46S Baiidin's Voyage of Discoverrj. 



fliiors of reduced metals ; from which I think tliat the sulphur 

 will take up the metals by isolating the fluor, or the combustible 

 or acidiftable from the fluoric acid. All tliat I can do for oxy- 

 genatino- ihe dry fluoric acid into fluorine has been without suc- 

 cess, and I think I may safely say that this acid is incapable of 

 oxygenation. I have not been informed if Gav Lussac has been 

 &ble to put beyond combination tlio hyperoxy{>;enated iodic acid. 

 , " You know without doubt, that, according to the present 

 nomenclature, an iodate is a hyperoxygenated salt ; an i dure, a 

 dry salt ; a liydroiodate, a dry salt and water ; u hydrosulpliate is 

 a salt composed of an oxide and of sulphurated hydrogen gas, 

 and this gas is hydrosulphuric acid, &;c. &c. 



*' I am about to resume my Joiirnal for 1815, and I shall have 

 much pleasure to transmit it as formerly. 



*' My Philosophical Dictionary of Chemistry is fast approach- 

 ing to a conclusion, and you shall receive it shortly. 



" I have the honour to be, &c. 

 Brussels, Oct. 12, 1814. " J. B. Van MonS." 



CAPTAIN BAUDIN S VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY, 



Undertdken by Order of the French Government. 



The Moniteur of December 24 gives the following notice on 

 this interesting subject : — " We have the satisfaction to an- 

 nounce the publication of the Voyage to the Southern Hemi- 

 •pliere, drawn up by M. Louis Freycinet, Captain in the French 

 Navy. 



" In the Moniteur of Jan. 15, 1813, a Report was published, 

 which had been made by the vice-admiral who was director of 

 the charts and plans of the marine, from which the public were 

 enabled to appretiate the merit of this superb hydrographic 

 work. It contains accurate charts of those shores of New Hol- 

 land and Van Dien)eirs Land, which at the epoch of the voy- 

 age were least known. This discovery made by the French na- 

 vigators of the south-west coast of New Holland must have I)een 

 remarked in a particular manner, situated between the islands 

 of St. Francis and Port Western, which no voyagers seem to 

 have approached previous to them. 



" The work which we announce hns the stronger claims on 

 the curiosity of the public, as Capt. Flinders, who commanded 

 an English expedition, sailed along and exjdored the same coast 

 at the same time. His Voyage has just been published, accom- 

 panied by an atlas containing a great number of charts. 



" The English captain was on the 2Sth January 1802 at th« 

 islands of St. Francis, situated at the eastern extremity of de 

 Nuyt's Land, wiiich rear-admiral Dentrecastcaux had visited. 

 Leaving those islands, he sailed along the shores from north- 

 west 



