1807.] 
The Rev. Tuomas Krop, of Trinity 
College, Cambridge, propofes to publifh 
# new edition of the Iliad and Odyiley ; 
of which, in the Iliad, the Townleian 
Codex, aided by the Marcian MSS, 
and ‘a faithful collation of the Harleian 
copies, will form the ground-work.: It 
is intended, at prefent, to infert the 
Digamma in the text, on the authority 
of the great Bentley, whofe unpublifhed 
papers upon the Iliad and Odyffey will, 
through the kind permiffion of ‘Trinity 
College, Cambridge, contribute to en- 
hance the value of this edition. The 
body of variations from the, Vienna, 
Breflaw, and Mofchow, MSS. as publith. 
ed by Profeffors Alter and Heyne, as 
well as thofe gleaned by a re-exaimina- 
tion of the MSS. confulted by Barnes, 
will be clatled_according- to their refpec- 
tive merits under the text, ‘and incor- 
porated with an accurate collation of 
the firft, fecond Aldine, firft Stratzburgh, 
and Roman editions; the peculiarities 
alfo of the venerable document difperfed 
through tf. Steph. Thefaurus Ling. Gr. 
will be {pecified in their proper places, 
The text of the Ihad, with the variations, 
will be given in two volumes, o¢tavo. 
A fupplement to the Villoifonian Scholia, 
from the Townleian and Harleian tran- 
feripts, with fhort notes, {hall form the 
third volume; and a fourth volume will 
contain the text to the Odyffey, with 
various leétions, to be introduced by 
fac-timiles of the characters and deferip- 
tions of the refpective MSS, engaged in 
the fervice of the text: to which will 
ucceed a finall volume of Scholia, chiefly — 
from- MSS. with fhort notes, a differta- 
tion upon the genuinenefs of Od. 9, a 
collation of the pp. of Ed. Rom: and 
Bas. of Euftathius, with the omiffions 
ot the latter: and application of the Di- 
gamma to the remains of Hefiod. 
A Latin poem on the Battle of Fra- 
fa'gar, with an Englith yrofe tranfiation, 
will_ be publithed early in this month. 
The Works of Sallafi, tranilated by the 
date Antuur Murpny, Esq. are about to 
- be re-publifhed. 
—Thofe who have heard at a diftance 
af the vas lights produced from the car- 
bonization of coals, and who have not 
been able to fee the experiments of 
Mn. Winsor and others, tay amufe 
themfelves with. the following experi- 
ment on a fmall fcale-—Take an or- 
dinary tobacco pipe and nearly fill the 
bowl with fmall coals, and ftop the 
mouth of the bowl with any fuitable 
Auting, as pipe-clay, or a mixture of 
Literary and Philo fophical Intellugence. 
‘Take a paite of fulphur and iron firings 
‘black colour. 
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fand’ and common ‘clay, and place the 
bowl m a tire betweco the bars of a 
grate, fo that the pipe may ftand nearly 
perpendicular. In a few minutes, if the 
luting is good, the gas will begin to 
efcape trom the orifice of the pipe, when, 
if a piece of lighted paper or a candle be 
applied, 1t will take fire and: burn for 
feveral minates with an intenfe light. 
When the light goes out, a refiduuin of 
u eful products will be found in the bowl. 
Wow far this principle may be extended 
in producing liwht and heat tor general 
purpoies, we do not take upon us to de= 
termme, The fplendid’ expectations of 
Mr. Wintor may be candidly conceded 
to the enthutafin of an original in- 
ventor. 
_ Various tefts have been ufed to afcer- 
tain the exiftence of litharge in” wine. 
A new and inproved tei for this mpor= 
tant purpole may be made as fullows:— 
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put it into a phial, and pour on it a finali 
quantity of fulshuric acid.  Pafs the 
‘gas which will arve through a bent tube, 
‘into a bottle of water, which thus im- 
-preenated, wilh form the 
defired tei, 
When poured into wine which contains 
titharge, it ‘will render it black qnd 
laxey, and occaiioa a conitderable pres 
‘Cipitacion, 
several years: ince, we ‘announced a 
‘pleating imvention, by means of which 
impreflion might be taken’on paper, from 
deligns made on ftone, As the practice 
of this art is at once.araufing and ofeful, 
‘we fhall celeribe it to our readers. The 
iione fhould be clofe-grained, and the 
drawing~or ‘writing fhould be made witt 
@ pen dipped in ink formed of a folution 
of lac in leys of pure foda, to which 
fhould be added fomeé foap and 4ainp- 
black for colouring. Leave it to harden 
for a few days; then take impreffions 
in the following manner: dip the furface 
in water, then dab it with printers’ ink 
“and printers’ balls; the ink fiicks to the 
déeign and not to the itone, and the im- 
preilion may be taken with wet paper, 
by means of a rolling or ferew prefs, in 
the ordinary manner. Several hundretl 
copies may be takén from the fame de- 
fign, a this fimple manner. 
Dr. Howison has alfo ¢ommunicated 
a difcovery for printing cotton cloth of a 
‘Take Malacca nuts, which 
are fold in Beagal at two fhillings per 
ewt. bail them in water in clofe eartheh 
~vetlels with the leaves of the tree; dur- 
ing the boiling a whitith fubitance, formed 
trom the aaucilaze and oil of the nuts 
rifes 
