1802, | 
From fome experiments which have been 
made, its ftrength appears to be in the 
proportion of five to four of European 
cordage. The plant grows f{pontaneous- 
ly in Ceylon, and many tons of it canbe 
colleéted in Candy, but the natives are 
entirely ignorant of the proper method of 
manufacturing it. 
The ftatue of the immortal Laurence 
Kosrer, formerly a citizen of Harlem, 
has been, in a manner, buried for eighty 
years paft, in the botanic-garden of that 
city. The municipality, however, have 
lately placed it in a truly honourable fitu- 
ation, namely, inthe large market-place, 
as that of Erafmus is at Rotterdam. 
The tree of liberty, which ftands in the 
middle of the market, has prevented that 
central point from being occupied by Kof- 
ter. It has been put by the fide of the 
fifh-market, in front of the houfe which 
he long ago inhabited, and the frontispiece 
of which ftill preferves his effigy. This 
- ftatue, in freeftone of Bentheim, nine feet 
high, and placed on a pedeftal of fix, is 
the work of GERaRD van HEERSTAL; 
{culptor ; the college of medicine defray- 
ed thecharges, which were not very confi- 
derable, the whole plan amounting only 
to 550 florins (from 11 to 1200 francs), 
in 1722. The head, which refembles 
Kofter, bears a crown of laurel. . In one 
hand he holds the firft letter of the alpha- 
bet, and in the other appears an open 
book. Two infcriptions, and two bas- 
reliefs, ornament the four fides of the pe- 
deftal; the bas-reliefs reprefent, on the 
eat-fide, Kofter engraving charagters in 
the bark of a tree of Harlem wood; on 
the welt-fide is a printing-office, and Kof- 
ter bufily employed. The infcription on 
the north-fide is, 
A.M. S. 
Latrentio Coftero, 
Harlemenfi. 
Viro Confulari: 
Typographie 
Inventori Vero.* 
Monumentum Hoc. 
Erigi. Curavit. 
Collegium Medicum, 
Anno MDCCXXII. 
Extruit hanc, monftrante Deo, Laurentius 
artem ; : 
Diffimulare virum, diffimulare Deum eft. 
And lower down, 
Tranfl. ex, horto. Med. MDCCC. 
Ne ee Se ee 
* This affertion, however, is well known 
to be fmartly contefted, even after all the ce- 
lebrated Meerman has alledged in its fupport, 
and although René Scriverius has pronounced 
fuch as think otherwife Atheifts; ' 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
63 
That on the fouth fide is compofed of 
thefe Latin verfes, 
Cofterus clara redimitus tempora lauro 
Quifque ades, quare confpiciatur, habe = 
Hzc propria heroum fuit elim gloria quorum 
Vel geftis celebris vita, vel arte fuit. 
Invento qui gefta fuo fervavit et artes, 
Quis neget hunc tantum bis mertuiffe dee 
cus. J: VanZanrem, M.D, 
That is to fay, Whoever thou art that 
defireft to know why Kofter is here repre~ 
fented with his brows entwined with lag« 
rel, learn, that fuch was formerly the ho- 
nour of thofe who had illufrated their 
lives by their a&tions, or by their talents. 
He, whole difcovery has preferved botix’ 
the one and the other from oblivion, does 
not he merit the fame diftin@ion by @ 
double title? 
The celebrated miffionary to India, P. 
Pauinus A. S. BarRTHOLOM#0, has 
been employed fince the month of Ma 
1800, at Rome, as “onfultatore dell? Ind: 
ce. It is to be withed that the occu. 
pations which this place require, may not 
deprive the literary world of the fruic of 
his labours, and of what he has colleGed 
for the Knowledge of ancient and modern - 
India. 
The following French books have been 
lately prohibited by the imperial cen(are 
at Vienna (Jan. 1801): « Abregé Chronn- 
logique,”” &c. or, a Chronological Abridg- ~ 
ment of Univerfal Hiftory, by M. Ea 
CRozE, continued by M. Former, 8th 
Edition, Laufanne, in 8yo. <«« L’ Anii- 
pode,” &c. or, the Antipodes of Marmon- 
tel, or New FiStions, &c. at or 2d 
Parts, Paris, year 8, in 8yo. Marengo ; 
or, the Campaign of Italy, by the Army 
of Referve, commanded by General Bo- 
naparte, written by J, Perir, Year g, ia 
8vo. The following French books can. 
not be delivered without a fpecial com~ 
miffion for that purpofe:—« Ze Mey. 
cure,’ &c. or, the Mercury of France, 
Nos. 10 and 12, Hamburg, 1800, in 8vo, 
the Speétator of the North, ath Year, No- 
vember, 1800, in Lower Saxony, in 8yo. 
and the Voyage into Greece, by Xavier 
SCROFANI, a Sicilian, made in 1794 and 
1795, tranflated from the Italian, J. F. C. 
BLAaNVILLaIN, 3 vol. Paris and Straf. 
burg, Year 9, 1801, in 8vo, 
M. Koenxer has Jately publithed at 
the printing-office of the Imperial Aca- 
demy of Sciences at Peterfburg, the De. 
{cription cf a Vale of Antique Sardonyx, 
graved in relievo, which, it appears, was 
long depofited in the treafure of the 
Kings of France. In the manufcripts of 
Peirefe, preferved in the National-libra- 
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