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 LX. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles, 



ANTIQUITIES. 



JL HE arlmirers of Grecian antiquities will hear with plea- 

 sure that an important discovery has lately been made in 

 Peloponnesus. The Zante Gazette gives the following par- 

 ticulars: — " Manv anist.i and foreigners, lovers of the fine 

 arts, had obtained permission to search in the temple of 

 Apollo, situated in Mount Cotylius, in Arcadia. This 

 search led to tlie complete frieze of the interior of the tem- 

 ple, composed ot reliefs in marble, with nearly 100 figures, 

 each more than two feet m height, and very little mjured." 



GALVANISM. 



Mr. Singer has recently constructed an Electric Column 

 of twenty thousand pairs of zinc and silver plates; its 

 electrical eiFi-cts are powerful, but it has not the slightest 

 chemical agency. Pith ball electronieters diverge consi- 

 derablv by its actions ; sparks are also produced, and jars 

 charsed with facility The plates in this extensive appa- 

 ratus are small ; a series t)f three thousand have been con- 

 Blructed larger; and the effects of these, though proporti'Ui- 

 ablv Ifss, are more promptly produced. In a late course of 

 lectures, Mr. S-n^er compared the results of the above ap- 

 paratus with d ffc'rent Voltaic baUeries excited by various 

 menstrua; one of the batteries employed consisted of a 

 thousand pairs of plates; another of four hundred, and a 

 third of 64 pairs ; the surfaces increasing as the numbers 

 diminished : some curious efTects were produced, apparently 

 proving as Mr. S. stated, that the electrical and chemical 

 powers of the Voltaic battery are distinctly separate phae- 

 nomei.a. 



LIST OP PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 



To Ben ford Deacon, of Cross Street, Islington, in the 

 county of Middlesex, gentleman, for his improved method 

 of applying air for domestic and manufacturing purposes, 

 and of employing therein improved fireplaces and bricks. — 

 13th iMarch, 1813. 



To William Hedlev, of Wylam, in the county of Nor- 

 thumberland, coal viewer, for his mechanical means of 

 conveying carriages laden with coals, minerals, merchan- 

 dize, and other things. I3ih March. 



To Hichards Edwards, of the parish of Rudock, in the 

 countN of Cornwall, doctor of physic ; and William Williams, 

 pf the borough of Penryn, in the same county, surgeon, for 



their 



