142 Copt. Pavri/s Expedition. — African E.vpediiiun. 



Ampere, and Dupin, as a committee to make experiments on 

 this subject*. 



Nov. 25. Messrs. Perier offered the use of their manufac- 

 tory for the intended experiments on high-jiressme steam- 

 engines. The following Memoirs were read : " On Tourma- 

 lines," by M. Brun-Neergaard : " On the Direction taken by 

 a Magnetic Needle placed on the Circumference of a Circle 

 which turns on its Centre," by M. Dutrochet: and " On the 

 Hurricanes of the Antilles," by M. Moreau de .Tonnes." 



XXXIII. Ititelligejice and Miscellaneous Articles. 



CAPTAIN parry's EXPEDITION. 



N account derived from Russia, wc are glad to learn, af- 



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fords a lair ground to hope for the success and safety of the 

 expedition luider Captain Parry. The particulars are, that 

 several fishino- vessels belonmno; to Kamtschatka and the 

 Aleutian Isles, saw our navigators off' Icy Cape. 1 he Russian 

 commander, Krusenstern, states, in a connnunication to our 

 Board of Admiralty, that he examined the masters of these 

 vessels se})arately, and that he is satisfied of the truth of their 

 reports. This is highly gratifying, and indeed glorious news, 

 if correct, as, in that event, British enterprise will have ef- 

 fected another grand discovery, a passage to Icy Cape from 

 Behring Straits. 



AFRICAN EXPEDITION TO DISCOVER THE COURSE OF THE NIGER. 



The Mission, consisting of Dr. Oudenay, Major Denham, 

 and Lieut. Clapperton, had on their first journey arrived at 

 Mourzouk, the capital of the kingdom of Fezzan, in the month 

 of April last, in the best health and spirits, having performed 

 the journey in 42 days, a distance of 600 miles. On arriving 

 at Mourzouk, the same house was pre})ared for them that had 

 been inhabited by Mr. Ritchie and his friends in the year 1819, 

 and where he fell a victim to the arduous enterprise he had 

 undertaken. All those who have read Captain Lyon's inter- 

 esting narrative of this journey, will recollect the delays and 

 difficulties that presented themselves to the further prosecution 

 of their object, and the privations they had here to encounter 

 and endure ; which paralysed their exertions by exhausting at 

 once their health ami their resources. Major Denham, fear- 

 .ing lest his hopes might be defeated by similar means, and all 

 his endeavours to advance to Bourno proving ineffectual, de- 



* Wc shall look with much eagerness for the result of the labours of these 

 eminent persons, on a subject which has excited great and increasing interest 

 here, especially since the attempts to make the use of steam at liigh ]iressurc 

 ■A subject oi' legislative interfertnce. — Editors. 



cided 



