374 Galvam/m. — Mineralogy . — Ajiilquhies. 



early as 1613, and was thence fpread to Gallicia; but that, 

 for unknown reafons, it was afierwards abandoned." 



GALVANISM. 



A letter from Germany fays, the effeft of galvanifm in 

 curing deafnefs has been fully confirmed at Jever. We 

 learn alio from Calfel that M. Schaub, apothecary of that 

 place, has cured a perfdn who had been deaf for eighteen 

 years by three weeks ufe of the A^oltaic pile. Mart. Frif- 

 chefcn, a Benedi6lme, and profeflbr of philofophv at Salz- 

 burg, has performed a number of fuccefsful cures on the 

 blhid, lame, and deaf, by means of a pile confiding of 300 

 plates; which has encouraged feveral of the phyficians there 

 to make experiments of the fame kind. This remedy has 

 been employed alfo with fuccefs by Dr. Grapengiefler of 

 Berlin, Dr. Martens of Leipfic, and others. 



MINERALOGY. 



About three years ago, C. Pontier met with fome frag- 

 ments of chromated iron in the Lower Alps, but out of Tts 

 place. Circumflances arifing from the war prevented his 

 afcertaining its true pofition in the earth. He has at length 

 found the natural place of this curious mineral in a quarry 

 near Gaffin, in the road to Cavalaire. This metal is mixed 

 with green ferpentine rock, which owes its colour, probably, 

 to chrome. It fometimes forms maffes of five folid decime- 

 tres each. 



ANTiaUITIES. 



M. Baguerie, of Bourdeaux, has fent to the mufseum of 

 that city a mummy found in one of the caverns at the bot- 

 tom of the peak of Teneriffe. This mummy feems to be of 

 a different kind from any hitherto defcribed, and to have been 

 prepared in a different manner. 



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