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‘* Seminario de Agricultura y Artes, » 
tomo 8°.’’—Seniinary of Agriculture and 
Arts, 8th volume. Among other arti- 
eles are included the following: the 
methed of cultivating the cotton tree, ‘the 
turnie}, the management of clover, and 
ef the turnip: it treats of. the atmo- ° 
fpherie influences in cultivation, of the 
modes of preventing the deftru&tion fo 
common in Spain from want of humidity, 
and on the increafe of wood: and it ad- 
verts to the fyitems of the moft celebrated 
tudents in agriculture: this comprehen- 
Ave work alo includes obfervations on the 
improvements in farming by the King of 
Great Britain; it difcuffes the fubject 
which has been lately fo interefting in this 
ccuntry, of the fubttitutes admiffible for 
aliment in times of the fcarcity of the 
principal pabulum vite : in it the waters, 
of Madrid are chymica'ly analyzed ; but 
it would be prolix to give a detail of the 
numerous ufSful articles in this publica- 
tion ; we fhall therefore only obferve fur- 
ther, that it contains a particular account 
of the Royal Inftitute lately eftablifhed 
here, and that to this work is fubjoined 
a General Index to the preceding volumes, 
‘s Agricultura de Vinas.”—The Cul- 
ture of Vines. This work details the 
different fpecies, and the land moft fuited 
to them; it defcribes the mode /of culti- 
vation, the vermin that injure them, and 
the veffels beft adapted to the prefervation 
of wine. 
. © Difertacion Sobre la Cria de Paftos y 
_Ganados, Caufas de fus Atrafos y Me- 
dios para fus Prognefos, por D. Enri- 
QuE Dory Le.” —Difleriation on the Ma- 
nagement of Pafiuresand Cattle, Caufes 
of the Obftruétion to Improvement,, and 
Means of advancing the Knowledge of 
thefe Subjeéts, by D. Enrique Doyle. 
The principal department in the manage-. 
ment of cattle in Spain, is that of Sheep: 
a large portion of this work is devoted to 
it; but the author has net omitted to in- 
troduce the material improvements m 
England, in natura] and artificial Sraffes: 
‘¢ Tratado de ja Cria de Palomos,”’— 
Treatife on the Management of Pigeons. 
Herein are confidered the difeafes of this 
bird; the mode of inviting it to, and de- 
taining it in, the dovehou'e, the removal 
of the oldones, and the expedients neceffa- 
ry in breeding the tame or domettic {pecies, 
“‘La Vendimiap 1 toyo 4to.”’—The 
Vintsge, rvol. 4°. “This contains many 
valuable articles. 
‘““Tratado Practico de Cclmenas.é6 Paf- 
toria de las Abejas.”’—Practical Treatile 
on Bee-hives, or the Management of Bees. 
Retrofpec? of Spanih Literature.— Antiquities, Arts, Sco 
*¢ Difcurfo Economico del’ Reyno de 
Aragon, un tomo, en 4to.”’—CEicono- 
mical Hiftory of Arragon, in 1 vol. gto. 
We hope this isa prelude to a fimilar ex-— 
amination of all the luxuriant\ provinces 
of Spain; the prefent work treats of the 
quantity of grain produced during the laft 
fix years in each diftrict, the number of 
inhabitants, claffified according to their 
ages and diftinétions, of the portion, of 
grain neceflary for fowing the land and 
maintaining the people, and of the fit re- 
gulation of the commerce of the province 
in confequence. 
ANTIQUITIES. 
«Munda y Certima: Cindades de Ja 
Celtiberia Confundidas, porAlgunos Efcri- 
tores con Munda y Cartima de la Betica, 
diftinzuidas Ahora con la Evidencia y 
Autoridad de Livio y.de Monumentos, 
Romanos.’’—Munda and Certima, Cities. 
of Celtiberia, miftaken by fome Writers 
for Munda and Cartima, now diftinguifhed 
on the Evidence and Authority of Livy,- 
and of fome Roman Monuments. This 
is the produétion of P. M. Fr. MANUEL 
Risco, an Auguftin Friar, 
‘Plan de Antigiiedades Efpafiolas re- 
ducido a 2 Articulos y 80 Propoficiones, 
por D. Luis DE ZuNniGca.”—Scheme of 
Spanifh Antiquities, under two General 
Articles, in Eighty Sections, by D. Luis 
de Zuniga. This is from the pen of a 
clergyman, in the diocefe of Toledo; his 
principal objeét is to prove, that the an- 
cient monies, infcriptions, and medals of 
Spain, bearing Celtic, Iberian, and Betie. © 
characters, are generally written in the 
Gafcon tongue. 
. 
‘¢Ritos, Ceremonias, y Coftumbres de 
los Hebreros Confutados, Efcritos en Itali-— 
ano, por un Rabino, y Traducidos por el 
P. Fr. Juan ve Lipon.’’—Rites, Ce- 
remonies, and Cufioms of the Hebrews: 
Confuted, from the Italian of a Rabbin, and 
Tranflated by P. Fr. Juande Lidon. It 
is {tated of this Rabbin, that he was con- 
vinced of his Mofaical errors, and em-'~ 
braced the Catholic religion. 
aRTS AND MANUFACTURES. | 
‘¢ Tratado deHilar, Devanar Doblar y 
Torfer las Sedas Segun el Metado de Vau-' 
canfon, por D. Joseph LAPAYESE, con. 
una Differtacion Sobre la Ventaja de ete 
Metodo refpecto del Antiguo, por el Dr. 
D. Francisco ORTELLS Y GOMBAU, 
Prefbitero."—A Treatife on Thread< 
ing, Reeling, Folding, and Twifting Silks, 
according to the Methed of Vaucanton, 
by D. Jofeph Lapayefe, with a Differta- 
tion on the Superiority of this Mode, to. 
the Ancientone, by Dr. D. Francifco Or- 
tells 
