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be published in the beginning of August. 
it will be greatly improved by the addi- 
tion of several new Notes, and an ac- 
count of all the new Chemical Discove- 
vies. The Veeabulary of Chemical Terms 
will be much improved, and the Appen- 
dix will be enriched by a considerable 
number of new aud interesting Experi- 
ments. - 
Dr. Liuoyp, Regius Professor ef He- 
brew in the University cf Cambridge, has 
undertaken to superintend the edition of 
eminent Writers on the Scriptures of the 
Prophets, which will be enriched with 
much valuable additional matter, from 
writers whose works are ltt'e known in 
this country, The books intended to be 
ancluded in th is edition, are Lowth on 
Esaiah ; ne ory’s Transiation of Lowth 
on the Sacred Foetry of the Hebrews, 
with vaivable additions from Michaelis, 
dc.; Blayney on Jeremiah; Newcon: be 
on Ezekiel ; Wiithy on Baxi el; ‘and 
Naweanhe | on the Minor Freghets. It 
as intended to publish this edition in 
monthly carts. 
Dr. Wattzam Hates, formerly Pro- 
fessor of Oriental Languages in ihe Uni- 
versity of Dubin, proposes shortly to 
publich a learned Work, under the title 
of, An Analysis of Ancient Chronology, 
Sacred and Profane. 
Mr. Wirsins, jun. the architect, has 
ready for publication his splendid work 
on the Antiquities of Magna Grecia. 
CasIMIR Bacon a boy who ‘has 
astonished all Paris by his perrormances 
on the harp, has lately arrived in this 
country. [lis taste, skill, and knowledge 
have excited surprize and adimiration in 
the best judges and most able performers. 
As this extraordinary boy ts under the 
patronage of some persons of distinction 
an this country, itis not certain that he 
will be permitted to exert his taiecnts in 
public. 
RUSSTA. 
M. Repowski, who had been nomi- 
nated botanist to the projected embassy 
from the Court of Russia sto China, is 
engaged in a very extensive haraiedl 
tour, at the Emperor's expence, through 
the most remote north-eastern districts 
pi Asia, including the isiands between 
that continent and Japan to the south- 
ward, and the coast of North Americe 
to the eastward. He will be accompa- 
nied bya mathematiciz n, whe is to make 
a antec abs eies observations. 
Some very curious letters have appear- 
ed respecting the Moravian Colony esta- 
Liished at Sarepta. They have been pub- 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
mine, 
[Aug. 1, 
lished by M. Bergmann, This sect, whi ES 
is hkewise known under the appellation 
of Hernhuttcrs, reckons nearly one 
hundred brothers, and an egual nom- 
ber of unmarried sisters, at Sarepta. 
‘—By the manufacture of linen, which 
constitutes their principal occupation, 
“the men as well as the women earn about 
twelve rubles a-month. The trade of 
the -colony is not, however, confined to 
this branch alone, but is extended to 
every other, The profits arising from 
their different Ger ULAOnS, are shared in 
common by the whole community; for 
which purpose, each workman deposits 
his salary in a public chest. The articles 
nanufactured mn the Moravian establish- 
ments are greatly valued; and, though 
sold at a high price. they are yet much 
SOULZHE al aiter. 
In the course of 1806, among the 
deaths in this extensive empire, there 
were— 
1 between 145 and 150 years of age. 
1 130 and 935 
4 —— 125and1s0 — 
6 ———_ 120‘%and 125 —— 
382 —— 115 and120 —— 
296° —— 110 and 115 = —— 
66 —— 105andi110 -—— 
187 -—— 100andi05 —— 
11584. —— 95andi00 —— 
SWEDEN. 
The History of Greece, by Goldsmith, 
has been recently translated into the 
Swedish language, by A. Gar. SiLVER- 
STOLFE. 
A Grammar of the Russian Language 
has lately veen published in Sweden’ by 
Grinine, ;,as has also Baron HERMELIN’s 
Map of the Governments of Gothenburg 
and Bohus. 
DENMARE,. 
Dr. Frypexzene, of Iceland, has sent 
to the Socicty of Rural Economy of Co- 
penhagen, a memoir ‘or the possibility of 
converting the seelang (a marine plant, 
which abounds in the. sea that washes the 
shore of that island and other parts of the 
Danish dominions) into food ft for man. 
If the means proposed for this purpose 
should prove successful, he will have the 
satisfaction of couterring an inestimable 
benefit on Iceland, a country so ill pro- 
vided with alimentary productions, that 
all the precautions of Government are 
ometimes found ineffectual to preserve 
the inhabitants from the horrors of fa- 
Hitherto the seetang has been 
used in Denmark only for fuel, and in 
Norway for making kelp. 
A life 
