1802.] 
will be made from thofe Gems of the mot 
acknowledged fuperiority of ftyle to illuf- 
trate that view of the fubje&. 
Baron pe Zacu, in a letter to-Sir Jo- 
feph Banks, oblerves, * that Pallas is a 
planetary heavenly body, that moves be- 
tween the orbits of Mars and Jupiter; 
with a very great eccentricity and inclina- 
tion, and whofe orbit comes very near to 
the orbit of the planet Ceres, perhaps 
touches it, perhaps even cuts it like two 
links in a chain, this way «, which can- 
not yet be afferted with certainty, the ob- 
ferved area run over by this planet being too 
{mall.”* Another very remarkable ‘cir- 
cumilance is, that the mean motions of Pal- 
Jas and Ceres are very nearly, perhaps 
abfolutely, the fame: in this cafe, {mallas 
the mafles of Ceres and Pallas may be, 
they wil], neverthelefs,.exert a very fen- 
fible action one upon the other, and there- 
by give occafion to very curious and inte- 
refting inveftigations in the mechanics of 
the heavens. 
The memoirs and pofthumous Works of 
Mrs. Robinfon, and the Farmer’s Boy, by 
Ros. BLOoMFIELD, have jut appeared 
in a French drefs at Paris. 
An account has lately been received 
from China of an improved method of 
cutting glafs. This procefs is performed 
by. means of hot irons, which are {aid to 
be far fuperior to the ufe of the diamond, 
and will always fucceed when that jewel 
fails. 
M. GeruHarRbD has difcovered, in the 
courfe of his Galvanic experiments, that 
nickel combined with zinc produces the 
fame effect as filver and copper. 
The ufval rotation for dry jand, in 
the neighbourhood of Alicant, in Spain, is 
as follows:—The land is {uffered to reft 
for a year, afier which it is ploughed and 
dunged ; it is then fown with the foda- 
plant, then with wheat, and, in the lait 
piace, with barley. 
An experiment is now oeditie at Paris 
on the method employed in Egypt of 
white-wafhing walis.. The proce!s con- 
fits in the addition of a few handfuls of 
marine falt toa gained of lime mixed for 
ufe. It poflefes the advantage of being 
attended with very little expence, of 
killing infects, and deftroying the mias- 
mata, which penetrate walls trequently to 
a great depth, 
Some interefting experiments have been 
lately made, in the -Deaf-and Dumb In- 
ftitute at Paris, to afcertain whether the 
impreffions made on the deaf and dumb, 
‘by’ the firing of cannon, the ringing of 
bells, &c. were produced merely by the 
Literary and Philophical Intelligence. ; 
67 
violent concuffions of the’air. The expe- 
riments made by Citizen BEYER, on this 
fubjeét, leave no doubt refpecting this 
problem. Of one perfon, it was oblerved, 
that a fingle tone made no impreffion upon 
‘him, and it was neceffary to repeat it feveral | 
times before he was fenfible of it, and able 
to diftinguifh it ; from which it was infer- 
red, that it would be neceflary for this 
young man 7o learz to hear, as perfons 
born blind, who, recover their fight by a 
furgical operation, muft gradually learn to 
fee and diltinguifh objects. 
A French officer, in garrifon at Lodi, 
writes, that a very confiderable fheck of 
an earthquake had been felt there, at forty 
minutes paft ten in the morning ; that 
-many chimnies were thrown down, and 
all the people were feen at prayers in the 
fireets. He adds, that the town of Crema 
was almoft demolifhed by the earthquake ; 
and that at forty miles diftant from Lodi, 
the village of Menguin, where there was 
a fine lake of about ten miles in circumfe- 
rence, has been {waliewed up, and not a 
fingle perfon has been faved, nor does a 
fingle veflige of that village remain. 
M. de ja Borpe has jut publifhed at. 
Paris a very Splendid work on the Anti- 
quities of Villa-Itafica, an ancient town of 
Spain. Ie is printed in large folio, with 
beautiful reprefentations of “the fine Mo- 
faicks of that-town. The fame gentle- 
man intends publithing in theefame fuperb 
fiyle all the antiquities of Spain, for 
which purpole he is on the eve of viliting 
that country. 
Lhe Emperor of Ruffia has lately pre- 
fenied, by the bands of the Rufhan Am- 
baffidos at Paris, a fuperb diamond ring, 
of great value, to the learned Dr. HacEr, 
as a compliment to the Doctor for his 
‘* Explanation of the Elementary Charac- 
ters of the Chinefe Language.’ itis re: — 
markable that this uleful and learned 
work, which has obtained for the author 
the patronage of the French government, 
and the notice of feveral foreign poten- 
tates, has not received the fmallelt patro- 
nage from the Englifh Zaft India Com- 
any nor excited any piiolic motice in 
the Englith Univerfities. 
A correfpondent of the Agricultural 
Society lately y infiutured at Pozters, has 
accidentally Jgoera a preventive again 
the deftruétion of corn by inlects. Raving 
occafion about ten years ago to repair the 
floor of his granary, he made ule of the time 
bers Italian Poplars for that purpole. Pre- 
vious to that tome his granary was infeited 
with weevils almof every year, in jpite of 
every precaution ;and fince laying down the 
ic Poplar 
