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mangle, is included under this patent. 
The fubftance may either be paffed through 
the rollers, wrapped round the rollers, or 
laid under them. There is alfo to be ins 
cluded under this invention, the apparatus 
of a roller or rollers turning round with 
the hemp or flax, which is to be beaten, 
ie Literary and Philofophicat Intelligence. 
[May Y, 
when turning round, with mallets or 
ftampers. The lat procefs is that of wet- 
ting, fcalding, boiling, or bucking the 
hemp or flax, and laying it out foi a pro- 
ios time expofed to the weather, to free it 
From the mucilage and bark, and, whea 
dry, to be beaten, crufhed, or rolled. 
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Including Notices of Works in Hand Domeftic and Foreiga. 
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HE Manufcript of the firft, or preli- 
minary volume, of the Life of Ge- 
neral Wafhington, has reached London, 
and the Work is to appear, both in this 
Metropol.s and in Philadelphia, o# the 
15th of May. It is compiled from the 
Papers of the illuftrious General, by the 
Chief Juftice of the United States, Mr. 
Marsnatt, who lived many years with 
Wathington on terms of the clofeft inti- 
macy ; and it is publithed under the {u- 
perintendance of the Hen, BusHrop 
WasHINGTON, the nephew and heir of 
the General. So great has been the ex- 
pectatiou excited towards this valuable and 
authentic Hiftory, that we underftand the 
fum of feventy thoufand dollars has been 
given for the American copyright, and 
“one thoufand guineas for the Englith co- 
pyright. ) 
We have reafon to believe, that Mr. 
BELSHAM is preparing a Life of Dr. 
Prieltiey, from materials chiefly written by 
the Doétor himieif. 
The Authorefs of Memoirs of Dr. Dare 
win, fince they were publithed, has difco- 
vered, on the atteftation of his family, 
and of other perfons prefent at the junc- 
ture, that the ftatement given of his ex- 
elamation, page 406, on the death of Mr. 
Erafinus Darwin, is entirely without foun- 
dation ; and that the Doétor, on that me- 
lancholy event, gave, amongft his own fa- 
mily, proofs -of ftrong fenfibility at the 
time, and of fucceeding regard to the 
memory of his fon, which he feemed ro 
have a pride in concealing from the world. 
In juftice to his memory, the is defirous to 
correct the mifinformation the had received. 
An Introdu&ion to Botany, publifhed 
by Dr. Barton, at Philadelphia, is re- 
printing here,-with alterations adapting 
the work to this country, in one volume. 
Mifs EDGewortn’s Popular Tales, 
in three volumes, are now ready for deli 
very. 
The Rev. Joun Epwarps, formerly 
of Birmingham, has begun to deliver a 
Courfe of very Interefting Le€tures upon 
Subjects of Belles Lettres, at Free-sma- 
fon’s Hall, Great Queen-ftreet.— The fub— 
jes are, Tafe, Genius, Wit, Humour, 
Ridicule, Memory, Imagination, Beauty, 
Grandeur, Sublimity; with an intoduc- 
tory Lecture, and alfo a concluding 
one holy: 
Dr. Turner has in the prefs a work, 
in one volume, e&tavo, entitled the Prin- 
ciples of the Newtonian Philofophy ; 
or, a Mathematical Demoniration of the 
Properties cf Matter; of the Air, Heat, 
Cold, Light, and its Effects; of the Pro- 
peities of the Ocean ; Rivers, Mountains 
&c. 
There has juft been imported from Phis 
ladelphia, the Journal of ANDREW ELLIZ 
cormt, late Commiffioner on behalf of the 
United States, for determining the Boun- 
dary between the United States and the 
Poffeifions of his Catholic Majefty in 
America; containing Remarks or the Si+ 
tuation, Soil, Rivers, Natural F,;odue- 
tions, and Difeafes of the differen: Coun- 
tries on the Ohio, Miffiffippi, and Gulf 
of Mexico, with maps, in quarto. 
A View of the Climate and Soil of the 
United States of America; with fome Ac- 
count of Florida, the French Colony’ on 
the Scioto, certain Canadian Colonies, and 
the Savages or Natives ; tranflated from 
the French of C.F. Vounegy, in’ one 
large volume, in o€tavo, will be publithed 
in a few days. 
Propofals have been circulated for print. 
ing, by fubfcription, in one volume, ato. 
the Pofthumous Letters of Philanthropos 
to Selath. ‘The publication devolves up- 
on the editor, by virtue of the laft will of © 
the author, lately. deceafed ; whofe name 
cannot be known before the expiration of 
twelve months after the final im preffion 
and publication of the work. : 
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