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univerfity of Cracow is going to be fuppreflTed, fo that he 

 limit renounce the obfervatory of that city. 



ASTRONOMY. 



Paris, Sept. 13. 

 On the zd of Vendemiare, year 4, I announced that I 

 had determined the longitude of Rome by an eclipfe which 

 I obferved there in 1 765. Since that time the duke of 

 Lermonetta ellablifhed there an obfervatory, and fentme an 

 obfervation, which he made with profeflbr Scarpellini, of the 

 eelipfe of the ear of corn of the Virgin, which took' place on 

 the 24th of May; it gave me 40 minutes ofi feconds for the 

 difference of the meridians. I found the lame thing by an 

 eclipfe of the ftar Sigma of the Lion, which the abbe Conti 

 obferved at Rome on the 24th of April. It was only four 

 feconds more than by my former determination. Thus we 

 at length know very exa£tly the iituation of the cupola of 

 St. Peter's, which I always call the moil remarkable point of 

 the world. Lalande. 



EARTHaUAKES. 



An earthquake was felt at Edinburgh on Monday the 7th 

 of September, at fix in the morning. It extended through 

 Fife, along the north bank of the Forth, from Kirkaldy by 

 Aberdown, Dunfermline, Kincardine and Alloa ; likewife 

 northwards by Kinrofs, to fome distance in a north -weft di- 

 rection to Callander, and various parts of Perthshire. At 

 Stirling and Glafgow the {bock was alfo very diftin&ly felt, 

 at nearly the fame time as in the other places mentioned. 

 The appearances were nearly alike in all. At Edinburgh it 

 continued two or three feconds ; was preceded by a rumbling, 

 rulhing, hollow noife from the ground ; and had a tremend- 

 ous, undulating motion, fomething refembling the motion of 

 the waves of the fea. Beds, tables, chairs, &c. in fome 

 houfes were obferved to fliake, refembling the rocking of a 

 cradle. Some perfons who felt it had a very difagreeable fen- 

 fation, attended with aheadach. The morning was gloomy, 

 warm, and calm ; the ba$>meter high, and the thermometer 

 about 50. The preceding day, Sunday, there was a good deal 

 of rain. A parrot in a gentleman's houfe in the iouth fide 

 of the town, fcreeehed feveral times during the fhock, in the 

 fame manner as thefe birds do in the Welt Indies, during an 

 earthquake : and in one houfe thebel^s were let a ringing. 



It would feem that this fhock has been pretty general. At 

 Dunfermline, its duration, it is fuppofed, was only two fe- 

 conds. People who were in high ilories, and consequently 



had 



