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cuftoms in regard to early rifing, bathing, 
regular meals, regular fleep, and in particu- 
lar, what are thofe minute circumftances on 
which it is fuppofed that health-and longe- 
vity principally depend ? 
16. What are the rules regarding medi- 
cine, which are accounted the moft ufeful 
and falutary ? 
17. What are the moft remarkable in- 
ftancés of longevity, and how are they au- 
thenticated ? 
18. What are the rules adopted by thofe 
who have attained great age ? 
19. Have any tables of longevity been 
@rawn-up in your neighbourhood, and how 
do they agree with the one extracted from 
Hufeland ? 
20. Do any additional obfervations or par- 
ticulars occur to you on the fubject of health 
or longevity ! 
A large and refpectable fociety of Uni- 
tarian Chriftians has been eftablifhed in 
the fouthern difiri& of England, the great 
ebje& of which is the circulation of 
books on praétical piety, and the leading 
doftrines of Chriftianity. The Rev. Dr. 
FY outmin, of Taunton, has lately preach- 
ed an elaborate fermon befere the fociety, 
which is in the prefs for {peedy pwhlica- 
tion, 
Dr. Epwarp STEVENS is compiling 
a ‘“* Natural Hiitory of St. Domingo.” 
The materials for this work were chicfly 
colle&ted during his refidence in that ifland 
as Conful-general of the United States of 
America. It will contain defcriptions of 
more than 1600 indigenous plants, ac- 
companied with engravings by the bef 
American artifts. 
The Life of Wafhington, from mate- 
rials colle€ted by himlelf, is fhortly ex- 
peéted to make its appearance in Ame- 
rica, and an edition will smmediately fol- 
low in Londen. 
Mr. GricHaist, of Calcutta, well 
known as the author of various excellent 
works on Eaftern Literature and Lan- 
guages, has lately publifhed ‘* A New 
Theory and Profpeétus of all the Perfian 
Verbs, with their Synonimes in Eng!:th 
and Hindooftanee ;”” this 1s printed in fe- 
veral columns on one great fheet, and can- 
not fail of being moii ufeful to the ftu- 
dent. ; 
The fame gentleman has alfo publithed 
(in four pages, folio) **A Scheme of 
Hindocftanee Orthoepy, in Roman Cha- 
raéiers,’” with a view to facilitate the 
tranfpofition or reverfon of any compofi- 
ticn corre€tly from one character to the 
other. 
The learned Profefleor MuNTER, of 
Copenhagen, has Jate publifhed, in a 
4 
Literary and Philofephical Intelligence. [OGober 1, 
{mall volume, ‘* Obfervations on the An- 
tiquities, Enicriptions, &c. found among 
the Ruins of Babylon.” At the end of 
this little work he has fubjoined a Differ- 
tation on the ‘Carthaginian and Vandalie 
Medals, &c. with a plate. 
M. Damart, of St. Omer, propofes 
anew method of punlying vegetable oil. 
Je mixes with roolb. of oil 250z. of 
rock alum, diffolyed in glb. of boiling 
water, then after ftirring it for about half 
an hour, he adds 1502. of nitric acid, flill 
continuing to ftir it, and after it has 
ficod 48 hours, the pure oil fwims on the 
furface, and may be drawn off. 
The Board of Longitude at Paris has 
adjudged to M. Burs, the aftronomer of 
Vienna, the prize of 6000 franks, offered 
for the beft lunar tables. Thefe do not 
vary above ten feconds from obferva- 
tions, and with the Horary Tables of La- 
lande, the calculation is rendered fo ealy, 
that every feaman is capable of making it. 
Our countrymen, who vifit Paris, will 
thank us for imforraing them that Dr. 
MaRss#ALL, an Englifh phyfician of 
eminence, has been fome time refident 
there. He has’ been particularly active 
in the pragtice of the cow pox, having, 
early in 1800 left England for the purpole 
of extending its benefits to the South of 
Europe; ‘and, after inoculating the diffe- 
rent Britith garrifons in the Mediterra- 
nean, he went to Palermo, and from thence 
to Naples and Italy. His Sicilian Ma- 
jJefty, for his services in thofe countries, 
was pleafed to appoint him his Fhyfician 
Extraordinary, and he alfo prefentea him 
with a fuperb gold medal.—Dr. Marfhall 
refides at No. 875, Rue Neuve des Mathu- 
rings. 
M. Acrarp has lately announced, that 
he has now, on his eftate at Silefia, a manu- 
faétory capable of furnifhing every day, 
during fix months, goolb. of fugar, made 
from the beet-root. This manufaétory 
is likewile carried on in Ruflia, and is pa- 
tronized by his Imperial Majefty. 
M. KatLucin, a citizen of Mofcow, 
has been rewarded by his Imperial Ma- 
jeliy, with 500 rubles, and a lucrative 
fituation, for the difcovery of a procefs 
by which woollen-{tuffs may he dyed a 
beautiful and permanent green, with the 
juice of nettles only. ; 
There is now at Rome a complete 
Grammar of the Sanfcrit language, com- 
piled by Father PaoLino, of the monaf- 
tery of St. Bartholomeo. The want of 
money has hitherto prevented its impref- 
fion, although fome well-preferved ma- 
trixes for the charatters of this language 
were 
