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 LIII. Intelligence and Miscellaveous Articles, 



JVIr. Andrew Horn will immediately put to the press a 

 short Essay, in which the seat of vision is determined ; and, 

 bv the discovery of a new function in the organ, a founda- 

 tion laid for explaining its mechanism, and the various phae- 

 nomena, on principles hitherto unattempted. 



A physician at Moscow, named Renman, has discovered 

 that the rind of the ponieeranate may supply the place of 

 the quinquina in many cases, especially in intermittent fe- 

 vers. He has published at Moscow a memoir, in which he 

 endeavours to prove the efficacy of his new remedy. 



METEOROLITES, 



Mr. Sowerby, author of British Mineralogy, has just 

 published a plate representing the meteor-stone which was 

 seen to fall in Yorkshire on the 13th of December 1795, ac- 

 companied by engravings of part of the one which fell in 

 Scotland in lS04,"and of that which fell in Ireland in 1810, 

 all of which are deposited in his museum. 



FALL OF AEROLITES NEAR TOULOUSE, IN FRANCE. 



The following relation was lately laid before the Imperial 

 Institute by Senator Chaptal : — " On the 10th April, 1812, 

 at six mmutes pa'5t eight in the evening, the night being 

 very dark, the atmosphere was on a sudden illuminated by 

 a whitish light, sufficient to see to read by, which lasted 

 about 15 seconds, and disappeared gradually. Two minutes 

 and a half afterwards a considerable detonation was heard, 

 resembling the explosion of a mine, and followed by a com- 

 motion so strong that several persons thought it was an 

 earthquake. At Gailloe and at Alby it was supposed that 

 the powder magazine at Toulouse had blown up. Some 

 minutes alter this explosion, the sky cleared up, and the 

 stars appearcil. Two days afterwards it was known at Tou- 

 louse that meteoric stones had fallen six leagues from that 

 city, in the conmiune of Burgau, in the department of the 

 Upper Garonne, and in that of Savenens, department of 

 Tarn and Garonne. According to the account of M. Filhol, 

 a distinguished physician at Grenade, near Burgau, and that 

 of the curate of Savenens, it appears that a great brightness 

 was seen, like that of a rocket, and a number of explo- 

 sions heard like a rolling fire of iiiusquelry, which lasted 



several 



