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a porcelain crucible took four times as long to freeze. Upon 
inferting the end of the finger in the mixture, it loft, in four - 
feconds, all feeling, and was mot reftored to fenfation till after 
it had been held a along time in the mouth. Upon the firft 
infertion of the wats in the mixture, an acute pain was” ant, 
as if it had been violently preffed in a vice. 
The extreme cold by our accounts from the Continent 
was very general over Europe. 
NEW VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY. 
The French Government have in contemplation a new 
voyage of difcovery round the world, under the ‘direction of 
Captain Baudin, who lately returned from a botanical ex- 
pedition to America. 7 hree corvettes, le Vengeur, la Ser- 
pente, and Ja Menagante, are fitted out for this purpofe, and 
will fail as foon as paffes can be procured from the Britifh 
Miniftry. They are to proceed firft to Teneriffe, for the 
pofe of collecting plants, and thence along the coaft of 
Africa to the Cape of Good Hope. They are then to fail 
along the eaftern fide of Africa, from which one of the cors 
vettes is to be fent back to Francewith the plants, that they 
may not be fpoiled by a longer voyage. ‘I he other two cor- 
vettes will then proceed to New Holland, to make geogra- 
hical obfervations on the unknown parts of that ifland; 
and afterwards vifit the coaft of Peru, Chili, &c. arid Barel 
cularly the river. La Plata, which they are to ge up as oat 
_ as they poffibly can. 
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