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palling in looking at objects from the car, 
which are not immediately under it; but 
to keep the eye fixed on the erappling- 
jvon, or aby thing perpendicular ly below, 
for more than a few seconds, turns the 
ead giddy. 
When at the greatest elevation, a slight 
degree of cold was felt; which went off 
almost immediately the balloon began to 
descend. 
_ After the descent, when Mr. Graham's 
companion had quitted the car, he had oc- 
easion to use his pocket-handkerchief ; 
when the sound in his ears was like the 
Feport of a pistol; and this he found to be 
the case, as often as lie repeated the ex- 
periment during that evening. 
The gas used to inflate the balloon, was 
2! times lighter than common air. 
Diameter of valve, 19 inches. 
' Balloon 63 feet high, by 574 in diameter. 
~ Weight of balloon, ear, and netting was 
231lbs. 
Do. of ballast, grapple, cord, instru- 
ments, &e. 1071bs, 
Do. of Mr. Grabam and his companion 
294 Ibs. 
 Speedily will be published, a new 
and elegant work, entitled a History 
and Description of the Ancient Town 
and Borough of Colchester, in Essex ; 
illustrated with engravings, executed 
in the first manner. It will be pub- 
lished in cne volume, of which there 
will be editions in royal octavo and 
royal duodecimo. 
' There are few cities of Great Britain 
wherein population has increased more 
rapidly than in Glasgow. In 1610 
am actual enumeration gave 7,644 in- 
dividuals of all ayes and ‘sexes. In 
1660 the population had risen to 
14,678. "The persecutions of the Stuarts 
were inauspicious; and in 1688 Glas- 
gow contaitied only 11,948. There 
was a moilerate rate of increase till 
towards the middle of the eighteenth 
century, but it was then considerably 
accelerated by the progress of indus- 
try. In 1755, 23,546; in 1780, 42,832 ; 
in 1801, 83,769; in 1811, 110,460; and 
in 1521, 147,043. Paisley, three 
leagues from Glasgow, has now 47,0C0 
inhabitants. The number of public- 
houses, of all descriptions, at Glasgow, 
is 1613. 
Views in London and its Environs, 
comprising the most interesting scenes 
in and about. the metropolis. The 
drawings will be made expressly for 
this work by J. M, W. Turner, esq. 
RAs W.Cautcor, R.A. F. Nasa, and 
W. Wesvatt, a.n.a. and engraved in 
a highly finished line manner by J.C. 
ALLEN, 
Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
é7 
The unhealthy situation of Sierra 
Leone is a great misfortune to the co- 
lony, and not likely to forward its 
growth to maturity. This is the idea 
commonly entertained, and it certainly 
is neither false nor exaggerated. But 
there are different situations, and suf- 
ficiently multiplied, infinitely better 
suited to the necessities and cxistence 
of civilized man. Among others, Capt. 
J. Apams, who has been lately ex- 
ploring, in a mercantile vessel, the 
country from Cape Palmas to the 
River Congo, points out Malemba and 
Cabenda as welladapted to the forma- 
tion of European establishments, He 
landed at all points of importance, and 
penetraied pretty far into the interior, 
He visited the people of Fantee, 
Widah, Ardra, Dahomi, and a number 
of others, known only to Europeans 
by name. Those on the coasts that 
deal in slaves, he describes as de- 
praved, unprincipled, and worthless. 
Subject to the most absolute and ca- 
pricious tyranny, extreme servility, 
treachery, and the most atrocious 
cruelly; mark all their actions. In 
various tribes no decrease is observ- 
able in the horrid depopulation ocea- 
sioned by offering human sacrifices to 
their fetiches, and the manes of the 
dead, Contry, the King of Logos, 
like most of his royal African col- 
Jeagues, is a receiver of stolen goods, 
shares in whatever his servants can 
steal, and he who can rob the Euro- 
peans with most address will stand the 
highest in his favour, Elephants’. 
teeth compose his fetiche, that animal 
being reputed the strongest and wisest. 
One of his political manoeuvres is to 
let loose his devil, from time to time, 
to range through his capital. . This is 
no aérial spirit, but a man armed, with 
a masque on, and a license to commit 
murder. But as the gongong, or.man 
who rings the bell, gives notice of his 
nocturnal approach, fatal or very mis- 
chievous consequences are generally 
avoided. The Europeans in Lagos 
are warned to remain in their houses, 
for this devil respects none. He never 
appears but during a full moon, that 
he may not run the risk of treating 
the king like one of his subjects, Dogs 
of the male. kind, are either banished 
from Lagos, or offered as yictims to 
the evil spirit. At Grewa, which the 
captain visited on quitting Lagos, he 
saw in the middle of the market-place 
a large. tree, pretty much resembling 
the mulberry, except that the branches 
were 
