1803.] 
the captain, and that this voyage, on 
which we placed fygh hopes, will not be, 
fo interefting as it might have been. 
The fhip, Lady Nelfon, fent with the 
Inveftigator, Captain Flinders, arrived at 
New Holland about the middle of Decem- 
ber, 1801, and met the Géographe, com- 
manded by Captain Baudin ; at Port Jack- 
fon he found the Naturalifle, commanded 
by Hamelin, who fet fail about the middle 
of May, in fearch of the Géographe, from 
which he had been feparated in a gale of 
wind. He has {ent to the minifter his ob- 
fervations, and a chart of thofe parts of 
New Holland which he vifited. Captain 
Flinders has made fome difcoveries be- 
tweenVan Diemen’s Land,and the fouthern 
part of New South Wales.  Jofeph Jo- 
achin and M.de Ferrer have fent. me a 
great many pofitions obferved on the Mil. 
fiffippi and on the Ohio, which are become 
the more interefting, as the French Go- 
vernment are forming plans to draw from 
this new colony immenfe advantages. 
Commodore Billing’s voyage in the 
North Seas has vaftly extended the boun- 
daries of our knowledge ; in this work is 
a capital map by M. Bauer and Mr. Ar- 
row{fmith. The officers complain of their 
commander, who refufed to let them pe- 
netrate farther north, notwithftanding the 
infructions which he had received, to 
feck for a paffage by the Frozen Ocean. 
M. Seétzen, phyfician, accompanied by 
M. Jacobzen, furgeon, are about to pene- 
trate into the interior of Africa; in their 
preparations they are affifted by M. Zach, 
of Gotha; and the Duke of Gotha has 
furnifhed them with a very valuable aftro- 
nomical apparatus. M. Sefizen means 
to go to Conftantinople by the eaftern 
coaft of Africa, where he thinks he fhall 
meet with fome caravans on the coa(t of 
Zanguebar or Monoemugi. He hopes to 
be four or five years on his travels. 
The map of the country fituated be- 
tween the Adige and the Adda, in Man- 
tua and Cremona, wil! be fhortly followed 
by others of Piedmont, the Italian Repub- 
lic, the ifle of the Elbe, &c. On thefe 
works more than a hundred ingenious ge- 
ographers are employed, among whom are 
Nouet, Henry, and Tranchet. 
M. Henry has quitted Bavaria in dif- 
guft; he neverthelefs is employed on a 
map of that country, but we fhaill lofe the 
Meafure of a degree which he propofed to 
execute. We fhall, however, have an un- 
interrupted trigonometrical draft of the 
Country between the Adige and _ the 
Scheldt, and from Breft to Munich, which 
will greatly accelerate the filling up of a 
Hiiftory of Aftronomy for the Year 1802. 335 
complete topography. A map of Egypt 
has been engraved on fifty ftheets; and 
oihers of the Morea, and the neighbour- 
ing iflands. Materials are alfo collecting 
for thofe of St. Domingo and Louifiana. 
A proje& is fet on foot for giving a new 
and correéted edition of the grand Map of 
France in 183 fheets. Our collection of 
manufcript maps and charts, which alrea- 
dy amount to 7400, is daily increafing, and 
will, in the hands of Citizen Barbier-Du- 
bocage, furnith, for the fcience of geo- 
graphy, immenfe refources. 
In the Memorial Topographique et Mili- 
taire, we havea Noticeon the Conftruction 
of Maps ; a treatife on Geodefiacal Ope- 
rations ; Tables for reducing the Angles 
of one Plan to thofe of another ; and for 
‘Aetermining of Heights by the Barometer. 
M. Mentelle has undertaken, for the 
Firft Conful, a terreftrial globe, of fuch 
a fize, that every thing may be drawn upon 
it that is known in the f{cience of geo- 
graphy. 
The National Inftitute has offered a 
prize to him who fhall, during the year, 
have made the moft curious obfervation, 
or have written the moft ufeful memoir, 
on the fcience of aftronomy. 
C. Chaptal, the Minifter of the Interior, 
has attached feveral calculators to the 
Board of Longitude: he has made hand- 
fome prefents to C. Flaugergues, an afii- 
duous obferver ; and to C. Pons, the keep- 
er of the obfervatory at Marfeilles, who 
has difcovered a fecond comet. 
When the Board of Confultation was 
fuppreffed, which had been eftablifhed for 
the purpofe of dittributing rewards, and 
which was very ufeful in the years 1793 
and 1764, the Inftitute was charged to re- 
place it, and to propofe to Government 
the rewards which it would become thena 
to grant. The Inftitute has negle&ted to 
make ufe of this right, which I now urge 
it to do, 
M. Jacotot, Profeffor of Aftronomy at 
Dijon, has obtained from Citizen Girau- 
det what was neceflary to repair the ob- 
fervatory at Dijon, which had been injured 
by fire. I was very defirous of obferving 
there the eclipfe of the fun, on the 28th 
of Augult, but the ftate of the atmofphere 
put an end toallmy hopes. I have, how- 
ever, received the obfervations of Thulis, 
of Marfeilles, and thofe of Flaugergues, 
at Viviers, on that phenomenon. 
Prince Henry of Wurtemberg, has 
purchafed the fine inftruments that Meg- 
nie made at Paris. ‘The mirror of the te- 
lefcope {ent by Dr. Herfchel to Peterfburg 
has been returned for him to mount. 
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