28G Sleain Engines in Cornwall. — Russian Navigator. 



STEAM ENGINES IN CORNWALL. 



The following is an abstract from Messrs. Leans' Report for 

 July 1S15, of the coals consumed by steam engines in Corn- 

 wall. 



Thirty-four engines consumed 79233 bushels of coals, and Hfted 

 676,496,000 pounds of water one foot high. Average work of 

 the thirty-four engines 19,897,000 pounds lifted one foot high 

 with each bushel of coals. 



Two of Woolf's engines, one at Wheal Vor*, the other at 

 Wheal Abraham, consumed 2674 bushels of coals, and lifted 

 92,5 10,.^ 00 pounds one foot high ; being an average of 46,255,250 

 pounds lifted one foot high vvitli each bushel of coals. 



NEW VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY. 



Count Nicolas Petrowitsch Romauzow, a most enlightened 

 and public-spirited Russian nobleman, has at his own expense 

 built and ecjuipped a ship for a new voyage of discovery. This 

 vessel sailed from Cronstadt on the 31st of July last, and has 

 since touched at Plymouth on her way out. She is called the 

 Rurik, carries the Russian military flag, and is commanded by 

 Captain Kotzebue (son to the celebrated author of that liame), 

 a lieutenant in the Russian navy, and who has already sailed 

 round the world in the Nadeshda, Captain Krusenstern. There 

 are on board two otfier lieutenants in the Russian navy, Messrs. 

 Schichmarew and Sachari'm, the former of whom, although longer 

 in the service than M. Kotzebue, has cheerfully consented to 

 serve under him. Dr. Escliholz of the university of Dorpat, 

 M. Chamisso the naturalist from Berlin, the Danish naturalist 

 Wormskild, and the Russian painter Choris, also accompany the 

 expedition. The Rurik, it is said, will double Cape Horn in 

 the month of November next, and the expedition will employ the 

 whole of 1816 and the beginning of 1817 in visiting in the 

 South Seas those places which have not been as yet sufficiently 

 examined. During the summer of 1817 they will coast along 

 the inner shores of America to Behring's Straits, and return by 

 the Straits of Torres to the Cape of Good Hope ; so that they 

 will probably return to Cronstadt in August 1818. It is left, 

 however, to M. Kotzel)ue to prolong his voyage beyond this pe- 

 riod if he think it necessary for the purposes in view. The 

 whole plan of the voyage has been drawn up by Captain Kru- 

 senstern. 



" * Tills engine has not had a fair averan;c of coal this month, as brought 

 from the wharf, on account of sonic of the stones [lound coalj having been 

 gathered for the use of a steam staniping-niill adjacent, which could not 

 otherwise produce a suppl)' of steam, T. L. J. L." 



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