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Literary and Phikfophical Inteliigence, 



[Aug. 1, 



titude to that prince, not in a public 

 place in fome town in his dominions, hut 

 on the lumniit of the Rigi, one of the 

 bighelt and moft frequented mountains of 

 Switzerland. The funple ftone which 

 will form this monument, and whicii will 

 be fixed to one of the blocks of granite of 

 the mountain, has been prepared at Zug. 

 It bears the following ini'cription in Ger- 

 man : — "To the pious memory of Er- 

 KEST II. Dalce of Saxe-Gotha, iliuftri- 

 ©us for his birth and his talents, and ftill 

 greater for his noble and liberal fenti- 

 menis, this monument is confecrated in 

 the face of the Alps and of the free peo- 

 ple whom he I'jved and efteemed.*' It 

 was M.FussELi, the painter, of Zurich, 

 ■who chofe the pifturelque fituation in 

 which this infcription will be placed, and 

 obtained pcrmifilon lor that purpofe from 

 the competent authorities. He intends 

 fioon to pubjifti a Pifturefque Tour of the 

 Rigi. 



M. DE LA Drouette, Prefeff of the 

 Cpper Alps, has addrefled to the Infti- 

 ime a Memoir on the Difcovery of the an- 

 cient City of Mons Scleucus, which apr 

 pears to have been overwhelmed and de- 

 ployed by an extraordinary inundation. 

 The refearches hithtrrto made have difco- 

 vered an edifice 598 feet in length, and 

 360 in breadth, a furnace, a femi-circular 

 bafin, ftovjs, brick cellars, covered with 

 fcveral ftrata of very fine cement, canals 

 and aqueducts lined throughout their 

 whole length ; apartments for the direc- 

 tors of the manutaflory, lodgings for the 

 workmen, gardens, S:c. In Jront, the 

 flreets terminate in Sn extenfive place, and 

 in the avenue of the principal edifice ; that 

 above-mentioned was furrounded by a 

 great number of houfes. The labourers 

 Fwve likewife found many articles in 

 bronze, fragments of ftatues of alabafter, 

 hafs-reliefs in marble, a great quantity of 

 fragments of mofaic-work, befides a valt 

 number of vtflVls of glaf* and earth, 

 which afford a high idea of the art of 

 pottery in ancient times ; numerous Cel- 

 tic and Roman medals of filver and bronze ; 

 and, laltly, fome infcriptions in better or 

 worfe piefervation. 



In America a very fimple and ingeni- 

 cus borer is in generil u(e; it confifls of 

 the common center bit of the carpenters, 

 foUowtd by a wide flat fcrew, hammered 

 ii() from a plate of iion or fteel ; and it 

 poffefTes the pioperty of clearing away 

 the cutti;ig without requiring to bt drawn 

 o>\f, as is the caie with the auger, the 

 gimblel, &c. For the cuttings are partly 

 fcjj their weight, and partly by fridion 



againft the internal cvlindrical furface, 

 prevented from revolving along with the 

 fcrew. The confequence is, that they 

 are prefled againft its thread, and Aide 

 along it towards the handle. And at this 

 motion or fliifting of the thread is quicker 

 than the motion of boring, by which the 

 whole tool is carried inwards, the cuttings _ 

 mulf come out with a velocity nearly equal H 

 to the difference of thefe two motions. H 



The mountain Ortlefs, fituated be- 

 tween the vallies of Sulden and Drofny, 

 has been afcended by M. Gebhard, by 

 whofe barometer its height is found to be 

 i4.,4o6 Paris feet above the level of the 

 Mediterranean, which is higher than any 

 mountain on the old continent, except 

 Mont. Blanc ; this, according to SauU 

 furp, i$ i4.,556 feet. 



W. Werner i» enabled to diflblve 

 wax in water by the following procefs : — r 

 For every pound of white wax hf takes 

 twenty-four ounces of potalh diffolved in 

 a gallon of warm water. In this he boils 

 the wax, cut in fmall pieces, for half an 

 hour, and at the erui of this time lie takes 

 it from the fire, and fuifers it t» cool. 

 The wax floats on the furface, in the form 

 of white foap ; triturated with water, it 

 yields what it commonly called ntilk of 

 wax, and may be applied to furniture, 

 pi£lures. Sec. An hour after the applica- 

 tion the coated parts are to be covered 

 with a piece of woollen cloth, which will 

 give a great brilliancy to paintings, and a 

 fine polifh to furniture. 



It is faid that M. Schroeter has 

 afcertalned the exKtence of an atmofphere 

 to the mcon, by fome new obfervations on 

 the twilight round this fecondary planet, 

 which extend* from a° 38' to 3° 6', The 

 atmofphere of the moon is a8.94 times 

 lefs denl'e than the terreflrial atmofphere. 



A. F. Skjeldebrand, a colonel in 

 the fervice of the King of Sweden, has 

 publidied, at Sockbolm, a woik enti- 

 tled Foyage Pitlorefque au Cap Noni, 

 The Work is in four volumes, and con- 

 tains a number of views, with dcfcrip-r 

 tions of the appearance of the country. 

 This author was the travelling compa- 

 nion of Acerbi, who, fome years fince, 

 publifljed an account of his travels througt^ 

 Sweden, Lapland, &c. In their narra- 

 tives they have puriued different tra£ls|- 

 the one having written as a philofophic 

 obferver of men and nature, the other as 

 a painter and lover of the finearts. 



JuMus KLApRori*» Ion to the cele- 

 brated chemiff, in confequence of his 

 great fkill in Oriental literature, is ap-_ . 

 jointed, by the Peterfburg Academy of 

 ScicnccSt 



