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tried on twofields with equal effe&t. No 
common dreffing of the richeft dung 
could have exceeded that of the greaves, at 
the rate of ro cwt. per acre. | rf 
A fpecimen ¢f wool has beert brought 
from New South Wales, which is deemed 
fuperior to the belt Spanifh wool In 
this colony, Captain Mc.Artrnur has 
already four thoufand fheep, with Spanith 
rams ; and he thinks thefe wi! double 
themfelves every two years and a half, 
and that, in the courfe of twenty years, 
hisftock will be fo much increafed, as to 
produce a quantity of fine wcol, equal to 
that now imported from Spain, and other 
countries, at an-annual expence of 
- 3,800,00c1. fterling. © 
Early im the prefent month will be pub- 
lifhed, 2 new edition of Mr. HuG# Far- 
MER’S Effay on Miracles, carefully print- 
ed from a copy of the edition which was 
pubdlifhed by the author in the year 1771. 
To this impreffion will be added a com- 
piete Index of tne Paflages of Scripture, 
explained or referred to in the courfe of 
fhe volume. ’ 
The Coftume of the Hereditary Domi- 
“pions of the Houfe of Auftria, confilting 
“Progrefs of Maritine Difcovery, is about 
: to publifh, wi: critical Nores and Differ- 
of fty coloured engravings, will very 
fhortly be publifhed. The hiftorical and 
defcriptive pirts will be written by Bur- 
TRaNnD and MoLeEVILLE. It will be 
rendered aniform with the coftumes of © 
China, Furkey, an¢ Ruffia. 
The Rev. J. S. Clarke, author of the 
tations, a new edition of Falconer’s Ship- 
wreck.—It will be embellifhed with feve- 
ral highly-finifhed evgravings. 
Mr. CHARLES WILKixSON will, Ma 
"few weeks, publith an Hiitorical Epitome of 
the Hlands of Malta and Goze. 
The fourteenth volume of the A*chao- 
* Jopia is fatt ready for publication. 
® 
There has lately been difcovered iw the 
‘territory of Falcion, a village dittant 
‘about two leagues from Nice, a Cavern, 
“¢he entrance to which is formed by a 
-very narrow aperture. 
The interior of 
this cavern, of which neither the depth 
~ mor extent are, as yer, known, exhibits a 
“pumber of vaft compartments that re. 
femble temples dee’ rated with columns 
‘formed by the cryftallation of waters, 
‘One fingle hall or faloon will contain 
about 40¢ perfons. ‘The reflection is to 
trong that it requires but very little light 
to ijlumine the mrterior ina very fplendid 
ftyle. Only a fmall number of curious 
* adventurers have-as yet entered it, among 
whom are 2 poet and a Roman’ defigner, 
both of whom [peak of ut with rapiure 
Literary and Philfophical Intelligences 
{ Jan.1 x 
and aftonifhment.. A certain general, 
whole name is not mentioned, purpofes 
f{peedily to make a defcent into it, and te 
draw up a cireumftantial report of what. 
ever interefting particulars he may difco- 
ver. : 
Mr. Perer RreFFELGEN, a native of 
Copenhagen, has juft invented a’ new mu- 
fréalinftrument, which he calls Meledica, 
in which the found is produced in a man- 
ner hitherto unknown, viz. by the friftion 
of metal forks againft a moveable meta! 
cylinder, which is effected by training or 
fldckerling the fork, by mears of keys like 
thofe of an organ. As this invention is 
proved by competent judges to be intirely 
new, and fuperidgr to any one of a fimilar 
conftruétion, under the’name of the Har- 
monica, his Danith Majefty has granted 
him his royal letters-patent, in which the 
formation and peculiar excellence of the 
Melodiea is detailed at fal} length. 
Lyceums of natural hifory, &c. age 
about to be eftablifhed in many of the 
principal ‘towns in France. ‘That at 
Moufits was opened with great form im 
June lat, 
A very interefting work has lately been 
publifed in the Rutan language, inti- 
tleds “* Georgia; or, am’ Hittorical Pic- 
ture of Giufinia, in a political, ecclefiat 
tical, dnd literary, Paint of View. 
At Paris, the moft celebrated engrayv- 
ers are employed upon a’fine’ colleQion of 
coloured drawirg's, received fiom China, 
and fet to the National Libsary by the 
French Miffionaries, ‘Fhe vefemblance 
which the Chinefe vafes bear to thofe of 
ancient Greece, may ftrike out new lighe 
with refpeé to the origin of the arts. — 
M. AKERBLAD, a Swede, has jut 
publiffed in Paris, a new Interpretation 
of thé cetebrated Pheenician Inicripticn, 
which was copied in Cyprus by the cele. 
~-bratezt Pococke, and is prettrved at Ox- 
ford. ~ 
_ An interefting work, in three volumes, 
has been lately publiffed at Franefore 
upon Mayne, intitled, Travels in Auftria, 
and Ttaly, by F J. Gernine. The 
route defcrrbed is from Franctort, by Nu- 
“remberg and Ratifbon, to Vienna, and 
theace, by Tyielte, to Napies and Rome, 
and thence he returns by Florence, Bo- 
logna, Parma, Mantua, and Verena. 
A work of confiderable intereft hae 
been Hately publithed at Leipfie. It is 
faid to be replete with information on the 
moft ancient hiftery and geography cf 
Greece, and is intitled, <« EAdxyixa 3 feu, 
Antiquiflime Gracorum Hifforie Res in- 
figniores ufque ad primam Oly mpiadem, 
‘cam geograpbicis  Defcyiptionsbus: ‘e 
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