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to whofe Isbours it is indebted fer the {e- 
ries of claflical paintings which adorn its 
walls. 
On Thurfday the 13th of Math the 
body was placed in the great roem, fur- 
rounded by a fcreen hung with black, but 
tafinc nee iow to admit of the paintings 
ae fee The room. was otherwiie 
dedi ieo sey adorned. Here the S. ciety 
and their friends, and thole of the de- 
ceafed, crouded to pay their laft ‘refpeéts 
to this molt excellent man and fine artit. 
On the following day, at one o'clock, the 
funeral proceflion rhoved forward from the 
Society’s hovfe in the Adelphi, towards 
St. Paul’s. The hearfe was followed by 
thirteen meurning-coaches, and by the 
privare cariag 
gentlemen. 
es of fevers) noblemen and 
the welt 
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front of the cathedral the body was met 
by Dr. Fly, the officiating minor canon, 
and conduéted into one of the chapels, 
where the fervice was read in the prefence 
of a number ef gentlemen who had joined 
the procefiion at the church. © From 
thence the remains were conveyed to the 
fouth-eaft corner of the crypt under the 
eathedral, and denofited between the re- 
mains sersie Ch wiftopher Wren and Sir 
Jcfhua Reynolds. The pall bearers were 
Sir R. Peele, Caleb Whitefoord, Efq. 
Richard Clarke, Efq: Clieinbeeean ot the 
city of London, and Dr. Powell, Prefi- 
dents of the Soci ety; General Wation, ; 
and Dr. Charles ae aylor, the Secretary. 
Several of the chairmen and members of 
the Society attended as mourners. 
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VY E fhall now give fome cle of 
the Memsair of Mefirs. Four- 
CROY and VAUQUELIN, on the Guzno, 
er natural manure of the fmail iflands 
neat the coaft of Peru, lately read to the 
Natienal Inftitste by M. Laucizr. 
To M. HumsBotpt thefe c:l<ebrated 
chemiits are indebted for their knowledge 
of Guano, which is one of the principal 
refources of agricultuse in Sua coun- 
tries that he viiited. On the.other hand, 
the philoiwphical traveler was led to re- 
gard this fubflance with atiention, from 
reading the memoir of thefe cen: Jemen on 
the exiilence of uric acid in the excre. 
ment of birds, eit occurred to him 
that the guanovot theillets on the coait of 
Perv, which are frequented hy great 
mumbers of birds, might pofhibly be of 
the fame nature. 
“© The guano,” fays Humboldt, ‘¢ is 
fourd in the South Sea, in the Chinche 
iflands, near Pifeo; and alfo on the mcre 
fouthern coafis andaflets of Tie, Iza, and. 
Arica. The iohabivanis of Chancay, 
who make guano an object. cf ¢ .mmerce,. 
go to and return from the Chinche tflards 
once in twenty days. Each vefiel con- 
tains fr:m 1500 to 2000 cubic feet.” 
vanega fells at Chancay for fourteen li- 
vres, and at Arica for 1s5jivres tourncis. 
The guano is dug from beds fifty or fixty 
feet thick, where it is worked like. the 
hog ore cf iron. 
f und are frequented by a mulritude of 
taids, PALS of the fpecies of ar- 
AL. 
The iflets where it is. 
dea and phcenicopterus, who reoft there 
every night: but the excrement of thefe’ 
birds would {carcely in thiee centuries 
form a layer of half an inch in-depth. 
Is then the guano the effect of fome con- 
vulfion of the globe, like pit-coal ard 
foifil wood? The fertihty of the natu- 
ral.y. fterile foil of Peru is derived from 
the guano, which: has hecome a material 
article of commerce. Fifty fimall veffels, 
called guaneras, are confantly eroplayed 
in fetchthg this manure fer the fupp!y of 
the cea, Its effuvium may be perceived 
at the dittance of a quarter ef a league. . 
The failers, accuftomed to this fimell of 
ammonia, feel no inconvenitnce from 1t 5 
but we could not approach it without be-. 
ing affected with continued fits of f{oeez-— 
me 
‘: Maize is the particular vegetable for. 
which guano forms an excellent manure. 
The Spaniards jearned its ule fromthe: ~~ 
Indians: if tco muco be thrown on the 
maize, the roct is burned and deftroved. 
Guano is too aida and 1s theiefcre. 
a mature containing hydruret of azove; 
whi.e all other manures are aca iA dol, . 
rets of. carten,”’. wt te 
Guano is of a dirty pare cclour, ran 
ther infipid to the taite, but, poilefiin 
pewertul odour, partaking of cafier a "4 
valerian. It turns black an the Besig : 
exhales a white fmcke of an. ammo 
{meil. eh 
Ten grammes. of. this scaled tee 
Auted., by sates in boiling water, 
515 grammes, 7 Tie water obtains < 
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