ngz ■ Sta/i/Iicj. — EarthqimJte, 



.call this new pUnet Juno, by analogy to the names of the 

 ■other planets; but M. Piazzi wifnes that it flioukl be calkd 

 .Ceres Fir/iaTidia, in allufion to Sicily, which is confecratod 



to Ceres, and to the name of the monarch .who at prcfcnt 



reigns over that country. 



STATISTICS. 



The Frcnc'h mini llcr of the interior is now emplo^^ed ia 

 ■collerting materials for a ftatiflic defc'ription of France. An 

 account of fifteen departments has already been received, 

 fome of which the miniiter has publUbed. The names of 

 the departments, refnetting which memoirs have been re- 

 ^:eivecl, are, AUier, Upper Alps, Ande, Cher, La Drome, 

 31Ie-et-Vilaine, Mont-Blanc^ Orne, Ourthe, Up])er Saone, 

 Two Sevres, Tarn, Var, Vofsxes, and I.n' Vendee. Th'cfe 

 inemoirs, written by the prefefts of the different departments, 

 contain intereding farts, and curious details, refpefting the 

 <lifferent diftrirts of France, and will form the firft collcotron 

 of jwfitive information refpefting the ftale of that extenfive 

 country. 



EARTHaUAKE. 



The f illowing are the particulars of an earthquake which 

 "look place at Bologna, as infcribcd in the rcgifters of the 

 obfervatory, by C. Ciccolini : 



This morning (OAobcr 8) at 8 hours 52 minutes 53 fe- 

 'conds, the air being cdlm, the fky ovcrcalt, and Reaumur's 

 thermometer at 13 o', I felt three ftrong (hocks of an earth- 

 quake. The direftion of the firft was from north-eaft to 

 fouth-U'cft : the imdulation gradually decreafed, when a fcr 

 cond and a third fliock were felt in the fame dire6fion as the 

 firft. Thefe three (hocks were in general taken to be one j 

 but I was'able to diftiriguifti them exaftly, as th'ey continued 

 half a minu'e; one of the clocks in the obfervatory having 

 ftopped, t had the cxa6l time of the earthquake. Some 

 chimneys were thrown down in the citv, olie of which had 

 almoft beat in the ceiling of an apartment where the c(;le- 

 bratcd" mathematician Soladini lodges. The remembrance 

 of the e-i?*tK|U.ike'3 which afflifted the citv of Bologna almoft 

 for a whole year, in 1779 and 780, occalioned a general 

 confternation. It muft, however, be obferved, that the ftate 

 of the atnv>iphere was very dilferent from what it was at that 

 period, the fiin being then paleyttic fky continuv.lly oblcured 

 by clo.Ci'is ob a i^ead colour, n^^ the h;>rizon daHcaed by very 

 thi'-k fci?.^. Liifhtnin^'T frc^juently fell, and igneous meteors 

 appea'cd" under .dlHTorent furn'is ; and there 'were above 80 

 aurcrx- borcales. Nothing of the kind took place during the 

 preie-.u icaicn. The ca'ihnuake was felt with viuleucc at 

 Catene and Ccuta. 



