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tensive forests of the Spey. Three Danes 
passed through Bervie, on their way to | 
the forests, about six or eight weeks ago, 
for the purpose of beginning the manu- 
facture, and instructing the mbabitants 
in it., Our correspondent further in- 
formed us, thata gentleman in Aber- 
deeushire, has got sixteen Danes or 
Norwegians fot thesame purpose; these 
people have been taken from the prisons 
in England; government baving allowed 
the prisoners of war-to be examined, and 
it seems, many have heen found able 
and willing, to instruct the people of this 
country, in the method of manufacturing 
this very valuable article. 
Dr. Coox, of Lawrence Kirk, who 
wrote onthe resurrection of Christ,’ has 
nearly ready for the press, a History of 
the Reformation; in two large quartos. 
From the indefatigable research, and 
known talents of the author, much is 
expected: he has detected many errors 
and false quotations in Hume, the _his- 
torian; and the literary world may look 
for a full-and distinct account of that 
important event, with an: exposition of 
the causes that led to the reformation, 
&c. . Dr. Cook is the son of the Profes- 
sor of that name, of St. Andrews. 
In the course of this month, will be 
published, a Catalogue Raisonné, of the 
City Circulating Library, King-street, 
Cheapside. 3 
Mr. Rusuer, of Reading, is bringing 
‘out a new Catalogue, which will include: 
the entire Libraries of two Clergymen 
of eminence, lately deceased. a 
Mr. Frevy’s Narrative, is just ready 
for publication, and will appear in the 
course of this moath. 
Mr. Grorcr Srncer, of Princes- 
street, will resume his Course of Philo~ 
sophical Instruction, by means of Lec-. 
tures'and Conversations, about the mid- 
dle af November. 
Mr. Harpy bas in the press, a New 
Edition of the Register of East India 
Shipping, from the year 1760, ‘to the 
present time; with an Appendix, con- 
taining many particulars interesting to 
these concerned in East India Com- 
merce; it will be teady for delivery on 
the ist January next. 
FRANCE. 
M. Francont, has invented a travel- 
ling carriage, containing a complete ha-- 
bitation and of very simple construction, 
It is composed of a body, fifteen feet 
dong, seven anda half wide, and’six high, 
being taised three feet from the ground 
‘ven the wheels of a common curricle, 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence, 
Racks are placed upon the four sides, so 
as to be able to feed sixteen or twenty 
horses ; canvas, which covers the body of 
the vehicle, while it is going, may be 
raised to shelter the horses, and éxinbits 
the appearance of a large tert, placed 
round a pavillon, surmounted with 3 
lightning conductor. Doors open on the 
right and left, where six steps enable the 
traveller to get in and out with ease. 
The interior is divided by a partition, into 
two apartments, one of which serves for 
an antichamber, kitchen, or sitting room, 
and the other for a bed-chamber. A 
gallery in front of the vebicle is useful for _ 
driving, and enables the traveller to go 
abroad, as it were without alighting. 
Four horses are suficient for travelling 
post with this carriage. 
The acid, denoininated pyrolignite of 
iron, obcained by the distillation of wood, 
is employed with great success in the arts. 
Tt has already been extracted from vine+ 
gar, without any ermipyreumatic smell, 
also from oil; and with it mgay be formed 
the base of a great number of solvents. _ 
M. Vrrauts has applied it to the dying 
of thread and cotton, and this practice is 
now followed in the manufactories of Rou= 
en, where black cottons for mourning, 
which used formerly to he procured froin 
Holland, are dyed in a solid and cheap 
manner, by means of the pyrolignite of 
iron. This colour lasts very long, and is 
not liable to turn rusty like common 
‘blacks. » 
M. Rocuotx, of Issoudun, in the de- 
partinent of Indre, has long used-the ex- 
pressed juice of the barberry in dying. 
The roct of the plant boiled in water, 
gives a beautiful green, applicable to goat 
and sheep-skins. 4 oa 
M. Atexanpre, of Bourdeaux, em- 
-ploys a simple method of filtering water, 
without either sand, sponge, or pounded 
charcoal. It consists in merely causing 
the liquid to pass through the capillary 
tubes, of a piece ef balf-worn out cotton, 
It is well known thata skain of thread, or 
a ribbon, one end of which is put into a 
vessel, while the other hangs over the 
side, will very soon become a conductor 
of the liquid, which filters and runs off, 
till the vessel is nearly empty. This ex- 
periment, M. Alexandre, tas applied on 
a large scale, to the purification of the 
water of the Garonne. 
- The magnificent work, entitled Pictu- 
resque Tour of Constantinople, and the 
shores of the Bosphorus, by M. Meiling, 
architectural draftsman, and the Sultana 
Hadidge, sister of the Emperor Selun ILL 
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