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Literary and Phiic/ophkal Inteliigence, 



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A letter recently ttan!nnittecl by the 

 French Caiitain-Generai Ernouf at 

 G^l:^.^a!oupe to M. Faujas St. Fond, 

 cominunicates among various obferva- 

 tionson natuial hiHory the followirg no. 

 ,ice : — «* Your ion has uncioubtedly in- 

 fo!mi.(i you, on his arrival in France, cf 

 the excurfion I have made in this ifland, 

 and has told you that I have vilited the 

 celebrated Cote du Mole, where the re- 

 mains of Caraibs are found enveloped in 

 mafies of petrified madrepore. I have 

 held cut encouragements to an ailive ^nd 

 intelligent perfon, wiih a view to procire 

 fome of thefe le.Tarkable (keletons, Thofe 

 that are in the be!t prefervalion I intend 

 for the galleries of the Mu'.eum of Naui- 

 ral Hiltory. I have fer.t lore Negro 

 Itonecvittcrs to the perlbn who fuoerin- 

 tends the work, the extcntion of vvh.ich is 

 attended with gr-;at difSculties ; in the 

 fiirt place, becaufe thefe remains of Ca- 

 raibs adhere to a bed of machepore o*" ex- 

 Ctirivebardiiefs, and which can only bt at- 

 tackeil by the chiliil ; and in the fecond, 

 hecaufe the fea, at the tide of flood, co- 

 vers the pbce where they are. Thefe hii- 

 in an relics are of large dimenfions : the 

 nafs which it is neccfiary to exirafl with 

 them is abour eight feet in length and 

 two and a half in b.eadth, a-d v.-eighs 

 about three thoufand pounds ; but the tea 

 facilitates their removal. Opinions are 

 «livided concerning their origin •• f me 

 fay that a bloody ba'tle took ph'-e on this 

 fpotbt-tween the natives of this illmd and 

 thofe of aiioihor. Some again adert that 

 a fleet of cances was wrecked there ; and 

 others prefiime that the place wasfotmeily 

 a,cemeteiy on which the fea had en- 

 croached. 



A new Academy has been infiituted at 

 P.-iris, t!i.- objcil of which is to colleS and 

 explain Celtic morminents, and to extend 

 refearches into primitive languages. It 

 has aHiimed the name of the Celtic Aca- 

 demy, will publifli Memoirs periodically, 

 and 'piop^fe prize efl"iys. A member of 

 this Academy is faid to ha--)e dijo-vered 

 a method by which two perfons may ccr- 

 refpond and converfe without underftand. 

 ing each ether's language. 



M. Cadet ds Vaux propofes as a re- 

 medy for the gout, that the patient (hculd 

 drink forty-eight glaflTes of warm water in 

 twelve hours, a glafs at the end of every 

 quarter of an hour, taking nothina; eiie 

 durir.cr the time. This remedy, we are 

 a/Tore'd, has been tried with great Riccefs 

 i«) France; and it is'thought thit the pro- 

 fufe peripiratian which this proccfs occa- 

 fions is the caufe of the cure. The trial 

 is eafily made. 



M. EiCHHORN, well known among the 

 German literati, has pubhflicd a Hiltory 

 of Literature from its Origin to the pre. 

 ferit I ime, of which a Tranflation is pre- 

 paring in London. 



M. Q^ATREMERE-DE-QUINCY, dif- 



fatisfied vi'ith the Deicripfions of Paufi- 

 nias, the Abbe Banhelemy, and others, 

 has written a long Memoir upon the ftatue 

 and throne of the Olympian Jupiter, the 

 celebrated work of Ptiidias. He has fub- 

 joined to this Memoir a figure of this 

 monument of art, hich as it was, in his 

 opinion. 



By a late decree of the French Govern- 

 ment it is ordered that no church-book, 

 pf.ilm-book, church-mulic, catechifiri, or 

 prayer-book, fli;dl for the future be piiiit- 

 ed without the expvefs perniiflion of the 

 bifiiop of the diocefe, which permiflion is 

 to be affixed to each copy. All books not 

 licenced in this manner are liable to be 

 feized, and the publilliers and ptirchafers 

 are fidijtfled to very lieavy fines ! 



Dr. Lai-uente has publifhed a Me- 

 moir, by command of the King of Spain, 

 which contains a new method of cuiing 

 the yellow-fever. Accoiding to the ex- 

 periments of Dr. Lafuente, bark is the 

 nioft powerful remedy for that dreadful 

 difeafe. By taking from eight to ten 

 Ounces of that powerful antifeptic in the 

 firlt forty-eight hours of the diibrder, the 

 fatal confequences of the yellow-fever, or 

 anv other fever, may be prevented. 



The Jews at Hanihmgh have refolvc(l 

 not to bury their dead before a lapfe of 

 three days, to prevent the dreadful confe- 

 quence of premature burials, which arefo 

 generally prevalent among that people. 



M. Prony has lately been engaged in 

 a feries of new experiments to afcertain 

 the initial Velocity of proje£files difeharg- 

 ed from fiiearms. The experiments wer? 

 made with a foldicr's firelock and a hor.'is- 

 m:in's carbine, the lengths of which in 

 the bore were 3 ft. 8 in. and a ft, 5 in. 

 The balls weighed 382 grs. troy, and 

 each was impelled by half its weight of 

 powder. The mean velocity with the 

 carbine was 1269 feet and a half in a fe- 

 cond 5 that with the mufket 1397 feet.— 

 Tliefe numbers being in the ratio of 11 to 

 10 nearly, it is inferred that the length of 

 the foldier's firelock might be reduced 

 without much diminilhing its range. — '• 

 With half charges of powder the mean 

 velocities were Sia^ fett and 829 in a fe- 

 cond. • ■ ■ 



The Emperor of Russia propofes 

 forming an Inftitution at Peter (burg for 

 ihspurpofe of improving the navy, which 



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