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found the well-preferved mufhrooms, were 
heaped together under tamarifk-trees, 
which fheltered them from rains and dews ; 
and the fands with which he’ made his ex- 
periments no longer contained any falife 
parts, of which they had, doubulefs, been 
deprived by the effect of the rains anterior 
to théir change of place. 
The manufaéture at Paffy, by Citizen 
BaweNs, for {peedily bleaching cotton- 
cloth, in which the procefs invented by 
Citizen CHAPTAL is employed, is the firft 
in France which ha’ been catried on ona 
large feale. The fuccefs has furpaffed ex- 
' peGation; and the proprietors of that ef- 
iablifhment are proceeding to multiply 
them on many points of the Republic, and 
efpecially in Belgium, where the manufac- 
ture of linen-cloth is confiderable. The 
bleaching of thefe laft is much eafier, and 
the procefs has been extremely fimplified 
by the intelligence of Citizen BoURLIER, 
one of the manufacturers ; two cr three 
days fuffice, at prefent, to give to the 
coarfeft linen a degree of whitenefs which 
the bleachers in general only obtain by 
Jong and expenfive methods. The Firk 
Conful,,acconipanied by the Third Conful, 
and the Minifter of Interior, went lately to 
wifit this manufacture; he minutely in- 
fpeCied all the departments ; traced the 
operation of combing, of {pinning, and of 
weaving; and terminated his vifit by ex- 
amining the bleaching. machine, executed 
on the mode! of that of Citizen Chaptal. 
He faw wrought in this machine, by a 
_fingle operation, 2000 metres of cotton- 
cloth. Amother very valuable experiment 
has been made, under the care of Citizen 
haptal, in the fame manvfagture, and its 
full fuccefs. merits the greateft publicity: 
this. is, the ordinary wafhing of linen, 
proofs of which have been made, after 
many trials, on many hundred pairs of 
fheets, chofen among the dirtieft'in the Ho- 
tel Dieu at Paris. The uniform refult 
of thefe experiments is, that it {carcely re- 
quires half of the ordinary expence; that 
two or three days are fuficient to termi-+ 
nate the operation ; that the linen is neither 
altered by the liquor, nor rent, nor worn, 
as it only pafles once through the hands, 
and that there is no neceffity to beat it; 
and, laftly, that the alcaline liquor made 
ule of, penetrating by the extreme heat of 
the apparatus, into the weit of the linen, 
all the foreign ‘materials attached to it, 
and all infeCtiious miasma_ introduced 
into it, are deftroyed, which cannot be ex- 
pected from ordinary lye, and which fre. 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
[ OGober t, 
quently becomes, efpecially in hofpitalsy. 
the germ of dangerous maladies. 
The Spanifh nation, which has hitherto 
not kept pace with other cultivated na- 
tions in arts and fciences, begins now to 
emulate them very eagerly. “The inocu- 
Jation of the cow-pox is not only known 
in Spain, but already praétifed by feveral 
phyficians with the greateft fuccefs, 
amongft which Dr. Francisco PecuiL- 
LEM particularly deferves to be mention- 
ed, who procured himfelf the cow-pox. 
matter from Paris, with which he has fuc- 
ce{sfully begun to inoculate fince Decem- 
ber, 1800.—The Royal Economical Seci- 
ety has publifhed, in the fixth volume of 
their Memorias, a tranflation of the 
Effays of Count RumMrForD, which are 
adapted for the ufe of Spain, by D. Do- 
-MINGO AGcUERA ¥ NacRa, and fepa- 
rately fold in fingle numbers. The or- 
ders of the King, concerning the new 
weighis and meafures, are known from: 
the newfpapers, and in the new Almanac 
Mercantile (1801), we find, for the firft 
time, a comparifon between the French and | 
Spanith meafures, and likewife the Frenchy 
Almanac.—The fciences _ particularly 
cultivated in Spain, are natural philo- 
fophy, medicine, chemiftry, and botany 5 
for which a very good journal, the Az= 
nales de Ciencias Naturales, is eftablifhed 
and appears every month. In the 6th,’ 
7th, and 8th Numbers, we find the follow- 
ing memoirs: Botanical Treatifes, by 
BrotssoneT; feveral Letters on Mine- 
ralogy, by HumBo pr, dire&ted to the 
Saxon Ambafladar, Baron Forzi1u, and 
to D.JosePH CLavijo, together with a 
Sketch of a Mineralogical Hiftory of 
Spain and its Colonies ;. Aftronomical 
Obfervations from Madrid, Cadiz, &c. a 
Memoir on the Spanifh Naturalifts, and. 
an Adyertifement of the Plantar. 
Rarior. Hungaria Decad. Another very 
ufeful journal is the Semanerio de Agricul~ 
tura y Artes, bezun under the proteétion 
of the Prince of Peace (Principe de Te 
Paz), in which all inventions and difcove- 
ries made in foreign countries are’ collected 
and adapted for Spain. ‘Thus we find in 
the 8th volume very good extraéts on all 
Theories on Manuring ; othe Method of 
Watering ; on the Remedies for Prevent~ 
ing the Plague, &c. The new Chemical 
Syftem begins to be likewife adopted, and 
feveral publications have appeared on this 
fubje&t. Military Sciences are by nod 
means negleéted: the Campaigns of Bo- 
naparte; and other Military Works are, 
meen? 
