nary of the Turkifh and Perfian Lan- 
guages. 2. A complete Dictionary of 
thefe Languages. 3. A Turkith, Arabic, 
‘and Perhan Dittionary, Lehothetollugat. 
4. Tables of Logarithims, and 5. A 
Treatife upon Trigonometry. The two 
daft were printed for the ule of the corps 
of engineers. They are at prefent re- 
printing the Arabic-Turkifh Diétionary 
of Wanhuli, which had become exceed- 
ingly fearce and dear. They are likewife 
engaged upon an Atlas, which will be 
eneraved after an Englith work ; and 
avhich will be accompanied with a Geo- 
graphical Vocabulary. If it were lawful 
to print any theslogical works, a very 
great number of commentaries upon the 
Koraa and other writings of that kind 
would undoubtedly foon make their ap- 
pearance. But the permifiion granted to 
the direStor of the infitution, exprefsly 
and fttri€tly excludes all works on religion 
and jerifprudence ; fo that ai] the pro- 
duétion of the Conftantinople prefs wii] 
be interefting to thole likewife who are not 
Muffulmen. The latter of the above-men- 
tioned works are much more neatly and 
correétly printed than the former. 
In the national library at Paris, there 
are a great number of Chinefe works, and 
a valuable colle€tion of coloured drawings, 
executed in China, and fent te Europe by 
the French miffionaries.. Thefe drawings 
reprefent the ancient vafes of that country 
in a varicty of forms, porcelain vafes, 
culinary utenfils, furnaces, flower-pots, 
&c.: a variety of clafps, buckles, rings, 
ear-pendants, hair-pins, and other orna~ 
ments worn by the Chinefe ladies: birds, 
minerals, flowers, plants, land{capes, 
tents of the emperor and mandarins, ca- 
binets, Chinefe obfervatories, towers, py- 
- ramids, bridges, temples, tombs, trium- 
phal arches, and other new and interetting 
objects 5 the whole in a fuperb fiyle, 
both with refpeét to the drawing and co- 
louring. Moft of thefe pi€tures are ac- 
companied with Chinefe charaéters, expla- 
natory of their names and ufes. Dr. Ha- 
GeR has begun to tranflate fome of thefe 
charaGters, and Mefirs. Piranesi intend 
te publith fuch as fhall be deemed moft 
interefting; as a fequel to their ** Unedited 
Wafes of Herculaneum,” as there is a 
firiking refemblance hetween many of the 
antique vafes of the Chinefe, and thofe of 
the Greeks and Hetrufcans. This may 
be adduced 23 an additional proof of the 
communication which mult anciently 
have fubfifted between our occidental 
eountries and China. . 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence, 
[Nov. 1; 
Profeffor PaLMER, of Brunfwick, hag 
invented a powder for extinguifhing fire ; 
from the ufe of which great advantage is 
expected to arife,efpecially in winter, when 
the water isfrozen. This powder is com- 
pofed of equal parts of fulphur and ochre, 
mixed with fix times their weight of vi- 
triol. Thefe ingredients‘are mixed, and 
the mals afterwards pulverifed. The 
powder isto be fcattered over the places 
on fire ; two ounces are fufficient for a 
furface a feot {quare. When it is not 
poffible to approach the flames, cartridges 
may be made of it, and fhot with a crofs- 
bow againtt fuch parts of the building 
where the fire rages with the greatelt vio- 
lence. In order to preferve timber from 
fire, the Proteffor direéts, to rub it over 
with common carpenter’s glue, and then 
fprinkle the powder over it; repeating 
_the operation three or four times, as the 
preceeding layer becomes dry. If you with 
to preferve cloth, paper, ropes, cables, &c. 
againit fire, ule water inftead of glue in 
applying the powder. 
.D. Jos. Anr. Banqueri has pub- 
lifhed a Spanifh tranflation of a Treatife 
upon Agriculture, written in Arabic, in 
the 12th century, by ABR. ZaCHARIA 
JaHIa ABeN MoHAMMED BEN AHMED 
EBN EL Awan, of Seville. This au- 
thor had diligently collected the precepts 
of agriculture which he found in the La- 
tin and Arabic werks upon reral econo- 
my, adding obiervations and experiments 
of his own. . . 
The Brunonian fyftem cf medicine 
feems to be rapidly gaining ground in 
Spain, where a number of works have lately 
appeared, elucidating and defending the _ 
do&trines of Brown, and his difciples of 
the German fchool. The Spanifh literati 
continue to fpread illumination among 
their countrymen by publithing tranfla- 
tions of the belt French and German 
works that have lately appeared upon 
agriculture, natural-hiftory, medicine, and 
other arts and fciences. . 
The Chevalier pe Brbanc, a Swede, 
has invented a machine, by means of which 
a perfon may fwim, or at leaft direct 
himfelf on the water without the leaft 
danger. The King of Sweden has granted 
the inventor a gratuity. of two ti.oufand 
rix dollars, and the exclufive privilege of 
felling his machine during twenty-five 
years. 
A receipt for compofing a liquor for des 
firoying caterpiliars, ants, and other in 
feéts, has been recommended in a foreign 
journal ;—-Take a pound and three quar- 
- ters 
