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[Sept 
; - VARIETIES, 
LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL; ' 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
1. 
%* Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
7 R- CLINE will begin his courle 
Ji of anatomical and furgical ieftures, 
on Tueiday the 1{ of October, at one 
o’clock, at the Theatre St. Thomsc’s Hof- 
pital. 
Mr. AstTLey Cooper will begin his 
courfe of leétures on the principles and 
practice of furgery, at the fame place, on 
Friday the 25th of Oétober, at eight o’clock 
‘In the evening *. 
Mr. ParKinson has in the prefs a 
work intended.as a Vage Mecum tor the 
chemif or mineralogift. It coniifts of che- 
mical memoranda, arranged in an analy- 
tical {ketch of modern chemiftry ; witha 
cefcription of the external charaéters of 
fiones, minerals, @&c. from Kirwan; 
tables of afinities from Bergman; &c. 
Major Ousexy, fojuftiy celebrated for 
his knowledge of Perfian and Eaftern lite- 
yature, will-publifh, in a few days, an 
<¢ Eptiome of the Ancient Hiftory of Perfia,” 
tranilated trom the Feban Ara, a Perfian 
manuicript, with a map of Perfia, a view 
of the ruins of Pericpolis, fome ancient 
gems, &c. in cne {mall volume. 
Captain Symes’s interefting Account of 
his ‘* Embaffy to Ava,” in one large 4to. 
volume, with feveral maps and {plendid 
engravings, will be foon ready for publi- 
cation, ; 
A tranflation of “* Afatic Refearches” 
has juft made its appearance in Germany. 
The fecond and laff volume cf the va- 
luable “‘ Travels through North America,” 
by the Duke De La RoCHEFOUCAULT 
LIANCOURT, with the maps, &c. will be 
ready in a few days. 
A Ruffian, of the name of LEBEDEFF, 
has lately arrived in London fiom India; 
where he has refided about twelve~ years ; 
the whole of that time he devoted to the 
ftudy of the Bengal, mixed Hindoftan, and 
Shan{crect languages. The refult of his 
Jabours are, a Dictionary and Grammar of 
the Bengal Language, and a tranflation of 
“an ancient Work written in the Bengali 
and Shanfcreet. The Emperor of Ruffia, 
on being informed of his arrival in Eu- 
rope with thefe works, has honoured him 
with his particular patronage, and muni- 
ficently granted him Jeave to publifh the 
* Other Le€turers are requefted to fend the 
announcements for inferticn previouily to the 
35th of Septernber. 
abovementioned works at the expence of 
his Majefty, leaving the whole profits to 
Mr. Lebedeff. 
We have already offered a few hints 
on the conftruétion of Farm- Yards, which 
is a matter of very great importance, 
though it would feein to be lefs underftood 
or lefs attended to than many other things 
of very inferior confequences in farming. 
If the making of gocd manure in large 
quantitics be deferving of the particular 
regard of the practical farmer; the forna 
and conftruétion of the places in which it 
is to be made orpreferved, furely ftill more 
nowerfully claim. his regard, as being not 
only the principal hinges on which his fuc - 
ce{s mult depend, but on which that of his 
whole fyftem of hufbandry muft turn. It 
is however extremely common to fee ex- 
tenfive farm-yards unprovided with the 
means of collséting and preferving the 
richeft and moft powertul manures, and 
farmers quite inattentive and regardlefs 
of their lofs. In fome inftances there are 
neither dratas for conveying the mouture 
from the places in which the animals are 
kept, or refervoirs for receiving it; in 
others it is defignedly condu€ted away and 
loft, as if it were of no value, In general 
too, the folid part of the manure is by no 
means well managed, much of it being 
fuffered to be {cattered about and expofed 
to the action of the fun and wind, by 
which much of its virtue is diffipated and 
loft. In many,cafes indeed where dung 
is permitted to be thus expofed for a length 
of time, it becomes perfectly inert; and 
three or four loads are required where one 
would have been’fully fufficient. It is 
evident therefore that everyfarm-yard fhould 
not only be provided with convenient drains 
for conveying the excretions of animals, 
and proper refervoirs for containing them, 
but means fhould be taken for mixing and 
impregnating otker fubitances with them, 
in order to augment and increafe the 
quantity. (ian 
The quantity of manure of a farm may 
be confiderably increafed by proper atten- 
tion to the mixture of other fub{tances with 
the urine of animals, efpecially where all 
the different offices for cattle and other 
tock are fo contrived as to- difcharge the 
liquid matiers which they contain into a 
proper receptacle. In Sweden and many 
other countries particular regard is paid 
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