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himfelf a favourite production. The 
Notes confift of quotations from various 
writers, Heathen, Jewith, and Chriftian, 
ancient and modern, tending, by parallel- 
ifm of fentiments and language, or ex+ 
planations of allufions and cuftoms, or 
hints of other kinds, to the illuftration of 
the Scriptures. In this mode of com- 
menting, Mr. Bulkley has been preceded 
by Grotius, Raphelius, Wetitein, and 
many learned foreigners y and- at home, 
Doddridge, Chandler, Bifhop Pearce, and 
Wakefield, have furnithed {pecimens of 
it. But his work, confidering the ful- 
nefs and extent to which he has purfued 
this way of expofition, will be an unique 
in the Englifh language. It promiles, 
therefore, to be acceptable to the biblical 
ftudent, and will fupply the young preacher 
with many fine paflages from the ftores' of 
Greek and Latin literature, with which to 
illuttrate his reprefentations of devotional 
and ethical truths drawn from the Old and 
New Tettaments. | 
Mr. Pratr has put forth his late 
poem, intitled Breap or the Poor, with’ 
a tranfpofiiion of the words, viz. the 
POOR or Bread, &c. as having been 
thought more expreflive of the variety of 
national and important fubjecéts difcuffed 
in the work. 
The Society for the Encouragement. of 
Arts, &c. has awarded a gold medal to 
General Bentuam for a new method of 
preferving water perfectly {weet during 
long-voyages. The experiment was tried 
on board ‘two floops of war, the Arrow 
and Dart, and appears to have terminated 
in the moft fatista€tory manner. Inftead 
of the ordinary ftowage in catks, fixteen 
tanks or cafes, adapted to the fhape of the 
hold, were placed in each veflel, and filled 
with about forty tons of water, by means 
of which the water occupied much lefs 
room in the fhips than it would have done 
if cafks had been made ufe of. The 
tanks were made of wood, accurately lined 
with fheets of tinned copper, all the junc- 
tures of which were fecured by folder, fo 
that the water was no where in contaé& 
with any thing but the furface of tin. By 
‘way of comparifon, about 30 tons of 
water was ftowed on board each veffel, in 
cafks, as ufual, The water in all the 
tanks on board one fhip, and that in thir- 
teen of the tanks on board the other, was 
uniformly found to continue as pure as 
when it was firft taken from the ‘pring : 
that which was contained in the other three 
tanks was more or lefs tainted, as that-in 
the cafks was, After the water had re- 
mained oh board a fufficient length. of 
time; it was uled out, ana the tanks re- 
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plenithed from time to time ; but, in fome 
of the tanks, the water was allowed to 
continue three years and a half; 25 gal- 
lons of which, being fent to the Society, 
was found to be ftill wholly unaltered. 
The Rev. Dr. WirLurams, of Rother- 
ham, and Mr. Parsons, of Leeds, have 
jait circulated propofals for a new and 
uniform edition of the works of Dr. Dop- 
DRIDGE to be publifhed under their in- 
{fpection. 
From-a ftatement of the experiments 
made by the Rev. Mr. BEnnET on the 
electricity produced by the contact of me= 
tals previcufly to the year 1789, and alfo 
of thofe made by Mr.Cava to previoufly 
to 1795, Mr. NicHoLson draws the fol- 
lowing conclufions :—1,. That the conta& 
of one metallic fubftance with another 
generally produces eleétricity ; 2. that the 
quantity and quality of the eleétricity fo 
produced are various, according’ to many 
circumftances which feem to occur in the 
product of it, or in a great meafure to in- 
fluence it; 3.and that thefe circumftances 
are the various nature of the metallic 
fubftances, their various degrees of heat, 
the ftate of the atmofphere, the hand of 
the operator, &c.' each of which caufe 
has its fhare in the refult. 
The Rev. Mr. Munnines, of Eat 
Dereham, Norfolk, having had frequent 
occafion to regret that, when turnip crops 
were very abundant, the advantages de- 
rived from the expenditure were far from 
correfpondent, becaufe no effectual method 
had been devifed to protect the roots - 
from the feverity of a winter’s froft; in 
the commen method of broad-caf? (owing, 
he confidered an attempt of this fort im- 
practicable ; he therefore ufed the drill 
method, and then, by pulling up the al- 
ternate rows, vacant {paces of about three 
feet wide were left, which he fo turned up 
with a plough as to mould up the turnips 
on each fide mof effectually, and thereby 
leffen very materially, if not abfolutely 
prevent, the danger arifing from the fre- 
quently fatal effeéts of a cutting froft. 
He informs us, that many very experi- 
enced farmers, who paid attention to his 
operations, honoured them with their en- 
tire approbation, and look upon his me- 
thod as'a grand difcovery in the manage 
ment of a turnip-crop. 
Mr. L. W. Dituwyn is about to il- 
luftrate the Genus Corferva in a work 
comprifing a magnified drawing, .and brief 
account, of each fpecies. Hig intention 
is to publifh it in tafciculi, of which one 
will appear regularly every three months ; 
the firft, comprifing’ twelve {pecies, wilt 
be ready in June. vig . 
3 B a ty Mr, 
