434662 1 44 29,90 29,93 W. N. W. 58 63 63 8 62 9 67 i0 51 62 50 29,95 30,00 56 50 29,97 29,94 48 29,92 29,90 50 29,94 29,89 51 29,93 29,98 54 29,97 29,85 49 29,65 29,61 58 44 29,70 29,73 11 63 49 29,65 29,55 12 50 44 29,00 29,54 13 58 44 29,90 29,93 14 63 50 30,00 30,02 15 63 50 30,03 29,90 16 58 46 29,94 30,05 17 53 43 30,07 30,05 18 59 41 30,05 29,97 19 58 45 29,93 29,85 20 61 41 29,75 29,52 21 64 44 29,51 29,52 22 66 47 29,50 29,60 23 55 41 29,61 29,68 24 55 40 29,73 29,78 HITCHEN, HERTS. Lat. 519 56′ 20′′ N. N. W.-W. N. W.-W. W. W. W.-S.W. S. W.-W. W. W.-N. W.-N. Ditto-ditto-ditto. Cloudy-slight showers. Fair-clear-brisk wind. Ditto-cloudy-ditto. Ditto-ditto-ditto. Ditto-ditto-ditto. Fair-sun and clouds. Sun-showers and high wind, Fair-clear-brisk wind. Ditto-cloudy-ditto. Cloudy-slight showers. Ditto-fair. t 280 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC NOTICES. BOTANY. A second number of a work, published at Batavia by Dr. Blume, on the Plants Indigenous to the Dutch Possessions in India, has recently arrived in Europe. It is said to be highly interesting, and contains the natural history and description of one hundred new plants, found in the island of Java, with accounts of their principal physical properties, and of their domestic use. The first number of a new Graphic Work, entitled "the Ports of England," which will contain two Views, one of Whitby, the other of Scarborough, is announced as being nearly ready for publication. The Views will be engraved in the Mezzotinto style, from Drawings by J. W. Turner, R. A. and will comprise all the licensed chartered ports of England. Nearly ready for pubiication, in a quarto volume, "A Winter in Lapland and Sweden, with various Observations relating to Finmark and its Inhabitants, made during a residence at Hammerfast, near the North Cape. By Arthur de Capell Broke, M. A. F.R.S. &c. The work is to be embellished with thirty Engravings and a large Map. NEW KIND OF FODDER.-Mr. Moorcroft, who is now travelling in higher Asia, has transmitted to the East India Company the seeds of a foddering plant indigenous in Braz, on the borders of India and China. It is called prangos, and approaches the genus cachrys. If we can believe half the wonders attributed to this plant by the Hindoos, the acquisition of it is of great importance. It seems certain that it affords great nourishment for cattle, and requires little care for its propagation. It fattens flocks of sheep in a very short time; and, it is said, cures the hepatic flux, and the rot, which is so fatal after the autumnal rains. It is a herbaceous perennial plant of the umbeliferous family. Number V. of Select Views in Greece, by H. W. Williams, has been lately published, and in its pages will be found some of the magnificent remains of ancient Greece, pictured with great taste and excellence. This number is pre-eminent over what has yet been published of Mr. Williams's much admired collection. The representation of the Academic Grove of Athens is very fine and appropriately enriched by the introduetion of figure. Mount Oleus is very spirited. Part of the Temple of Minerva is an imposing ruin. Misitra is an excellent picture of the country, its buildings and landscapes; and Livadia, &c. equally admirable, though very unlike in composition. The Engravings are by Lizars, J. Horsburgh, and W. Miller, and do them the highest credit. RUSSIA. The Agricultural Society of Moscow, over which Prince Galatzin presides, and to which the late Emperor Alexander gave a considerable grant of land near Moscow, for the purpose of establishing a farm, is going on very prosperously. It already contains in its school above eighty pupils from various parts of Russia, even from Kamschatka; and the journal of its proceedings has been so popular, that it has been found necessary to reprint the volumes of transactions for the first two years. NAVIGATION OF RIVERS.-A machine has been constructed by A. M. Laguel, and is now said to be at work on the Rhone, by which he contrives to tow vessels against the tide, at the rate of three quarters of a league in the hour; the ordinary rate of vessels towed by horses against tide being two leagues and a half or three leagues a-day. The inventor has presented a model of his machine, to the scale of an inch to a foot, to the French Academy of Sciences. LONDON: SHACKELL, ARROWSMITH, AND HODGES, JOHNSON'S-COURT, FLEET-STREET. THE London JOURNAL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. No. LXVIII. Recent Patents. To WILLIAM HIRST and JOHN WOOD, both of Leeds, in the County of York, Manufacturers, for their Invention of certain Improvements in Machinery for Raising or Dressing of Cloth. [Sealed 7th July, 1824.] THIS invention is an improvement in the construction of gig mills or gigging machinery for scouring the surfaces of woollen and other cloths, which improvements consist in the adaptation of a second cylinder or barrel, applied to a gigging machine and in certain gear connected therewith, for the purpose of combining the action of both cylinders, by which contrivances the second cylinder or barrel is caused to revolve with the first, and either in the same direction or the contrary way, at the pleasure of the operator, both cylinders or barrels being at work on the same side of the cloth at one time, for the purpose of more perfectly drawing out the pile of the cloth than is done by the ordinary gigging machines, and if required, of raising the pile in two directions. by the same operation. The invention also extends to a mode of drawing the cloth with any degree of tension against the gig barrels, and causing it to embrace a greater or less portion of their surfaces, and consequently to be more or less powerfully acted upon by the teasles, without interfering with the general rotatory action of the gig barrels: the tension of the cloth being produced by several rollers bearing against it, which are slidden in and out by means of racks and pinions. This invention has subsequently been further improved, which improvements form the subject of a more recent patent, and as the machinery in both instances are alike, with the exception of some trifling additions in the second, we have thought it advisable to explain the details of the apparatus, with reference to the graphic figures accompanying the latter specification which immediately follows this. To WILLIAM HIRST and JOHN WOOD, both of Leeds, in the County of York, Manufacturers, and JOHN ROGERSON, of Leeds, aforesaid, Millwright, for their Invention of certain Improvements in Machinery for Raising ··and Dressing Cloth. [Sealed 1st October, 1825.] THE patentee states that these improvements in ma |