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Dr. BuciiAN', in his anfwer to Sir John 

 Sinclair's pamphlet on the fubjeW of 

 Athletic Exercifes, fpeaking of the da*- 

 ger of drinking cold liquors when the 

 body is heated by exercife, f;iys that 

 immediate death has not feldom been 

 the confequence of drinking a glafs of 

 cold water or beer, after having been 

 heated and fatigued by dancing or any 

 other violent exercife. To thofe who 

 may inadvertently be guilty of fuch im- 

 prudence, it may be well to know that to 

 Iwallow immediately a glafs of brandy, 

 or a teafpoon-full of laudanum is the bell 

 raeaiTs of counteracting its baneful con- 

 fcquences. 



From the fame authority we learn, that 

 many within the doctor's own knowledge, 

 who, after having faltered feverely from 

 repeated attacks of the gout, have com- 

 pletely eradicated that difsiider, by an 

 entire abftinence from fermented liquors 

 of all kinds ; and have by the fume means 

 recovered a much greater lliarc of health 

 and vigour than could have been ex- 

 pected. 



The effects of diata aquea, or living 

 ■wholly on pure water cooled by ice, in 

 alleviating the pain of cancer, and in fe- 

 V€ral cafes even of its elfecting a com- 

 plete cure of that painful difeafe, which 

 are narrated by M. Pautcau, and «hicii 

 have been corroborated by the experience 

 o( Mr. Pearfon, have, fays Dr. Euchan, 

 been unaccountably ncgletted. Never- 

 thelcfs, after a few days the delire for 

 folid food entirely fublidcd, aad the fto- 

 mach appeared completely fatistied when 

 tilled witli the aqueous tluid. 

 Ruffia.^ 

 The Ruffian is one of the leaft dilTufcd 

 •f the European languages. Its limited 

 currency has occalloned numerous cri-ors 

 in the orthography and pronunciation of 

 words, and efperially of proper names. 

 This has been remarked for fome time in 

 die German journals, in which liuiliaii 

 proper names have been ftrangely Jisfi- 

 jjured. This dangerous innovation has 

 i:ngau;ed the attention of the Academy 

 of Sciences of Pcterfljurg, and has pro- 

 bably induced it to haftcn tlio publication 

 of the plan of a " Rule for the Manner 

 of writing Rufiian Words with foreign 

 CJiarurtcrs, and foreign Words with Ruf- 

 fian Characters." This vocabulary, pre- 

 pared by a conmilttee of that Academy, 

 ]s compofed of two aljjhabets, German 

 and Prtiich, by nicans of v.hicli the pro- 

 per ortliOgiaphy and piii)nuuviiu;iuu (>f 



words in the Ruffian language is render- 

 ed intelligible to foreigners. 



Captain Krusensterx, in a long voy- 

 age of difcovery, undertaken by order of 

 the Ruffian Government, caufed all the 

 watcr-cafks intended for the fupply of the 

 crew to be charred inlide ; a precaution 

 which he found to anfwer the purpofe of 

 preferving the water fweet during the 

 whole voyage. During this voyage the 

 fituation of Nangafacki is afcertained to 

 be aSQO. 8' welt of Greenwich, and 

 32°. 44' 50« N. L. 



The practice eltablillied by the Aca- 

 demy of Sciences of Pcterllburg, of fend- 

 mg fome of its members or alVociates to 

 travel.in fuch provinces of the empire as 

 arc the lealfc known, cannot fail to prove 

 highly ufeful to the phyfical and natural 

 hiltory of that valt empire. Thus in 

 1804, Meffrs. Seweroin and Ronopn, 

 the one as geoiogifl and mineralogifl, the 

 other as botanid and zoologift, were cho- 

 ieii to make the tour of Finland. — The for- 

 mer has already publilhed his obfcrvations. 

 — It is alllrted that the province of Orel 

 contains a plant, known by the name of 

 Mutrunka, which is an infallible fpecilic 

 againd llie bite of mad dogs. Tlie Aca- 

 demy of Peterfburg charged M. 6m ie- 

 LowsKi to verify this circumflance on the 

 fpot, and the refult of his experiments is 

 extremely fatisfactory. 



Frvlfta. 

 M. JuNoius, preparatoi-y to his recent 

 aeroltatic .voyage at Berlin, torik tour 

 hours and a half, and three thoufand 

 pounds of fulphuric acid, to fill his bal- 

 loon. At a quarter before one o'clock 

 he launched his ec/nircur or fmall globe, 

 from which wa^ fufpended a balket with 

 two pigeons. An hour afterwards, his 

 balloon being two-thirds filled, the prc- 

 felfor embarked, in the prel'ence of the 

 King, the Queen, and the whole royal 

 family. He was accompanied by a youth 

 of fifteen, named KiJLs, the fon of a 

 baker at Berlin. liis ballaft weisrhcJ 

 fixty-eight pounds, and he rafe with an 

 afccnding force of about 800. At the 

 licight of about S900 feet M. Juntiius 

 threw out a goofe, which aliuhted rather 

 fluttering than iiying, near the Menage- 

 rie. SauiVaic's hygrometer, obfcrved at 

 8(j»)0 feet, was at 7 1°. The aieronaut 

 having attained an elevation of 15,000 

 fiet, ctefcended, at thirty-live iiiiinues 

 after two, between Grolbceren and liei- 

 nerfdoif, to laud his young comj.rmion, 

 ttccording to pvoiiilfe. lie iumudiately 

 M m rj albciiJeci 



