1801.} 
tumn. A faét analogous to this, and 
which is a ftriking example of fufpended 
animation in plants, has been communi- 
cated to the public through Mr. Nichol- 
fon’s; Journal, by Mr. Gough, of Ken- 
dal. Some plants of Lemna minor(common 
duck’s-meat) were collected from a pond 
in July 17975 dried for four or five hours 
in the fun, and preferved in a {mall box, 
to the end of March, 1800; they were then 
placed in a glafs jar with water, and not 
only revived, but flowered in the follow- 
ing Augutft. 
Although it is generally imagined that 
. trees are infallibly killed by {tripping them 
of their bark, yet it would appear from 
the practice of fome New York farmers, 
and from experiments by Dr. Mitchill, 
that apple-trees may be decorticated with 
impunity inthe middle of fummer. By 
this operation, according to the American 
farmers, the trees are nade, young again ; 
probably by removal of the infects which 
harbour under the old bark. A tree peeled 
by Dr. Mitchill, in the fummer of 1798, 
remained uninjured by the fucceeding win- 
ter, though a very fevere one. Another, 
which was ftripped in June 1799, had 
completely reproduced its bark before 
September, while a large crop of fruit that 
it was bearing at. the time, did not ap- 
pear to be in the fmalleft degree injured. 
Some fpecimens of auriferous pyrites 
_have been difcovered in Virginia, from 
ten penny-weights of which three grains 
of perfectly pure gold are faid to have 
been extracted. 
Oxyd of manganefe has alfo been dif 
covered in abundance in thecounty of Al- 
bemarle, and from the fame place fpeci- 
mens of liverftone, a variety of barofele- 
nite have been procured. 
Chancellor Livingfton, Prefident of the 
New-York Agricultural Society, has fuc- 
ceeded in an attempt to donefticate the 
American Elk: having procured three 
young ones, they were brought up with 
the other cattle, and foon became attached 
to them ; they are now about two years 
old, and are thirteen hands high, their 
thighs being as mufcular as thoie of the 
horfe. They have veen bitted twice, and 
feem at leaft as traétable as colts of the 
fame age. na 
In the cabinet of natural hiftory, ,in the 
pofleffion of M. Grit at Sodersfors, in 
Sweden,among many other curiofities, is a 
remarkable ape, without a tail; this fin- 
gular animal was very fond of eggs, and 
knew how to open and eat them with 
great facility ; he could pare:a melon, and 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
would throw away the fkin: he would in- 
hale the fumes of tobacco with delight, till 
he was loft in a ftate of infenfibility; he 
feemed to take pleafure in wafhing his 
hands every time that water was brought 
him ; he would often eat crufts of hard 
bread foftened in water; he was as mali- 
cious towards thofe whom he thought he 
had frightened, as he was complaifant 
towards thofe' whom he fufpeéted to be 
fironger than himfelf ; be was vindictive to 
an excefs, and never turgot any injury which 
he received, 
M. Gersontus, a Swedifh phyfician, 
has recently publithed fome curious infor~ 
mation concerning Tunis and the plague 
which has ravaged that city. He obtained 
the fituation of Phyfician to the Bey, 
and formed the firft fyftem of pharmacy 
which had been feen in that country. He 
attended nearly 700 perfons infected with 
the plague. The remedies he ufed with 
the greateft effect were, the flores arnicae 
and the extradium thebaicum. M. Ger~ 
fonius flattered himfelf that he had dif- 
covered two infallible fymptoms of the in- 
fection and a knowledge whether there was 
a hope of cure. 
In the 16th century the following pub- 
lic libraries were eftablifhed in varions 
parts of Germany; The fenatorial li- 
brary at Hamburgh 1529.—The city-li- 
brary at Aufburgh 1537.—The city-li- 
brary at Nurnberg. — The univerfity 
or Paulinian-library at Leipzic.—The 
univerfity-library at Jena 1548.—The 
electoral-library at Drefden 1588 ; with 
which, in the middle of the eighteenth 
‘century, the libraries of the counts Biinau 
and Briel were united. The eleétorale 
library aty‘Munich—The library of thePre- 
monftratenan Prebendaries at Prague — 
The Ducal-library at Brunfwick, by duke 
Auguttus 1604, at the caftle of Hitzacker, 
but afterwards. removed to Bruniwick, and 
finally toWolfenbuttel.—In Pruflia: The 
royal-library at Konigfberg 1540—The 
univerfity-library at the fame place, ag 
wellas the town-library—The fenatorial- 
library at Dantzic 1596.—During the fame 
period the following German univerfitics 
were founded; Frankfort on the Oder 
14.99——-1506.—Wittenberg 1502.—Mar- 
purg 1527.—Konigfberg 1544.—Jena 
1543.—=-Dillingen 1552.—Altdort1577.— 
1580.—-Helmftadt 1576.—Gratz 1586— 
and Gielen 1607.— 
The Piedmontefe patriots have ordered 
CoMOLLI, the {culptor, to carve a buf 
of General Maffena. . 
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