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Sciences in Harlem; the Society of Sci- 
ences in Zealand; the Dutch Society of 
Belles-Lettres,divided into three sections, 
the principal of which hold its sittings 
in Amsterdam ; the Economical Society, 
that of Fe/zxr Meriiis; that of Agricul- 
ture; the Diligentia Society of Dutch Li- 
terature in Leyden. Amsterdam pos- 
sesses many other literary societies, and 
one of medicine as well as the towns of 
Uuecht, Rotterdam, and Groningen. 
NAPLES. 
Inthe year 1254, Pope Innocent IV. 
died at Naples, end was interred in the 
chapel of St. Laurence, from whence 
his body was removed to the cathedral 
where a monument was erected for him. 
This monument requiring some repairs, it 
was found necessary to open the recepta- 
cle last September, and the state in which 
the remains of the poutiff were found, af- 
tera period of five hundred and fitty-three 
years was as follows: the body wassoand 
and entire ; the head, the hands, and the 
legs, were separated from the trunk, and 
the former wanted only two teeth. He 
was dressed according to the practice of 
the times, in a chasuble (a kind of cope) 
of snuff coloured silk, richly embroidered 
in several parts. After the lapse of five 
eenturies and a half, the silk still retained 
its original lustre. The other garments, 
which appear to have been a Tunic anda 
Dalmatic, had been destroyed. His silk 
gloves, embroidered with gold at the 
Wrist, were in perfect preservation. 
SPAIN. 
M,. Berrancowrt, chief engineer to the 
King of Spain, has communicated to the 
French: Institute a new invention, which 
will render the construction of canals 
considerably more easy m future, in so 
far as it provides against all useless ex- 
penditure of water. M.A Piectet, who 
mentioned it in a repert made to the le- 
gislative body respecting a law for nu- 
posing taxes, for repairing roads and 
bridges, gives the following account 
of this imprevement: “ Each lock is 
furnished with an adjoining reservoir 
communicating with itat bottom: thelock 
is destined to raise and lower the vessels 
as usual, but the vertical movement of 
~ the liquid which floats them is produced 
by the simple immersion of a box in the 
contiguous reservoir; the volume of this 
box is equal to that of the water to be 
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displaced, and it is so happily and inge¢ 
niously balanced, that one man is suffi- 
cient for raising or lowering the largest 
vessel, 
less considerable supply of water, which 
formed one of the chief difficulties in 
the construetion of canals; will be re- 
duced to the quantity necessary for sup-_ 
plying the waste by filtratiou and evapo- 
ration,” 
The environs of Madrid exhibit a few 
vestiges of earth impregnated with bitu- 
men, but no coal has been found, nor is’ 
_there a city in Europe, at present, so 
much in want of it. here are a few 
coal pits in the province of Asturia; but 
the coal is, in general, in veins of httle 
thickness, scarcely any so much as eigh- 
teen inches, a 
AMERICA. ee toe 
The value of the trade with the Indiar 
nations on the Missouri is 100,000l. a 
ycar, and nearly one-third of this apper- 
tains to the British merchants of Canada, 
and of the Hudsou’s Bay Company. 
In the province of New Brunswick, in 
British Anierica, a sawmill has beer 
erected, to cut planks for the English 
market, which works fifteen saws in ove 
frame, and ts capable of cutting annually 
8,000,000 feet of timber. 
Mr. ALeExanper Wixson, of Philadel- 
phia, is printing the Ornithology of Ame-~ 
rica, or the Natural History of the Birds 
of the United States. 
The Missionary Society of the Umted 
States have sent. their agents amongst 
the Indians: but, with the exception of 
the Quakers, few have succeeded in pro- 
ducing €yen a disposition to moral or in- 
tellectual improvement, In only one vil- 
lage had their labours been attended with 
ay visible suceess. It is situatedon the 
river Thames in the western district, and 
the Indians are of the Delaware nation. 
Several of the inhabitants read, and also 
write a little; they attend church regu- 
larly, where sermons in their own and in 
the English language are delivered on 
Sundays. The women sing the psalms 
and. hymns with a respectable degree 
of skill, and grmking is almost uni- 
versally abandoned; which is the grand 
previous step to furnishing the Indians 
with the means or the matter of knowe 
ledge. a 
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