‘ 1800. ] 
and a little moiftened with water, it is 
fomewhat duétile 3, becomes very hard in 
the fire, fo that it feratches glafs, and 
pellucid; but remains taftelefs and indif- 
foluble in water. In acids the burnt 
earth is again eafily re-diffolved, and forms 
with them peculiar falts, which are quite 
taftelefs. © Fixed alkalies do not diffolve it 
either in the wet or dry way; nor does 
ammoniac. With the acid of forrel it 
has more affinity than with other acids. 
This earth has, by the difcoverer, been 
denominated aguffe-earih; becaule its 
combination with acids pofiefles no rafte. 
A circumftantial analylis of this earth, 
accompanied with an accurate deicription 
L 
of the foffil by Dr. BernHarol, ap-’ 
pears in the firft number of Vol. VII. of - 
‘TROMMsDORE’s Journal of Pharmacy, 
publifhed at the Leipzig Eatter-fair, 
2800. ; 
Dr. Harris, phyfician to our fettlements 
in Malacca, recently acquired from the 
Dutch, has difcovered many valuable plants 
10 be natives of that country, which were 
carefully concealed from the public by the 
mean jealoufy. of its former poffeffors ; 
among thele are the gamboge tree, the In- 
dia rubber (iatropha elajiica) two kinds of 
bread-fruit, the arnotta (bixa orellana) 
‘the Sumach (Rhus Favauica) and other 
non. defcript dying drugs. iy gh 
The celebrated Orientalif, Mr. Sacy, 
and Mr. LanGbes, keeper of the Oriental 
Manulcripts in the National Library, at 
Paris, having underftood that Dr. HaGErR 
propofes to: publifh in London a Chinefe 
and Englifh Diétionary, have offered him 
the perufal of the copious Chinefe mate- 
rials contained in the Naticnat Library, 
conlifting of the great Manufeript Dic- 
tionary, in 12,vol. tolio, which the learned 
Fourmont, Profeffor of Arabic, began to 
complete, by order of Louis the XIV, to 
enable the Miffionaries in China, as well. 
as the curious in‘Europe, to uhderftand 
the Chinefe Hieroglyphics, and to perafe 
the Mandarinic Works. ‘This Dictionary, 
the compilation of which occupied the laft 
27 years of Fourmont’s life, {till re- 
mains in manufcript there, together with 
_ 320,000 characters, cut in. wood, for 
the purpofe of printing it. 
A French tranflation of «* Tue Monk,” 
under the title Le Facobin Efpaguol, ox 
Fiyjtoire du Moine Ambrofio et la belle An- 
tonia fa fecur, has beeo bonoured with a 
place in the Lift of Books prohibited at 
Vienna. 
The activity of the- Company’s. agents 
in India-has roufed a fimilar{pirit of lau- 
_ Gable emulation at the-Cape of Gogd Hope, 
> Monruiy Mag. Noe, 58, 
Literary and Philo/ophical Lutelligence. 
359 
A large Botanical Garden has been infti- 
tuted under the aufpices of Lord Macart- 
ney, for the reception of fuch European, 
Atrican, American and Indian plants, as 
are likely to flourifh in that climate, and 
from this head they will gradually be dif- 
feminated over the South of Africa: a cor- 
relpondence and barter has been opened 
between the conduétor of this inftitution, . 
and Dre Anderfon of Calcutta,” by 
~whom have already been fent to the Cape, 
feed of the Bourbon cotton, of the fouwver- 
loubus pes capre to fix the driving fands on 
the fhore of Saldanha bay; plants of the 
Arabian Date, Palmira and Areca palms ; 
Royal, Malabar and Nicobar cocea nuts, 
and two Alphonfo Mango trees. 
It is‘truly interefting to obferve the ho- 
nourable activity of government and the 
Fatt India Company in thus corre@ing 
the partiality of nature: may all their un- 
dertakings of this kind meet with full fuc- 
cefs ! 
_ In the months of September and O&o- 
ber 1799, above 120 works inthe French, 
German and-Englifh languages, were ei- 
ther entirely prohibited by the Imperial’ 
Board of Licenfers at Vienna, or permit- 
ted with limitation... In the lift we no- 
ticed the following Enelith productions. 
Burckhardt’s Sytem of Divinity, &c.17975 
octavo.—The amufing Inftruétor, or a 
Key to the Italian Claffics, 1793.—Ben- 
net's. Letters to a young Lady, &c. 2 vol, 
179 5; 0étavo.—-The Orphan Heirefs of Sir 
Gregory, 1799, ottavo.—Clara Reeves’s 
Plans of Education, 8c. 1792, o€lavo.—= 
Letters of a Traveller,’ on the various 
cuntries of. Europe, &¢. Ed. by 4. 
Thomfon, 1798.—Charlotte Smith's young 
Philofopher, 4 vol. 1793.—T. Campbell's 
Pleafures of Hope, &c. Edin. 1798.—The 
Rile, Progrefsand Confequences, of the 
New Opinions and Principles lately intro- 
duced into France, with Obferyations. 
Edin, 1799, ottavo.—G. Walker's Vaga- 
bond, 2 vol. 1799. | 
The Ex-jefuits in Bavaria, have lately 
flattered themfelves with the hove of fee- 
ing their, order re-eftablifhed there, and 
the fchools put under their direéiton.— 
Their hopes, however, feem to be unfoun- 
ded: to individuals of the order the office 
of profeffor may indeed have been in fome 
inftances entrufted: but this is done not 
from any regard to the interefts of the or- 
der, but merely on account of the known 
abilities and ulefuinefs of thefe individual 
members. “Lhofe initiated into the {pirit 
and more hdden myfteries of the fociety 
have gradually vanifhed from the fublu- 
nary flage; and the younger Jefuits, who 
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