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#ention 1s now directed to the New Zea- 
land tax, phorimum tenax, or phormium 
éexitle, of the botanists. Captain Cook 
first discovered ihis plant, which unites, 
m a superior degree, the usetul qualities 
of the hemp and flax of Europe. It is 
now cultivated with success in Norfolk 
Island; and Captain Bauwdin, in his late 
voyage round the world, brought from 
thence uine plants to France. Under 
the care of Thouin, these have brought 
their seeds to: maturity, and seedlings 
have been since sent to the departments 
ef Seine Interior, Herault, La Drome, 
Ee Var, and to the island of Corsica. 
The yourg plants are found to thrive well 
Hi the most southern of these proviuces. 
M. Cassas has presented the Parisian 
public with a new kind of exhibition. It 
consists of plaster-models of the most ce- 
lebrated ancient edifices, of diiferent 
kinds of architecture. These models are 
im nunber 74, and are arranged under 
the divisions of Egyptian, Indian, Per- 
sian, Grecian, Etruscan, Cyclopean, Cel- 
tic, and Roman architecture. 
NM. Vavu@teELtin, Professor of Chemis- 
try inthe Museum of Natural History at 
Paris, has analyzed various specimens of 
ore from the famous silver mine of Gua- 
dal-Canal, in Estremadura, and disco- 
vered in them platina, united with silver, 
copper, iron, antimony, arsenic, lead, 
and «sul; ‘bur, sometimes amounting to 
one-texth of the mass. 
Mi. | Esoux, of Paris, has just finished 
a mode} of a colossal statue of General 
Desaix, which is intended to be cast in 
bronze, and placed on the pedesta! in 
the Place des Victoires. It is universally 
judged to be the master-piece of this 
sculptor, who, although in his 70th year, 
appears to retaim ali the vigour aud spirit 
of youth. 
The ninth number of a Collection of 
the Master-pieces of Ancient Arcbitec- 
ture, Sculpture, and Painting, just pub- 
lished at Paris, contains seven. plates, 
three of which represent as many of the 
eight beautitul figures on the Temple of 
the Winds at Athens: they are Libs, the 
South-east; . Zephyrus, the West: - and 
Sciron, tne North-west. The other fant 
display the no less celebrated monument 
of Lysicrates, vulyarly known as the Lan- 
thorn of Demustiienes, with the plan, 
elevation, &e: 
HOLLAND. 
A recent statis‘ical account of Holland, 
states the population cf that country to 
amount to two millions, a much greater 
proportion. to che soil than is “found 
Literary.and Philosophical Intelligence. 
[Aug. 15 
m any other country. The national re- 
‘venues are stated at 150 millions of flo- 
rins.. The foreign fisheries are very much 
decayed, and the whatle-fishery, which is 
mentioned as a losing concern, is stated 
to support 15,000 individuals. The her- 
ring and cod-fisher:es are still of much’ 
importance to the prosperity of Holland, 
though other uations have obtained so 
large a share in this species of industry. 
Holland, a couutry where medicine has 
been taught with such success, does not 
possess any work, the object of which is 
to apply physical science to the interpre- 
tation of the laws. For the purpose of 
supplying this desideratum, Dr. Resrs- 
Loo1, an eminent physician, has been 
engaged, during the last four years, in 
culiecting materials from all the medical 
writers who had peculiarly devoted their 
talents to this branch of study; such as. 
Fiank, Arnemann, and Plenck, in Ger- 
many; Fodei¢é and Mahon in France ; 
Vesace and Cardile in Italy, &c. As 
the Work is chiefly intended for the 
Jearned, the Dector has written it in the 
Latin language. From the plan and 
known abilities of the author, and the 
luminous developement of all the parts 
of his subject, it-is confidently expected 
that it cannot fail meeting with the ap- 
probation ef the Dutch public and go- 
vernment, as the most complete treatise 
that has yet appeared, on Medical Juris- 
prudence. 
ITALY. 
Printing presses are ordered to be esta- 
blished 1m all the great towns of the Fing- 
dom of Ivaples, and the bishops have 
been imvited tc see that they are in acti- 
vity throughout every province. 
‘There has been discovered at Monte- 
fiascone, in a field adjoining the high 
road, a smal! cavern cut im the rock. 
The proprietor of the ground having de= 
scended into it, found two dead bodies 
stretched upon a table of stone, appa~ 
rently in good preservation, but which 
crumbled mto dust as svon as they were- 
touched. Upon another table were piaced 
several vessels of earth and metal, which 
have bee sent to Rome, in order to be 
placed in the Museum of Antiquities be- 
longing to the Vatican Library. 
The King of Naples Spee Bona- 
parte), by a decree dated 17th March, 
has instituted a new Aca demy of History 
and Antiquities, which is to consist of. 
forty members. The aorst twenty are no- 
minated by the King; and these twenty 
are to present to him, for his choice, 
three names, for each of these wanted to 
complete 
