342. 
the alternative harmony of mafculine and 
feminine rhimes, and generallyto corrupt 
that fine idiom which the RaciNnes, the 
Bossusts, the FENELONS, the VOL- 
Tarres, &c. have rendered worthy to 
ferve as an example to all others. 
The Cow-pox is making a rapid pro- 
grefs in every part of Germany. Mr. 
Atxin’s Production is already tranf- 
Jated. The King of Pruffia has com- 
manded his army to be inoculated; and it 
is believed that the German princes, who, 
like Pruffia, Naffau, Bavaria, &c. are de- 
fpotic, will, as a matter of police, compel 
a univerfal inoculation in their dominions. 
Exterminating the fmall-pox, and annthi- 
Jating the little princes and fates of Ger- 
many, are the two great projects of the re- 
forming part of Germany. 
Mr. Dyer’s Life of Mr. RoBinson is 
tranflated into German, under the fafhion- 
able title of ** The Prieft as he fhould be; 
or, the Life, &<.** ns 
The following is the number of objects 
diftributed during the laft two years, by 
the profeffors of the Muleum of Natural 
Hiitory, chofen out of the duplicate objects 
in the Mufeum, among the central fchools 
of France. Live vegetables, 16,408 ; 
packets of feeds, 98,412; dried vegeta- 
bles for. the compofition of herbaries, 
35,211; birds, quadrupeds, fith, 2297 ; 
fhells, madrepores, inieéts, 27,396 ; mi- 
nerals, 12,056; petrifications, foflils, 1277. 
—All thefe objeé&ts having been named 
with precifion, always in the {ame manner, 
and by the names the mof generally 
adopted, incalculable advantages will re- 
fult to the ftudent by this uniformity of in- 
ftruction, which will, at the fame time, fa- 
eilitate correfpondence, and fave the pro- 
feilors of the ichools, inveftigations, which 
the want of books, and the privation of 
many other refources, would generally 
render impoffible to them. Such a labour 
could only be effected, in each part of na- 
tural hiftory, by the Profeffor of the Mu- 
feum, who is particularly occupied in it. 
This is one of the moit ufeful effects of 
the law of organization of that eftablith- 
ment; a law, the wildom and happy fruits 
ef which are fo generally known, that it 
has been demanded by the moft celebrated 
Profeffors ef Germany, to be propofed as 
a mode} anda ruieto follow in the admi- 
niftration of-the univerfities of which they 
are members, fuch as thofe of Gottingen, 
Harlem, Manheim, Francfort, and Caifiel. 
The fame law has been fent to Spain, at 
the requeit of the Secretary of Legation at 
the Court of Madrid, and even to America, 
at the dere of Mr. JEFFERSON, 
Literary and Philefophical Intelligence, 
[May 5 
The Nationar INnstituTeE having 
lately admitted Cit. LEBRUN, now count 
the three Confuls in the number of its 
members. Citizen Lebrun, the third 
Conful, is equally celebrated in the career 
of letters, and in that of politics. He 
has publithed a Tranflation of the Iliad, 
remarkable for the purity and rapidity of. 
the ityle; and a Tranflation of Ferufalem 
Delivered; and many other works, to which 
he has not fet his name, are attributed to 
him—His writings on the finances are well 
known. 
The French journals make mention of a 
horfe without hair, which is ftated to have 
been bough? at Vienna ten years age. He 
is about twenty years old, eats the fame 
food, and in the fame quantity, as ordi- 
nary horles ; is lean, and very fenfible. to 
cold. Over his whole bedy he has no 
other hair than_one at the lower eye-lid. 
The fkin is black, approaching to grey, 
with {ome white {pots about the groin,- 
foft to touch, fhining, and rather unétuous. 
The fkin of the nofe, of all the noftrils, 
and of the lips,is like that of the reft of the 
body. The bones of the nofe are depref- 
fed, which embarrafles his refpiration, and 
makes him utter a noife whenever he 
takes or refpires breath. Citizen Las- 
TEYRIE, by whom this notice is given, is 
of opinion, that this horfe forms a variety 
in the f{pecies, and that its ftate is neither 
the effect of art, nor of difeafe, 
Tt appears, by letters received from Ci- 
tizen Marrin, Direétor of the Spice-plan= 
tations at Cayenne, addreffed to the Pro. 
fefiors of the Mufeum of Natural Hiftory - 
at Paris (dated from the Plantation-houfe 
at Gabriel, 12 Vendemiaire, year 9), that 
he has exerted himfelf confiderably to aug- 
ment the plantations of fpices at the above 
refidence. Inthe courfe of the year, he 
planted about 1000 cloves, 1500 pepper- 
trees, 1800 cinnamon- trees, and fome nut- 
megs. There ftill remain in the nurferies 
about 10,000 cloves, and as many pepper- 
trees as will fuffice to double, during the - 
winter, the plantations already made in 
this kind. The fame may be faid of the 
cinnamon, He has likewife carefully re- 
placed all the old cloves which had died 
during his abfence in France, to the num- 
ber of 2000 and more. This was a confi- 
derable lofs for the plantation. 
Helhas, - 
however, been enabled to check the pro=° - 
grefs of this mortality. In the fame year 
he began a plantation of vanilla, an odori- 
ferous plant, the fruit of which is ufed in 
the compofition of chocolate ; and the pro- 
gre{s which they have already made, im fo «- 
ihort a {pace of time, affords the moft fiat= - 
tering 
