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Original Poetry, by Mr. D'Ifraeli.

Deep bellowings thro' the nigh volcano writhe;

While priests with fault'ring tread
Their pale proceffions lead,

And fhudder at their proper temple's highth:
So was the holy city all aghaft,
When through its rifled walls the stranger-
ruffians paft.

The faintly father flies

To clofe his fading eyes,

Where yet the lonely olive ftrives to grow: Not the tiara's band,

Or harmless crofier'd hand,

Would now forfend him from th' affaffin's blow.

Hafte to the tomb! it waits thee long; Thou art of purer eyes than to behold this

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*The fpider holds the veil in the palace of Cæfar;

The owl ftands fentinel on the watchtower of Afrafiab."

Sir W. Jones's Perfian Grammar. "The effects of the WIND SAMIEL are inftant fuffocation to every living creature, that happens to be in the fphere of its activity.

With meas'ring look her fcales and compafs The Arabians difcern its approach by an un

minding;

And Peace, with myrtle wand, Shall take no fleeting ftand, From either foot her turtle-wings unbinding; And orb a rainbow through the azure sky, In token that the tempeft-clouds are now gone by.

ufual rednefs in the air, and they fay that they feel a fmell of fulphur as it paffes. They throw themfelves down with their faces on the earth, till this whirlwind of poisonous exhalations has blown over, which always moves at a certain height in the atmosphere. In

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Original Poetry, by Mr. Surr.

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ftinct even teaches the brutes to incline their heads to the ground, on thefe occafions."

Niebuhr's Travels in Arabia.

* In Arabia the only formidable ferpent is the BAETAN, a fmall creature, fpotted black and white; its bite is inftant death; and the dead body is fwelled by the poifon in a very extraordinary manner."

The fwarms of thefe LocuSTS darken the air, and appear at a diftance like clouds of fmoke. The noife they make in flying is frightful and stunning like that of a water-fall. When fuch a fwarm falls upon a field, it is wafted, and defpoiled of its verdure.

One of the fufferings of a traveller in the defert, is, when the thirst rages almost to madness, and a well is difcovered, the waters are often too bitter to be drank. Collins, in his Oriental Eclogues, omitted, or knew not, this aggravation of forrow-his Camel-driver fays,

Béthink thee, Haffan, where fhall THIRST affuage

When fails this cruife, his unrelenting rage.

Bruce, in the defert, has afforded a very fublime description of a number of prodigious pillars of fand, at times moving with great celerity, at others ftalking on with a majestic fternnefs. Their tops reaching the very clouds Our people became defperate. Ifmael pronounced it to be hell, the Tucorories that the world was on fire, and the Greeks fhrieking faid it was the Day of Judgment."-Thefe moving pillars of fand purfued the travellers fometimes in bodies. Nature has rarely furnished an object more terrific and fublime. Milton wanted fuch a living image of human destruction.

Far removed from friends, poor and folitary, Like a naked fword, without a fheath." Richardfon's Arabic Grammar.

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Addreffed to a Friend on his Marriage. By T. S. SURR.

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TO pour fweet confolation o'er the foul, When fickness faddens, and when griefs controul;

To foothe the anguifh of a forrowing heart,
O gen'rous friendship, is thy nobler part!
Whofe chearing fmiles beam round affliction's
bed,

When fun-fhine parafites avert the head.
Yet is not friendship fad-but joyous glows
At ev'ry boon a brighter fate bestows;
Exults to view profperity defcend,
And shares each rapture that infpires a friend!
Go then, my mufe, and let thine artless lay
Tell the delights that in my bofom play;
The joy fincere that animates my breast,
Whilft my heart whifpers, that my friend is

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VARIETIES,

LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL;

Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign.
Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received.
COMPLETE edition of the learned

and esteemed works of the late Sir WILLIAM JONES, is in the prefs, and will be published early in the winter, by Meffrs. Robinson, in four volumes, quarto.

An English translation, in three volumes, of the long expected voyage of LA PEROUSE round the world, which has just made its appearance at Paris, under the auspices of the French government, is announced for publication in London, about the end of June. A work more interesting to the geographer, aftro nomer, naturalift, and general reader, has feldom claimed the attention of the public.

The Abbé GAULTIER has lately publifhed in London, the first part of his readings for the ufe of children of differ ent ages; the fecond courfe, containing a pleafant introduction to a knowledge of the principles of grammar, is in the prefs. The Academy of Infcriptions and Belles Lettres, at Paris, expreffed its marked approbation of the Abbé's plan fo long. fince as the year 1787.

A fecond edition of Dr. ROLLO's work on the diabetes mellitus, and the results of the trials of various acids and other fubftances, in the treatment of the lues venerea, further illuftrated by additional facts, is preparing for the prefs.

The increased attention to foreign literature in this island, is evinced by the respectable patronage afforded to the German circulating library, eftablished a few years fince in London; the proprietor of which, from an original stock of 70 vols. has lately been enabled to encrease it to 2000, in all branches of learning.

Mr. MALONE's edition of "Dryden's Profe Works," is in great forwardness for publication, and will confift of three large volumes. The profe of Dryden is widely fcattered among his numerous poetic and dramatic pieces, fome of which are rarely to be met with, even among the libraries of the curious. A complete collection has, therefore, been a literary defideratum, and many of our readers will be pleafed to learn that the task has fallen into fuch able hands.

The Rev. HENRY KETT, A. M. Author of Bampton Lectures, 1792," and of "Juvenile Poems, 1793," has nearly completed a work on prophecy.

Reading rooms, as well as parochial reading focieties, are rapidly extending themfelves in every part of the kingdom. The idea of a popular reading-room, fuggefted in our firft number, has been adopted in feveral places in London; we hear of a fimilar eftablishment in Edinburgh, on a larger fcale, under the conduct of Mr. ELLIOTT, book feller. Our opinion of the great utility of these inftitutions, will induce us at all times to mention their establishment with respect.

Mr. DYER is engaged in printing his Poetical Works, in three volumes, octavo. One volume is nearly printed off, and the whole will be ready for delivery to fubcribers, by January 1799. They confit of defcriptive poems; odes facred to freedom, love, and benovelence; tranflations, fatires, and epiftles. The poems will be accompanied with critical ef fays. A few only of the poems have been printed before, and those will appear in the prefent collection with material alterations.

Mr. JONES, Unitarian Minifter, at Plymouth, is now preparing, and will foon fend to the prefs, a work in one volume, octavo, bearing the following title, "The Forgers of the Miraculous Conception of Mary; the Deification of Jefus, and of the Sybilline Oracles; together with the Oppofition made to thefe Doctrines, by the Apoftles, brought to light from Jofephus, being a Convert and an Apologift, and alfo from an Allegorical Hiftory of the Corruption of Chriftianity, by a renowned Apoftate in the fecond Century, and from various other ancient Authors, Jewish, Pagan, and Christian.”

Dr. DUNCAN, junior, has for fome time been employed in preparing for the prefs a tranflation of the "Hiftory of Medicine," by KURT SPRENGEL. To write a hiftory of that fcience, it was neceffary to collect, and bring under proper points of view, the facts, which are scattered in a thoufand works; to read the writers of each age and nation in the original; to enter into the fpirit of the times when they wrote; and to ftudy the history of fociety, and the fciences, wherever they were connected with medicine: all this Profeffor SPRENGEL is faid to have accomplished.

Dr. JOHN HILL, profeffor of humanity in the university of Edinburgh, is understood

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American Literary and Philofophical Intelligence.

derfood to have been long engaged in the compofition of a very important work, on the Synonima of the Latin Tongue; of which an admirable fpecimen appeared in a late volume of the "Philofophical Tranfactions of Edinburgh."

Dr. ADAM SMITH's work upon the "Wealth of Nations, with the Life of the Author, by Mr. Dugald Stuart, have been recently tranflated into the Spanish language, and in this form published at Madrid.

An excellent Spanish translation of the lectures of Dr. HUGH BLAIR, on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, has been executed at Madrid, and is now in the prefs.

The Agricultural Survey of Perthfhire, by Dr. ROBERTSON, of Callander, is in the prefs, and will speedily be published.

A very valuable work, to be conducted by Doctors MITCHELL, MILLER and SMITH, has lately made its appearance at New-York, under the title of the "Medical Repofitory." Judging from the contents of the three first Numbers, we conceive it will prove no less useful in the United States, than valuable to the world at large. A publication more judicioufly planned, and more ably executed, has feldom been prefented to the public; and the good wishes of every friend of fcience will attend its enlightened editors. The work is claffed under the following general heads:

1. Accurate and fuccinct accounts of the general difeafes which have formerly prevailed any part of the United States.

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zine; and that every new fact of confequence will, through its medium, be regularly prefented to the European world.

A new medical affociation has lately been formed in Philadelphia, whofe more particular object is to inquire into and elucidate the hiftory and nature of pestilential difeafes; without excluding attention to other fubordinate objects. This affociation, which takes the name of The Medical Academy of Philadelphia, defign to publifh the refult of their labours periodically. Their publications, it is expected, will confift of a femi-annual octavo volume.

Dr. RUSH is preparing for publication, a fifth volume of his " Inquiries and Obfervations." This volume is to contain two differtations on the gout, and on difeafes of the mind, alfo a history of the yellow fever for 1797.

Dr. BARTON defigns to publish a Memoir on the Bronchocele, or on Goitres, as observed in the State of New-York. He has alfo in the prefs, a "Journal of a Tour through part of the States of NewYork and Pennsylvania."

Dr. JOHN BRICKELL, of Savannah, in a letter addreffed to the felect-men of Bofton, has announced the following fuccefsful method of preventing the bad effects of the bite of a mad dog. His method is to wash the bitten part with 20 or 30 kettles full of water, poured from the fpout of the kettles, or a mug; and afterwards to burn the wound as deep as the bite has penetrated, with the end of a cafe knife, or any other iron made nearly red-hot. The washing is intended to carry away, from in and about the wound, the faliva; and the burning is intended to extirpate any infested part. This remedy, he obferves, has often been applied in Georgia, without once failing.

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The following well attefted fact, relative to the faculty called instinct of animals, is recorded in the third number of the American "Medical Repofitory." A wren had built her neft in a box, fe fituated that a family had an opportunity to obferve the mother-bird inftruct the young ones in the art of finging, peculiar to their fpecies. She fixed herself on one fide of the opening in the box, directly before her young, and began by finging over her whole fong, very diftinctly. One of the young then attempted to imitate her. After proceeding through a few notes, his voice broke, and he loft the tune. The mother immediately recommenced where he had failed, and went very diftin&tly through with the remain

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Ufe of Gypfum as a Manure.

der. The young bird made a second attempt, commencing where he had ceafed before, and continued the fong as long as he was able, and when he loft the note again, the mother began anew, where he ftopped, and completed it. Then he refumed the tune, and finished it. This done, the mother fang over the whole feries of notes a fecond time, with great precifion; and a fecond of the young attempted to follow her. With him, the purfued the fame courfe as with the firft; and fo with the third and fourth. It fometimes happened, that the young would lofe the tune, three, four, or more times, in the fame attempt; in which cafe, the mother uniformly began where they cealed, and fang the remaining notes; and when each had completed his trial, the repeated the whole ftrain. Sometimes two of the young commenced together. The mother obferved the fame conduct towards them, as when one fang alone. This latter was repeated, day and day, and feveral times in a day.

Gypfum, the effects of which, as a manure, do not appear to have been fairly tried in England, ftill continues to receive the approbation of agriculturists in America. Dr. G. LOGAN, of Philadelphia, has lately published a pamphlet, in which he endeavours to establish, first, That there is no difference between European and American gypfum. Secondly, That gypíum acts as an immediate manure to grafs, and afterwards in an equal degree to grain. And thirdly, That one dreffing will continue in force feveral fuccecding crops. Judge PETERS, of Philadelphia, has alfo published a pamphlet on the fame fubject, containing anfwers to a fet of queries, addreffed by him to various intelligent agriculturists. "After ten or eleven years trial, they all agree in the utility of gypfum, as a renovator of exhaufted foils; that one bushel and a half, or two bufhels, will be fufficient, if yearly repeated, for clover; that it will anfwer well in a fandy loam, upon a limeftone bottom; that though it is ferviceable when frewed in powder, on growing plants, it fucceeds beft in repetition, after cultivating and dreffing lightly with ftable manure, or with ploughing in green manures. It does not exhauft more than other manures do, particularly dung, and to produce its full effect, to be valuable and active, it must meet with fomething in the foil to decompose it; and where this is wanted, it does no good. When ftrewed on the furface, it remarkably benefits white and red clover, and

moft graffes; though it did not appear to do any good to winter grain. It is good for all leguminous plants, buck-wheat, flax, hemp, rape, and oily-feeded plants; moit products of the kitchen-garden, and for fruit-trees; as well as for oats and barley, when sprinkled at fowing time on the wetted feeds. Sowed at all times of the year, it answers well; if ftrewed over the land at any time from the beginning of February to the middle of April, it fhould be fowed in mifty weather, to avoid the lofs of having it blown away with the winds, if fown in a dry time. Some do not fow it until vegetation begins, though it will have an effect if fowed at any feafon. As to quantity of produce by the acre, as much is procured from gypfum as from any other manure; the hay is better than that produced by dung; the cattle wafte lefs of it; and if the grafs is ufed for pafture, they are fonder of the plaistered than of the dunged produce. Its duration is fuch, that though fometimes it will be exhausted in one year, yet the effect of one dreffing, of three or four bufhels to the acre, has been felt for five or fix years, gradually decreasing in its powers, and feems to be capable of prolonging the efficacy of dung; and has been known to do good, when fowed repeatedly, and in fmall quantities, for a continuance of twelve years and more." These facts, and their caufes, &c. have fince been further investigated by Profeffor MITCHELL, in a paper which he has published in the "Medical Repofitory." This interefting Memoir we fhall infert at length, in our next Supplementary Number.

The Agricultural Society of Connecticut are forming a collection of facts for publication, on the ufe of gypfum as a manure.

We obferve, with fingular pleasure, that Agricultural Societies are forming in every district of America. Sheep of various countries, and foreign feeds, of different kinds, have recently been imported and cultivated with fuccefs. The "New-York Magazine" ftates, that the prefident of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina, has received from Mr. JEFFERSON, vice-prefident of the United States, upwards of one hundred different kinds of rice, which have been procured by that gentleman from the Philippine Islands.

The remarkable difeafe among the CATS in London, mentioned in this work for April 1797, appears to have extended itself over the entire continents of Europe

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