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M. Prerer, who is well known in Eng- 
land, having been some time in London 
with Count Rumford, bas commenced a 
work entitled “* a Course of English Agri- 
culture with Explanations for the Use of 
the Husbandmen of France.” This work 
is intended to form ten volumes, in octavo. 
The editors of the Bibliotheque Bri- 
tannigue are about reprinting the ten vo- 
Jumes formerly published by them on 
Agriculture. They have selected from 
the mass of English publications whate- 
ver could be useful to the husbandiman in 
France, and on the Continent, to which 
they have added the results of the expe- 
rience of a good practical farmer in 
France, contrasting them with those de- 
scribed by the English writers. The im- 
provements in the breed of sheep, and 
the course of crops, have peculiarly en- 
gaged their attention, and on these sub- 
jects more numerous facts and observa- 
tions are given than in any other work. 
M. Derere has published a Manual 
of Agriculture, without the Use of Ma- 
nure. In this work the author expatiates 
on the advantage of his plan, as the ro- 
tation of crops, &c. and states that the 
whole is founded on experiments adopt- 
edand made at the experimental farm at 
Reffy. 
France is divided into districts, over 
which regular huntsmen and verdurers 
are distributed, for the preservation of 
forests, and the destruction of wild beasts. 
The chief of one of these districts, com- 
prising four departments, in his official 
report, states, that from the 1st of May, 
1806, to the 1st of May, 1807, there 
were killed in the department of Aude, 
where the chief resides, three bears, 
111 wolves, thirty-one foxes, and eleven 
badgers; inthe department of |’Herault, 
thirty-nine wolves; in that of Aveyron, 
seventy-one wolves; and in the depart- 
ment of the Eastern Pyrenees, seven- 
teen wolves, five foxes and one badger; 
making a total of wild beasts destroyed 
in one division, of three bears, two khun- 
dred and thirty-eight wolves, thirty-six 
foxes, and twelve badgers. 
The following easy method of taking 
the honey without destroying the bees, 
is said to be generally practised in 
France. In the dusk of the evening 
when the bees are quietly lodged, ap- 
proach the hive, and turn it gently over. 
Having steadily placed it ma small pit 
previously dug to receive it, with its bot- 
tom upwards; cover it with a clean new 
hive, which has been properly prepared, 
with a few sticks across the inside of it, 
Literary and Pkylosopkical Intelligence. 
[Nov. 1, 
and rubbed with aromatic herbs. Having 
carefully adjusted the mouth of each 
hive to the other, so that no aperture re- 
inains between them, take a small stick 
and beat gently round the sides of the 
lower hive for about ten minutes, ora 
quarter of an hour, in which time the 
bees will leave their cells i the lower 
hive, ascend, and adhere to the upper 
one. - Then gently lift the new hive, with 
all its httle tenants, and place it on the 
stand from which the other hive was 
taken. This should be done some time 
in the week preceding Midsummer-day, 
that the bees may have time before thie 
summer flowers are faded, to lay in a 
new stock of honey, which they will not 
fail to do for their subsistence through 
winter, 
HOLLAND. 
A daily paper has been lately com= 
menced at the Hague, called the “ Royal 
Courant”. It is printed in the Dutch’ 
Janguage, and has one or more colamns— 
devoted to the arts and sciences, and to: 
foreign literature, particularly to the 
English, P 
AMERICA. 
Besides the ruins in the Illinois and 
Wabash countries, of which accounts 
have frequently been given, there are 
others not less remarkable, several hun- 
dred miles farther west, particularly m7. 
the country about the great falls of the 
Mississippi. On approaching these falls, 
called St. Anthony’s, pyramids of earth 
are frequently met with fxem thirty to 
seventy, and even eighty feet in height. 
These are most probably, tlie tombs 
of the ancient kings and chieftains of this 
part of America, though there are others — 
which are thought to have been erected — 
in consequence of some signal victory, 
and possibly to cover the bodies of those 
who were slain. In digging horizontally 
into several of these pyramids, a little 
above the base there 1s generally found a ~ 
stratum of a white substance, somewhat 
like moist lime and rather glutinous, ex= 
tending in all probability several yards 
within or perhaps nearly the whole length 
of the diametrical line. ‘There is every r@a-_ 
son to believe this consolidated chalky 
substance to be the remains of skeletons 
buried twenty centuries ago, and convert- 
ed by time and the operations of natural 
causes into their present state. Many 
tokens remain on both sides of the Mis- 
sissippi of their being in ancient ages a3 
well cultivated and as thickly inhabited 
as the country on the Danube or the 
: : Rhine, 
