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work is entitled the Troubadour, or Occi- 
tanic Poetry of the 13th Century. The 
word occitanic is formed from the Qc Jan- 
guage (Jangue d’Qc) in which the Proven- 
cal Troubadours wrote. 
A Supplement to RENovaRD’s Aldine 
Hiftory ; and a fecond volume of the Bz6- 
liotheca Veneta, will be publithed in the 
courfe of the next year, by MoRELLI. 
Dr. WoLF, of Nuremberg, and Dr. 
Meyer, of Offenback, are preparing 
«* A new Ornithology of the German and 
French Birds.” ay 
A French emigrant, of the name of 
Parent, has lately, by means of a fub- 
fcription, been enabled to commence a 
fearch for antiquities at the village of 
Augit (formerly a Roman colony of Au- 
gufta Rauracorium) near Bafil. His la- 
bours, at prefent, have hitherto been only 
rewarded by a few coins and other relics 
of little value. Another fubfcription is 
fet on foot to continue the work. 
At Stockholm, will be publifhed very 
early in the next year, the Works of the 
Jate Count JOHN GaBRIEL OXENSTIERA, 
in Profe and Verfe, in three volumes. . 
Literature is making confiderable advances 
in this city ; a variety of tranflations from 
the Englifh, German, and French, have 
Jately appeared. There has alfo been pub- 
lifhed a German and Swedifh Dictionary, 
by Jonas WiCKFORT. 
Nothing can be more grateful to the 
friends of humanity than the information 
which we receive, from time to time, re- 
{peéting the progrefs of inftruétion in the 
vaft Ruffian Empire. The fuperiors of 
feveral BaSlian monafteries have engaged 
for themfelves and their fucceffors, to pay 
confiderable fums, out of their revenues, 
for the erection of {chools in their refpec- 
five diccefes. M.SEWERGIN has pre- 
fented the Inftitute of Public Inftru&ion, 
at St. Peterfburg, with a Cabinet of Mi- 
nerals, collected by himfeif. The Em- 
peror has ordered the revenues of the City 
of T{chernigow to be appropriated to the 
ereétion and maintenance otf ufeful initi- 
tutions in that place. In confequence of 
which a houfe for the education of fifty 
orphans, and another for the inftrugtion of 
408 fcholars in mechanical arts, have al- 
ready been opened. At Odeffa a com- 
mercial {chool has been lately eftablifhed. 
The St. Peterfburg Free Society of the 
’ Lowers of Literature, Science, and Art, 
ave publifhed the firft volume of their 
‘anfactions, which contains the regula- 
ons of their fociety, its tranfactions dur- 
g the firft two years, and productions of 
rious writers in profe and verle. At 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 533 
Mofcow no lefs than four periodical works 
have, in a very fhort {pace of time, made 
their appearance: the following are the 
re{pective titles—-Novelties of Ruffian Li- 
terature — Pythagoras — The Political 
Journal, and The Lover’s.Journal. At 
Kaluga another periodical work has been 
eftablifhed, entitled Urania. 
VaUQUELIN has, in his own opinion, 
completely afcertained that the new fup- 
pofed earth of Klaproth, denominated Oc- 
roite, owes its peculiar qualities to a mix. 
ture of oxide of iron, and that the mine- 
ral from which Klaproth extraéted it con- 
tains no new earth whatever. 
The Company of Geographers and Agri- 
culturifts, fent by the Prefident of the 
United States to examine the courfe of the 
Miffouri to its fource, and the nature of 
the country through which that river flows, 
appeared in January laft at its mouth, 
where their paflage was oppofed by the 
Spanifh commander. They therefore re- 
tired to Kafkafkias on the oppofite bank 
of the Miffiffippi, till the Spaniards have 
evacuated Louifana. It is underftood 
that they have made fome very important 
geographical dilcoveries. 
Mr. HarDING, of Bremen, is faid to 
have dilcovered a new moveable ftar, on 
the firft of September ; it appears to be of 
the eighth magnitude, and is fuppofed ta 
be a new planet, fimilar to the Ceres or 
Pallas: its motion was retrograde to the 
fouth. 
The affociated Bookfellers of America, 
at their fourth meeting, on June 18, at 
New York, agreed to offer the following 
premiums: —1%, A Gold Medal of 50 
dollars for the belt fpecimen of American 
printing, on Americao paper, with Ameri- 
canink: the fpecimen to be not finaller than 
500 copies of 300 pages. 2d, For thefecond 
ipecimen, not lefs than 300 copies of 150 
pages, a Gold Medal of 20 dollars. 3d, 
For the bet fpecimen of paper of Ameri- 
can manufacture, being not lefs than 50 
reams, a Gold Medal of 20 duilars. 4th, 
For the beft fpecimen of American book- 
binding, a Gold Medal of 25 dollars. sth, 
For the beft {pecimen of American printe. 
ing- ink, a Gold Medal of 25 dollars. 
The Annas of AGRICULTURE, by 
Mr. ARTHUR YouNG, have, of late, 
at:racted extraordinary notice in Germany. 
A man of eminence in the knowledge of | 
rural ceconomy, Mr. Aubert THair, 
is, accordingly, preparing to commence, 
with the beginning of the year 1805, a 
publication under the very fame title, | 
which is to confift, in part, of tranflations . 
from Mr, Youna’s work, and partly of 
details 
