Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
Where +t is well mixed with paddles. It is 
decanted off into other veflels, where it is 
left to fettle, and after the fubfidence is 
completed, the water is caft off, leaving the 
farinaceous fubftance at the bottom. When 
this is taken out and dried, it is an impalpa- 
ble powder of a redifh colour. Mixed with 
boiling water, it becomes a beautiful jelly, 
which, when fweetened with honey or 
fugar, affords a moft nourifhing and pleafant 
food for children or aged people. 
dians fometimes ufe it mixed with fine corn- 
flour, and fryed in frefh bears’ oil *.””| 
Citizen OLIVIER, who has been tra- 
velling in the eaft, by order of the French 
government, is arrived at Conftantinople, 
where he has brought from Perfia, Mefo- 
potamia, Syria, Arabia, Cyprus, and 
Caramaian, the feeds of more than 200 
plants in good prefervation, many me- 
dals, (Greek, Roman, and Parthian) 
mummies, manufcripts, &c. His ac- 
counts of the Turkifh empire announce 
fuch fymptoms of mifgovernment and 
decline, as feem to portend its f{peedy 
fubverfion. 
The NATIONAL INSTITUTE at Paris, 
has applied to the government to convoke 
a deputation of men of learning from all 
powers in amity with the French repub- 
lic, to eftablifh a uniformity in weights 
and meafures, throughout the civilized 
globe. 
The feciety of Felix Meritis, fome years 
fince inftituted in Amfterdam, is the firit 
literary fociety in Holland. It confifts of 
about 300 members, and is divided into 
five departments, viz. 1. Literature. 
2. Painting. 3. Commerce and Naviga- 
tion. 4. Mufic. 5.-Natural Hiftory. The 
latter clafs is by far the moft numerous ; 
and their weekly meeting is attended by 
upwards of 150 members, one of whom 
reads a treatife on fome fubject relating 
to natural hiftory. ‘The fociety is in pot- 
feffion of a very excellent and complete 
phyfical cabinet, which is in a ftate of 
conftant improvement and augmentation, 
and the initruments are kept in the beft 
order. Aftronomy, which hitherto has 
been negleéted, is now in an equal degree 
cultivated and admired. The third ftory 
of the interior of the building, is con- 
verted into an obfervatory. A cabinet, 
twenty-four feet in leugth and ten in 
breadth, is appropriated to calculationsof 
the meridian. ‘Theobfervatory is eighty’ 
feet (Rhine meafure) above the level of 
the fea, and commands an uninterrupted 
profpect, except towards the eaft, where 
a few buildings obftru& the horizon from 
five to fix degrees. The inftruments con- 
fift of, 1. An acromatic meridian tele- 
fcope, by Sisson, three feet, Rhine mea- 
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fure, in length, the axis twenty-eight in- 
ches anda half. 2. A moveable quadrant, 
of the {emidiameter of two feet, by BIRD, 
finifhed with great care. &c. &c. &c. 
A very valuable Survey of. the Pro- 
vince of Moray; liftorical, geographical, 
and political, has juit been publithed, by 
Mr. Isaac ForsyTH, a {pirited young 
bookteller, of Elgin, and deferves notice 
in this place. ‘The two firft chapters, on 
the inhabitants and antiquities of Moray, 
are ‘from the pen of the Rev. Mr. 
GRANT, one of the minifters of the elta- 
blifhed church of Scotland. ‘The other 
two, containing a particular account of 
every parifh, and a differtation on the 
agriculture of the country, are written by 
the Rev. Mr. LEsuix, of Darkland. Mr. 
MILLAR, engineer of the Sutherland coal 
work, has given an excellent view of the 
cathedral.ot Elgin, and the moft correct 
map of the province hitherto publifhed. 
In fhort, this is an interefting work, not 
only to the native, but alfo to the anti- 
quary and raan of fcience. 
Profeffor Bur TON, of Philadelphia, 1s 
preparing for the prefs a work, intitled, 
“¢ Striciures on the Arrangement of the Ma- 
teria Medica, adopted by Dr. Darwin.” 
Dr. CurRIE, of Philadelphia, is about 
to pubiifh an elaborate treatife on the yel- 
low fever. 
Dr. BRICKELL, of Savannah, has dif- 
covered, in Georgia, a new plant, which 
he has named JErFERSONIA, in compli- 
ment to the vice-prefident of the United 
States; of which the following is a de- 
fcription : 
Jerrersonia pentandria monagynia. 
Calyx, below, compofed of five fhort oval 
imbricated leaves ; corella, monophyllous, 
funnel thaped, on the receptacle, fub-pen- 
tancular, bearing the filaments near the 
bafe, its margin hypocrateriform, divided 
into five round dusts nearly equal; ie, 
pitiform, fhorter than the petal, but longer 
than the ftamens ; /fgma, quadripid ; az- 
thers, erect, linear, fagittated ; fruit, two 
univalved, ‘carinated, polyfpermons cap- 
fules, united at the bafe, opening on their 
tops and contiguous fides, having flat 
feeds, with a marginal wing. 
Only one fpecies is as yet difcovered, 
Fefferfonia fempervireus. It isa. fhrub 
with round polithed twining ftems, which 
climb up on bufhes and fmall trees; the 
petioles fhort, oppofite; leaves obiong, 
narrow, entire, evergreen, acute; flowers 
axillary, yellow, having a fweet odour. 
The woods are full of this ~delightful 
fhrub, which is covered with blofloms for 
many months in the year, 
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