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are there which may fupply the place: of 
the ufual manure in agriculture, and be 
-vemployed in defect of it, with equally ef- 
fential advantage to promote vegetation ?”” 
It is requeited, that thé anfwer to this 
may not be founded on theory alone, but 
on accurate experiments. 2. ‘¢ By what 
procefies, and trom what feeds, as thefe 
of flax, poppy, the fun- flower, and other 
oleaginous feeds,. which may be pro- 
cured in this country without any great 
expence, or eafily cultivated in large 
quantities, may an oil be obtained with 
advantage, which will fupply the place 
of olive oil, and keep a confiderable time 
without {poiling?”’ As the'goodnefs and 
qualities of expreffed oils depend not 
merely on the feed from which they are 
procured, but in a great meafure on the 
procefs by which they are obtained, it is 
expected that particular attention be paid 
to this. 
<¢ Remarks on a Tour in the fouthern pro- 
wiices of the Ruffian Empire, in the years 
3793, and1794, by P.S. PALLAS, with 
f 
coloured plates, will be publithed, the firft . 
volume, at Eafter next, the fecond at Mi- 
chaelmas. The firft will contain addi- 
tions to his former travels ; accounts of 
‘changes that have taken place in fome 
parts ; and defcriptions of others not vi- 
fited before. In the fecond will be given 
a defcription of the Crimea, or peniniula 
ef Tauris. The plates will ditplay the 
dreffes, cuftoms, and religious worthip of 
the moft remarkable tribes ; the animals, 
ruins, views, chiefly in the Crimea and 
Caucaffean mountains, maps, &c. The 
fubfeription price of the firit volume, 
which contains near 600 pages, 4to. and 
about 30 plates and vignettes, is 13r. 
z2zer., or 2i..5s. After the end of March 
it will be r8r., or 31. fterling. Two edi- 
tions will be publifhed at the fame time, 
-one in German, the other in French, 
Citizen La CEREDE, who, when he 
bore the title of count, rendered himfelf 
advantageoufly known to the world by his 
Hiftory of Oviparous Quadrupeds and 
Serpents, is publifhing an elaborate work 
on fifhes, as a fupplement to Buffon. 
The firtt volume, a thick quarto, with 
25 plates, has already appeared. 
j. B. AUDEBERT, member of the fo- 
ciety of Natural Hiftory at Paris, 1s pub- 
lithing a very fuperb work, fe A Natural 
History of Apes,” delineated trom nature, 
in folio, at 30 francs, or il, 5s. each 
number. The merit of the work coniitts 
in the plates, which are engraved and co- 
loured with extreme beanty and accuracy. 
A lite of the celebrated French actrefs 
» 
Foreign Literary Intelligence. 
[Noy. 
Hypolite Clairon, with her remarks on 
the dramatic art, has juft appeared at 
Zurich, in German, 8vo. 320 pages. It 
is a furreptitious tranflation of a manu- 
{cript written by herfelf in French. . 
Two Germans, who have been fome — 
time refident in the capitals ef England 
and France, have united to give a deli- 
neation of the manners of the day th each 
metropolis : not excluding, however, the 
provincial towns, and even colonies de- 
pendant on them ; in a periodical publi- 
cation, in the German language, entitled 
London und Paris. In it will be given 
plain and coloured caricatures, delinea- 
tions, plans, and fongs fet to mufic. It 
is [aid to be well executed. : 
At Belvedere, near Weimar, in Saxony, 
M. Mounier, a learned and wel] known 
French emigrant, has eftablithed a {chool, 
which, on account of its judicious plan, 
is much reforted to by young gentlemen of 
every nation.. There are now no lefs 
than ten young Englifhmen at Belvidere, 
and the Rev. Mr. Butter, an Englith 
clergyman from Cambridge, has likewife 
taken up his refidence there. The price 
for every pupil is 150 louis d’or a year, 
The celebrated philofopher,Garve, at 
Breflaw in Silefia, has publifhed «* 4 Cha- 
racteriftic Sketch of Frederic the Great.” 
From the pen of Mr. GENz, counfel- 
lor at war in Berlin, is received the long 
expected and well written ** Haffory of 
Mary Stuart.” . 
Though Leipfig Michaelmas fair is in 
general lefs fertile in literary productions 
than the Eafter fair, yet no lefs than 50 
pocket-books (for the year 1799), 80 
novels and romances, arid 18 plays ap- 
peared at it. 
GorueE has printed the firft number of 
an excellent periodical publication, called 
“¢ Propyleen.’ It is to contain eflays 
on the fine arts. ‘T-he firft number treats 
ot Laocoon, of Raffaelle’s paintings, &c. 
To the old fage KANT, we are lately in- 
debted for a very curious publication on 
what is called “ The Four Faculties of the 
German Univerfities.” . 
<< A Narrative of the Britifh Embaffy to 
China,” written by J. C. HUETTNER, a 
German gentleman now refident in Lon- 
don, who accompanied Lord Macartney, 
has been publifhed in Berlin, with a pre- 
face by the learned and juftly celebrated 
C. B. BoTTiIGER, Provoft of Weimar 
College. It is {poken of as a work of 
great merit, and the author is*charatter- 
ized as a man of uncommon talents, 
{trong intellest,-a liberal turn of mind, 
and a habit of thinking for himielf in 
every 
