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undertaking, performed at the expence of |. A new Telegraph has been invented in 
the Prince, does honour to him and tothe France, fuperior to that which has hither- 
Englith nation. Ten perfons are occu- to been adopted, and more capable of 
pied in unfolding this manufcript, which being applied to domeftic and commer- 
has been fo many years ufelefs inthe Mu- cial communications—a purpofe to which 
feum of Portici.. The volumes hitherto it daily becomes more evident that tele- 
unfolded, at the expence of the King of graphs may be applied, infomuch, that the 
Naples, are the following:—1. 4 Work time is probably not diftant when every 
of Philodemus oz Mufic, which has been part of Great Britain will be intimately 
publifhed by Mr. Rosint. 2. Another united by means of this invention, 
work of Philodemus Uept xaxsay nar tovaver- The vaccine-inoculation has been care 
xeivevoy aperov (on the Vices and their op- ried on with the greateft fuccefs in Spain. 
ofite Virtues). Mr. Barri, Librarian In Catalonia 7000 perfons were inoculat- 
of the King of Naples, was employed in ed in aboutnine months. On the higheft 
tranflating it at the time when he fell a mountains, and amidit the fevereft cold—— 
facrifice of the laft infurrection of the po- in the deepeft vallies, and amidft the 
pulace in Naples. 3. A third work by greateft heat—the inoculation has been 
the fame Greek author, Meg mompariay, attended with complete fuccefs. A Por- 
was unfolding in the year 1794, when our tuguefe writer afferts, that the vaccine. 
correfpondent was at Portici. At that inoculation was practifed at Lifbon, and 
period ten volumes were unfolded, and its neighbourhood, fo early as the year 
perfons were employed in unfolding the 1613, and was thence fpread to Gallicia, 
eleventh. ‘There were, at that time, no but was; for unknown reafons, afterwards 
lefs than one thoufand five hundred vo- abandoned. 
Jumes,left in the Mufeum to.be unfolded. . A new method of bleaching cctton- 
Every year 20 volumes might. be unfold- thread and hofiery has been adopted in 
ed, if more affiftance were employed; but Swabia. ‘The operation is performed in 
only two perfons were at that timeemploy- two days, and does not require extenfive 
ed by his Neapolitan Majelty. premifes, An alkalizate cauftic ley is 
The elements of the laft new planet prepared, by taking two meafures of 
difcovered by Dr. OLBers, have been quick-lime, and covering them with. ten 
calculated by Citizen BURCKHARDT as meafures of good afhes; the heap is then 
follows:—The afcending node 172% 28’ tobe fprinkled with water, and when the 
57". The perihelion 122° 3'2''. The lime is flaked and the mafs cooled, it is fit 
mean longitude on the 31ft of March for making the leys by the addition of 
162% gr’ 14”. The inclination 34° 50’ cold foft water. The fkains of cotton 
40. The mean diftance from the fun being untwifted and tied in parcels, are 
2,791. The excentricity 0,2463. ‘The to be immerfed in the ley, in which 
daily fidereal motion 12' 4o'’,84. The they are to be left fix hours, and to be oc- 
fidereal revolution 1703,7 days. Theper- cafionally turned; they are then to be | 
turbation occafioned by the attraction of wafhed inariver, and afterwards boiled 
Jupiter rendered the calculations exceed- twelve hours ina bath of the fame kind 
ingly laborious and complicated. of ley, in which, for every fixty-fix pounds 
Mr. GiLcurisT, of Calcutta, has late- of cotton-thread, fix pounds of foap has 
ly fent, to be difpofed of in this country, been diffolved ; they are then to be boiled 
feveral copies of his celebrated Diéfionary the {ame length of time in a {olution of 
of the Hindofianic Language, and his Ori- foap and water only, according to the for- 
ental Linguift, which were comprifed in mer proportion; after which, they are 
three large quarto volumes, and form the _ again to be wafhed in the river, and hung 
moft complete body of inftruétions for up in the air, or laid on the gra(s, todry 
thofe who ftudy the vernacular dialeéts as quickly as poffible. The procefs for 
and idioms of our Eaft Indian territories. the’ hofiery is fimilar. The boiler muft be 
M.1De Sacy has endeayoured to ex- made of copper, and always well cleaned 
plain a part of the trifold Egyptian in- after it has been ufed. 
{cription (copied by the French in Egypt Profeflor HermMBstabT, of Berlin, 
before it was carried by the Englifh to has given a detailed Account, in Scherer’s 
London) in a printed Letter, addrefled to Journal, of many exper:ments which he 
the Minitter Chaptal. Another interpre- has made on different forts of candles, 
tation is foon expected from M. Axer- both with relation to the economy of burn- 
BLAD, a Swedith gentleman, at Paris, wao ing, and to the light they afford. From 
is verfed in the Coptic language. thefe he infers, that pure white-wax can- 
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