1804.] 
Mr. BarTzer, of Bath, recommends 
ftrongly potatoes as an excellent food for 
fheep, (uperior in'almoft all refpects to tur- 
Dips. | ; 
The Fables and Tales of the Perfian 
poet Nizam have lately been publithed at 
Leipfic, accompanied by a Latin Verfion, 
and an explanatory Index. 
LicHTENSTEIN has printed a Palegra- 
phia Perfica. 
The Literary Soeiety at Strafburgh has 
publifhed a new edition of Quintus Ca- 
‘LaBER, with New Readings, from MS. in 
the Efcurial. The Lyrics of Casimir have 
appeared from the fame prefs. 
Fiscuzk has publithed an» elaborate 
Commentary on the Cyropedia. 
SCHNSiDER has publifhed the Frag- 
ments of the Greek Female Poets. 
La Harpeg’s elegant Cours de la Litté- 
rature is now complete in 14 vclumes. 
A magnificent Voyage Pittorefque de 
Lonfiantinoplé, is about to be publifhed at 
Paris. 
The Abbé De Liste has publithed his 
franflition of Virgil's Afneid. He an- 
nounces French Verfions of the Paradife 
Lo't, Homer's Hliad, and Jerufalem De- 
livered. 
Citizen Cararfet, of Paris, engraver, 
celebrated fer his fine views of Egypt and 
Syria, intends to travel in Ruffia, with a 
view of collecting materials for his pres 
pofed Voyage Pittorefque. 
Citizen PatisoT Beauvois, a cele- 
brared French naturalift, who in the year 
2786 made a voyage to the kingdom of 
Benin in Africa, has prepared for the 
prefs an Account of this Voyage, and-a 
Defcription of Benin, in a geographical, 
ftatiftical, political, and a moral point of 
view. 
M: LEBRUN has invented a new me- 
thod of preparing hemp and flax, by 
which he gives thefe raw materia's an ap- 
pearance perfectly new, and obtains from 
them a kind of cotton and filk rhread. 
He begins with the tow the moment it 
leaves the hands of the cultivator, and 
communicates to it either the foft and 
adhefive nature of cotton, ora brijhancy 
vefembling that of filk. This preparation, 
for every purpofe of utility and tafte, is 
fuperior to imported cotton, as it eafily 
aflumes and retains any colour of which 
it may be dyed; and by the labour of a 
few individuals, qa thoufand pounds of 
tow may be cohverted into cotton in 
twenty-four hours. A ‘econd preparation 
gives the tow all the finenefs and bral 
ancy of texture, that has hitherto been 
peculiar ty filk. 
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A premaiure death having deprived the 
Fine Arts of one of their moft zealous 
votaries, JEAN. BapTisTE PIRaNeEsI, 
his fons, Francis and PreR RE, are pre> 
paring for the prefs the rich materials 
which he collected for a work, entitled the 
Antiquities of Magna Grecia, now the | 
kingdom of Naples. The whole of this 
interefting Work will form fix volumes, 
of which the fir ‘will comprehend the 
defcription and antiquities of the city of 
Pompeia. The different fabrics found in 
theruins of this city, have been defcribed 
and reprefented with the utmoft exadtnefs, 
foch as the teraples, theatres, amphithe~ 
atres, baths, houfes, fhops, Xc. 
Nouveau Dictionnaire d’ Hiffoire Natu- 
velle; or, a New Dictionary of Natural 
Hiftory, is publithing at Paris, by Son- 
NiNt, Boze, CHaPTaL, OLivier, &c. 
Tt will be.comprized in about twenty-four 
volumes oétavo, 
Voss, of Berlin, has lately publithed 
a valuable Work, under the title, Lec= 
tures on the Mafter-works of Grecian 
Postry, with peculiar Reference to the 
poetical Mafter-works of modern’ Euro= 
pean Literature, by D, Jeniscu. 2 vols. 
ottavo. 
M, ZoEGA, author of a valuable Trea- 
tife on Obelifks, has prepared for the prefs 
a Defcriptive Catalogue of Coptic MSS. 
found in the Library of Cardinal Borgia, 
in Rome. | ‘ 
M. F. SCHLICHTEGROLL, Infpector 
of the Duke of Gotha’s Cabinet of Natu. 
ral 3.d Artificial Curiofities, has editéd 
the firft volume of a periodical publica- 
tion, entitled, General Numifmatic An- 
nals, 
JaNsEN, of Paris, has publifhed De- 
feription Anatomique dun Elephant Male, 
par Pierre Camper, avec wingt Plan- 
ches, Vhishighly-valuable deicription of 
amale elephant, by one of the fir phyfo- 
logilts and anatomitts of our age, will mes 
rt peculiar attention. It was announced 
in 1774, but has received a degree of per- 
feStion which raifes it to a diftinguifhed 
place among the molt mafterly productions 
of moderntrmes. The plates are done in he 
firtt Ryle, and the defcription is the mof 
interefiing and fatisfaétory account of the 
different fpecies of elephants hitherto dif 
covered in Africa, Afia, or America. 
Citizen WaTHIER has invented a ma- 
chine for working every ~-fpecies of cloth, 
which is faid to poffefs a man‘fett fuperio- 
rity over any thing of the kind uled in 
England. . é 
The feeds of foreign grapes have lately 
been difcovered to be an excellent iubiti- 
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