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Two or three ſtacks have been burned at different places, by being put up too wet. A: caution to farmers in this ſeaſon.

The harveſt has begun in Norfolk, and promiſcs to be good; indeed, the próſpedt of crops all over the country is very great.

A correſpondent recommends, to increaſe the cultivation of potatoes, to cut out the eyes of all- large, and preſerve even the ſprouts that are grown from them, and to plant them. g

A fleece of wool was cut from a ſheep of Sir Charles Bampfield, wh:ch ſold for 14s. 6d.

PRIZE QUESTIONS.

The following Prize Queſtions have appeared in thè French Publications, which may«ford ſome Hints to the Societies of this Country:‘

SOCIETY of Agriculture, Sciencé, and Arts, of the department of the Seine and: Marne, ſitting at Meaux.

Confhidering that‘the Societies of Agriculture have laboured, and will labour in vain, to ſpread Agricultural Knowledge; ſo long as they cannot make themfelves underſtood by thoſe whom they wiſh to inſtru; ſo long as the principles and language of Mineralogy, of Botany, Zoology, and even Chemiſtry, ſhall be totally unknown to Agriculturalifts, have determined to propoſe the following queſtion, as a ſubjeé for a prize:

To preſent a Plan of rational Education, for Schools, which ſhall be prin- cipally‘dèſtined for Children intended for Agriculture—a Gold Medal, of the value of 144 livres.

The Society of free Agriculture, of the Marne, have propoſed to give two prizes for thefollowing queſtions:

1. What is the moſt economical mode of Education; and, at the ſame time, the moſt proper for the preſervation of foundlings? What tends to the developement of their ſtrength, from their birth“till twelve years of age, and what is the beſt method for Government to adopt.

2. What are the beſt means of making national ſhews or ſpe&acles ſub- ſervient to thé purpoſes of morals? i;

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ſPatural Phenomena.

SOME time ſince a ſmart ſhock of an earthquake was felt at Crieff, in Scotland.

The earthquake which happened in Spaniſh America, we heard of ſome time ſince; but the damage ît did has not yet been known‘in England. The extent of its raváges were prodigious; extending, from Eaſt to Weſt, a hundred and forty leagues; and from North to, South, one hundred and ſixty leagues. In.the centre of this ſpot the greateſt miſchief was done; and here ſeveral conſiderable towns were totally deitroyed. At a greater diſtance from the centre of motion, many ôther towns were Very conſiderably damaged; and, further of fill, the towns which were affe&ted réceived leſs damage.— The- number of perſons who loſt their lives were not leſs than ſeventeen thouſand. From a mountain, which ſeemed to be the focus of this com- motion, the lava burſt forth; and, when it hardened, ſtopped the courſes of the rivers, and cauſed inundations all around. The damage done is immenſe;/ Tome of the moſt fruitful places, in‘the vicinity, are now heaps of lava, earth thrown together, without order, or land covered with a féœtid watér.— The celebrated Humbold, we nnderſtand, has obtained leave of the King of Spain to viſit the ſpot; and, on his retyrp,‘will undoubtedly give ta thé world the fruits of his reſcarches.: