_Cassiopea_. It is invisible to the naked eye, and appears
approaching the pole with great rapidity.

PASCHE.

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RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.

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DOMESTIC ECONOMY OF THE ROMANS IN THE FOURTH CENTURY.


A recent discovery has added to our information the most extensive
series of statistical data, which make known from an official act, and
by numerical figures, the state of the Roman empire 1500 years ago; the
price of agricultural and ordinary labour; the relative value of money;
the abundance or scarcity of certain natural productions; the use, more
or less common, of particular sorts of food; the multiplication of
cattle and of flocks; the progress of horticulture; the abundance of
vineyards of various qualities; the common use of singular meats, and
dishes, which we think betrays a corruption of taste; in short the
relation of the value existing between the productions of agriculture
and those of industry, from whence we obtain a proof of the degree of
prosperity which both had reached at this remote period.