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coaft of Feffa and Staten iflands, where 
he crofled Vries firait, and came to the 
[land of Marican. From thence he re- 
turned, coafting the iflands on the eaft 
fide, paffed between Yefo and Japan, 
coafted atl the weft coalt of Feffo to Pe- 
roufe’s-frait, and alfo the Segalien-ifland, 
advanced two miles further than /a Perou/e, 
in four fathoms of water, when he re- 
turned, obferving the whole of the eatt 
coaft of Tartary and of Corea, to the 
Iiland Fouma, on the fouthern point of 
Corea, all the Lien-Kien Iflands between 
Formefa and Fapan; and thence he re- 
turned to Macao. : 
of M. SorEER, who, in company with 
the Ruffian Captain Bitincs, fet out 
from Fakutz, in Siberia, on the Lena, 
to the Ice-fea, and furveyed all the fea- 
coaft to the mouth of the river Corima, 
under latitude 69, longitude 162. Thence 
he continued eaftward, and arrived at 
the moft norihern point, at which Cap- 
tain Cook never could arrive, pafling 
over a fpace of about one hundred and 
forty miles never before explored, and 
reached Tchukot/koino/s; being the firlt 
who had paffed from tre fea of Ochot/k 
to that of Fapan, by the Channel of 
TYartary, through which La Perouje did 
not pals, fo that now the whole of 
the north-eaflern. coat of Afia 1s fully 
explored. 
The Bodletaw Library at Oxford con- 
tains, among other literary antiquities, 
fome Suras, or chapters of the Alcoran, 
written on parchment, in the Cufick cha- 
racters, which were ufed in the time of 
Muhammed, and in which the Alcoran was 
originally written. The chavaéters as 
well as the material on which they are 
written, are a procf of the great antiquity 
of thefe manufcripts. Soon after the age 
of Muhammed, other characters, and Sa- 
marcand paper were introduced. “The two 
moft ancient Alcorans ftill preferved in the 
litrary at Conitantinople, as well as that 
in the famous library of Giame el- Ajbar, 
in Grand Cairo, are written in the fame 
charaéters, and alfo upon parchment. 
‘Thefe likewife contain only fome par- 
ticular chapters of the Alcorsan, no 
entire copy of that work exifting -of the 
date of thofe times. The Imperial library 
at Vienna, and the Royal Iibrary at Co 
penhagen, alfo poflefs a few chapters of 
‘ the Alcoran, written on parchment; the 
Bodleian library, therefore, is in pofieffion 
of a literary antiquity which few libraries 
in Europe can boatt of. : 
The Eaft India Company has permitted 
two of the Babylonian bricks lately 
‘ 
Literary and Phile/sphical Intelligences 
The third Voyage is” 
[Juner, 
: 
brought to London to be fent to the Na- 
tional Inftitute at Paris. Thefe bricks 
are of two. different kinds, the one is 
dried in the fuz, and the other is baked 
in a furnace. This difference agrees not 
only with what Major RENNEL, in his 
Geography of Herodotus relates, of the 
two different fpecies of bricks hitherto 
found amoneft the ruins of ancient Baby- 
lon, but alfo with Fofephus, the Jewith 
hiftoriographer, who mentions two dif- 
ferent columns built by the pofterity of 
Seth after the deluge, the one of fun- 
dried, the other of turnace-baked bricks, 
that in cafe of a fecond cataftrophe they 
might be able to refift, the one the water, 
the other the fire. 
It is faid, that Mr. WiLxkins, by or- 
der of the Eaft India Company, will, in 
a few weeks, give an account of the Per- 
fepolitan inferiptions engraved on the 
above-mentioned bricks. This gentleman 
is appointed fuperintendant of THE 
ORIENTAL MUSEUM, which is fhortly to 
be opened at the Eaft India Houfe. Be-« 
fides the curiofities already arrived from 
Afia, feveral valuable articles are expected 
from Perfia, fent by Colonel MaLcoLtm, 
the Britifh Ambaflador in that country. 
Neither the library nor the colleétion 
of medals belonging to Tippoo Sultan are 
arrived in London. Thefe curiofities are 
faid to be dettined for the new Univerfity 
at Calcutta. 
The Government of Milan has given a 
commiffion to the famous feulptor at 
Rome, CARova, to complete the ftatue 
of Bonaparte, whichis to be ereéted on 
the Forum of Bonaparte, near Milan. 
At the end of their letter, the Cifalpine 
Government fay to Carova, * That the 
Cifatpine Republic will poffefs an incom- 
parable -treafure, in having the ftatue 
of the greateft general of the world, pera 
Sormed hy the moft celebrated feulptor of 
the age.” 
Ch CamBry, Prefe& of the depart- 
ment of the O7/2, has: invented a general 
language, different from the Pafgraphy. 
As toon as it fhall be publithed, Ruffians, 
Arabians, and Perfians, will be able to 
correfpond together ina moment, without 
any antecedent ftudy -or preparation. 
Without knowing Perfian or German, it 
will be eafy to be-underftcod in Isfahan 
or Vienna. Cit. Cambry’s means are faid 
not to be new, but their application has 
been rendered general. For the invention 
of a real general language, a bzfis is ne- 
ceffary which is as clear and fimpie as light 
itfelf. k ‘ F 
‘The Cow-pock inoculation has been in- 
troduced 
