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cation alone. He fuperinteuded himfelf the education of his 

 two fons and a daughter, who have (liewn thenifehes worthy 

 r)f fuch an inftruftor. His daughter to the charms of her 

 fcx unites an extenfive knowledge of the natural fciences ; 

 and his eldeft fon has already made himfelf known by hi* 

 phyfical and chemical labours. 



The fecond volume of his Travels was publiflied in 1786. 

 It contains a defcription of the Alps around Mont-Blanc, 

 which the author confiders as a mineralogift, a geologift, and 

 a philofopher. He gives alfo fome interefting experiments 

 on eleftricity, and a defcription of his ele6lrometer, the moft 

 perfeft we have. We are indebted to him alfo for feveral in- 

 llraments of meafurement, fuch as his cj'anomctcr, deftined to 

 jneafure the degree of the bluenefs of the heavens, which varies 

 according to the elevation of the obferver : his dlaphanometcry 

 or inftrvunent for meafuring the tranfparency of the atmo- 

 fphere ; and his anemometer , which, by means of a kind of ba-- 

 lance, weighs the force of the wind. 



Some years after the publication of the fecond volume of 

 his Travels, De Sauflure was admitted as a foreign affociate 

 of the Academy of Sciences of Paris; and Geneva could then 

 boaft of having two of its citizens in that clafs, which con- 

 filled only of feven members. De Sauflure not only did ho- 

 nour to his country : he loved and ferved it. He was the 

 founder of the Society of Arts, to which Geneva is indebt- 

 ed for the high Hate of profperity it has attained within 

 the laft thirty years. He prefided over that focicty till the 

 Jaft moment of his life, and one of his fondell wiflics was the 

 prefervation of this ufeful eftablilhment. 



In confequence of M. de Sauflure's fatiguing labours in 

 the Council of Two Hundred, of which he was a member, 

 and afterwards in the National Aflembly, his health began 

 to be deranged, and in 1794 he was almoft deprived of the 

 total ufe of his limbs by a.ftroke of the palfy. However pain- 

 ful his condition then might be, his mind ftill preferved its 



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