most elegant fragments can be obtained to embellish the most beautiful articles of mahogany furniture. Among the species of walnuts, the hiccory affords a very heavy and very elastick wood. It is the most esteemed for fuel, and as such sells thirty per cent. higher than any other kind of wood, The black walnut of America is the heaviest, the largest, and of a darker colour than the common walnut. It is much es, teemed for ship building.* M. de Malesherbes rightly thought, that it was one of the most desirable trees to add to our forests.

Twenty four kinds of oaks have been found in the United States; ten of these species flower every year, and fourteen every other year. It is remarkable that the wood of the former is of a close texture and very good quality; that of the latter, on the contrary, is extremely porous, and does not long resist moisture.

The pines, of which there is a great variety in America, and which have not hitherto been considered for their wood, will henceforward be justly appreciated. Of thirteen species which M. Michaux has recognized, we shall cite among others, the pine with long leaves, improperly known by the name of pinus palustris, which covers the vast arid and sandy plains of the two Carolinas, of Georgia and Florida, Its wood is fine, close and compact, and is preferred for every sort of construction to all the different species of oaks, particularly for the sides of vessels, experience having shewn that it resists decay much longer, This tree might enrich the landes of Bordeaux. The pinis mitis, yellow pine, is also very much esteemed for its wood, and grows in poor and gravelly soils. The wood of the pinus strobus is fine, white, light, little resinous, and adapted to an infinity of purposes, by the facility with which it is worked. The black and red fir gives a very light, very elastick wood, which is almost exclusively used for making the yards of vessels, and which on that account is a considerable article in commerce.

But it would be encroaching upon the work which M. Mir chaux has undertaken, to enter into details respecting the one hundred and thirty kinds of wood, derived from trees of a

* It may be important to make further inquiry relative to this remark, and to ascertain its correctness. We have understood that vessels built of this material on the Ohio, and which have arrived on the Atlantick coast, have soon decayed and become unfit for service. (ED. ANTH.

high growth, of which more than two thirds are employed in the arts. We shall wait for the fruit of his labours, for the perfection of which he has spared no pains. We shall only remark, that with a view to the essays which may be made in France, being grounded on exact knowledge, and as little liable as possible to miscarry, he has been careful to note with exactness, the appearing and disappearing of the different sorts of trees, whether it be owing to the temperature of the climate, or the quality of the soil. Observations of this nature are doubly precious, as they direct the cultivator, and furnish to the botanist materials for botanical geography, which is perhaps the part of that science which is least known.

The desire of M. Michaux to render his voyage useful to France has not been bounded here. He foresaw that however considerable the importation of plants he should make might be, (there are more than two hundred and fifty thou gand actually alive) that the extent of the empire, and the dominant taste for ameliorations, would render other supplies and further commissions to America necessary. Though | the English language is spoken throughout North America without any perceptible deterioration, nevertheless the extent of the country, its colonization commenced at different points, and at different periods, by people who went from different parts of England and Europe, have caused a strange confusion in the popular nomenclature of trees. Very often the same trees have different names in different places, and very often the same name designates distinct species. Fre quently also in the same state the same tree is known under three or four different names. He has collected all these names with care, and annexed them to their scientifick ones.

THE publick are likely to be for a long time without the expected account of the journey of Capt. Lewis to the Pacifick ocean, which has excited more curiosity in Europe than it has in this country. It has been said, that the indifference of the publick, and the very small number of subscribers it obtained, operated strongly on his mind, and was one of the causes that led to his unfortunate death. His papers are said to have been left in a very confused imperfect state; but such as they were, they have been sent to his patron, Mr. Jefferson, who it is presumed will employ his leisure hours in preparing them for the press.

From the (London) Monthly Magazine.

The following method of preserving grapes is given in a French journal: take a cask or barrel inaccessible to the external air, and put into it a layer of bran dried in an oven, or of ashes well dried and sifted. Upon this place a layer of bunches of grapes well cleaned, and gathered in the afternoon of a dry day, before they are perfectly ripe. Proceed thus with alternate layers of bran and grapes, till the barrel is full, taking care that the grapes do not touch each other, and to let the last layer be of bran; then close the barrel, so that the air may not be able to penetrate, which is an essential point. Grapes thus packed will keep nine, or even twelve months. To restore them to their freshness, cut the end of the stalk of each bunch of grapes, and put that of white grapes into white wine, and that of the black grapes into red wine, as you would put flowers into water, to revive or to keep them fresh.

The celebrated Canova, who is to receive one hundred thousand crowns for a colossal statue of Napoleon, in bronze, has engaged the assistance of the German artists, at Vienna, who cast the statue of Joseph II. under the direction of the celebrated professor Zauner.

The subterraneous passage by which the Roman emperours went privately from the palace of the Caesars, on Mount Caelius, at Rome, to the Flavian Amphitheatre, has been lately discovered. From it have been taken a number of architectural fragments, capitals, cornices, and vases, proofs of the splendour of its decorations. Some fine torsos have also been found, and a head of Mercury, which appears to have belonged to the statue formerly in the garden of the Pope, and now in the Chiaramonti Museum. Several pipes and gutters for carrying off water were also discovered, and twenty rooms of very small dimensions, and lighted only from the top. These are presumed to be the fornices so frequently mentioned by Martial, Seneca, and Juvenal.

The celebrated Last Supper, of Leonardo Da Vinci, at Milan, has suffered so much from damp, and other circumstances, that it will soon be totally destroyed. Bossi is taken a copy of it in oil, of the original size, from which it is afterwards to be executed in mosaick.

The brothers Riepenhausen, who have fixed their residence in Italy, have formed the plan of a considerable work, in which

they propose to exibit the rise and progress of the arts in that country, by stroke engravings of the works of the great masters. It will be divided into three sections, each comprehending four parts. The first section will begin with Cimabue, and go down to Gozzoli; the second to Massaccio; and the third to Raphael. The work will also contain biographical accounts and portraits of the different painters. The four first parts comprehend the works, of Cimabue, Giotto, Tafi, Buffalmaco, Urcagna; the succeeding ones will exhibit those of Gazzoli, Ghirlandajo, Fusole, Phiberti; and the last those of Massaccio, Signorelli, Perugino, L. da Vinci, Fra Bartolomeo, Michael Angelo, Raphael, and the most celebrated of his pupils. Each part will contain twelve plates, in small folio.

HUNGARY.-The Archduke Palatine has published the plan of the intended National Museum of Hungary. This esta blishment will be composed of a library, a cabinet of medals, a cabinet of antiquities and curiosities, a collection of ancient armour, a cabinet of natural history, and a pantheon, containing busts and portraits of the most celebrated Hungarians; and lastly, a place destined for the exhibtion of the productions of national industry. This Museum is to be established at Pest.

SWEDEN.-M. Aurivilius has printed a concise account of the Greek and Latin manuscripts, in the Library of Upsal. The former are sixteen in number, among which are nine of the New Testament, and of the Alexandrian translation of the old. Among the Latin manuscripts, the author mentions the ten first books of Livy, and a complete Horace. The first appears to be of the tenth, or eleventh century. Several catalogues of the Library of Upsal have already been published; such as that of the books and manuscripts, given by the High Chancellor Lagardie, to the academy: (folio, Stockholm, 1672;) that of the Arabick, Persian, and Turkish manuscripts, given in 1705, by J. G. Sparrenfeld, (quarto, Upsal, 1806;) and that of ninety-three Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, and Arabick manuscripts, sent to the Library by J. J. Bioernstael, (8vo. Stockholm, 1785).

CATALOGUE,

OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.

FOR APRIL, 1810.

Sunt bona, sunt quaedam, mediocria sunt mala plura. Mart.

NEW WORKS.

* Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. Vol. I. part. 1.

Kemarks upon an anonymous letter, styled, "The Duty of a Christian in a trying situation;" addressed to the author of a pamphlet, entitled, "The Mediator's Kingdom, not of this world," &c -"Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good.”—Rom. xii. 21. New York; Williams and Whiting.

*A Sermon delivered in the Roman Catholick Church, New York, on Sunday evening, Feb. 25th. 1810. By the Rev. Benedict J. Fenwick. New York; Williams and Whiting.

Christian Monitor, No. 13. Boston; Munroe and Francis.

An Inaugural Dissertation on the disease termed Petechiae, or, Spotted Fever; submitted to the examining committee of the Medical Society of Connecticut, for the county of Hartford; by Nathan Strong, jun. of Hartford. Peter B. Gleason. pp. 52. 8vo.

* A Sermon preached in Boston, April 5, 1810, the day of the Publick Fast; by William Ellery Channing, pastor of the church in Federal Street. Boston; John Eliot, jun.

* Review of "the New Testament, in an improved version, upon the basis of Archbishop Newcome's translation;" including a review of Griesbach's edition of the Greek Festament; with remarks upon the various editions and versions of the New Testament, and an inquiry into the propriety of a new translation, from the Eclectic Review. Boston; W. Wells.

* Vol. I. of a General History of the United States of America; from the discovery in 1492, to 1792: or, Sketches of the Divine Agency, in their settlement, growth, and protection; and especially in the late memorable Revolution, in three volumes, exhibiting a general view of the principal events, from the discovery of North America, to the year 1765. By Benjamin Trumbull, D. D. Boston; Farrand, Mallory and Co. pp. 441. 8vo.

A Sermon preached at Trinity Church, April 6, 1810, being the day of Publick Fast. by J. S. J. Gardiner, A. M. rector. Boston; Munroe and Francis.

Reports of Cases adjudged in the District Court of South Carolina. By the Hon. Thomas Bee, Judge of that court. To which is added, an Appendix, containing Decisions of the Admiralty Court of Pennsylvania; by the late Francis Hopkinson, Esq. and Cases determined in other districts of the United States. Boston; Farrand, Mallory and Co.

* An Inaugural Oration, delivered Feb. 24, 1810. By Henry Davis, A. M. President of the Middlebury College. Published by the request of the corporation. Boston; Farrand, Mallory and Co.

Such books, pamphlets, etc. as are designated by this mark (*) may be found at the Boston Athenaeum.