1805.] 
muriat of rhodium. Diffolve it in water; 
ad a cylinder of zinc. Heat the black 
powder which is thus obtained, mixing it 
with borax. The powder becomes white, 
and acquires a metallic lure: in this 
fate it is pure rhodium, The name was 
given in confequence of the fine-red folu- 
tions which it makes with acids. It is 
infufible: its fpecific gravity is 11. It is 
not precipitated by fal-ammoniac, com- 
mon falt, pruffiat of pota(s, or hydro- 
fulphuret of ammonia. 
A farmer at Warcot, in Yorkth're, 
had, during the prefent year, feventy 
lambs from twenty-four ewes; the lamts 
were all ftrong and healthy, and the in- 
creafe is fuppof-d to have arifen from hav- 
ing turned the ewes into rape prior to the 
ram being put among them. 
The Rev. T. Brown, of St. Ives, 
has invented an implement for cleaning 
land from every kind of weed. It may 
be worked by two, three, or four horfes, 
and requires but a fingle perfun to attend 
it, and that is the driver, as it will keep 
fteady to its wo.k by itfelf. By employ- 
ing two fets of horfes, it will clean from 
fix to eight acres each day. The price of 
the machine, with wheels, twenty guineas; 
and without wheels, fixteen guineas. 
The ufual procefs of blatting rocks 
with gunpowder is, after drilling a hole, 
and charging it with powder, to intro- 
duce a wire or {mall rod, to prefervea 
communication with the fuzee, and then to 
ram up the remainder of the hole with 
ftone pulverized by the operation of ram- 
ming it ; after which, the wire is with- 
drawn and the priming introduced. In- 
ftead of this tedious operaticn, which is 
oftea attended with danger, the blafing 
may be effected by introducing a ftraw 
filled with fine gunpowder, and then fiil- 
ing the hole with fand.— Experiment : Mv. 
Jessop caufed a hole, one inch and an 
half in diameter, and twelve inches deep, 
to be bored in a knotty piece of oak 
twenty inches in diameter ; he charged it 
-with three inches of powder, and upon it 
was laid four inches of fand, which {plit 
the wood, with great violence, into fix 
pieces. 
The fpirited exertions of Mr. Goscuen, 
of Leipzig, in behalf of literature, and 
the realization of his propofais in the 
works now iffuing from his preis, entitle 
him to the gratitude of the learned world, 
as well as the patronage. It is generally 
known, that, in confequence of the great 
exertions of Dr. Griefbach to prefent to 
the public the text of the Greek Tefta- 
ment in the utmoft ftate of purity which 
¢ircumftances would admit, his Grace the 
Literary end Philfophical Intelligence. 
Duke of Grafton, for the accommodation 
of his countrymen, liberally provided at 
his own expence the paper for a large 
number of impreflions to be fent to Eng- 
land, with the view of furnifhing, at a 
very reduced price, a fufficient number of 
copies for the general demand. The firft 
volume accordingly, containing the four 
Golpels, was reprinted by Dr. Griefbich, 
with very cenfiderable improvements 5 
and whence the avidity with which it was 
received on the Continent, induced Mr. 
Go‘chen to reprint it, with ail the im- 
provements which the typographic art 
could ccnfer ; and, that no advantages 
might be wanted, he hath obtained 
from Dr. Griefbich to befow on the edi- 
tion his further revifional cares; fo that 
for beau'y and accuracy no book hag 
ever iffued from the prefs in a higher 
ftaie of perfeStion. It is not, however, ta 
be underitood, that this edition is intended 
to fuperfede the laft, which ts called, for 
the fake of diftinétion, the Duke of Graf 
ton’s, and the critical edition; but is built 
upon it as its foundation, ail the authori- 
ties for fixing the text being given only in 
that; the fecond and concluding volume 
of which is to be publithed next year, 
when the two volumes, to complete the 
more fplendid one, will alfo make their 
appearance. It will-be proper, however, to 
obferve, in refpeét to this edition, that the 
work is not only printed with unexampled 
accuracy and beauty, on the bett paper, 
and adorned with exquifite engravings, 
(which laft we confider as a hors d@uvre)y 
but prefents, under the moft limple me- 
thod of eftimating their value, four forts 
of various readings :—1. Thole admitted 
lato the text as of mof# validity. 2. Such 
as are nearly of equal authority ‘placed in 
the margin, and diftinguifhed by the let- 
ter 8. 3. Thofe which are of lefs value 
diftinguithed by y, and added io like 
manner as deferving confideration. 4. 
Ochers in themfelves improbable, but pre- 
ferved either becaufe they had obtained 
the fuffrages of ‘critics, or were remarka- 
ble on fome other account. Where a 
change of pun&uation has been adopted, 
the inftance is marked by ¢3 conje€tured 
amendments are diftinguified by an w; 
and where the Elzevir or Wetflein’s text is 
departed from, the common reading is 
given below, and is diftinguifhed by x, 
for xoivy. It is to be noticed, that the 
types of this {plendid work are entirely 
new. Their forms have been feieéted, by 
feveral diftinguifhed (cholars of Germany, 
from the manutcripts of mof admired cal- 
ligraphy, and are fixed upon as the ftand- 
ard of their future Greek types. 
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