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Liierary and Philojophical Intelligence. 



[Nov. T, 



fup;ar the moment the acid is pnurtd on, 

 and promo;i!ie the action by gentle htat. 

 The <par then requires only five or fix parts 

 of acid, the chromate of fiiver ftill lels. 

 Nitrous acid gas is evolved, ami the folu- 

 tion of the foimer is of an amrtliyft colour, 

 of t'e latter a ganiei red, wiihcut the 

 leaft trace t/f green either by retlc61ion or 

 refraftion. 



Dr. V a I.LI having kft a pound of ft up 

 in which were twelve or fiitcen grains of 

 red precipitate, expod-d to the O'^en air tor 

 four months, found it exhibitei no fign of 

 putretaff ion. He repeated the experiment 

 for a niuntti in the height of funimcr, with 

 the fnini- efftif. 



M. Van Mons has found broth keep 

 for many year^ by means of a few grains 

 ofmeicury in the Itaie of oxide and citrate. 

 Nitraie of fiivtr h-is long been confidered 

 as the m<.ft powerful ot aniii'eptics, and 

 thole of gold and nitrciny are equally li). 

 .Oxigeiiated muriate of potafh letaided the 

 putreta6fion ' f ftiong foup Icieial days, 

 and ultimattly put a ftop to it at a certain 

 point. Very dilu'e nitiic acid, and oxi- 

 gen^ted muriatic acid preferred foup tor 

 leveral months. 



The MilitHi-y Society of Berlin has 

 piinted the fouith volume of iis Memoirs. 

 The number of copits taken ofF d(es,not 

 exceed that of the n:emi'ers of tlie Soci- 

 ety, which is compoled ot two hundred 

 officers ot allianks, and is under the im- 

 muliate patroi>age of the king. 



The celtbiated Voss, the rranflator of 

 Homer and Virgil into the Get man lan- 

 guage, a poet equally diffinouillied for liis 

 lyrical and paltoial compolition, i* about 

 to leave Jena and to remove to Heidel- 

 berg, where he will leceive a penfion of 

 1000 florins from the Elector o! Badrn, in 

 return for which he will only be cxpefled 

 to give his advice when afktd. He I'ke- 

 wiie rtt;tirs the prnfion he before received 

 fiom the Duke of Oid-iit)ur^. 



Some workmen lattly employed in dig- 

 ging a cellar fifteen teet deep near the gates 

 o! Stuttgard, diic vered lome bones and 

 teeth of the elephant. The laigelf is iix 

 feet in length. About a ce. tiny ago a 

 dilccvcry was made at K nni?adt, about 

 thiee miles iioni Stuttgard, of the (kele- 

 tons of fourteen e'e;jhant>, which ajipear- 

 ed to be of difFerent Ipecies frcm that 

 which at prelcnt e,\i(ls. Near t^'el'e ele- 

 phants' bi nes were l.kewile found feme 

 belonging to the rhinoceros. It is hoped 

 that the rtlear-clies for which orders have 

 bten given by theEletlor may be produc- 

 tive ot faitiw difcovcries. 



^T. HoRSTirj, author of Travels in 

 the Hartz, which he has embeilifhed with 

 engraving* of Icenery from drawings by 

 liiml'elf, has been piefen'eil bv the Duke 

 of Brunfwick with a let vice of porcelain, 

 on which the prince has caiiied the lame 

 i:.ndfcape.s to be pain:ed. A French tranf- 

 laticn of M. Horftig's Travels has been 

 annourced. 



Di. Faust, in conjunftion with Dr. 

 HuNoLD, of CalTcl, *ill i'peedly pub- 

 lifh a work, in wiiici they will demon- 

 (hate that, excepting the Uncet employed 

 in vaccination, all the inrtiumenti of !ur- 

 gery oug' t to be dipped into oil at the 

 moinmi when they aie g-'ing to be uled j 

 by wh ch method the pain ot the fuHjeft 

 operated upon wil always be diminiflied. 

 In the lime work it is recommended to 

 m.ike ail iniliuments of a bhod-heat a 

 little befre the oper^iion. Thefe two 

 piec.ution? have alieady been vraftifed in 

 certain cales, and wi.h certain indru- 

 mcnts. 



A difllonary of the language of Ango- 

 la or fiunda, with an explanation of nil 

 th; woid-. in Portugucfe, his been pub- 

 llfli.d at L fbjn. lio diftionary of that 

 l.iii^u^ge previoufiy exilled. Jt was 

 printed for the benefit of the P. rtuguele, 

 who have cnmmeicial relations with the 

 iettlenierits pnlTcflfil by that country on 

 the coali of A'.gf.la. 



The Celtic Academy at Paris, at one 

 of its late meetings, lubmitted to the tell 

 an ingenious contiivance of one of its 

 members, whirh communicates the ta- 

 ciily of corri Iptinding and converting 

 with pcrlons of whole language you are 

 entiiely ignoiant, without any preliminary 

 Itudy, without exjjence, without embar- 

 raflmcnt, or the lealt mental exertions. 

 It vi-; s tried by twen'y-five academicians 

 on the European lauguiges, and this trial 

 dem<n;'ir:'ted, that, by n erma of thfsd:f- 

 covtry, a pcrlbn may travel wherever he 

 plealei without an interpreter, that he may 

 afk for eveiy thing he wants, converleon 

 every kind ot ftil-jetf in'eielfing to a tra- 

 veller, anil even expiei's metaphylical ideas. 

 This procels is iiitendea to- be made 

 public. • 



The Academy of Fine Art5 at DufTel- 

 dotf is about t.> be regulat-d on a better 

 and m<;re ex enlive pl.ui. 'J'hc number of 

 its prtifilll.rs i> to be augmented.. M. 

 ScHAFFEP,, a young arch.teiV already 

 known by feveral works relating to his 

 an, and a Plan he has recently publilhed 

 for a ir.imument of Luihei, is appointed 

 Piofcfibi of Aichitei\uic. 



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