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when the tempeftuous weather obliged 
them to fit rolled up together with their 
guides, for fear of being precipitated. 
The.cold which they felt hére was fix 
degrees beneath the freezing point; the 
variety of the air, and the extreme pun- 
geney of the cold, Jacerated their lungs 
in fo crue] a manner, that they declared 
no motive fhould induce them ever to 
recommence fo painful a journey. 
IfrLanpD, Manager of the Berlin thee 
atre, equally diftinguifhed as an actor and 
a dramatic-writer, has deferved well of 
the Stage, by publithing a feries of tafte- 
ful theatrical decorations and coftumes.— 
He is the Taima of the Germans. ‘The 
fecond number of this work has appeared, 
and, like the firit, contains eight weil- 
executed plates in {mall folio, exhibiting 
feenes from the moft favourite German 
dramas. No. 2. viz. Orantes, the Par- 
thian Ambaflador (in the tragedy of Ro- 
dogune) is drawn with ttriking fidelity, 
according to the antique. Another old 
work, Dedalus and his Statues, a panto- 
mimic dance, (Berlin-Sander) is deferving 
of honourable mention. This ballet, the 
mufic to which was compofed by Rhigini, 
was danced by the Court at Berlin, under 
the dire€tion of Mr. Hirt, the celebrated 
antiquarian. Dedalus is here fuppofed, 
under the guidance of Minerva, to have 
animated whole groups of ancient heroes. 
There are ten of thefe groupes; ard the 
whole is reprefented by Hummel, an artilt 
of diftinguifhed merit, in twelve excel- 
jently-defigned and coloured copperplates. 
Inthe commentary, which accompanies the 
pints, Mr. Hirt introduces his fair read- 
ers dancing into a knowledge of the fairy- 
world of antiquity. 
M. Circaup has recited, in a letter ts 
Delametherie, the refults of fome Galvanic 
experiments, which, if correét, will doubt- 
Jefs lead to many important difcoveries in 
animal phyfiology. The ancient, and now 
zlmoit exploded, doctrine of the vitality 
of the blood, and the independence of the 
vital on the fentient principle, appears to 
have acquired a high degree of probabi- 
lity by M. Circaud’s experiments; the 
minute particulars of which we fhall pals 
over, confining ourfelves to the general 
refult. This is, that the blood drawn from 
the veins or arteries of an ox, which has 
jus been knocked down, and agitated fora 
minute or two till coagulation takes place, 
is fufceptible to Galvanic ftimuli; as ap- 
pears from the .contraétions that take 
place in the clot thus formed when made 
to communicate in the ufual manner with 
the Galvanic pile. The coagulum con- 
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tinued to poflefs this property for about 
forty minutes, or till it had cooled down 
to nearly the atmofpheric temperature. 
During the latter part of this period, the 
contractions having become very feeble; 
were incredfed by the effufion of frefh 
warm blood, or by immerfing the clot 
in the fame. A folution of muriat of 
ammonia had no effeé& in exciting or in- 
creafing the contraétions. Hence it ap- 
pears, that (erifibility to Galvanic ftimull 
is a property of mufcular fibre wholly in- 
dependent on thé nerves; and, therefore, 
not in the leaft indicative of fenfation. 
Vau@ueLin has publifhed an analyfis 
of the milky juice of the Paparo fig (carica 
papaya.) This plant; a native of the 
trcpical countries, grows plentifully in the 
Mauritius; from which place the {pecimens 
analized werebrought by Cit. Charpentier. 
Thefe were of two kinds; the one a fim- 
ple dry extra&t, the other a foft extract; 
preferved.in an equal weight of ram. The 
former of thefe, though hard and brittle 
when dry, yet, by expofure to a moilt 
air, foon became foft and pliable. When 
mixed with thirty-fix times its weight of 
water, the refult was a milky liquor; 
which frothed by agitation like a folution 
of foap. After a time, a white flacculent 
precipitate was depofited, and a mucous 
pelbile formed on the furface ; the whole 
liquor became putrefeent, with a decided 
odour of animal corruption. The flac- 
culent precipitate had a greafy appear- 
ance, and by expofure to the. air became 
like thick glue: when laid on a hot coal 
it liquified, and fmall drops of an oily 
matter oozed out, accompanied by a cracks 
ling noife and thick fmokej as is the cafe 
in the combuftion of animal matter. Be- 
ing examined with the proper re-agents, 
this dry extract feemed to confift entirely 
of albumen, of a fubftance analogous to 
fibrin, and of phofphat of lime ; fo thats 
with the exception of colouring matters 
its compofition is extremely fimilar to that 
of blood. The foft extraét was femi- | 
tranfparent, of a reddifh colour, and a 
flavour approaching to that of animal ex- 
tra, or portable {uup, but yet flat and 
fomewhat mawkifh. When fubjected to 
diftillation in clofe veffels, it affords firtt 
water, then a reddifh liquor, then eryftal< - 
lized carbonat of ammonia, a thick and 
fetid oil, and oily carbonated hydrogen : 
there remained behind alight fpongy coal, 
of difficult incinneration, which by burn 
ing in the open air left behind fome phof- 
hat of lime. The general refults of the 
analyfis of this foft extract were the fame 
as thofe of the former, and the flight dif- 
ferences. 
