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1811.] 
cloth with the hair of cattle. He has 
‘been completely successful, by mixing 
the hair with wool before it is wrought, 
GREECE, 
The Ionian academy, established at 
Corfu, bas offered a prize of 600 francs, 
for the best dissertation on the means of 
rendering the potatoe abundant in that 
island, in the shortest possible time, and. 
also of produciig an increase of grain. 
The memoirs may be written in Italian, 
Latin, Greek, or French. 
PRUSSIA. 
State of the remnant of the Prussian 
Monarchy in 1809.— 
Provinces. sayore Populations 
A iles. 
A LAUANIA. a lp. « G1 Dy, SCOOT 
* 9. Eastern Prussia . 386 454,734 
-3. Westetu Prussia . 343° 367,067 
4; Pomerania. . . 442 490,106 
5 The New Marche 209% 265,714 
6. Electoral March; 
Country” of Magde- 
. burg on right Bank 
; of the river Elbe 416 . 703,992 
a, ray » ses 668 11,896,359 
Total 
RUSSIA. 
The first volume of Captain Krusen- 
sTERN’s Voyage round the Wofld, though 
printed, is not yet on sale. The author 
has sent copies to several sovereigns and 
learned men of his acquaintance, The atlas 
contains 66 plates,whichwill be augmented 
to 112. A translation of the work into 
French is preparing. Two editions are 
ublishing at the same time at Peters- 
Thad one in the Russian language and 
the other in German. Each wiil form 
three quarto volumes. 
AMERICA. 
A comparison of the observations 
made on a meteor which exploded over 
Weston, in Connecticut, in December, 
2.779% 4,552,550 
1807, by Mr.N. Bowortcu, gives the 
following results: This meteor, of which 
the shower that fell was a partial dimi- 
Rlution, not an entire destruction, was 
about eighteen miles high in the. atmos- 
piste. Its course was S. 79 W. in a di. 
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rection nearly parallel to the surface of 
the earth; and its velocity exceeded 
three miles per second. The least of all 
the limits ascribed to the diameter of the 
meteur is 491 feet. A body of this mag- 
nitude, and of the same specific gravity 
as the stone which fell at Weston, which 
weighed about 225 pounds to a cubie 
foot, would contain a quantity of matter 
exceeding in weight six millions of tons. 
If the specific gravity were the same as 
that of the air at the surface of the earthly 
the quantity of matter wouldexceed 2000 
tons; but if we reckon it to be the same 
as that of the air acthe height of the me- 
teor, which by the usual rule for-baro- 
metrical admeasurements is about 3s of 
that at the surface of the earth, the 
quantity of matter would exceed 50 tons, 
The weight of the whole mass that fell 
near Weston does not appear to sve 
been more than half a ton. 
A chain bridge has been cast over the 
river Merrimack, three miles above New~ 
bury port, in the state of Massachusetts. 
“It consists ofa single arch 244. feet 
inlength. The abutments are of\ stone, 
47 feet long and 87 high; the uprights, 
or framed work which stands on tha 
abutments, are $5 feet high, over which 
are suspended ten distinct chains, the 
ends of which on both sides of the river, 
are buried in deep pits, and secured by 
large stones: each chain is 516. feet 
long, and where they pass over the 
uprights, and where the greatest strain 
rests, they are treble, and made in short 
links: The four middle joists rest on 
the chains ; all the others wre suspended 
to the main chains, to equalise the floor. 
This bridge has two passage-ways of 15 | 
feet in width each, and the floor is so 
solid as to admit of horses, carriages, &e. 
travelling at any speed, with very little 
perceptible motion of the floors, 
_ A company of gentlemen and book= 
sellers have been incorporated at New 
Jersey, under the title of the Franklin 
Society, with a capital of 750,000 dollars, 
and the liberty of importing and printing 
books, and establishing a paper manu. 
factory and type foundery. 
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