1803.] 
gacity, which the writers who have fpoken 
of ancient Medoe have manifefted in their 
refearches. The author thinks, with 
fome reafon, that the ancient Soulac was 
a difmemberment of the firft of thofe two 
towns, and he founds his notion on an in- 
{cription which was ftill to be feen, before 
the revolution, on a fteeple of the chureh 
of that town. Citizen Bergeron has not 
forgotten, in his refearches, the Pharos of 
Cordouan; the etymology of the name 
which it bears, and the date of its founda- 
tion are fucceflively the object of his con- 
jectures. It appears ‘that the local or 
fite, on which the tower is built, made, 
formerly, part of the ancient Medoc. We 
find in the Commentaries of Vinet, that in 
the year 1575, the Pharos of Cordouan 
was only 2000 toifes diftant from the point 
of Medoc, and at this day it is two leagues 
diftant. Citizen Bergeron defcribes this 
fine monument of architecture, and gives 
its exact dimenfions, agreeably to his own 
meafurement. The author terminates his 
memoir by fome curfory remarks on the 
rapidity, with which the waters of the 
ocean are invading the coafts of Medoc. 
“* Of all the faéts,” fays he, ** which at- 
teft moft evidently the {till increafing pro- 
grefs of the fands, and the ufurpations of 
the fea, none is more recent, more fright- 
ful and more remarkable than the deltruc- 
tion of the ancient Soulac, a very confider- 
able deurg, (market town). Many per- 
fons, who are {till alive, faw it when en- 
tire, and the curate who officiated in the 
church only died in 1793. 
Lift of New Publications, 165 
_ Numberlefs expefiments have been made 
on the combuftion and detonation of va- 
rious fubftances with oxymuriatic acids. 
Sometimes the acid itfelf, in a gaffeous 
ftate, is reforted to ; fometimes the oxy- 
muriat of potafh is employed, either fim- 
ly mixed with the combuftible matter, 
and fubjected to a fudden and vigorous 
blow on an anvil, &c. or the mixture is 
thrown into fulphuric acid. A muchz 
{maller quantity of acid, however, than 
is generally ufed will anfwer the purpofe, 
as appears from the experiments of Cit. 
ROBERT. ‘This chemift merely touches 
the mixtures with a glafs tube dipped in 
{ulpburic acid, and has thus inflamed = 
1, Lhree parts oxymuriat of potath, and 
one part fulphur. 2. One part fulphur, 
one part charcoal, and fix parts of the’ 
falt. 3. Equal parts of antimony and 
the falt. 4. Equal parts of fulphurat of 
antimony and the falt. 5. Equal parts of 
arfenic and the falt. 6. Three parts of 
the falr, and one of fugar. 7. One part 
falt, and two parts gunpowder. 8. Paites 
made with the falt, alcohol, and olive. 
oil. o. Moft of the metallic fulphurats, 
efpecially cinnabar and aurum mufivum. 
10. Several vegetable fubftances, fuch as 
the volatile oils, rofin, turpentine, sums 
copal and elemi, camphor, cotton, faw- 
duf, and foap. Certain animal matters 
alfo are thus capable of inflammation, 
particularly the yolk of an eps, (we pre- 
fume being previoufly boiled) wax, bus- 
ter, fat, wool, and hair. 
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