Ww ); polytechnic fchool. 
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admitted te this fehool, takes place once 
a year at Paris, whence they repair to 
Metz. Their number is limited to 
twenty. Their employment in the poly- 
technic fchool, and the eilential object of 
their inftru€tien, is the acquifition of 
theoretic knowledge refpecting the eon- 
firuction of all kinds of works in fortifi- 
cation, mines, countermines, difpofitions 
for the attack and defence of towns, the 
drawing of plans, and all the minutie of 
the fervice of engineers in fortified places 
and in armies. The pupils at Metz have 
the rank and pay of {ub-ifeutenants. 
The fehool of bridges and roads, under 
the direction of the minifter for the home 
department.— The pupils, whofe number 
is limited to thirty, are taken from the 
polytechnic fchool. A collef&tion of mo-~ 
dels, relating to the conftruction of high- 
ways, bridges, canals, and fea-ports, 18 
annexed to this {chool. The mitruction 
In it comprehends the application of all 
the phyfical and mathematical principles 
connected with the planning and con(truc- 
tion of all the various works of this kind, 
as well as to the eftimates and calcula- 
tions of fuch works. 
The geographic {chool, under the autho- 
rity of the minifter for the home depart- 
ment.—It contifis of twenty pupils taken 
from the polytechnic fchool. Their exa- 
mination turns on their preliminary 
Knowledge—the mathematics, their ap- 
plication, and efpecially geometrical af- 
tronomy, trigonometry, and the art of 
drawing maps. Their principal employ- 
ment in this fchool is directed to geogra- 
.phic and topographic operations, and 
the calculatiens neceflary for carrying 
them into execution. The inftruétion is 
divided into two branches,—the opera- 
tions in the field, and the labour in the 
cabinet. To the firit belong geometrical 
mMeaiurements, the furvey of the ground, 
and aitronomic ob({ervations ; to the fe- 
cond, all the conclufions, defcriptions, 
the drawing of maps, and trigonometric 
calculations. The geographer PRONY 
is at the head of this inftitution. 
The fckool of navel engincers.—Under 
this denomination has been preferved the 
former {choo! of engineer-builders, newly 
organifed. The pupils muft have re- 
ceived at leaft one year’s inftruction in the 
The choice of them 
oe on the progrefs they have made 
‘in the principles of defcriptive geometry, 
of mechanics, and of the other branches 
which conftitute the bafis of the firft 
year’s courfe in that fchool. In the 
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ihificry and Defcription of Malta. 
, [Feb. 
f{choo] of naval engineers, they are per- 
fected in the knowledge of the conftruc- 
tion of fhips both for war and commerce. 
Tt is under the direction of Borba, a 
navel character. ‘The pupils are allowed 
a yearly maintenance of fifteen hundred 
livres*. 
The {chool of navigation, wader the di- 
rection of the minifter of the marine de-- 
partment.—-Tihe two former fchools—the 
hydrographic and mathematic—deftined 
for military and mercantile navigation, 
have been united in one. There ftillexift 
two other fchools for mereantilenavigation, 
the one at Arles, the other at Morlatx. 
The marine {chcols, at Breft, Toulon, 
and Rochefort, under the authority of 
the minifter of the marine department.— 
The pupils are not admitted into thefe 
fchools until previoully examimed in 
arithmetic, algebra, geometry, ftatics, 
and navigation. In each of thofe three 
ports, is annually equipped a corvette, 
which frequently puts out to fea, runs 
along the coat, is difmantled, and rigged 
anew. Every thing which concerns the 
equipment and’ management of fhips, 
and naval military manzeuvres, is the ob- 
ject of the inftruétion given im thele ex- 
cellent {chools. | 
——eeae—— 
DESCRIPTION OF MALTA. 
[The following valuable article refpecting an 
Ifland which has always attraéted the 
attention of mankind, and which has 
lately become a very interefting fubject of 
political fpeculation, has been communi- 
cated to us by a gentleman whiofe oppor- 
tunities of collecting original information 
are confiderable, and who has combined 
with his own materials thofe of all the 
writers who have had occafion to defcribe 
it. , 
J (Continued from page 48.) 
ESIDES the two cities before men- 
tioned, Malta contains twenty-two 
villages, (five of which the inhabitants 
alfo, though improperly, term cities), and 
the whole ifland is in a manner covered 
over with neat country and farm-houfes. 
Every village contains a nobie church, 
elegantly finished, and adorned with fta- 
tues of marble, rich tapeftry, and a large 
quantity of filver plate. ‘They are, in 
fa&t, by much the handfomeft country 
churches to be feen in any part of Eu- 
rope. The villages are all, or moft of 
them, in the eaftern part of the ifland: 
the farm-houfes are in the weftern part. 

* 621. ros. iterling. 
Ta 
