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flavoured to descend as speedily as possible, because he was 

 already in sight of the Adriatic. The same good fortune which, 

 rescued him from death during his former voyage, attended 

 him on the present occasion. Some fishermen, who were 

 out at sea between Comachio and Rimini, hastened to his 

 relief, and took him into their boat; but the Walloon 

 escaped, because they did not immediately make some in- 

 cisions in it as the Count had desired. This day, at one 

 in the afternoon, he made his entry into Bologna : above a 

 hundred coaches accompanied the open chaise in which he 

 rode, and which was drawn by a crowd of young men, 

 amidst the thunder of cannon, while the French and Ita- 

 lian troops lying here marched along to the sound of mi- 

 litary music. Count Zambeccari will soon publish a par- 

 ticular account of this new adventure. The car remains at 

 Comachio; but the balloon, it is probable, has been car- 

 ried to a considerable distance, perhaps to the Turks in 

 Bosnia, who fired at the first as a strange monster, and then 

 took it prisoner. Whether Count Zambeccari will under- 

 take a third aerial journey is uncertain ; but at any rate he 

 will not employ a balloon filled according to Montgol tier's 

 method, which is always attended with the danger of fire. 

 The present French method of filling balloons is certainly- 

 far preferable. Before Count Zambeccari made his trium- 

 phal entry, 2000 people at least had gone to meet him. The 

 day was considered as a festival, on which no one did any 

 work. Dr. Andreoli was not seated in the triumphal car. 



VACCINATION. 



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According to the latest information received by Dr. de 

 Carro from different physicians, and the governor of Bom- 

 bay, it appears that vaccination has become general in all 

 the British possessions in India; that the neighbouring 

 Asiatic princes vie with each other in obtaining from them 

 vaccine matter, in order to propagate it in their states ; and 

 that hopes are entertained of soon hearing that it has been 

 introduced into Tartary and Japan. 



A passage translated from an Indian manuscript, written 

 by a native prince, and published in the Bombay Gazette, 

 proves that some of the Bramins, many centuries ago, 

 were not only acquainted with the cow-pock, but with 

 vaccine inoculation ; that the operation was performed by 

 means of an impregnated thread ; but that it was not com- 

 mon, as the Bramins inoculated only those children whose 

 parents worshipped the Bhowany, a female deity, the pro- 

 tectress of those who have the small-pox. The goddess is 



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