1807.] 



Literary and Philofophical Intelligence* 



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TlieRev. Thomas Bef-siiam is prepar- 

 ing for iiiuiiediatu publiciitiuii an Alj- 

 ihatt of tlic Evidences of the Cliriliiaii 

 Religion, vviiich he delivered to the con- 

 gre<;iition at the chapel at ElTex-dreet ; 

 vliich we triift will be followed by the 

 llill more intereftini; lectures now de- 

 livering; on the iijfpiracion of the Scrip- 

 tures. 



A volume of Sermons, from the pen 

 of the late Dr. IIorslev, prepared by 

 tlie author for the prefs, may be expected 

 early in the prefcnt winter. 



Profeffor Davy, in one of his leftures 

 at the Royal Iiiiiitntlon, lately alferted, 

 on the authority of a friend, that the 

 cells of the Lee are formed ol' a circular 

 fliapc, and that ijy prelTuie they are re- 

 duced to the he>;aj;una! foi-ni. 



Mr. F. S. Stuart, of Billericay, in 

 Efl'ex, announces that he was brought 

 to the verge of the grave by a confump- 

 tion of the lungs, and reftortd to perfect 

 health, by eating three or four pints per 

 tlay of ripe currants, white and red ; 

 «nd he mentions other pcrfons \vho have 

 jjecn recovered from the fame dileafe by 

 the fame means, 



Mr. Pratt has in preparation a work 

 of the novel kind, called Oreat and 

 Little Folks, which will make its ap-- 

 pearance in tiie prefent winter. 



Sir John Carr's Travels in Den- 

 mark, Sweden, and Prullia, have been 

 trauilated into German, by M. Zimmer- 

 man, and publilhed at Rudolitadt, in 

 two elegant volumes orta\o. 

 Sicedeii. 



A late admeafuremcnt of a degree of 

 Jatilude, by fome Swediih aflronomers 

 in Lapland, makes it 1,114,774 Metres, 

 or 57,200 toiles. The degree nieafured 

 by Maupcrtuis in ITiii, w;is 57,4'22 toifes 

 more than the new, and probably more 

 correct, adincy-lurcment. 

 I'rtifi'uin. 



M. IIultz, a Prullian allrnnomcr, pub- 

 lilhed ail opinion, it) Augufi laii, that the 

 Am at that time was un(leii;i)iiig fomc 

 confiderable change. This opinion was 

 loundcd on a ijnmber of fpots occupy- 

 ing one-fifth part of its dianieicr in their 

 Icu'ith, an<) one-ninetceiilli in their 

 'brcadtli. 'I'iiefc fpots \aried in tiieir 

 form, and were perceptibly changed in 

 tlie co'jrfe of two or three h(iMr>. 



J\L Hiciioi.z has traniinitted to the 

 Acailemy of Sciences at I'.rfurt, an ac- 

 ionnt of foiiie new e\perimtiits on the 

 ore of Platiua. 'I'he author endeavours 

 ttf reconcile the coutradittious of the 



Enclilh and French chemifts relative to 

 this metal. He finds that platina, in 

 its crude ftatc, contain four other me- 

 tals, vi^. ofmium, iridium, rhodium, and 

 palladium. 



Tiie late ]\L Hadsi Niku, an emi- 

 nent Rullian, founded a fchool at Cron- 

 ftadt for the education of modern Greeks. 

 It already contains 34 lludents. The 

 obj;<^ts of intiru -11011 are the principles 

 of religion, reading, writing, and arith- 

 metic, and the ancient Greek. The 

 profelf.jrs are monks of Mount Athos. 



Germant/, 

 Of the literary journals publiflied in 

 Germany, that of Halle is the moil read; 

 after this, that of Jena ; of other peri- 

 odical works, the Free-thinker is moll 

 in rerjuelt, and after that the Gazette of 

 the polite world. The Minerva of Ar- 

 chenholtz is read with much approbation. 

 The gazette of Neuwied retikins its for- 

 mer ellimation. 



Fiance. 

 CuviER has found in the Gypfeous 

 hills, near Paris, folfil bones belonging 

 to a. fpecies of Jlirigiic, now exifting only 

 in America. Several bones of an unr 

 known animal, to which he has given 

 the name of pahrt. hoi turn, fu])pofe(i to 

 have been eight feet long, and five feet 

 high, have been found in many parts of 

 France. Follil hoijes, fuppofed to have 

 belonged to a fmall kind of hippopota- 

 nuis, have been difcovered near the Arno 

 in Italy. Teeth and bones, which, after 

 minute obfervation, Cuvier alligns lo the 

 fpecies of hyena now found at the Cape 

 of Good Hope, have been dug up in 

 various pai ts of Germany and .ir'rance. 

 A Ikull with many teeth, prcferxed in 

 the cabinet of Stutgard, belonged alfo 

 to that animal; it was found ni 1700, 

 near Canltadt, on the call bank of the 

 Xccker. The adjacent hills contain am- 

 monites, bcleninites, reeds ; and M. 

 Autenrioth has difcovered in the neigh- 

 bourhood a uhole proltrate forell of palm 

 trees, two feet in diumuter. There were 

 JoumI, alio, elephant's bones, cart-loads 

 of horfes' teclli, rhinoceros' teeth, and 

 fome vertebne, which fecm to liavc be- 

 longed to the cetaccojj.s tribe. In tlie 

 i'lniie country, the bones oi' wolves and 

 hveniis lunc been difcovered, mingled in 

 confulion ; alfo vertebral, alferted to luco 

 bi'!o!igcl to a bear of enormous lize. — 

 " What ages were tliofe," exclaims Gu— 

 vier, " when the elephant and the hytiii 

 of tiic Cape lived together in our cli- 

 juaits in forells of pahji-tiees, and atfo- 

 4 K !i ciatcU 



