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warm decoétion of honey ; pafled through 
the prefs, and finally fteeped four days in 
falt water, when they are ready for dying. 
The artemifia annua (mugwort), in de- 
coétion, is the bafe of all the ecfours which 
are given to the Turkey leather in the 
Tauride, at Aftracan, and in the towns 
which formerly belonged to Turkey, To 
dye red, cochineal in powder is mixed 
with the decogtion of mugwort, and alum 
is added. After the {kins have been 
fieeped in this dye, they are kneaded in a 
hot infufion of oak loaves; when they 
have become fupple and mellow, they are 
pafled through coid water; they are then 
rubbed with olive oil, and calerdered with 
wooden cylinders, 
It has been lately announced, that the 
ruins of two great cities have been difco- 
vered in the Ruffian empire, of which 
there are no accounts in hiftory: one of 
them is in the ifle of Taman, in the Black 
Sea ; the other in a diitri& in Siberia. 
Poland. 2 
Liberal contributions have been receiv- 
ed from feveral of the principal nobility 
of Poland, towards defraying the expences 
of printing the Polith-Slavonic Dictionary 
comipiled by M. Linpe, diretor of the 
Lyceum at Warfaw. 
Pruffia. 
M, Kiaproru has read to the Royal 
Academy of Sciences at Berlin, a fhort 
Diflertation containing the refults of bis 
anal) fis of a new fofli!, called Datholith, 
lately difcoveied by M. E{mark in Nor- 
way. 
Mr. Huru, a Pruffian aftronomer, re- 
fiding at Francfort on the Oder, has lately 
di'covered new fpots on the fun, forming 
a groupe which,:accerding to bim, occu- 
Py in length a fifteenth, and ‘in breadth a 
nineteenth part of its diameter. Thele 
{pots aflume different forms, and in the 
{pace of two or three hours undergo vifible 
changes. 
Sweden. 
Mr. Tuam, of Skara in Sweden, is 
occupied on the runic charaglers found 
on one of the famous lions of Venice, 
which was not removed to Paris. Mr. 
T.. isextremely well verfed in this branch 
of northern siterature, and has already 
fucceeded in decyphering a confiderable 
part of them, 
Denmark. 
The Danifh government is now building 
in Iceland a regular town, which is to be 
cald Reykuvig: it is fituated on the 
fea-fhore, and is to have a free pore. A 
Latin grammar {choo! has already been 
eftablifhed there. " 
Montuiy Mac., Nor 144. 
Literary bid Philofophical Intelligence. 558 
NIsFELSEN, the celebrated Danifh me- 
chanic, inventor of the mufica) inftrument 
called Melodica, has lately contrived a 
_machine, with which the largeft trees may 
be pulled out of the ground; notwithftand- 
ing the ftrength of their roots. 
From the refearches of Profeffor MuN- 
TER, of Copenhagen, it appears that al- 
moft all the mfcriptions found in the 
iflands of Malta and Gozo, and fuppefed 
to be Phoenician by Torremuzza, who pub- 
lithed them in his Infcriptiones Siculz, 
are Egyptian. Having compared them 
with the infcriptions which are ac- 
knowledged by all antiquaries to be Egyp- 
tian, and with the Papyri publithed in 
Denon’s Travels, the Profeflor found a 
great conformity between all thefe difter- 
ent monuments. He purpofes to publith 
his refearches, from which we may expect 
new and curious refults relative to the 
hificry of thefe countries. ‘This work 
will be accompanied with comparative 
tables of the charaéters. 
Mr. Munter has alfo difcovered a weav- 
ing infrument engraved on the coins of 
thofe iflands; where, as appears from 
Diodorus (lib. v. c. 12), the Carthagi- 
nians had confiderable fa€tories ; and is of 
opinion, that a figure on fome coins of 
Coffura, which has been taken for a co- — 
Jumn, or-candalabra, is nothing elfe but 
the Kaywy of the ancients. ’ 
Profeflor MuL Ler, of Copenhagen, 
has been prefented with the large medal. 
of the Danifh Academy, for his memoir 
on the two large antique golden horns 
which fome time ago were ftolen fromthe - 
King of Denmark’s cabinet, and melted 
down by the robbers. He confiders thern 
to have been of Celtiberian origin, as the 
charaéters engraved on them perfe&ily re- 
fembled thofe found on Celtiberian me- 
dals. 
The King of Denmark’s cabinet of 
medals has Jately been enriched by the 
acquibtion of the fine colle&tion of Don 
Alcftio Motta (Baron Recupero) at Rome, 
which confifts of about 1600 Greek me- 
dais in bronze, for the moft part of Sicily 
and Magna Grecia. 
Germany. 
Profeffor Frorr_tio, author of a Hit- 
tor of Painting, printed at Géttingen, 
has lately publifhed an interefting little 
work, intitled, * Effay towards a Hiltory 
of the Arts of Defign, &c. in Ruffia.”’ 
wT he firft part contains curious faéts, 
taken from fome very rare works, a col- 
le&tion of which is qnly to be found inthe 
library belonging to the Univerfity of 
Gottingen, on the ancient conneétion be- 
1 4B tween 
