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greater rifing of the balloon with the fame 
expence of ba‘laft. Experisnents on this 
fubjeét are now makiug witha very large 
balloon at Bellevue ; but the inventor has 
not yet publiihed any of the retults. 
From W.H. MutLver’s Tables on 
the Populavon, &c. of the Pruffian domi- 
Nicns, it appears that in the Electorate 
of Brandenburg, from the year 1718 to 
1727 Iinclufive, the number of births ex- 
ceeded the numher of deaths 45,173 ; and 
in the yea's1773 to 1798 inciufive, 96,431. 
‘The number of deaths in thefe ten years 
amoun ed to 206,213: the mean prepor- 
tion for fingle years being 20,621. Eigh- 
teen perfons diced at the age of 100 years, 
feven at 101, three at 102, and fitieen at 
theage of 103 years. There died of the 
{mali- pox 19,238, the medium number for 
fingle years being 1,924.3 of the meafles 
9,473, mean number 947; of confump- 
tions 25,017, mean number 2,501 ; 
fuicides 354, mean proportion for fingle 
years, 26 of rhe male, and g of the female 
fex.—In the Neumark, in the years 1789 
to 1798 inclufive, the births exceed the 
deaths by 30,099. Thenumber of deaths 
~amounted in thefe years to 71,879 ; mean 
pr portion tor fingle years 7,188. Of the 
perfons who died, 16 attained the age of 
yOO years, two of 101, one ot 102, and 9 
of 103 years. O# tie fmall-pox there died 
7,021, mean number 7023 of the meafles 
3,330, mean numbef 337; fuicides 97, 
ef which the mean proportion for each year 
ts 6 of the male, and 4 of the female fex. 
The Ki g of Sasdinia poffefled a very 
valuable manuferspt, confitting of ten f..Jio 
volumes, which he efieemed {o much, as 
not to iuffer it to be taken out of -his clo- 
fet. Hs favourites only were permitted 
to examive it in his prelence. This ma- 
neicrip was the fruit of the labours of 
Pirro LicOvio, a verv great architedt, 
Wiio ciied in the year 1 80. Havirg ob- 
tained a large fortune by inheritance, and 
being a paffionate lover of his art, he 
had no defir. to gam any pecuniary ad- 
vantage by his h erary occupations, and 
pent al! his cim> in ftudying the monu- 
menis of atiquity. Rome containing 
a gieater variety of valeable ruins of an- 
cient (lend uo then any other city on the 
globe, he fludicd *hefe {plendid wrecks of 
at with more zea: and affiduity than 
pra sever as archi cét did he'ore him. 
He triced onali tae leven nills, the veftigces 
of the threeis ani pubice places of ancient 
Rome, of terpless theatres, 2quedutts, 
baths, and velaces; mae ule of every in- 
teil ge: ce which h- cou'd find in beoks ; 
meaiured every thing with great exacinels, 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
__ [Jan. 1, 
and thus fucceeded in reprefenting Rome, 
as nearly as poflible, as it had exifted at 
the times of the Czfars. The unfortu- 
nate King of Sardinia was obliged to leave 
this trealure, as well as every thing valu-- 
able, behind him, and the-manu(cript now 
is in the poffeffion of the French. 
Ciizes Lamarck, Member of the Na- 
tional Infti:ute, has juft publifhed at Pa- 
ris, a work on Metereology, in which he 
attempts to folve the queftion fo frequent- 
ly difcuffed, ‘* Whether the moon has 
any {pecific influence on our atmo!phere ?** 
After a long courfe of obfervations, La- 
marck is of opinion, that the principal 
caule of the changes in the atmofphere is 
t» be found in the afcenfion and declination 
of the moon above and below the equator. 
“* It is‘weli known,”’ he obferves, “ that 
every time the moon traverfes the equator, 
fhe remains for the {pace of fourteen days 
in a northern or fouchern hemifphere. In 
this manner every lunar month produces 
a revolution of the moon in the zodiac, 
which’ revolution may be divided into two 
diftiné&t periods, and occafions two pecu- 
liar atmofpherical conftitutions, a northern 
and a fouthern. The winds which pre- 
vail during the firft of thefe conftitutions 
are fouth-fouth-wet, or wefterly winds, as 
the moon at that time afcending towards 
the north, diflodges a portion of atmof- 
pheric air, and gives a direction from the 
fouth towards the north, and thus occa- 
fions foutherly winds, which local circum- 
ftances generaily direét towards the weft. 
It is in this conftitution that tempefts pre- 
vail. Ducing a fouthern conftitution, the 
prevailing winds are generally north, or 
north-weit, and frequently, efpecially in 
fummer, north-eaft and eafterly. In pro- 
portion as the moon declines below the 
equator in her approach to the fouth-pole, 
fhe carries with her a quantity of atmof- 
pheric air in the direction of her declina*ion 
from north to fouth. During this confti- 
tution, the weather is generally calm.” 
Lamarck admits that concurrent circum- 
{tances may 1creafe or diminifh the moon’s 
i tlucnce in different declinations, fuch as 
the apogces and perigees of that planet, 
her oppofition to 2nd conjunétion with the 
fun, tne folftices, and above all the folar 
equinoxes. From a proper obfervation of 
the combination of thefe circumftances, he 
concludes that a probable expeétation may 
be tormed of the nature of the weather, 
which wiil prevail in any of the twenty- 
four atmefpherical conftitutions into which 
the year is divided. 
Botanys—P aut KitaipeL, an emi- 
nent chemift and botanift, and adjunét pro. 
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