford, which 
are not even acceflabie to the ftudents, 
and in which the cobaveb cowered volumes 
enjoy as much the ottus: academicum, as 
the members of that far-famed feat of the 
mutes. . 
The fubterranean tveftigations, now 
making in Italy, by the French continue 
to be produétive. In a country houfe, 
difcovered im the neighbourhecod of Her- 
culaneum, there have been found two feet, 
and part of an arm belonging to two 
ftatues of Satyrs in bronze, of Grecian 
feulpture and excellent workmanfhip ; 
and, at a little diftance, the baie on which 
thefe figures have {tood, imprinted with 
the marks of four feet. The remaining 
part of the group is expected to be difco- 
vered, when the whole will beeafily got 
out. 
‘At Pompeia the fearch has alfo been 
attended with fuccefs. Citizen ZARILLO, 
Director General of thefe inveftigations, 
ima letter to the General in Chief, gives” 
an account of the difcovery of a chamber, 
in which are three fmall piétures, all re- 
prefenting the fame fubject, but in differ- 
ent attitudes; namely, a fatyr making 
attacks upon an unwilling nymph—the 
colouring, of one of them in particular, 
is exquifite, and may difpute the palm 
with the works of Titian. On the wall 
of an acjciaing. apartment is a picture 
confiderably larger, of Diana and Endy- 
mion, well defigned and charmingly co- 
loured. . There is alfo in anether room, 
a mofaic pavement extremely beautiful 
and valuable; and in the chambers where 
the pictures are, C. ZARILLO expects 
that fimilar mciaic work will be difcover- 
ed. A French Journalift adds, that the 
General in Chief has dire&ted C. C. 
Point, THEVENIN and BLANCHARD 
to make copies of the above mentioned 
pictures, which are afterwards to be taken 
out and tranfported to Paris, if they /hall 
be judged worthy of that honour. It is 
meant afterwards to «ttack the center of 
Herculaneum,where many valuable monu- 
ments of art and antiquity are looked for. 
On the 25th Nivéfe (rq4th January laft) 
an operation for the cataract was per- 
formed in the Hofpice des Viellards, Fau- 
bourg Martin, Faris, on a man arte 
orm, 
