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Jutary and potable the moft corrupted 
and infe€tious water3 and that he can 
preferve ordinary water for many years in 
its ftate of natural purity. This difco- 
very is fo much the more Soaseine. as the 
charges of the procefs are very moderate. 
A German Phyfician in the Uziverfal 
Gazxeite (a journal of great merit) recom- 
mends to perfons occupied in fedentary 
labours, to live as much as poflible, on le- 
guminous food, and to add to it, in win- 
ter, a little meat with much bread, but 
he advifes thofe who are employed in fa- 
tiguing bodily labours, to fubftitute cake 
(pate de farine) for bread. 
M. HuFevanp had eftablithed in his 
Mocrobiotica, that the leaft mortality was 
in the proportion of one to fixty, which 
likewife, according to him, could only take 
place here and there, in country-places. 
‘The Curate of Vordalen in Norway, in 
the diocefe of Drontheim, has juft pub- 
lithed, that in his parith, peopled with 
3360 inhabitants, the mortality, during 
the laft ten years, has only, been. as one to 
feventy four; with the exception of two 
rears of an epidemic diforder, wherein it 
was from one to fixty-one- He makes 
no doubt that many other parts of Nor- 
way offer the fame reiult, and the fame 
may probably be faid of certain cantons 
of Sweden and Rufha. 
There never was fo confiderable a num- 
ber of books fent to Leipfic, the general 
mart of European literature, as at the laft 
Eafter fair, among which were enume- 
rated 2894~new works; and if St. Mi- 
chael’s fair adds another 1000, as there Is 
reafon to prefume, notwithftanding the 
diminution of merchandize, which it an- 
nually experiences, the total will form an 
entire amount of 4000, without including 
the gazettes, journals, books of devotion, 
and ‘the ordiriances and other acts of dif- 
ferent governments. The republic of 
Jetters in Germany is formed of not lefs 
than rso00 authors. 
M.. Affeffor RarFn has jut publithed 
in Danifh, at Copenhagen, the firtt and {¢- 
cond volumes of the Flora of Denmark and 
Holftein. This work, which has been 
crowned, is the refult oF a labour of fix 
years, een and corrected by the mof 
ikilful profeffors of that capital. A fo- 
reigner will be afonifhed to learn, that in 
a language fo little ufed, and fo little pro- 
pagated, there fhould Ee found fo great a 
number of denominations of plants, that 
almoft every plant has its {pecific term. 
Colonel §KiOLDEBRAND, is publith- 
irg in French, at. Stockholm, by fub- 
fcription, a Pidlurefque Journey to the 
Literary and Philofcpbical Intelligence. - 
‘eftablithed. 
(J uly , 
North Cape by Lapland, &c. to form 60 
views iz plans lavés gr. in folio. 
The canal of Trolhattan having been 
lately finifhed, there has juft appeared in 
Sweden, through the zealous care of M. 
AKREL, a chart which reprefents the 
fluices, &c. 
In confequence of the abolition of the 
religious houfes in France, the mode of 
education has undergone a great change, . 
and private feminaries are every where 
Mr. Duriez, member of fe- 
veral learned focieties, has inftituted one 
at Lifle, in which he follows in fome de- 
gree the old plan of the fraternity called 
@ Barbité, He diftinguithes his feminary 
into three clafles, the firft for young per- 
fons frorn ten to fourteen years of age, in 
which are taught drawing, natural hiltory, 
Greek, Latin, the French language, cof- 
mography, geography, and a preparatory 
courfe of natural hiftory. The fecond 
clafs, from fourteen to fixteen, is occupied 
in the mathematics and natural philofo- 
phy. The third clafs, above fixteen years 
of age, ftudies univerfal grammar, a 
courfe of legiflation, the belles-lettres, 
hiftory, and the principles. of commerce. 
Attention is alfo paid co their amufement, 
and models of every’ kind are conftantly 
placed before their eyes. The modern 
languages, mufic, dancing, and fencing, 
are paid feparate, and each boarder brings 
witn him a bed, two pair of fheets, a 
drinking-glafs, and fix towels. Terms 
are 500 livres a year for children from 
eight to fifteen, and 600 for perfons from — 
fitteen to eighteen years of age, to be paid 
each quarter in advance. * 
There have heen lately found in Sweden, 
in the fands near the high road which leads 
to Sdderkoping, a number of pieces of 
antient filver coin, and of bragteates; they 
bear the impreffion of Biorn Jcrnfida, of 
Philip Halltanfon, and moft of them date 
from the time of St. Elric; which efta- 
blifhes the right of prior antiques of thefe 
monies over all thofe of the country. 
Some among them have neither been de- 
{cribed by Brenner nor by Ziervogel. © 
A Swedith agriculturift has lately 
communicated to Le Nord Literaire, 
the following procefs which he has em- 
ployed fuccefsfully for fome years palt to 
protect his fruit trees from the firlt frofts 
of {pring. As foonas it begins to grow 
cold in autumn, he pours large quantities 
of water about the trunks of his trees, 
that the roots may receive an early imprei- 
fion of the cold; in {pring he accumulates 
{now around them, which retards vegeta- 
tion, and prevents the trees from blofiom- 
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