480 



Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. [Dec, I , 



« grand work for publication. It is to 

 be a copper-plate, which will exhibit a 

 general picture of 150 of the higheft 

 mountains on the globe, with an cxatt 

 meafurement of their feveral heights 

 above the level of the fea, — Mr, Riddel 

 is doing the fame thing in England from 

 liis own original materials. 



M. FiscHER,of Vienna, has difcovered 

 a new procel's to whiten ftraw. He 

 (drefles it in muriatic acid, faturated with 

 pot-alli. The ilraw thus prepared never 

 turns yellow ; is of a moftfliining white ; 

 and acquires great flexibility. 



The Eafter catalogue at Lcipfic con- 

 tained 3,077 articles, among which there 

 were 257 of divinity ; 231 of jurifpi-u- 

 dence, including political economy ; 66 

 oi philofophy ; 177 on education ; 59 on 

 natural hiflory ; of! on mathematics; 

 and 77 on geography and relations of 

 travels. — The lad Michaelmai? fair was 

 lefs abundant : the catalogue did not ex- 

 ceed 6 14 articles. The works contained 

 in the Micliaehnas catalogue are, Mo- 

 rality, 31 ; Education, 79 ; Belles Lettres, 

 29; The Fine Arts, 15; Ancient and 

 Modern Languages, 58 ; Divinity and 

 Sermons, 88 ; Law, 55 ; Phyfic and Sur- 

 gery, &c. 93; Mathematics,"GO; Natural 

 flillory, &c., 45 ; Rural Economy, &c. 

 49 ; Economy, TJfeful Arts, Ike. 50 ; 

 Commerce, 11; Political Economy, 21; 

 IliRory, 31; Biography, 19; Literary 

 Jlillory, 8 ; Geography :uid Topo<j;raphv, 

 28; Travels, 16; Statillics, 5*; Novcfs, 

 &c. 63 ; Almanacks, 61 ; Genealogy, 

 and Chronology, 2. 



Profeffor Klaproth has taken great 

 pains to inveftigate the component parts 

 of native cinnabar ; and he finds, as 

 refults of his experiments, that Japan 

 cinnabar, ^xclufive of its foreign parts, 

 contains Mercury - 8]. 50 

 Sulphur - 14.75 



99.25 

 But that the cinnabar from Neumaerk- 

 tcl, in Cjirniola, confifts of 



Mercury - 85.00 

 Sulphur - 14.25 



99.25 



France. 

 ProfefTov Ploust |)as difcovered that 

 the nitrate of foda is an economical ar- 

 ticle for fire-works, in the foUovving pro- 

 portions : live parts of the nitrate, one 

 of charcoal, and one of fulphur, afford 

 a p<jw(ler which gives a flan)e of a rcd- 

 ^i(h yellow, of confidciuble beauty; and 



the mixture burned in a metallic tube, 

 will lall three tin)es as long as the fame 

 charge of common powder. 



The fame cheraiil has examined the 

 birds' nefts of the Eall, and finds them 

 to confiil merely of a ilngle cartilage, 

 uniform in its texture. He boiled one in 

 water, which became foft, but was not 

 fcparated in its parts, and loft only four 

 hundredths of its weight. 



Meffrs. Vaitqijelin and Robiquet 

 have difcovered a new vcgetal)le princi- 

 ple in afparagus, which is cryftallizable 

 like the falts; but is neither acid nor 

 neutral, and of which the lolution in 

 water is not affected by any of the re- 

 agents ufually employed to afcertain the 

 prefence and nature of the falts diflblved 

 in water. They have alio difcoiered 

 another principle, which feems to refem- 

 ble manna. 



PonrALis, the minifter for public wor- 

 fliip, is fending miflionaries to China, 

 and they arc to let otf this year, accom-. 

 panied by a Ikilful ailronomcr. 



It is known that L'Hiftoire de la Mcr 

 decinc, by Le Clerc, was not printed 

 in I'rance. It is become very fcai'ce, 

 and is only to be found in a few libraries. 

 IVI. Amoureux, dclirous of doing fervicc 

 to young prac^titioners, is preparing a new 

 edition, which will be embellifhed with 

 remarks and plates. He likcwife intends 

 publilhing, in continuation of that work, 

 a new edition of Freind's Iliilery of Phy- 

 fic, with plates and obfcrvations appro-; 

 priatc to the prcfent times. 



We congratulate our country on the 

 afccndancy of Englilh literature at Paris, 

 and on the commencement of a Monthly 

 Repertory of Englilh Literature to be 

 printed there in Engliili. It will contain 

 a catalogue of all the books pnblilhed 

 in Great Britain, and reviews at large of 

 c^■ery work deferving notice (party po- 

 litics excepted), tQ.Sether with the pro- 

 ceedi)igs of learned focicties ; the pro- 

 grefs of the fine-arts ; thefitrical produc- 

 tions ; patents for new dif'coverics ; bio- 

 graphicnl memoirs of reniarkablc perfons 

 dcceafed ; report* on the Hate of agricul- 

 ture, commerce, &c. tkc, reprinted chiefly 

 from the Monthly Mr|g£\zine. Snch a pub- 

 lication has, we learn, been long wilhed 

 for in France, where the readers of Eng- 

 lifll authors kave incrcafed ten-fold within 

 thefe few years ; and where, we are alfo 

 enabled to llatc, tliat, in fpite of political 

 diiferences, the J'.nglilh nation and clia- 

 ratter are refpectcrl by all rauks more 

 thao they ever were. 



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