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Literary and Philosophical InteUigcvre. 



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liokl ill cxlrcme tenuity parliclos wljicli 

 may repass to tlio solid slate. From 

 this binary comljiiiatioii of the solid and 

 fluid, under tlieir various niodifiealions, 

 is formed the elass, order, or system, of 

 inor;;auic bodies ; but these inorganic 

 todies arc found in tlie composition of 

 ortcanie bodies, and arc, as it were, the 

 bases of tiiem ; they could not evidently 

 pass to a state of organization, it re- 



ycars 1811-13, in 2 vols. 8vo. uith vig- 

 iicttcs. They will make their appear- 

 ance in the course of tlie present month. 

 An English translation, by a friend of 

 the author, is in a great state of for- 

 wardness. 



AMERICA. 



Trom tlie extraordinary success which 

 has attended the cultivation of sugar iii 

 Georgia, attempts arc making to intro- 



(juired a power foreign to tlieir nature to duce the cane into South Carolina 



eiVcct it; this power is concealed from 

 ©ur senses, bnt it is impossible not to 

 recognize it. It is the essentially active 

 and vital element dill'erent from the two 

 others, but cai)ab!c of uniting with 

 them, and making them undergo an in- 



A body of respectable Swiss (emi- 

 grants) have established themselves on 

 tlic western banks of the Ohio, in a 

 district which they call New Switzerland. 

 Their chief town is called New Veray. 

 This is but one fact out of a hundred. 



fluencc in proportion to the degree of jnoving that the i)eople of Europe art- 



action it exerts. Eudon had an un- 

 perfeet idea of the reduction of all mat- 

 ter into these two simple and natural 

 flemcnls, of a perfet:t solid and a perfect 

 fluid, but it seems to have been only an 

 idea, crude and inform, lie placed the 

 two extremes in gold and air, than 

 which even in his time i-othing could be 

 more nnphllosophical of known bodies : 

 he seems to have selected gold on the 

 sKxme ground as the tilcliymists, and gas 

 was but an ill dellned and imperlect 

 piut of plijsies in his time, 'i'he work 

 of IMcssrs. (Javoty and Toiilougan dis- 

 plays great learning and profound le- 

 search. 



ITALY. 



The Venus de Mcdicis lias made its 

 solemn entry into J'loienre: it was pre- 

 ceded by the principal jiictmcs of the 

 Italian school ; the c/ief's d'(eni-rc of IJa- 

 phael, jMiehael Angclo, Ciuido, Salvator 

 Kosa, Andre del Sorto, and .Julio l!o- 

 jnano, served for the escort, 'i'lic whole 

 population went out to meet thorn. 



M. PiKUiiE Ckutiiiku, architect and 

 ex-jjensioner of the King at the French 

 academy at Home; or, in othor word?,, 

 one of the Emperor's pensioners dis- 

 missed by the new dj/nasti/, announces, 

 that he is about to publish a Descrip- 

 tion of the Palaces, Houses, Hospitals, 

 Churches, and other lAlifices of tie;!oa 

 and its Environs, accompimicd with 

 engravings. 



The travels of the ler.rncd antiquaiy, 

 M.' MlLLiN, in Italy, arc at length about 

 to make their ajipearance, they have 

 long been most ardently desired by the 

 public; the first part, which is a work 

 «very way complete in itself, and in- 

 tended so to be, comprizes — Travels in 

 Savoy and Piedmont to Nice, and iu 

 iiiG auciiiflt state of Gciwa, during; the 



fljing to the forests of America to escape 

 from their insolent delircrunce into the 

 bands of despots, priests, Jesuits, an<i 

 inquisitors. 



A wire bridge has been constructed 

 near Philadelphia. It is supported by 

 six wires, each 3-8thsof an inch in di- 

 ameter — three one each side of the 

 bridge. — These wires extend, forming a 

 curve, from the garret windows of the 

 wire factory to a tree on the opposit* 

 shore, which is braced by wires in three 

 directions. The floor timbers arc two 

 feet long, one inch by three, su.spended 

 in a horizontal line by sliiriips, of No. 

 C, wire, at the ends of the bridge, and 

 No. 9, in the centre, from the curved 

 wires. The floor is eighteen inches 

 w ide, of inch board, secured to the floor 

 timi)ers by nails, except where the ends 

 of two boards meet; here, in addition to 

 the nails, the boards are kept from sepa- 

 rating by wire ties. Tlicre is a board, 

 six inches wide, on its edge, ou each 

 side of the bridge to which the floor tim- 

 bers are likewise secured by wires. 

 Three wires stretched on each side of the 

 bridge along the stirrups form a barrier 

 to prevent per.soiis from failing off. The 

 floor is sixteen feet from the water, and 

 tour hundred feet in length. — The <li.s- 

 fance between the two points of suspen- 

 sion of tljc bridge is four hundred and 

 eight feet. The whole weight of the 

 wires is - - 13141lis. 



do. do. wood work - 3380 

 do. do. v> roiight nails - 9 



Total weiglit of the bi idge 4702ibs. 

 Four men would do the work of a 

 similar bridge in two Mceks of good 

 weather, and the whole cx|icncc would 

 be about three hundred dollars. 



We have lately received from Pckin, 

 savs 



