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 LI. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles, 



GEOGUAPHY. 



A LETTER from St. Peterslniruh, thited November tire 2cl, 

 savs, " The large hydrognipliical chart of the White Sea, 

 which has been some time preparing, under the direction of 

 lieutenant-general Golenischtscheft-KiilusolT, will soon he 

 printed. A trigonometrical survey of this sea, comprchend- 

 iiiii' the bays and a part of the northern ocean, was made 

 between the years 171)8 and 1801; at the same time the 

 depth and nature of the bottom were ascertained and exa- 

 mined, and sixteen principal points of the coast were de- 

 termined by astronomical observation; so that this chart, by 

 the indefatigable zeal of general vou Kutii^oft", has been 

 brouoht to a considerable degree of perfection, and will 

 render the navigation of that sea much safer than it hitherto 

 has been. 



ASTIIONOMV. 



We have received a n<ne from Mr. Josep.h Knmianuel 

 Pellizer, a "-entleman who some time ag:o published a new 

 svstem of astronomy, contammg soine doctrines very clir- 

 fereut from those generally received. We cannot enter mto 

 the arguments he offers in defence of his system ; but as he 

 mentions one decisive test by which the question may be 

 settled, we shall state it as shortly as we can for the consi- 

 deration of astronomers. 



According to the Nautical Almanac for ISOJ, there will 

 be a conjunction of the moon and sun on the 3()th of March 

 next, at 10'' 53' P. M. — According to Mr. Pellizcr's cal- 

 culation, that conjunction will take pkvje March 2yth, i20' 'j" 

 A. M. 



Mr. Pcllizer proposes that the distance of these two lu- 

 minaries should be observed three days before the conjunc- 

 tion — say on the SGthof March, at OO'^s'^ A.M. ; when it will 

 be found, according to him, 3y" 30' and a fraction — while, 

 according to the received astronomy, it ought to be 3S" 4u'. 



POISON OF/THE VIl'ER. 



To determine, in a certain manner, whether the poison ot 

 the vipers in tlie forest of Tontainbleau * is as subtile as 

 imagined. Dr. Paulet has been induced to make some expe- 

 riments on this subject, and the result has been agreeable to 



• See pi^e <; I of this volume. 



S 4 expectation. 



