1801.] 
{cription. ‘The burgomafter, Ca. Wi- 
Dow, has greatly contributed to the en- 
largement ef the library, efpecially while 
he was Firft Infpeétor of the Schools, in 
procuring for it many works of Natural 
Hiftory and of Medicine, in the fale of 
the library of a learned phyfician. It has 
been ftill further augmented with a com- 
plete colleStion of all the ancient phyfi- 
cians, by the liberality of an unknown 
perfon. In this department, few libraries 
will be better furnifhed than that of Ham- 
burg; which induces.a hope, that the 
treafures which it contains, will be foon 
' put into order. Asthe apartments are too 
confined, the planof the fenator Corneés, 
is to join fome contiguous buildings to it. 
— During the little time that he has been 
charged with the fun&tions of infpecor, 
the library has already made {everal im- 
portant acquifitions, fuch as the Journal 
des Scavans, from its commencement, 
many large hiftorical collections, and the 
beft editions of the Greek claffical authors. 
Paftor H. J, WiLLERDING has induced the 
Ecclefiaftical College of the church of St. Pe- 
ter to grant it about fixty old manufcripts, 
and fome firft impreffions, which were 
‘formerly preferved in that church. ‘In 
the fame }ibrary, is preferved an excellent 
portrait of KLopstock, painted by An- 
THONY HickeL, a valuable artift, who 
died at Hamburg, and of which his bro- 
ther, JosepH HICKEL, court-painter at 
Vienna, has made a prefent to the city in - 
which that celebrated poet lived. _ 
In the paffage where Marius, the fir 
bifhop of Laufanne, makes mention, in the 
Annals of his own Time, of the pox(wari- 
ola),there was then only one; and he oblerves 
that it particularly attacked horned cattle. 
It appears that it only attacked men in the 
following year, that is to fay, in 571.* 
This fthews that cows are fufceptible of 
# A 670, Hoc anno morbus validus cum 
profluyio ventris et variola Italiam Galliam- 
que valde afflixit. Et animalia bubala per ea 
loca maxime interierunt.—A. 571. “Hoc 
anno infanda irfirmitas et glandula, cujus 
nomen eft puftula, in fupra-fcriptis regionibus 
innumerabilem pgpulum devattayit.”--Muller, 
in his Hiftory of Switzerland, compares with 
this ‘another pafflage of Paul Warnefrid, 
where we read de glandulis in modum nucis quas 
fequebatur febrium aflus 3 and another of Anaf- 
tafius, the librarian, who fpeaks de percu/- 
_fione feabierum, ut nemo pofjet mortuum fuum in 
ternofcere —this, according to Muller, agrees 
with the fmall-pox, which in the firft cen- 
turies, as well asthe venereal malady, was 
more terrible and. more deadly than in the fe- 
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its attacks ; it is fingular enough that the 
fame animal which firft had this malady, 
fhould furnifh to man the bef prefervative 
againft the fame malady, What appears 
ftill more furprifing is,that from thatremote 
epoch this malady has not been at all 
obferved, or at leaft very feldom, upon 
cows, 
In a furvey whichhas been Jately made‘ 
at Columbo, in the ifland of Ceylon, a 
fpecies of palm has been difcovered, called 
the Palm Licuale, which produces very 
large leaves, and rivals in this refpeét 
the cocoa-tree itfelf, It is claffed among 
the loftieft trees, and becomes ftill higher 
when burfting forth into bioflom from its 
leafy fummit. The fheaf which then en- 
velopes the flower is very large, and when 
it burfts makes a loud report; after which 
it fhoots forth branches on every fide, to 
the very furprifing height of thirty-fix or 
forty feet. 
We learn from a late ftatiftical writer, 
that before the year 1770 there were not 
three books in the immenfe and overgrown 
Ruffian Empire upon medical fubjects. 
According to a lift lately publithed by 
the Synod of Ruffia, there died, during 
the laft. year, in the thirty-two di- 
vifions of the Empire, 216 perfons 100 
years old; 133 between 101 and 110; 26 
between tin and 119; gaged 1203 £ 
aged 1253; 2zaged 130, and 2550 above 
On 
: PicnoTtT1 is well-known to the readers 
of modern Italian poetry for fables, which 
borrow or reveal the moft delicate graces 
of the language; and for metrical novels, 
and tales, which blazon or fatirize the 
manners of polifhed fociety. His La tomba 
di Shakefpeare has in Great Britain a pae 
triotic claim to praife: the following ex- 
traét will give fome idea of its charac- 
ter. Theauthor, after fceing in vifion 
Apollo and the Mufes, thus continues :—= 
Portati fulle piume della fanta 
Aura, che fpira dal caftalio fonte 
Spiegavan Vali i pid fublimi cigni, 
Che ful Tamigi un di fciolfero i) canto. = 
Venerabile in volto, elacanuta (Milton} 
Chioma cinta d’ alloro al Cielo ergea 
I ciechi lumi, quei che fopra V’ ali 
Serafiche poggio fino alle ftelle, 
’ EL arbore vietata onde fi colfe 
Dal primo genitor si amaro frutto, 
Coll’ eroica canto divina tromba. 
Vedeafi accanto a lui della tebana . 
Lira l’ erede, che fpirar del Gange (Dryden) ~ 
quel ; among other reafons, becaufe, at that 
time, they were unacquainted with the true 
methods of cures 
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