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work, ‘which will be embellithed with pic- 
turefque views, drawn by Mr. Birmann, 
one of the firft land{cape-painters of Swit- 
zerland, 
The family of Gessner, the Poet, have 
lately promifed the completion of the fplen- 
did edition of his works, of which two 
volumes in quarto were printed in his own 
effice in 1777 and 1778, embellifhed with 
. frontifpieces, vignettes, and other orna- 
ments, drawn and etched by himfelf.— 
Thefe two volumes, which are regarded 
as a literary curiofity, will be furpafled by 
the elegance of the new volumes, which 
are to be loaded with decorations. 
Decker, of Bafle, has lately printed 
an Englifh edition of Coxe’s Travels in 
Switzerland, in three octavos, witha large 
new map, fix views, and many ufeful notes. 
Inftead of reprinting the imperfect cata- 
logue of books annexed to the Londonedi- 
tion, he has printed a catalogue of books 
relating to Switzerland, arranged ina fy{- 
tematic order, and brought down to the 
prefent time. 
Mr. Camre, of Hamburg, has lately 
printed a work which is highly ufeful to 
thofe who wifh to learn the German or 
Englith languages : it is entitled German 
and Englifh Dialogues, with a Colleétion 
of Idioms. The German of this book is 
remarkably pure: the Englifh is from Per- 
rin’s work, ; ; 
Another portion of Nemnich’s Com- 
mercial Diétionary, in mne languages, will 
be ready in November. 
_ A Piéture of Lifbon, and a Pi&ture cf 
Madrid, both in the German kanguage, 
and fimilar in defign to Dr. Hager’s Pic- 
ture of London, have made their appear- 
ance at Leiplic. 
A very curious work has made its ap- 
pearance on the Continent, entitled Cha- 
raéteriltic Traits of the reigning Monarch 
ef Pruffia, Frederick William III. fup- 
pofed to have been written by Monf. De 
HELD; in his confinement in the fortrefs of 
Colberg, formerly a prifoner in the for- 
trefs of Spandau. 
A third number of a periodical work 
entitled the Afiatic Magazine, has made 
its appearance at Weimar, of which M, 
JuLivs KLaproru is the editor. 
A Voyage by the Spaniards to the South 
Seas, with fomething new relative to Ota- 
heite, in one volume ogtavo, with a chart, 
and an engraving, is among the new pro- 
duétions of Germany. 
The experiments and refults of Mr. 
Low112, on the decoloration of vegetable 
liquors, &c. by pulyerifed charcoal, have 
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been confirmed by fome later experiments 
made by M. DunurGa. The following 
circumftances may be relied on :-—Three 
ounces and a half of charcoal, purified ‘by 
incandefcence, mixed with 24 drops of 
fulphuvic acid, will purify 341b. of putrid 
water, without communicating any fenfi- 
ble acidity. The procefs confifts in pour- 
ing the water upon this mixture, and af~ 
terwards filtering it. It deftroys the aftrin- 
gent principle ;\ it abforbs fatty matters ; 
it diffipates all fcetid fmells, and may he 
ufed with advantage in cleanfing mufty 
cafks: it has no effect on the {mell of 
camphor, effences, ethereal oils, effence of 
orange, bark, &c.: it renders vinous li- 
quors colourlefs: it diminifhes fcorbutic 
affections, {weetens bad breath, and whi- 
tens the teeth. 
M. MoréL, phyfician of the hofpital 
of Colmar, has made ufe of oxygen-gas 
with great fuccefs in fome paralytic cafes. 
VassaLLi Eanpi, Profeifor of Natural 
Philofophy in the Athenzum at Torin, 
has invented and conftruéted a pneumatic 
apparatus, with which ail experiments im 
regard to the rarefaction and condenfation 
of air, and all kinds of aé:ial mixtures in 
given proportions, can be performed in an 
eafy and fimple manner, by means of pif 
tons and cocks. 
Mr. BocKMaN, a German optician, re-= 
commends for viewing the fun, an eye- 
glafs compofed of four pieces, a light vi- 
olet, alight green, a dark green, and a 
dark blue. 
Profeflor WoLke, of Iever, has given 
an account of a water-fpout which pafled 
immediately over the fhip in which he was 
failing in the gulph of Finland. It ap- 
peared to be 25 feet in diameter, confilt- 
ing of drops about the fizé of a cherry : 
the fea was agitated round its bafe through 
a fpace of about 130 feet in diameter.— 
The fame gentleman fully confirms the 
authenticity of the fuccefstul treatment of 
cafes of deafneis. by Galvanifm,. Dr, 
Reuss, in Stutgard, gives fimilar accounts 
of his own patients. ne 
M. Cuausiter employs a folution of 
oxygenated muriate of mercury, kept con- 
fiantly in a ftate of faturation, for preferv- 
ing animal ,fubftances from putrefaétion, 
The preparations are to remain immerfed 
in the folution feveral days, and then dri- 
ed by expofure to light and air. After 
the procefs, they are no longer fufceptible 
of being eafily decompofed ;° they preferve 
their form, and become pofleffed of-a great 
degree of hardnefs, and are not f{ubject to 
the attacks of infects. 
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