1 88 Balloons. — Meteorolngij. 



tions, as a general fact, the primitive cause of which we mav 

 dispense with ascertaining, until new discoveries shall give 

 a well grounded hope of ascertaining it. 



But we ought to know, that we cannot attain this object 

 but bv b!iivj;ing to perfection: he anatomy and chemistry of 

 organized bodies, by incessantly con)paring their results with 

 the observation of these bodies, as well in the state of health 

 as disease, by applying, in short, this method to all the 

 classes of these bodies, whatever be the complication of their 

 ors;ans and the extent of their faculties. 



The works which daily appear upon the medical and phy- 

 siological sciences, show how necessary it is to collect these 

 principles, and the present state of science admits of great 

 injprovemeihs being made in the particular branches to 

 which I have above alluded. 



XXXI. InietUgencc and Miscellaneous Articles. 



BALLOONS. 



wN the QUh of this month (March) an experiment was 

 made at Woolwich, in the presence of several military offi- 

 cers atid engineers, with a species of balloons intended to 

 carry dispatches from one post to another when the wind 

 serves. The dispatches are fastened to a string attached to 

 the balloon. By means of a match joined to the string it 

 takes fire at any calculated time; and the dispatches falling 

 to the ground are picked up by sentinels watching for them 

 at some distant post. 



METEOnOLOGY. 



An immense ball of fire was observed at Glasgow on Fri- 

 day night, the Cth of March, 15 minutes before 10 o'clock, 

 directing its course (seemingly) from south-east to north- 

 west, with a very long streaming tail, and, towards the end, 

 of a sparkling appearance. 



LIST OF PATENTS FOR K3-AV INVENTIONS. 



To John Falconer Atlee, of Wandsworth, in the county 

 of Surrey, distiller ; for his improved apparatus to be used 

 in fermenliuff liquors. March 7« 



To 



