Aw Puhlica/lo7ts, Hoy 



ifland produces annually 55,700 weight of corn, 54,300 of 

 maize, and three millions of pounds of coffee. The moft 

 fruitful diftrift of the ifland is that of St. Sufanne, four 

 leagues from St. Denis. 



The flcy is ferene, the atmofphere pure, and the water fa- 

 lubrious. Land tortoifes, which were here formerly fo abun- 

 dant, are found now only in the weftern part ; in the other 

 parts they have been exterminated by fliips which have 

 touched at the ifland. The wild ooats and wild hoes have 

 retired to the fummits of the mountains: the rabbits, quails, 

 partridges and pintadoes brought to the ifland have none of 

 them increafed, except the lafl. Le Gentil mentions as found 

 here a bird called roij'eaic bleu, a very delicate kind of bats ; 

 among the vegetable productions, ebony, benjamin, the cot- 

 ton fli rub ; a great deal of timber for fliip-buildino;; and 

 among the fruit-trees, the guava, the banana, and orange 

 and lemon trees in great abundance.. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



Cotiwiciitatioiics Socutafis Regia; Scicnliarum Gotthi^cnjls, 

 Sec. TranfaiStions of the Royal Society of Gottinsen, for 

 the Years 1795 — 1798. Vol. XIII. quarto. Qottingen, 

 1799. 



JL HE Phyfical Clafsof this volume, to which a preface by 

 ProfefTor Ileync is prefixed, contains tlie five followino- trea- 



tifes : M. Sommering on an aperture in the centre of 



the retina of the human eye, obferved in the body of a perfon 

 uho had been drowned. — M. Wrilberg on an unnatural 

 conformation of the organs of generation in a boy. — Pro- 

 feHbr Cmelin's refutation of the grounds brought againfl 

 the exiftcnce of phlogiflon. — Dr. Lentin on the phofphoric 

 acid as a cure for caries and rottenncfs of the bones. — M. 

 Sommering on the trunk of the lacteal dufts in the abforb- 

 »ng vcflcia lying on the aorta. The principal papers in the 



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