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as is ftiH ufual among the Illyrian women in the interior part' 

 of Dalmatia, and among thofe of Kamtfchatka and on the 

 banks of the Anadir. 



3d, A Madona with infant Jefus afleep, painted by Aloys 

 Vivarinus, of Murano, on a plaftcr ground. 'J'his painting, 

 which was finiflied in 1489, is Hve feet two inches in height 

 and one foot eleven inches in breadth. It was executed at 

 tlie time when the art of painting in oil was firft carried from 

 Flanders to Italy. It proves that \'ivarinus, by his delicate 

 and expreifive pencil, had already carried to a high degree of 

 excellence the art of painting, which was not brought to a 

 Itate of perfection till the time of Charles V. 



4th, A naval battle painted in oil, eleven feet in height 

 and twentv-one in brcadlh. It is a mafler-piece of Tinto- 

 retto. He compofed it at the requeft of the fenate of Venice, 

 who prelentcd it to the city of Pifano. It reprefentss the battle 

 faid to have taken place in 1 177 between the Germans and 

 the Venetian fleet near Cape de Salvora, in Iftria, and which 

 was firft mentioned by Andrew Dandolo, in his Chronicle, 

 two centuries after. 



5th, A bufl, painted on marble, of Sanftorius, a cele- 

 brated proftfTor of Padua, who died in 1639, '^"^ who formed 

 an epoch in the philofophical hiftory of medicine. 



EARTHaUAKE. 



Some obfervations have lately been publifhed in the Ger- 

 man journals in regard to the curious circumftances which 

 accompanied the earthquake that took place in the province 

 of the Seven Mount^iins towards the end of Oftober. It was 

 in the low meadows King towards the north that the phaeno- 

 mena were moft fenfible, where deep fifiiires two or three feet 

 in breadth and thirty- five fathoms in length, which divided 

 into feveral branches, were formed in a direction from well to 

 eait. A great deal of \try fine fand of an ^(h-grav colour, 

 which emitted a lulphureous odour, was thrown up from thefe 

 fiUures. The principal fiflure, after extending throughout a 

 l«)ng fpace, fcparated intoievcral branches, whicli btnf them- 

 felves into lemicirclos towards the wed, and traverfed a houie 

 and a liable, after piercing the walls at the foundation. 'I'he 

 whole country was covered with one or more inches of fand 

 la the direction of the filllires : and pcrlons who were m it- 

 jielVfs to thefe phoenomcna aflbrt, that at the time of the laft 

 lliock the earth opened with a noife hke that of a nniflcet 

 {hot; that a black and itrong fmelling vapour iifucd from tha 

 Jlilures, as well as a. great deal ot water, which (pouted up with' 

 i IokJ nnifte J and '.hat '.ricii- iv-ts xzxf td'ov.cd by a great 



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