1802. ] 
Attitude, and the Venus, called A-Ja-co- 
guille. Before the parterre, near the ter- 
race, are five or fix others of lefs eminence. 
In a faloon, near the river, is the Venus 
Callipygat. The celebrated Meleager is 
in an alley of orange-trees, near the Place 
de la Concorde, and the Farnefian Her- 
cules on the Terrace of the Manege. 
Onthe 6th of January, thejFirft Confulaf- 
fifted in the Clafs of Phyfical and Mathe- 
‘matical Sciences of the National Inftitute. 
This fitting was very intereftine, and was 
prolonged till after nine o’clock at night. 
‘The learned Profeffor of Phyfics of Pavia, 
M. pE VouTa, continued the reading of 
his Memoir on the Identity of the Eleétri- 
eal and Galvanic Fluids, of which he had 
only read a part in the fitting of the 18th, 
and made a numberof experiments. This 
memoir and thefe experiments, to which 
the Firft Conful paid great attention, ap- 
peared fo convincing as to leave no doubt 
to any one as to the certitude of the theo- 
ry, which the ingenious M. de Volta has 
etablithed. 
The number of taverns and inns at 
Philadelphia, in North America, has been 
more than doubled in the laft five years ; 
yet the whole number is only 243, a 
{mall proportion compared with any place 
ef equal population in England. 
In Holland, the Kantian philofophy 
feems to be now at its apogee, and the 
Magafin Critique (Critical Magazine) of 
Proteflor Van HEMERT is too little read 
to gain him a great number of profelytes. 
Galvanifm and the vaccine-pock, befides, 
create no inconfiderable diverfion at this 
juncture. The Harlem Society is em- 
ployed in making new experiments and 
obfervations on the galvanic fluid. Bar- 
NEVELT, a fkilful apothecary and che- 
mift, of Amfterdam, as likewife Dr. Vam 
Maram, are particularly engaged on this 
phenomenon, 
the cow-pock, it has zealous, both parti- 
‘fans and antagonifts, if; at leaft, a pru- 
dent doubt may be called oppofition. 
Among the phyficians, the younger ones 
have declared in its favour, either from 
their prejudices being lefs deeply rooted, 
as fome fay, or from their being more fti- 
_tiulated by a defire to ftrike out a route 
~to celebrity in future, as others pretend. 
Profeffor Van Geruns, however, of 
_ Uvretcht, one of the moft diftinguifhed 
practitioners, has juft ranged himielf un- 
der the banner of the ani-vaccinators ia 
one of the periodical. publications. 
Mr. Prouft, to whom the {vience of 
_ MontTary Maa, No, 84. 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence: 
As to the inoculation of. 
chemiftry is indebted for many valuable 
difcoveries, has publifhed an important - 
memoir on the metallic fulphurats, in 
which he maintains that they are in a! 
cafes mere compounds of fulphur and me 
tal, without any oxygen, and that the dif- 
ference in the external characters and 
chemical properties between the feveral 
varieties of the fame fpecies of fulphuyat 
are owing to the refpective proportions of 
fulphur which they contain. 
The horfe without hair, which has been 
fo long exhibited in Germany as of ape- 
culiar breed in the ifland of Cyprus, and 
of which a very particular account may be 
found in the Journal de Phyfique; and 
other periodical journals of the Continent, 
turns out at laft to be a real German horfe, 
of which the following is the hiftory, ace 
cording to a notice of G.F. Sebald, in the 
Berlin Magazine. -This animal, of the 
common breed of the country, was for- 
merly furnifhed with hair, and belonged 
to a coach-owner of Hohenloe-Oehtingen, 
in Franconia, by whom it was fold to a 
neighbouring peafant, in whofe poffeffion 
it continued, while the change by whick 
it has become fo celebrated was going on. 
Being ill of the botts, his mafter mixed 
with his food for a whole year the leaves 
and young fhoots of favine: foon after » 
the commencement of this regimen, the 
herfe changed his rough coat and became 
covered with fine fhining hairs: encou~ 
raged by this, the peafant pufhed his new 
medicine with vigour, and in a thort time 
the new, hair feli off. A coat not lefs 
fleek than the former however foon fuc- 
ceeded ; but this in a few months jell off 
like the other, and the animal remained 
naked. A third effort was made by na- 
ture, but in vain; and the horfe became ir- 
reparably deprived of hair, except on the 
mane, the fettock joints, and-the tail. 
The peafant,athamed of the fubjed of his 
experiment, fold “him; his new mafter 
plucked out the few hairs that were left, 
and difpofing of him to an ingenious Ita- 
lian, he was led about as a thew from 
town to town by the name of the Wonder- 
ful Horfe from the iflandof Cyprus ; the 
zoologifts eagerly adopted this clumfy 
fraud, and, but for the ill-timed difcovery 
the lucklefs fubje&t of the Franconian’s 
experiment, it might have occupied a @if- 
tinguifhed place in the Sy{tema Naturze. 
Cit. Solomé has made fome interefting 
experiments on the temperature of vege. 
tables, compared with -that of '-the at. 
mofphere. Haying inferted the bulb of a 
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