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fays, the wires flould be at leaft 100 feet 
long (bis father’s are about 300) and that 
they fhould be ftretched to an extreme de- 
gree of tenfion: they will only found after 
having. been expofed to the air during 
fome weeks. M. Haas, the father, had 
efiablifhed, at different times, fourteen of 
different fizes, which fometimes rendered 
agreeable founds. 
It appears, from the ‘foreign news in- 
ferted in the French journals, that not 
only municipal ordonnances of the police, 
but even weekly newfpapers are beginning 
to be publifhed in all the cities of Spain, 
of moderate fize. At the end of the year 
¥799, there appeared—Ordonuances of 
Police of the city of Sant Fago, as likewife, 
in the fame city, fince the month of May, 
r800, a journal, intitled, El Catoz Com- 
poftelano, the Cato of Compoffella, which 
contains a great number of memoirs on li- 
terature, economy, and politics, and the 
belles-lettres. The price of the twelve 
numbers, which appear every month, is 
eight reals. It fhould feem, likewife, that 
the public mind in Spain is much occu- 
pied with the phyfical education of chil- 
dren, and with the ameliorations of which 
domeftic economy is fufceptible. Among 
others may be advantageoufly cited, ‘a 
work which lately appeared on thefe fub- 
jects, which may be confidered.as a com- 
plete and initruétive differtation on the 
culture of potatoes. It is certain that the 
introdu€tion of this culture would be a 
real benefit for Spain. ‘The three editions 
which this work has gone through in a 
little time, proves that it has been well 
diffeminated throughout the kingdom. 
Every day new works. are appearing on 
medicine and the fciences connected with 
it. ‘There has been lately publithed the 
4th edition, corrected and augmented, of 
Curfo Teorico PraGtico de Operaciones de Ci- 
rurgia que contiene los mas celebres defcubri- 
mientos modernos, compuefte per D. DiEGo 
Vevasco, a Villaverde ; or ‘* A Prac- 
tico-theoretic Courfeof Chirurgical Opera- 
tions, containing the moft celebrated Mo- 
dern Difcoveries, compofed by Don Diego 
Velafco.” Don Patricio SANCHE en- 
deavours to prove, in the third volume of 
his Adventitias Critico-medicas, that the 
phthifis is not contagious. Some hiftorical 
and diplomatical works have likewife ap- 
peared lately in Spain—one on the antient 
municipal legiflation of the municipalities 
in the difiriét of Albaracin; and among 
the theatrical pieces which have had the 
molt fuccefs, are the Mifanthropy and Re- 
pentance of Kotzebue—a facred drama, 
of- three atts, of Nebuchadnezzar’s Pro- 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence: 
arts. 
[June 1, 
phecy, in Daniel—and Judith, a facred 
drama, in mufical ats. ‘ . ' 
In the French literary news from Egypt 
we find, that DesGrENeTTes, the phyfi- 
cian in chief of the French army, has re- 
ceived interefting notes, ferving to il- 
Juftrate the phyfical and medical topogra- 
phy of Alexandria, to be edited by Citi- 
zen SALZE, phyfician of the army; and at 
the fame time, a very extenfive -work of 
the fame kind upon Alexandria is an- 
nounced by Citizen GisLENi, in like | 
manner a phyfician to the army. 
The French are cutting a canal from 
Rofetta to the lake Burelos. They are 
alfo digging the entire canal of Alexan- 
dria. The antient canal,, which from 
Eyrout proceeds to that of Alexandria, is 
re-eftablifhed. By this means a naviga- 
tion is fecured, at ‘all times, from Cairo 
to Alexandria, without pafling the bar of 
Rofetta. 
General ViaL, who is arrived from 
Egypt, has jutt prefented to the Firft Con- 
ful an antique torfos of bafaltes, of ex- 
traordinary beauty. It is the body of a 
young man about 15 years of age, of a 
perfect anatomy. It was difinterred in 
the Delta, and has proceeded from the 
temple of Bebet. How great will be the 
lofs to literature and civilization, if Egypt 
fhould again fall under the barbarous do- 
minion of the Turks! 
The National Inftitute, in its general 
fitting of the sth Germinal, has proceeded 
to the nomination of a member of the clafs 
of mathematical and phyfical {ciences, fec- 
tion of experimental phyfics, in the place 
of Citizen Cousin. The votes of the 
clafs had been divided between the Citi- 
zens EvEQUE, LoiseL, and Conte; 
thofe of the Inftitute kept the fame order 
between the competitors ; Citizen Eveque 
has confequently obtained the majority, 
and been proclaimed Member of the Infii- 
tute. 
In 2 letter received at Paris from Citi- 
zen BRovussoneT, the naturalift, dated 
from Santa Cruz, at Teneriffe, 18 Fri- 
maire, year 9, he makes mention of his 
refearches and his colleétions- of natural 
hiftory, in which he is inceflantly occu- 
pied. His proje& is to publifh the rare 
plants of the Canary Tflands, which he 
caufes to be defigned at the fame time 
that he is defcribing them. ‘The moft re- 
markable are the Conwolvulus Floridus et 
Scoparius, which furnifh the rofe-wood, 
lignum rhodium, ufed in medicine and the 
This wood, which was firft-im- 
ported as an article of commerce by the 
Hollanders, came only from the eg te 
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