Miscellaneous. * - oF 
Bode the astronomer, in preparing a grand work for publi- 
cation. It is to be a large copper-plate, which wil exhibit 
a general picture of the highest mountains of the globe, 
under the title of “ Tableau general des plus hauts Mon- 
tagnes du Globe.” It will contain about 150 mountains, 
with an exact measurement of their several heights above 
the level of the sea. These heights are reckoned by the fa- 
thom of six feet. The drawing is by M. Von Mechel, and 
the explanatory text is from the pen of baron Humboldt. 
America is the most eminent for the height of its, moun- 
tains of all the other quarters of the world. 
Several literary works in the modern Greek language are 
continually issuing from the press in various parts of Ger- 
many. Among these isa History of Walachia and Molda- 
via; and a translation into modern Greek of Goldsmith’s 
History of Greece, accompanied by a map of antient Greece. 
Dr. Hager, of Paris, has been appointed by the vice- 
king of Italy, professor of the oriental languages in the 
university of Pavia, the first school of learning in Italy. 
His appointment was accompauicd. with a flattering letter 
from his majesty. F xi . 
Dr. Bozzini, of Frankfort, has invented an instrument 
which must be very interesting to the medical profession. 
The object of this instrament, to which the name of light- 
spreader has been given, is to afford an inspection of the 
interior of wounds, or the various parts of the human body, 
such as the cesophagus, the vagina, the uterus, &c. The 
inventor is preparing for the press. drawings and*descrip- 
tions of this curious instrument, which has already attracted 
considerable notice on the continent. 
M. Lebrun, first trumpeter in the King of Prussia’s band 
at Berlin, having long reflected on the deleterious conse- 
quences arising from the oxides of copper being collected in 
the inside of brass trumpets, and thus inhaled into the lungs 
of the performer, has invented a method tu avoid any bad 
effects from this circumstance. He coats the inside of his 
trumpets with a lac, which unites to smoothness: tenuity ; 
and does no injury whatever to the sound of the instrument, 
Nitric acid poured into these trumpets docs not change the 
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