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ef the prefs under the prefent government 
of France, than thefenumbers. England, 
with an inferior population, and without 
2 language fo currept in other countries 
as the French, fupports nearly 200 newf- 
papers, with a circulation of from one to 
five thoufand, befides innumerable month- 
ly publications, of which fimilar numbers 
are fold. 
Difcovery of Antiquities at Pontailler.— 
The exceffive heats that prevailed in the 
month of Thermidor had almoft laid bare 
one of the arms of the River Saone, at 
Pontailler, and many inhabitants of the 
country, while endeavouring to procure 
fiones for building, which they found in 
large quantities in that part of the river, 
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difinterred columns, valuable fragments 
of marble, inftruments of copper, and a 
figure of bronze about ten inches high, 
reprefenting a naked woman rifing out of 
the water, and with her hands wringing 
out the water with which her ‘hair is 
moiftened. This figure is remarkably 
graceful, and bears the fineft proportions. 
Citizen LescHEeviN repaired to ‘Pon. 
tailler, and caufed excavations to be made 
in the bed of the river. From thefe re« 
fearches, and thofe made previoufly, it ap- 
pears, that there have been difcovered a 
number of inftruments ‘which belong to 
furgery, and many medals in bronze of 
the Emperors Nerva, Vefpafian, Nero, 
Antoninus, Domitian, &c.. x ; 
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