eebiataeaeslile 
* 91, 1819. 
Remarks upon East Florida. Av 
method of computing the Dip s the Magnetic Needle in different lati- 
tudes, ee to the theory of M. Bio 
emarks on the methods of correcting ‘elerienits of the orbit of a comet in 
Newton’s “ Principia,” and in La Place’s ** Mécanique Céleste 
Remarks on the usual Demonstration of the permanency of the 
with roepact to the Fecpntictis and Inclinations of the orbits of the Planets. 
arks on Dr. Stewart’s formula, for computing the motion of the Moon’s 
Apia as given in thet Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica. 
e Meteor which passed over Wilmington in the Gente of Delaware, Nov. 
_ Occultation of Spica by the Moon, ares at Salem. 
‘On a mistake which exists in the cal culation of M. Poisson Satie to the dis- 
tribution of the electrical matter upon the surfaces of two globes, in-vol. 12 of the 
«‘ Mémoires de ta alate ‘des sciences mathématiques et nitsiliaa de |’ Institut Im- 
perial de France 
Elements of the Comet of 1819. 
Dr. Bowditeh was also the author of _ a on Modern Astronomy, in the 
North American Review, Vol. XX. pp. 309—366. In the Monthly Anthology, 
Vol. IV. p. 653, there is ee! account 7 fs Comet of 1806, drawn up by him 
at the request of the Edito 
— attention has most rts been turned towards Flo- 
- vida for the last two orthree years. 'That peninsula has been the 
‘scene of a contest of remarkable character, awakening a curiosity 
respecting its topography, resources, &c. which has found but 
scanty means of gratification. Although the first portion of the 
United States to be a ee (St. Augustine having 
en nt ‘and * é : 
both pero and natural, has been es imperfectly understood 
by us. The Spaniards no doubt had a tolerably accurate know- 
ledge of the interior, which was formerly somewhat extensively 
occupied by them. Their settlements, however, were much 
broken up during the insurrectionary movements which immedi- 
ately preceded the transfer of jurisdiction to the United States, 
and the majority-of them, when that transfer took place, were 
abandoned, under the influence of strong national prejudices, 
which led to a distrust or dislike of a new and dissimilar gov- 
