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jut publifbed at Paris: and, in the fame 
city, the pofthumous works of Marmon- 
tel have alfo made their appearance very 
reCently. : 
M. Cossuxr has publifhed, at Parma, 
a work, in two volumes quarto, on the 
Origin and early Progiefs of Algebra, in 
Italy ; in which he fhews that this fcience 
was brought from the Eaft into Italy, by 
LEoNARD Bonaccl, of Pifa, in the 13th 
century. He follows its progrefs through 
the fubfequent periods, and fhews that 
for the firft advancement of the fcience 
the world is indebted to Italy, and that 
even before it began to be cultivated in 
other countries, it had there attained to 
a high degree of perfe&tion. 
A colieétion of the Italian authors who 
have written on the fubjeé&t of Political 
Economy, is propofed to be publithed by 
fub{cription at Milan. The writers, whofe 
works it is intended to embrace are: 
Berghini, Scarrufi, Davanzati, Serra, 
Turbdolo, Montanari, Bandini, Broggia, 
faffei, Belloni, Pagnini, Neri, Galliani, 
Carli, Algaroti, Beccaria, Genovefi, 
Zannoni,Veri, Paoletti, Briganti, D’Arco, 
Filangieri, Vafco, Mengotti, Palmieri, 
Gennaro de Cantalupo, Delfico, Corniani, 
and Gianni. To the works of the above 
authors, many of which are very rare, 
will be add-d feveral unpublifhed per- 
formances, in the poff-ifion of the editor. 
The colleétion will not exceed in numbers 
30 volumes. Ina preliminary difcourfe 
by P. Cusrop1, wiil be given a Sketch 
of the Commerce and Indufiry of the Ita- 
jians, -in the times that preceded the revis 
val of arts and fciences, together with an 
Hiftorical Account of the Origin, Pro- 
grefs, and prefent State of Political Eco- 
nomy, both ia Italy and other countries. 
An Italian tranflation of BLair’s Lec. 
tures on Rhetoric and the Belles Lettres, 
by Francisco Soave, has recently been 
\ publithed at Parma. 
The following method of making an 
anti-incendiary liquid, for extinguifhing 
fires arifing from oily, greafy, or bi- 
tuminous fubftances, invented by M. 
Drivuzzi, has been publifhed by order 
of the Minifter of the Intericr of the 
Italian republic. Take 84 ounces of com- 
sion water, to which add 24 ounces of 
pulverized foda, and boil them till the li- 
quid be reduced to two-thirds of the ori- 
gmal quantity. The fame proportions 
muft be obferved in preparations on a 
Jarger feale. Filter the liquor through 
a linen cloth, that none of the groffer 
parts may remain; let it cool, and ufe 
it when required. To give the foda a 
Litevary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
[March 1, 
greater activity, make a cauttic ley of it, 
and add three ounces of quick-lime to 
every 12 ounces of {oda in folution. The 
liquid is then more efficacious in extin- 
guifhing the flames, but it 1s more de- 
ftructive to leather and animal fubfances, 
fo that when the cauftic fcluu-n is em- 
ployed, the liquid fhould not be dil- 
charged through pipes of thofe ma- 
terials. It fhould be obferved that this 
anti-incendiary water muft not be em- 
ployed in fires arifing frem fjiituous |i 
quors of any kind ; and that its effe&s in 
extinguifhing wood are little fuperior to 
thofe of mere water. 
A curious fas in Natural Hiftory has 
been obferved by Di. GaBrizEL ANSEL- 
Mi,, profeflor cf Anatomy, at Turn. 
A {nake called in Italy, /erpe nero, the 
celuber natrix of Linnzus, is faid to be 
extremely fond of milk, and the country 
people even pretend that it makes its 
way into the dairies to gratify its imeiina- 
tion. They even affert that it 1s fome- 
times found entwined round the legs of 
cows, fucking their teats with fuch avi- 
dity, as to draw blood when their milk 
is exhaufted. Of this fa&, which by many 
had been confidered as a popular tale, the 
Door had himfelf an opportunity of be- 
ing an eye-witne!s.—‘* Walking, accord- 
ing to cuftom,”” fays he, ‘* one morning, 
on the road, called the Park, bordered by 
pattures, containing a great number of 
fheep and horned cattle, I observed an old 
but vigorous cow, feparate from the 
others, and lowing, with her head raifed in 
the air, her ears erest, and fhaking her — 
tail. Surprifed at the noife fhe made, 
I feated myfelf on the banks of a ftream, 
and followed her wherever fhe went with 
my eyes, Afcer running for fome mi- 
nutes fhe fuddenly topp<d in a fequeftered 
fpot, and began to ruminate. Inquifitive 
to difcover the caufe I went to the place. 
After going into a pond tocriok, fhe came 
out and waited on the brink for a biack 
fnake, which crept from among the 
bufhcs, and approaching her, entwined 
himfelf round her legs, and began to fuck 
her milk. I obferved this phenomenon 
two fucceffive days, without informing 
the herd{man. The third day I acquaint- 
ed him with it, and he told me that for 
fome time the cow kicked at the ap- 
proach of her calf, and that fhe could not 
without difficulty be compelled to fuffer 
it to fuck. We teok away the fnake, 
which we killed. On the fucceeding 
days, the cow, after in vain waiting for 
her fuckling, ran about the meadow in 
fuch a manner that the herd{man was 
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