{JQ &CIBNTIFIC NEWS. 



This exhibition, which does not require any general phifofo* 

 phical explanation, was attended with the moil complete fuo 

 cefs, and had a very striking effect. 

 Third voyage, The laft voyage was made from Vauxhall Gardens hy 

 p?rin andMr. ^ r# ^ arner »n> accompanied by Mrs. Garnerin and Mr. 

 Giasfurd. Glasfurd, on Tuefday, the 3d of Auguil, at a quarter paft feveft 



in the evening. The day was calm and ferene, and Mr. 

 Garnerin made the offer of defcending by the parachute, which 

 he fays in his letter was rejected, but not by whom. Circum- 

 ftances were highly favourable to the profped. The travellers 

 paffed flowly over the metropolis in bright fun-ihine, at an ele- 

 vation which permitted them to be diiiinclly feen by a good 

 perfpeclive magnifying about 30 times, and for the raoft part 

 they were much more clearly feen. A cat attached to a para- 

 chute was let fall from an height of about 600 feet. It descend- 

 ed fwiftly at firft, till the parachute was fairly expanded, and 

 then came down flowly and with fafety. They landed near 

 Hampitead, about two miles north of the ifcirts of the town. 

 Promifeofadif- Notwithftanding the very ample difcuffion the fubjeci of 

 fettation on this a ero{tation has had at the period of its invention, I apprehend 

 that my readers will not be difpleafed to fee an outline of what 

 relates to it, with an inquiry into the probabilities of its be- 

 coming of any extended degree of utility; and this I purpofe 

 to do in our next. 



Commercial College at HutL 



Objeftsofa Dr. J. Alderfon of Hull, has given out propofals for efta- 



propofedcom- blifhing a college in that town, for purpofes highly interefting 

 to that commercial intercourle which has m io many relpects 

 extended the powers and enjoyments of the civilized focieties. 

 of modern times, and is fo intimately connected with the im- 

 provement of the intellectual and moral habits of man, Re- 

 flates as the objects of the eftabliftiment, \ft, To obtain for the 

 man of bufinefs precife information on the nature and value of 

 every article of commerce, whether crude or manufactured ; 

 2d, To point out the country where fuch articles are heft to be 

 procured ; 3d, To render him acquainted with the various 

 proceffes by which they are rendered marketable ; and, Mh t 

 To inftruft him in the languages of the different countries to 

 which the objects of commercial intercourle may lead him. 



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