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the atmosphere, during the fliort reign of such a calamity, 

 which all the furs of Siberia cannot make endurable to the 

 most northern inhabitant. 



Dephlogisticated fiuor gas *. 



Count Steremberg made his curious experiment here, 

 to consume a diamond in a species of air which takes fire 

 on coming in contact with the phlogistic gem. 



The fluid which has this singular property, is the fluor 

 air, distilled on manganese, in a tin retort, till it loses the 

 power of corroding glafs. 



• In my opinion the tin retort, in this procefs, can have 

 no other use, than preventing the escape of the fluid, 

 which would make its way through glafs j but what merits 

 attention is, that the fluor acid (hould be convertible into 

 air after losing it phlogiston, (and certainly the manga- 

 nese must dephlogisticate this, as it does the other acids,) 

 for I think Dr Priestley found that he could not convert: 

 the marine acid into permanent air, after having gone? 

 through this very procefs. However I cite the learned 

 doctor only from memory. 



Literiuy news tahen from the seventeenth volutrie of the la- 

 bours of the Economical society of St Petersburg, printed in 

 the Rufsian language, now in the f>refs, and will appear 

 soon. 



On the rhus typhinum or vinegar plant, the hirschkolben 

 sumach, of the Germans, a communication by the Aulic 

 councellor Beber. 



This plant, originally a native of North America, has 

 been long cultivated in the north of Germany, and is late- 

 ly introduced into Rufsia. 



* This also was mentioned in a former number of the Bee vol. xv ■ 



