<»a Miscellaveous, 



It was this small quantity which M. Haas, on his return io 

 the Cape, sent to M. Osiander, his friend and countryman ; 

 who in his turn presented the greatest part of it to the museum 

 of Gottingen, as a rarity worthy the attention of naturalists. 

 This sand resembles that found in the other diamond mines 

 of Golconda, Visapour, &sc. and is of a reddish and ferru- 

 ginous yellow. 



XVI. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



A SUBSCRIPTION has been set on foot in the Swedish pro- 

 vince of Smaland, where Linnseus was born, in order to erect 

 a monument to this trreat botanist. 



Several French engineers are at present busily employed 

 in Switzerland, in laying down a grand topographical chart 

 of that country. 



*' A machine, which in order to move itself and produce 

 all its eflect would have no occasion of any foreign agent, a 

 machine which without the action of fire, air, or water, 

 would contain in itself the inexhaustible principle of its 

 own motion, would be a discovery useful to the arts and 

 valuable to humanity : such is the machine of which M. 

 Dodemant, professor of mathematics at Lyons, maintains 

 that he is the inventor. Two commissaries have been sent to 

 examinine this machine. These commissaries are Messrs. 

 Cavron, chief engineer of the department ; and MoUet, 

 professor of physics, and member of the Lyonese Academy." 

 From Mag. Ency eloped. June 1806. p. 428. 



By a French imperial decree, there has been established 

 at Rouen, in Normandy, a school destined for teaching the 

 art of modciruYg anatomical preparations in wax, vmder the 

 direction of M. Laumonier. Six pupils sufficiently skilled 

 in anatomical knowledge, and in the art of modelling, will be 

 attached to this school, upon the nomination of the minister 



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