‘\ 
1798 J 
works; feveral iron and copper foun- 
deries; potteries ; two large floor-cloth. . 
manutactories, &c. are Beg) forward 
here. At Kingswood, two miles from 
the city, are extenfive coal mines, the col- 
liers of which {peak a jargon that is pe- 
culiar to them, and perfectly unintelligi- 
ble to a ftranger. Briftol contains 19 
churches, betides a Jew’s fynagogue, and 
x9 chapels for diflenters of every denomi- 
nation. 
Mr. Houfman's Tour....duftiiuie. 
Otober 29, the fea rofe higher - 
352 
this night’s tide, than can ever-be remem- 
bered at Briftol before: great damage is 
done in the lower parts of the town, by 
the water entering the cellars and ground 
floors, where it was never known to reach 
at any former period, Many families 
were furprifed in bed, and did not difco- 
vex their unpleafant fituation till the 
water was wafhing the bottoms: of the 
beds. 
(To be continued.) 
erent EI > 
PROCEEDINGS at large of the NATIONAL InstrTurTe of “France, 
on the 15th Nivofe, ie 4.) 1798, as publifhed by the Secretaries. 
Norice of the Memoirs of the clafs of 
Moral and Pelitical Sciences, during the 
jirfi quarter of the year VI. by Citizen 
Daunou, fecretary. 
YK iE have in the laf public. fitting 
given a general account of avoy- 
age round the world, which Citizen 
FPLEURIEU had been reading to the 
clafs. He has continued. and almott 
Anifhed this recital: we fhall not infert 
here any part of it, becaufe the interett 
of a work of that extent and character de- 
pends particularly on its exfemile.. We 
shall ebferve only that this relatien pre-° 
fents, relative to the Archipelago of 
Mendoza onthe N. W. coaft of America, 
and its population, obfervations and _re- 
iults, which we may look for in vain in the 
writings of Cook, the Mefirs. Forifter, and 
the other Englith voyagers. It was parti- 
cularly by Captain Dixon, that the N. W. 
¢oatt of America is made ee ntous; but 
Dixon, much more attentive to ius trad 
ing than to the-progrefs of human know- 
ledge, has only offered us very imperieét 
notices ; it was referved to a F ioe a 
Captain Etienne Marchand, whofe voy-. 
age Citizenk Fleurieu Lee to prove 
that a navigator, without negleéting the 
intereft of his employ.rs, may effentially 
ferve the {ciences. The Meee ilands de la 
Revoluiiom difcovered by Captain Mar- 
ehand, to the N. W. of the Mendoga 
iflands, form, in the relaticn of Citizen 
Fleurieu, a part as yet entirely new in 
the hiftory of the globe. Speaking of the 
Sandwich iffands often defcribed already, 
the author demonitrates- that we are not 
indebted for this difcovery to the Englith ; 
and in the chapter which concerns the 
ifland of St. Helena, Be makes it his bu- 
jinefs to confider it under points of view 
which have the moft vifefal relation to 
hiftory, general phytics, commerce, and 
$he political iciences, 
Citizen MENTELLE has communicated 
to the clafs {ome meteorological obferva- 
tions addrefled to him by his brother en- 
gineer-geographer at Cayenne. Thefe 
obfervations, which have chiefly for their 
object the magnetic declination and incli- 
nation, have been tran{mitted to the clafs 
of mathematical and phyfical fciences. 
Citizen BUACHE has communicated a 
labour of Citizen BEAuCHAMP’s, an af- 
feciate member, relative to the longitude 
of the fouthern coafts of the Black Sea, 
Citizen Beauchamp determines the longi- 
tude of 15 points, taken between Conftan- 
tinople and Trebizond, and the latitude 
of nine of thofe fame points. The refults 
of thefe obfervations rectify thofe found 
in the charts accounted hitherto the beft ; 
the difference with refpect to the-city of 
Sinope, is even one entire degree. Thefe 
labours of Citizen Beauchamp, if he can 
continue them in his route from Conftan- 
ti inople to Matcati, will augment the num- 
ber of certain and fundamental data in 
geography, 
In a memoir on French Guiana, Citi- 
zen BUACHE has been employed in‘reéti- 
fying a geographical error which’ has 
ferved for a ground to the Por tuguete to 
claim the moft interefting part.of ‘that 
country. The limits of the pofleffions in 
America were, according to them, and 
agreeably to their conv rentions with Spain, 
fixed at che embouchure of ariver known 
by the name of Oyapock or Vincent Pin- 
mie cs they have fuppoled that this 
river was the Oy apock of Guiana, fituated 
in 4 sa ake r5 minutes of N. latitude. 
But there are two rivers which bear the 
name of Oyapock in this fame traét, one- 
to the fouth, and the other to the north 5 
and it appears to Citizen Buache that the 
name of Vincent Pinion, a_rame which ~ 
more particularly detignates the limits, 
and which the Portuguele hay¢ applied to 
the 
