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The BUTTER-TREE, which, from a kernel, enveloped in a ſweet pulp under a thin green rend, yields by boiling, a vegetable butter of excelleat qualities--= is a prodution of the diſi it of Bambara, in Africa---grows there very abun=- th a diligent and unſkilful culture; and

dantly---1s managed by the natives has been lately for the rſt time, made known 1n Britain, by that ingenious and

entérprizing traveller, Mr. MuNco PARK.

A nibulous COMET was, on the 6th of September, ſeen by Mr. Leeof Hackney, near the lower fide of the ſquare of Urſa IAajord, where it united with the tail. From that fitnation, it has únce proceeded ſlowly by the extremitv of the tail into the conſtellation of Bootes; advancing by the ſhoulder, acroſs the breaſt añd

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neck of this figure.

In the end of Auguſt there were exceedin ly copious and tempeſtuous rains, which, in Aberdeenſhire, ſwelled the rivers Dee and Don in ſeveral places, to the height of 7 feet above their ordinary level. The adjacent low grounds were very hurtfully flooded: ſeventy fine ſheep were drowned. Corn fields and mea- dows ſuffered a prodigious devaſtation.

In the flooding of the river Dee near Aberdeen, in the end of Auguſt, a dog» by ſucceſſive ſwimmings to an Iſland on which were ſome ſheep about to be car- ried away by the flood, ſaved eleven ſheep, but was himſelf carried away by the ſtream in the attempt to bring a twelfth to the bank. j

September 9. Two fine Whales have been recently taken in the river Thames», within the juriſdi&ion of the city of London.‘The one 30 feet long, and 18 feet round; the other 33 feet long, and 19 round.

Mr. PERKINS's uſe of what he calls ¡netallic tra@Æors for the cure of certain pains and inflammations, has been examined by HERHOLDST and RAFNO, men of the higheſt medical reputation at Copenhaged.‘The influence of thoſe s to depend upon ſome modification of Galianiſm. Tt is certains

traëers ſcems that there is ſomething more than mere pretence in the effeâs aſcribed to the traéors. Of this, thoſe Daniſh phyſicians were well ſatisfied. We ſhould be ſorry if any ſuch attempts were made towards a quackiſh uſe of the Galvanic phœnomena, as might diſcourage philoſophers from the farther proſecution of ſuch important diſcoveries,

Fine Arts, Science and Literature.

Sept. 8.—The Theatre in the Haymarket, Vauxhall-Gardens, Sadler’s Wells, St. Bartholomew Fair, and other places of public amuſement, have been lately frequented with an ardour of the public, not leſs cager, than if there were nothing to be ſeen in the fields, but the gloom and the deſolation of win- ter. Bartholomew Fair is-yow at an end. While it laſted, it was to thoſe who could endure a huftliug crowd, perhaps of all our public diverſions, the moſt attractive,

In Bergen, the capital of Norway have been, within theſe laſt two

, years, publiſhed,—the Feſter of Bergen, a per iodical paper, full of good ſenſe and’ſharp fatire,—and the Provincial Readings, another periodical paper, of 2 more light and aify compohition, to which many of the Norwegian ladies have been literary contributors-

A royal printing- office for thie Literature of Swediſh Lapland, has been lately eſtabliſhed at Herudſand, in the province of Nordland, under the direétion of Mr. Nordin. Lapland neyer before had the advantage of a printing-preſs.

Mr. BRUNNICH, a Daniſh mineralogift of high reputation, has newly pub- liſhed a valuable treatiſe in the Daniſh language, upon the Elements of tlie Science ef Mineralogy.

‘There are in Germany, above 109,000 living authors-

Religious worſhip is celebrated in St. Peterſburgh, in no fewer than nine different languages; German, Finniſh, Swediſh, Iſlandic, French, Italian, Engliſh, Dutch, and Armenian, i