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of a quarter of a minute—and laftly the 
places of 50,000 ftars accurately detez- 
mined. 
The firft edition of Livy, printed by 
Vindelin de Spire, in the year 1470, was 
lateiy fold at Elliot’s for fifty pounds ! 
The French traveller Le WaiLLANT 
is about to undertake a new Journey into 
the Interior Parts of Africa by the commif- 
fion of a fociety of French Merchants,mott- 
ly of Marfeilles. Towards this expedition, 
which is entirely founded on commercial 
and colonial {peculations, they are faid to 
have already collected afund of three mil- 
lions of livres. ‘They have in view, in the 
firit inffance, an eftablifhment om the eaft- 
ern coat of Afriéa. 
In the fame fiyle as the Chinefe drefles 
and cultoms are reprefented in England, 
Mr. BAUMGARTNER, Bookfeller at Lemp/ic, 
has undertaken to publifh the different 
dreffes and coltumes of the nations belong- 
ing to the extenfive empire of Ruffia. The 
drawings are performed by Mr. GeIsLer, 
the painter who accompanied PaLLas. 
Thecircum navigator Bouc: AINVILLE) 
at Paris, has pi refented a Memoir to the 
French Government, in which he endza- 
vours to demonttrate, that the North Pole 
may be approached much nearer, than it 
has been by Phipps and others. 
Mr. Bove, at Berlin, has publifhed the 
fourth number of his large and beautiful 
Celeftial: Atlas; he announces that the 
fifth and laft will appear in the courfe of 
four months, with a catalogue of 17,000 
ftars. This Atlas confitts of tw venty large 
charts. 
Dr. HaypNof Vienna has compofed an- 
other grand mufical piece, called Tbe Four 
Seafons, which was performed for the rfttime 
on the 24dof. May, and we truft will foon be 
introduced in England. “The text has 
been again compoled by the fame Baron 
Swreren, (fon of the famous phy ete 
who wrote the Creation. 
The King of Prutlia has granted 20,000 
livres to the obfervatary of Berlin, where 
Mr. Bode, the Royal Aftronomer, was in 
want of ma any imiportant articles. 
Kotzebue is (till at St. Peterfburg, and 
has obtained from the new Emperor the 
title of Counfellor, by which he ranks 
equal " a Colonel inthearmy. The Ger- 
mun theatre continues in the capital of 
Prufiia, as it was under the late Emperor, 
but Kotzebue has not the direction of it. 
A Dutch profeffor, M.V ro x, has lately 
direéted his ftudies to confider of the ule of 
the whifkers of cats, rabbits, and other ani- 
mals of that defcription. | He formed tor 
this purpofe a fort of labyrinth made up 
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Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
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of books laid on the floor of his library. 
He then blindfolded a rabbit, which, how- 
ever, made its way through the mazes 
without difficulty. Having cut off the 
whifkers of the fame rabbit, the animal, 
divefted of thefe tentacula, was no longer 
able to feel his way. 
Prof. GMELIN of Gottingen has given 
the analyfis of a foffil, found in the river 
Marekanka, near OrKorA in Siberia, 
which he therefore calls the Marekanio 
ftone. It occurs in round or oval pieces 
of different fize, its colour is greyifh-white, 
fomerimes? a. duttle bluith: its furface is 
{mooth and fhining. The ftone is half 
tran{parent, and ‘pofleffes a confiderable 
degree of hhardnefs. Its fpecific weight 
is 350: 1000. Profeflor SevERGIN con- 
fiders it as a zeolithus. A hundred parts 
of this ftone contain after GMELIN’S eX? 
periments the following fubftances : 
Siliceous earth Bo 
Aluminous earth 14,645 
Magnefia 9125 
Iron, probably with manganefe = = 2375 
Water of cryftallization I 
| ocmmemmateeanieal) 
93,145 
+ 1,865 
100 
= ee ae) 
Mr. Lowitz, who has alfo analyzed 
this ftone, found in 100 parts of it, 74 fili- 
ceous earth, 12 aluminous earth, 7 cal- 
careous earth, 3 magnefia, and 1 iron. 
Mr. Horr, of Berlin, makes a fort of 
rice (as he calls it) from potatoes, by gra~ 
nulating them on a machine, invented by 
him, thro’ which the potatoes, after be- 
ing boiled, and the ikin taken off, are 
prefled. The grains that are thus pre- 
pared want only fome broth, to make a 
very nutritive foop. They keep for a 
long time, and may be preferved in ma- 
gazines. Of 10 se of this potatoe 
meal, and 10 pounds of wheat flour, 30 
pounds of bread may be baked. 
By letters juft received from Citizen 
Martyn, Direftor of the National Mu- 
feum at Cayenne, it appears that he has 
had the fatisfaétion to fee flourifh this year 
one of the firft fprigs of the bread fruit 
tree, which has only produced male 
flowers. In examining thefe flowers with > 
a microfcope, he could not diftinguifh on 
them any traces of feminal duit, and he 
thinks that tebe arteries have. proved a- 
bortive. The female flowers will fhortly 
appear with es .eir fruits. 
fhe German pharmaceutitt Lukas 
pretends that he has arrived, after many 
experiments, at the means of rendering fa- 
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