Fulminat'wg Gold. — Ear thqziakes. 6'9 



NEW PURPLE OF CASSrUS. 



The Count de Maistre havincj placed a sequin in contact with 

 mercury at one of its sides, and having at the end of 2-1 hours 

 fused it with an equal weight of tin, obtained an allov fusihie in 

 boiling resin. This alloy, triturated with caustic; ammonia in a 

 mortar, yielded a powder of a line purple colour. 



FULMINATING GOLD. 



, A fulminating gold has heen formed by the Coiuit de Maistre, 

 by pouring a small quantity of solution of gold into red (Bordeau: ) 

 \vine. A sediment fell down, which when dried, and then exposed, 

 ill an iron capsule, to the heat of a charcoal hre, exploded. 



EARTHaUAKfiS. 



^ Amulree, (Scotland,) Dec. 4— About half an hour past seven 

 o'clock this evening, there was felt here a smart shock of an 

 earthquake, similar to that felt at Comrie a few days ago : it 

 lasted two or three seconds ; its direction was by theGrampian 

 Hills eastward. The houses and furniture shook, and the whole 

 went away with a noise like the slow passing of carts. 



MiTTENVVALi), {Bavaria,) Dec, 29.— On the 2()th in5t. at 55 

 minutes after seven in the morning, the shock of an earthquake 

 was felt around this place. It lasted about seven or eight se- 

 conds, and took a direction from south to north. The motion it 

 produced was quite as strong as that on the 10th of April last 

 year. The wind, from the south, was very still. The thermo- 

 meter of Reaumur stood, in the shade, four degrees above zero, 

 and the barometer two degrees above changeable weather. On 

 the 2 1st, the thermometer rose seven, and the barometer six de- 

 grees, with a powerful south wind. 



India. Mirzafore. Letters from Chunar and Mirzapore 

 mention, that about eight o'clock in the evening of the 16th June, 

 1819, the shock of an earth(|uake was experienced at these 

 pl&ces. The same effect, in a slight degree, was remarked 

 about the same time at Calcutta. At Chunar, the motion was 

 accompanied by a noise in the atmosphere, which resembled 

 that occasioned by the rapid flight of birds. 



JiON POOR.— The shock of the earthquake that was felt in Cal- 

 cutta, on the evening of Wednesday the IGth June, about half- 

 past eight o'clock, was experienced also at Jionpoor, pretty 

 nearly about the same time, as will appear by the following ex- 

 tract of a letter transmitted to us from that station, which 

 has just reached us : 



" A strong shock of an earthquake was felt here on the night 

 of the IGth of June, at a quarter past 8 o'clock; there were three 

 distinct vibrations from vvcht to east, with the usual accompani- 



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