did the terms oxygen and azote, spontaneously uttered on. that occa- 
sion. A sensation, say the reviewers, as agreeable and unexpected, 
was experienced by them in reading a description, printed_in another 
hemisphere, of a covntry which they had considered to be divided 
between frosts and forests, and to find the most recent and best-estab= 
lished principles of one of the most recent of the sciences, applied to it 
with precision and discernment. May we be pardoned, say they, for 
- such an explosion of European self love ! How limited. soever, may. 
have been such labors as these, on the other side of the Atlantic, our 
American brethren will not be long in placing themselves bineaetin 
tendestied us the like. heviee feet 
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sohe Bicla’s Comet.—The eatationl comet discorspedssealandttll 
of Feb..1826, by. Me Biela, of Josephstadt, which performs its rev 
olution round the sun in about six years and three — and 
whose retura in the present year has been made the subject of elab- 
orate calculations by mathematicians of the first eminence, has not 
disappointed the expectations of astronomers. | It is already visible: 
in. superior telescopes, and may be expected shortly to be seen: in its. 
approach to the sun, if not by the naked eye, at least with instruments, 
of moderate power. lis place this morning before sunrise, was 
_ aboutone anda half degrees S. W. of @ Auriga, and its acwual course; 
is directed nearly towards the star of the same name in Gemini, but, 
its motion is rapid, and it will speedily assume a more southern di-, 
reesions: The reappeara nee..of this comet, the second of sbort pe~ 
interest by tebvonanocts, 06. s likely to -sheclibae some of the. mostcus 
rious points in the constitution of our system, and among the cians 
derful verifications of astronomical theories which observation is COD 
stantly affording, it is hardly possible to imagine. any. more, striking: 
than the appearance after the lapse of nearly seven years,” 
an-all-but- imperceptible cloud or wisp of vapor, true howeret 0 
