282 Mungo Pari. — Aerostation. — Miscellaneous. 



MUNGO PARK. 



We are happy to state, that the accounts lately circulated 

 of the death of this traveller are believed to be erroneous-. 

 No such account has reached government, nor have there 

 been any late arrivals from that country by which the infor- 

 mation could have been received. It is the opinion of Sir 

 Joseph Banks and other gentlemen personally acquainted 

 with Mr. Park, and deeply interested in the success of his 

 mission, that it is the old report of the death of part of the 

 soldiers and carpenters newly revived and greatly exagge- 

 rated. 



AEROSTATION. 



The misfortune which lately befel M. Mosment, at Lisle, 

 has not put a stop to the rage for aerial exhibitions on the 

 Continent. In the months of May and June last, Dr. Jun- 

 gius, of Berlin, made several ascensions in the neighbour- 

 hood of that city, with complete success. He is the first 

 German aeronaut. 



Madame Blanchard, the wife of the aeronaut of that 

 name, ascended from Bourdeaux in the beginning of May 

 last, and descended a few leagues from the place of ascen- 

 sion, without any accident. Her husband is at present in- 

 volved in a dispute with his brother-aeronaut Garnerin, on 

 the subject of the proper requisites of a balloon. M. Blan- 

 chard maintains, in contradiction to M. Garnerin,. that bal- 

 loons in the constructing or ornamenting of which any me- 

 tallic body is made, use of, run no more risk than any others 

 upon meeting with electrical meteors. M. Blanchard says, 

 that he has often passed through electrical clouds in gilt 

 balloons without meeting with any accident. — Much may 

 be said on both sides of this argument. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



On Wednesday, the 22d of April, a very uncommon 

 phaenomenon was observed at Arbroath, between the hours 

 of two and four P.M. A bright halo appeared round the sun 

 of a very uncommon magnitude, the diameter being 54°: 

 also a large luminous circle parallel to the horizon, diameter 

 about 08°, its altitude equal that of the -sun. Us centre 



nearly 



