470 List of Patents for New Inveniions. 



M. the Count dc Romanzow is fitting out at his own expense 

 an expedition which is to set out from Tehouktches, so as to 

 pass over the sohd ice from Asia to America, to the north of 

 Behring's Strait, at the point where Cook and Kotzebue were 

 stopped. 



The same^gentleman is also fitting out an expedition which is 

 to ascend one of the rivers which disembogue on the western 

 coast, in Russian America, in order to penetrate into the un- 

 known tracts that lie between Icy Cape and the river Mac- 

 kenzie. 



The French Minister of the Interior has engaged M. Dufour 

 to make an excursion into such districts of the Pyrenees, as have 

 not been explored by botanists, to augment the French Flora. 



LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 



To John Hague, of Great Pearl-street, Spital Fields, Middle-, 

 sex, engineer, for his improvement in preparing the materials 

 for making pottery-ware, tiles and bricks. — 2d June 1820. — > 

 6 months allowed to inroll specification. 



To William Bate, of Peterborough, Northampton, esq. for his 

 combination of additions to machinery calculated to increase 

 power. — 3d June. — 6 months. 



To William Bate, of Peterborough, Northampton, esq. for 

 certain improvements in preparing hemp flax or other fibrous 

 material for spinning. — 3d June. — 4 months. 



To Simon Teissier, of Paris, in the kingdom of France, but 

 at present residing in Bucklersbury in the city of London, mer- 

 chant, for certain improvements in propelling vessels, communi- 

 cated to him by a certain foreigner residing abroad. — 3d June. 

 — 2 months. 



To Jacob Perkins, late of Philadelphia, in the United States 

 of America, but now residing at Austin Friars in the city of Lon- 

 don, engineer, for certain improvements in the construction of 

 fixed and portable pumps, such as pumps fixed for raising water 

 from wells aii'l other situations, or ships' pumps, or for portable 

 pumps wliich may be employed for garden engines, or in engines 

 for extinguishing fires or other purposes. — 3d June. — 6. months. 



To John Hague, of Great Pearl-street, Spital Fields, Middle- 

 sex, engineer, for oertain improvements in the making and con- 

 structing of steam engines. — 3d June. — 2 months. 



To John Wakefield, of Ancott's place, Manchester, engineer, 

 for certain improvements in the construction of furnaces for boilers 

 of various descriptionsj and in the mode of feeding the same with 

 fuel, which improvements are calculated to lessen the consump- 



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