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The laaugaDcfe in powxler is laixed witJi 

 tiie liilt iji au Cintlien veU'el, the water is 

 tiieu tuitlfd, and afteivvaids the fulpiui- 

 ric acid. One t'uinigution is I'uiliciciit if 

 the chamber be not inhaljited ; but if 

 tliere be patients, it mull be repealed 

 three or four times. 



Italy. 

 A fplendid edition of the Poems of 

 Petraich has been publilhed at J^ilk, in 

 two volumes foho, under the fuperin- 

 tendance of a literary fociety. It is 

 adorned witJi a portiait of Petrarch, en- 

 ; graved by JVIorghen. 



I M.M. VON Humboldt and Gay-Lus- 

 Sac have published the refults of fume 

 iuterelting experiuients made at Naples, 

 I with the raja torpedo. — They felected for 

 this purpofe large and lively lubjetts. 

 , 'i'hey received a ihock on toucliing witli 

 I one finger a fingle furtiice of the electrical 

 ; organs, or on laying both hands at once 

 ! on botii furfaces, the upper and the un- 

 I der ; and it is a matter of indifference 

 ; wliether the pcrfon fo touching the tor- 

 I pcdo be infulated or not. If an infidat- 

 , ed perfon touches the rajah with only 

 ' one finger, the touch mull be innucdiate. 

 ' No Ihock is felt if any conducting body, 

 any metal for inftance, intervene be- 

 [ twean the finger and the organ of tiie 

 fifli. And if a torpedo be laid upon a 

 plate of metal, it may he carried in one 

 hand with impunity. The hand docs not 

 , feel any connnotion when another infu- 

 lated perfon irritates the filli, although 

 convuliive motions of its brcatt-liiis 

 indicate the Itrongefl difcliarges of 

 its elettiicnl matter. On the contrarv, 

 if the pliile on which the fifli lies be 

 held in one hand, and the upper furface 

 of the electrical organ touched with the 

 other, a vehement fliock is felt ui both 

 . arms. The rcfult will be tlie fame if ti>e 

 full be laid between Uvo metal plates, 

 the edges of which do not join, and tiie 

 plates laid hold of with both hands at 

 once. But if there be any immediate 

 coiiimunicution between the ed<;cs of the 

 two piatis, no lliock is communicated. 

 From experiments made witli tfie electro- 

 inetcr and condenGitor, it appewed that 

 flame is not a conductor of the electricity 

 9i the torpedo. 



Greece. 



DEJiETfin Alkxandkidxs, M,D, of 

 Tyrnawa, in Thelfaly, has tranllated 

 Goldfmilh's Hiltory of Greece into wn - 

 dern Greek. The firlc volume, accon- 

 panied with a map of ancient Greece, 

 has already been publilhed. 



Two Greeks, the brotliers ZoziMa, are 

 applying part of ilieir fortune towards a 

 new edition of all the ancient Greek 

 Claft~ics from Homer down to the time of 

 the Ptolemies, under tlie fiiperiiuend- 

 aiice of their countryman (Jokav. 'Jhis 

 collection, which is to be printed by Di- 

 dot, is intended for fucli of their couutry- 

 mcn as wilh to learn the ancient lan- 

 guage of their forefathers. It will be de- 

 livered gratis in Greece to ttiligent fclio- 

 lars and active teachers ; and a conlide- 

 rable difcount will be allowed to fuch 

 wealthy patrons of learning as buy copies 

 for the purpofe of prefeating them to 

 poor lludents. 



Eajl Indies. 



The Literary Society of Bombay, of 

 which Sir James JVlAcixrosii is Preli- 

 dent, will Ihortly pubblh a volume of 

 Tranfattions. The public library of Bo.n- 

 bay has been transferred to the Society ; 

 and they aie about to form u collection 

 of fpecimens of the natural hiftory and 

 of the I'emains of antiquity of the coun- 

 try. 



The College of Fort William, in Ben- 

 gal, has opened new fources of informa- 

 tion on all Oriental fubjeCts. There are 

 in that College, at this time, upwards of 

 one hundred learned men from dirfcrent 

 parts of India, Periia, and Arabia. 



Under the aufpices of the Marquis of 

 Welleslev, a veriion of the Holy Scrip- 

 tures was promifed, not in one language 

 alone, but in feveii of the Oriental 

 tongues, — in the Hindooftanee, Perlian, 

 Chiiiefe, Malay, Orilfa, Mahratta, and 

 Bengalee, 



America. 



Strata of coal ha\e been found in Vir- 

 ginia, North America, very near the fur- 

 face of the earth, and very thick. 0ns 

 lU-atum lately difcovercd was forty-two 

 feet thick, and fo near the furface, that 

 the earth is merely taken off, and ths 

 coal dug yut t\ithout underjaiining. 



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