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gen-gaffes, by reans of a blow-pipe. The 
gaffes are conducted in due proportions by 
tubes, from their reipeétive refervoirs, 
and made to terminate in. concentrit cir- 
cles where a flame, the moft rapid, takes 
place, caufing a heat of fuch intenfenefs, 
as, till now, has baffled the efforts of che- 
miftry to produce. 
Two non-deicript birds have been late-- 
ly brought home from Botany Bay, by 
the fhip Buffalo, which are to be fent to 
the feat of the Earl of Excter. A cage 
has been purpofely made for bringing 
them on fhore, and another for conveying 
them to his lordfhip. ‘They rife in height 
feven feet from the toe to the point of the 
beak, and their form refembles that of 
an oftrich, with greyifh-brown plumage, 
 confifting of two feathers on one quill. 
‘They are extremely docile, and are with 
difficulty enraged: when they arein anger, 
they fhew it by no other method than by 
kicking with the greateft violence. The 
neck is like that of a fwan, and the head 
and beak greatly refemble thofe of a 
goofe. Their legs are long, thick, and 
feathered, and when they ftand erect, they 
‘are in form and attitude nearly perpendi- 
cular. 
The Society of Antiquarians of Lon- 
don have it in contemplation to engrave, 
fucceflively, all the churches throughout 
England that are built in the. Gothic tafte. 
This important work will be carefully ex- 
ecuted. A beginning has been already 
made by engraving the cathedral of Ex- 
eter. 
The remarkable paintings lately difco- 
vered on the walls of St. Stephen’s Cha- 
pel, or the Houfe of Commons, London, 
have been prefented to the Society of An- 
tiquarians, who have ordered drawings to . 
be made of them. 
A new invention has lately attracted the 
attention of the Parifian economifts. It 
is called the thermo-lamp. With the fmoke 
of five or fix logs of wood, very new, from 
x0 to12 pounds each, carefully collected 
and reduced to the fiate of gas or inflam- 
mable air, the inventor Citizen Leson, 
an Engineer, was able, for 24 hours, to 
fpread throughout feven large apartments, 
the mildeft heat and the mot vivid light, 
and, at the fame time, to enlighten a large 
garden in fuch a manner as to make it ap-. 
pear like noon-day. The flame can be 
fhewn detached from all fupport, and can 
be modelled toany fhape. When incloitd 
in a cryftal globe, the flame by no means 
foils it.—Gawzette de France. 
MM, Mituin has juft publithed, at Paris 
Literary and Philofepbical Intelligence. 
(Feb: 11, 
the firft Number of his Mozumens Inedits, 
or Colleétion of Inedited Antiquities, 
an elegant edition in 4to. The whele 
work will occupy four volumes, each vo- _ 
lume to contain about 40 plates, with their 
refpective explanations. 
The feventh Volume of the Notices et 
Extraits des Manuferits de la Bitliotheque 
Nationale, cr Notices and Extraéts of the 
Manufcripts of the National Library, is 
now in the prefs, at Paris ; and thé thir- 
teenth and laft Number of the very fplendid 
and pi€ture'que Voyage or Travels in 
Iftria and Dalmatia, of the painter Las 
Casas, has juft made its appearance, 
The Chreftomathie Arabique, or Flowers 
of Arabian Literature, is now likewife in 
the prefs. This curious work will con- 
fit of different pieces, partly in verfe and 
partly in profe, collected from different 
Arabian authors, for the ufe of the Ara- 
bic School at. Paris, which is under the 
direction of M. D. Sacy, the editor. His 
Hiftory of the Religion of the Drufes, on 
which he has been employed for the latt 
twelve years, is likewife ready for the 
refs. 
; The magnificent work of M. De Non, 
on Egypt, will appear in the courfe of 
about three months, as M. DiporT, the. 
elder, his printer, cannot ufe great expe- 
dition in difpatching it. This delay, 
however, will be amply compenfated by 
M. De Non, who, in lieu of one hundred 
and thirty plates as he firft promifed, de- 
figns to prefent the public-with one hun- 
dred and forty-two; among which the 
fine papyrus belonging to Bonaparte, and 
which contains three different Egyptian 
characters, the Epiftolic, the Hierogram- 
matic, and the Hieroglyphic, will, doubt- 
lefs, excite high intereft. 
Dr. HaGER, who is at prefent employed 
in the National Library at Paris, in ar- 
ranging the valuable materials left by 
the late Fourmont, for compiling a 
Grand Chinefe Di&tionary, propofes fhert- 
ly to publifh a new Profpectus in French, 
announcing the {plendid edition here al+ 
luded to,. which will be executed at the 
expernce of the French Government, to 
enadle the literati of Europe to acquire 
fome knowledge of that difficult lan- 
uage. 
It fhould likewife be noticed, as an in- 
terefting and happy article of news, and 
which will highly redound to the credit of 
French literature, that a great number of 
Oriental manufcripts, medals, flones, and 
other monuments found by the French, 
during their long refidence in Egypt, have 
been 
