vours, by writing and persuasion, to convince them of the absurdity of continuing so erroneous a method for computation. He gained many proselytes to his opinion, but the bulk of the people thought no way could be right but the old, and his efforts ended in his being ridiculed. A caricature represented this reformer as a goat making a run at the hands of the clock, to drive them an hour later, while the people were pulling him back by the tail. ANECDOTES OF COLBY. The aptitude and quaintness of remark frequently made by the sons of Neptune are almost proverbial. Sleeping, one night, with that worthy and meritorious officer, captain Colby (then a midshipman, but now admiral Thornborough's captain, on board the Royal Sovereign) it occurred to me, that I had drawn too large a portion of the bed covering from him; and, as the weather was severe, I kindly inquired if he was in want of any clothes? He replied laconically: "I want A COAT most cursedly." When serving on board teclined, bust as a lieutenant, captain Thair, borough commander, Mr. Colby ha the misfortune to lose his arm, in the engagement fought off Bantry bay, between sir J. B. Warren and admiral Bompard, by which the invasion of Ireland was frustrated. He was raising the spyglass to reconnoitre the enemy, at the moment that a cannon ball tore his arm off just above the elbow, and it was attached only by a long sinew that encumbered his knees. In relating this trans action afterwards, he gallantly observed: "Though disarmed, Í had not struck: they both struck and were disarmed presently after!" When landing some troops at Quiberon Bay, and manoeuvring in the best manner to effect the disembarkation with the least possible loss, Mr. Colby was shot through the hat. Upon jocosely observing to him, that he, perhaps, bobbed his head to avoid the danger, he facetiously remarked: "It is no reproach to a British officer to prevent the enemy from seeing through him," PHILOSOPHICAL AND ECONOMICAL INTELLIGENCE. 213 THE RUNAWAY. AH! who is he by Cynthia's gleam Why talks he to the idle air? Why, listless, at his length reclined, "Speak, gentle shepherd! tell me why?" PHILOSOPHICAL AND ECONOMICAL INTELLIGENCE. To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. SIR, HAVING observed, in a late number of your interesting miscellany, a letter from Dr. Lettsom, mentioning a method of taking off impressions of leaves, plants, &c. 1 beg leave to mention to you a way which, though not so expeditious as that mentioned by Dr. L. is, I think, more accurate in taking off the most minute veins and fibres. The method I allude to is this:-Take half a sheet of fine wove paper, and oil it well with sweet oil: after is has stood a minute or two, to let it soak through, rub off the superfluous oil with a piece of paper, and let it hang in the air to dry. After the oil is pretty well dried in, take a lighted candle, or lamp, and move the paper slowly over it, in a horizontal direction, so as to touch the flame, till it is perfectly black. When you wish to take off impressions of plants, lay your plant carefully on the oiled paper, and lay a piece of clean paper over it, and rub it with your finger, equally in all parts, for about half a minute: then take up your plant, and be careful not to disturb the order of the leaves, and place it on the book, or paper, on which you wish to have the impression. Then cover it with a piece of blotting paper, and rub it with your finger for a short time, and you will have an impression superiour to the finest engraving. The same piece of black paper, will serve to take off a great number of impressions; so that when you have once gone through the process of blacking it, you may make an impression in a very short time. The principal excellence of this method is, that the paper receives the impression of the most minute veins and hairs; so that you may take the general character of most flowers, much superiour to any engraving. The impressions may afterwards be coloured according to nature, MAKING LAKE. A German chymist has made known the lake.-Take any quantity of cochineal, on following process for making a beautiful which pour twice its weight of alcohol, and as much distilled water. Infuse for some days, near a gentle fire, and then filter. To the filtred liquor add a few drops of the solution of tin, and a fine red precipitate will be formed. Continue to add a little solution of tin every two hours, till the whole of the colouring matter is precipitated Lastly, edulcorate the precipitate by washing it in a large quantity of distilled water, and then dry it. From the analysis of the fresh leaves of blue wolfs-bane [aconitum napellus,] cultivated in a garden near Paris, M. Steinacher has found, that this vegetable contains green fecula, an odorant gaseous substance, which he suspects to be viru lent; muriate of ammonia, carbonate of lime, and phosphate of lime. PAINTING ON GLASS. SEVERAL German artists have of late turned their attention to the art of painting on glass. Professor Frick, of Berlin, has made great improvements in the burning of pictures in glass, and has recently finished a beautiful painted window for the catholick church in that city. M. Buhler, of Urach, in Wirtemberg, also burns colours in glass so exquisitely, that his works are not to be distinguished from the best of the ancients. TERRA MARMOROSA. MR. JOHN PENWARNE, has obtained his majesty's letters patent, for his valuable invention of the Terra Marmorosa, by which plaster-casts are made to. resemble, both in hardness and colour, the most beautiful statuary marble; a discovery highly interesting to the lovers of the fine arts. CARROTS, A CURE FOR ULCERS. MR. RICHARD WALKER has published, in the Medical Journal, some observations which demonstrate the extraordinary effects of carrots, in the cure of sores and ulcers, whether venereal, cancerous, or scrophulous, by correcting their morbid disposition. The method of preparing the roots is as follows: The carrots having been previously cleaned, by scraping and washing, are cut into thin, transverse slices, and boiled till quite tender; after which they are taken out of the water, and beaten in a mortar, to the consistence of a soft pulp. This may either be applied in portions with the hand, and kept on with a cloth and roller, or it may be spread upon a cloth, and laid on like a common poultice. It is best when fresh prepared, and should be changed twice a day. This simple application, corrects the fetor of ill-conditioned sores; reduces them to a perfectly healthy, or good-conditioned state and thickness; and diminishes the discharge. METEORICK STONES. M. G. B. SAGE has ascertained the existence of alumine in meteorick stones; a circumstance not noticed by Klaproth, Fourcroy, or Vauquelin who have given analyses of those substances. This he ascribes to their having employed fusion through the medium of alkalis, which is known to alter the nature of some earths. Having vitriolized some of the meteorick stones of Aigle and Salles, near Villefranche, in the Lionese, M. Sage obtained alum from both, but in unequal proportions; the former, yielding one fourth, but the latter, not more than one eighth. As the fracture of stones, of this description, shows, very imperfectly, the arrangement and brilliancy of the native iron which they contain, the same chymist, in order to examine it on a large surface, has had a vase turned from an aerolite of Salles. It exhibits parcels of iron of irregular configurations, which have a silvery lustre, intermingled with very small spots of a greenish yellow, disseminated in a quartzose gangue of ashen gray. M. RAMPASSE has discovered in an old quarry, upon a hill, near Bastia, in Corsica, a calcareous earth, embedded in a stratum of calcareous stone, and containing, among other substances, various kinds of bones. Several specimens of these he has transmitted to Paris, for the inspection of M. Curvier, who states, that among them is a head well characterized, which of which there are at present but three must have belonged to the genus lagomys, species known, all of them discovered in Siberia, by Pallas. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. 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