1798.] 
yard is certainly of much importance in 
‘this view, but it is a fubjeét of too ex- 
‘tenfive inquiry for the prefent purpole. 
Our defign is merely to bring to the no- 
tice of the agriculturift a few circum- 
ftances which feem to deferve more regard 
than they have generally met with. There 
can be little doubt that much benefit is 
derived from depofiting the matters that 
conftitute manures in fuch fituations as 
have a tendency to promote the decompo- 
fition of their harder and more fibrous 
parts, and which prevent or retard the 
evaporation of their juices. With thefe 
intentions the farmer fhould be carefui to 
’ place his manures in fucn fituations as are 
fully fheltered from the influence of the 
fun, either by the thade of trees or fome 
contrivanee for the purpofe, It fhould 
alfo be fo fituated that the thick part con- 
ftantly remains foaked in the more fluid. 
This intention will be greatly promoted 
by having the drains from the ftables and 
cow-houfes, to communicate with the 
dung-fhed. Frequent turning tends great- 
y to promote the difolution’ and decom- 
pofiticn of thefe fubftances, and in many 
inftances is unqueftionably a good prac- 
tice, efpecially if a fmall portion of cauf- 
tic lime be introduced, and the operation 
performed when the weather is inclined to 
be wet. 
In places where ftraw is dearand {carce, 
and where the fituation in other refpetts is 
favourable, the practice which has, we 
believe, Jong prevailed in the low coun- 
tries, may perhaps be introduced with 
fuccefs by the Englith farmer. This ts 
the /ittering of horfes, cows, &c. which 
are turned loofe in open fheds, &c. with 
turf, cut from commons, heaths, &c. 
The turf in this way is foon formed into ° 
a good manyre, by the rich particles 
that come from the dung of the aui- 
mals. Manure prepared in this mode is 
particularly ufefulon arable lands. It is 
obvious that the turf mutt be frequently 
removed, and new fupplies given. 
It appears that in marine fitvations a 
very ufeful and durable compoft may be 
formed by mixing fea-weed (gucrcus ma- 
rina) with other fubftances employed as 
manures by adding a portion of quick- 
lime. Inthis mannera fubftance which has 
a very powerful as well as a very durable 
effe€t on lands is readily conftituted, but 
in the methods generally praétifed in this 
country with this fubftance, a much lon- 
gertime is required, and manure fo pro- 
duced is not by any means fo lafting in its 
eperation. 
Curious Fad in Natural Hiflory,—Mr. 
Literary and Philofophical News. 
- Jeaf. 
457 
PETER ROst, who has publithed ** Ap 
Account of the Infeéts of Etruria,” being 
in the gatden of the academy of Pita, 
with Mr. CajeTANuS SAvI, the fuper- 
intendant of the garden, obferved a male 
of the cantharis melanura in conjunction 
with a female of the e/ater niger on a peach 
On his laying hold of the elater 
the cantharis endeavoured to extricate him- 
felf, but in vain; and in this fituation 
Mr. Roffi killed him, ta preferve the 
teftimonial! of fuch a fingular occurrence. 
The elater was killed i§ catching her. 
The account is figned by fix other gentle~ 
men, profeffors in the univerfity of Pifa, 
who afterwards faw the infects in this 
ftate. | 
Mr. J. A. Goetz, has juf favoured 
the learned world with an edition of the 
characters of ‘Theophraftus, in which are 
two chapters,’ that have never before been 
made public. Thefle two chapters were 
taken from a manufcript of the thirteenth 
or fourteenth century, now inthe Vatican 
library by profeflor SIEBENKEES. From 
this manufcript, which contains fifteen 
chapters, beginning with that which is the 
{ixteenth in the common editions, many 
corrections of the received text are taken, 
and very confiderable additions, fo that 
fome of the chapters are enlarged nearly 
one half. 
It appears from the narrative of a tour 
through Sweden, lately publifhed in Ger- 
man, by M. LENY DESCHNEPSENTHALy 
that the Angular fraternity of the Sweden-. 
borgifts is fuccefsfully and rapidly pro- 
pagating their novel fentiments in that 
country. Throughout the whole king- 
dom, the clafs of rude unenlightened men, 
who unite to purity of manners a certain 
penchant for religious ideas and practices, 
in a word all thofe (to quote the author’s 
own expreffion) whom the Gofpel calls 
poor in {pirit, adhere ftri€tly to the con=—— + 
feffion sf Augfburg. On the contrary, 
all the thinking heads, the moft enlightened 
minds, fuch as the men of {cience, natura- 
lifts. 8c. the moft generous friends of 
humanity, thofe who are endeavouring to 
erfect the fyftem of education and the 
public {chools, are ali, or alimoft all, mem- 
bers of the great affociation which bears 
the name of Swedenborg. However incre- 
edible this circumftance may appear in 
this country, it is neverthelefs ftrictly true. 
It does not follow however, that fo many 
amiable and refpectable learned men, al- 
though they have accepted the title of 
brethren in the fociety, have diftin@ly 
adopted the whole of their creed, fuch as 
believing in the new terreftrial Jerusalem, 
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