230 New Voyage round the IVorld. 



Captain Lewis Granliolm, of the Royal Swedish navy, has in 

 the press a translation from the Swedish of " Experiments on 

 the resistance which bodies experience when propelled in a 

 straight line through water." Tliese experiments were made by 

 Admiral dc Chapman, a distinguished naval officer, and super- 

 intendant of the dock-yards of Sweden : they exhibit a chain of 

 research which has led to the valuable and remarkable discovery 

 of a law of nature regarding water, which could not possibly 

 have been attained by mathematical induction, or any reasoning 

 a priori, and which involves conclusions of the greatest import- 

 ance, not mcrelv as to the lest form for the cnnstruciion of 

 ships callable of moving with the greatest velocity through water, 

 but even as respects the best form for piers of bridges in rivers 

 subject to inundation, or where the current is rapid. The work 

 itself is translated from one of the few copies printed for the use 

 of the author's friends ; and the Lords of the British Admiralty 

 have given their liigh sanction to the publication in an English 

 dress. 



Mr. Dyer's work on the Privileges of the University of Cam- 

 bridge, having much exceeded his original intention, will not ap- 

 pear till winter, and instead of one will occupy two large volumes 

 8vo. Besides the Chronological Tables and Charters of the 

 University, and corrections of his History, as announced in his 

 Proposals, these volumes will contain in English (some part of 

 the work being in Latin) Memorials of the P.ise and Progress of 

 Printing at Cambridge, with an account in suci.ession of the 

 Printers, and the principal books published by them ; the connexion 

 of its present with its former state of literature, atxd an attempt 

 to bring the literary biography of the University down to more 

 modern times. 



XLIX. Iiilelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



NEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD. 



A French merchant of Bourdeaux has equipped a vessel for 

 the circumnavigation of the globe. It is described as a strong 

 bwift-sailing vessel of 200 tons burden, called the Bordelais, and 

 will be commanded by officers of the French navy. The fol- 

 lowing has been published in the French journals as the projected 

 track of this expedition. The Bordelais will double Cape Horn, 

 and will not anchor until she arrives off the coast of Chili : she 

 v/ill then proceed to California, visit Nootka Sound and the ad- 

 jacent J^hores, trafficking with the natives for peltry ; this track 



will 



