Dc'fcrlption of an improved Ele£iromefer, nSy 



Xlois, a people who inhabit the mountains to the weft, and 

 who often make incurfions into their territories, the Co- 

 chinefe general marched with an army towards the moun- 

 tains ; but as he was not able to get at the enemy, on ac- 

 count of their inacceffible iituation, he ordered two prifoners 

 he had taken to be put to death, and their flefli to be de- 

 voured by his foldiers. 



In the year 1777, being on board an Englifh fliip of war 

 in Turon harbour, in order to return from Cochin-china to 

 Europe, a party arrived there who had joined a powerful 

 rebel named Nhae. This leader and his party had taken 

 fome of the king's confidential friends, and one in particular 

 who had formerly done him a great deal of injury. The 

 latter they put to death ; and in order to gratify their re- 

 venge, they tore out his liver and ate it. The Cochin-chi- 

 nefe, in general, when violently incenfed againft any one, 

 ^re accuftomed to exprefs a wifli that they may be able to 

 devour his liver or his flefh. 



IX. Defcriptlon of an Improved Difchargin^Elc6frovieier. 

 Read before the Royal Society of Copenhagen. By A. W. 

 Vo>f Hauch, Marjlal of the Court, &c. to his Damjh 

 Majejly *. 



XA O branch of natural philofophy can boafl: of having 

 attrafted fo much attention as the doftrine of eleftricity ; 

 and indeed there are few which Icem more worthy of invefti- 

 gation. When we confider thediftinguiftied part which elec- 

 tricity apparently performs in the grand operations of na- 

 ture; the aftonifliing, and, on the firft view, fo inexplicable 

 tflefts produced by this power of nature fo different from 

 thofe of any other, and its fecret and concealed mode of 

 aftion, which the moft acute obfcrvcrs have not hitherto 

 t)etn able to penetrate, it will not feeru furprifmg that both 



• From the Trait/ail iom of tkt Royal Stciety 0/ Cofenba^tit. 



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