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VARIETIES, Lirzrary AnD PHILOSOPHICAL. 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, 
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Domeftic and Foreign. 
_* Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully recewed, 
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~m WR. Anruur Younc, having by 
Kh desire of the Board delivered two 
very interesting Lectures-on Agriculture, 
at the house of the board, in “Sackville- 
street, the first Lectures which ever 
were delivered on this subject in England, 
he has been requested to publish thei, 
and they will be put to press without 
Juss of time. 
At'the same mecting, S1r Joun Srin- 
CLAIR exhibited Specimens of preserved 
Potatoes, which after a voyage to New 
South Wales and back again, were as 
good as on their frst preparation, The 
mode of preserving them is to slice them, 
and to bake the slices om iron plates, 
or on akilns they then assume a horny 
appearance, but may be reduced to fine 
and wholesome flour by any of the means 
used to pulverise grain of any kind. 
This is perhaps one of the most useful 
discoveries that has been made for many 
years, -and puts anend to all alarm on 
the subject of a scarcity of wheat and 
other flour. 
Str Joun Sryciair also introduced 
Specimens of Cordage, made from long 
coarse wool instead of hemp, and they 
appeared to possess all the valuable pro- 
perties of hempen cords, and to be in 
some respects su perior. 
This important “Board proceeds with 
increased zeal and activity in the prepa- 
ration of the County Reports, twenty- 
eight of which have already appeared, 
and Oxfordshire, by Mr, Youns, and 
Bedfordshire, by Mr. Bacuetor, are 
ready to be pul to press. New editions 
of Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Lincoln- 
shire, are also in forwardness. . It is im- 
possible to speak in terms of praise equal 
to the intrinsic worth and national: im- 
portance of this series of books. | 
The Survey of Invernesshire, by Dr. 
Roserrson, of Callander, has been de- 
layeda few weeks owing to the prepa- 
ration of a new map, W hich is to delineate 
the situation of the different soils, and 
the lines of roads, as ordered by. parlia- 
ment. The work itself will contain a 
topographical description of the different 
districts and principal houses, specifying 
net only the means of cultivating the 
soil, but the propriety of establishing vil+ 
lages fur improving the fisheries and the 
the press, 
woollen manufactures, as a great fund of 
subsistence, employment and wealth to 
the people’; ; which may effectually pre- 
vent emigration, with extracts of Letters 
from Mr. Dempster of Dumchan, on 
that desolating evil; and an appendix, 
containing Directions on the Cultivation 
of Moss, by Sir Jo aoe Letters on 
the comparative Value of different breeds 
of Sheep, and.a short account of the 
British and Ecclesiastal Antiquities of 
the Country. 
Sir Joun Carr’s Tour in Scotland i is 
preparing for publication, and will ap- 
pear this season. 
The second volume One aie Remains 
of a former World, by Mr. PARKINGON, 
will be published in the beginning of 
June. It consists of Zoophytean Ree 
mains, and will contain twenty plates, 
representing nearly two hundred diiferent 
fossils, coloured after nature; among 
which are the mineralized Remains of Up 
wards of twenty species of the Encrinus; 
the greater part of which are to be found 
in this island, 
Mr. Robert Baxewenn, of Wake- 
field, has prepared for the press a work on 
a subject of considerable importance to 
the woollen manufacturers, and the wool- 
growers. Its chief object is to demon- 
strate the possibility of improving the 
quality and increasing the value of 
clothing wool, by means the most simple 
and easy, but which have been hitherto 
neglected from an ignorance of the reai 
structure and nature of wool, and of the 
effects which difference of soil and cli- 
mate produce on the growing fleece: 
Dr, Bapuam, of Clifford-street, has in 
the press a small volume on the inflam- 
mations of the Muceus Membrane of 
the Bronchie, comprehending Remarks 
on Peripneumonia Notha Chronic 
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Mr. G. Nrcwozrson, of Poughnill, near 
Ludlow, announces a new publication, 
which is in considerable forwardness at 
called “ ‘The Cambrian 'Tra- 
veller’s Guide and Pocket Companion,” 
containing the collected information of 
the most authentic writers 
Principality and parts of the adjoining g 
counties of England, augmented with 
considerable original additions, the result 
of 
, relating to the - 
