94 Fbjrage of Di/covcry. — Dlfccverles in Africa. 



vifit the inoculated patients when my time would not admit, 

 of it. 



" In Nos. 15 and 16 of the Hanoverian Magazine we have 

 ptibliflied otxr laft year's inoculations, and we intend conti- 

 nuing the fame from time to time. With Dr. De Carro, 

 whom Dr. Pearfon knows, and who occupies hlmfelf greatly 

 with this inoculation, we correfpond. 



*-^ Only one of our this year's patients has been inoculated 

 far the fm.all-pox : a puftule was produced vipon the inocu- 

 lated part, accompanied with a flight furrounding iuflaninia- 

 . tion, but no other effcAs whatever.'* 



NEW VOYAGE OF DISCOVERV. 



A new voyage of difcovery to the South Sea has been lately 

 projefted by the French. The National Inftitute have ob- 

 tained twa corvettes for th<at purpofc which arc now fitting 

 out at Havre. They are to follow the route purfued by Den- 

 trecadeaux^ and to continue the refearches made during the 

 late expedition into thofe Teas in order to determine feveral 

 important points of geography. Th-ey will explore the fouth- 

 ea.ll coafts of New Hollap.d, and bring hack fuch vegetable 

 produiSlions as are likely to anfwer the purpofes of cultivation 

 in Europe. The command of this new enterprife is entruftcd 

 to Captain Baudin, who has already diftinguiflied himftlf by 

 his nautical talents and knowledge of the natural fciences, 

 and who has enriched the Mufcum of Natural Hiilory at 

 Paris with various curious objeAs which he colleAed during 

 a former voyage C. Quenot, an able navigator and ob- 

 ferver; and C. Ciccolini, a ci-devant knight of Malta, who 

 has lonff applied to aftronomical purfuits in the College de 

 i'rauce^ are tjie aftrouomers propofcd for this expedition. 



DISCOVERIES IN AFRICA. 



T!ie following particidars have been received refpe(51:ing 

 the expedition of Horneman to the interior parts of Africa: 

 — In the month of September 1798, he fet out from Cairo, 

 \(rhere he was expofed to great danger from the plague, and 

 pFoceeded on his journey with the caravan bound to Fezzan. 

 In the oalis of Seewah he found Brown'^s obfervations re- 



fpeiSting 



