1504.) 
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Scriptoribus Grecis colleftas, Notis cri. M. Von Waxet, who, during his re 
ticis atque exegeticis illuftravit, et Indi- 
ces cum Latina Interpretatione. adjecit 
£. G. SigBELIs.” 
M. Larive has difcovered a mineral 
fpring at Montlignon, in the valley af 
Montmorency, tne avater of which, being 
analyzed, is found in each pint to contain 
three grains of muciate of magnefia, one 
grain of carbena’e of magnefia, two grains 
of muriate of chalk, balf a grain of tul- 
phate of chalk, two giaios of carbonate 
of iron, befites carbonic acid. It s hop- 
ed that this {pring will be founda valu- 
able acquifition te medicine. 
M. PouLLeav, of Mofcow, hae in- 
vented a new mutfical infrument, which 
is played like a harpfichord, and is faid to 
imitate the found of a fiddle, viol, violon- 
ceilo, and wick .d amour. 
& Board of Agriculture has lately been 
eftablifhed in Philadelphia on an extenfive 
pian. Mr. Mao:son, Secretary of S.ate, 
has been chofen Prefident, Dr. MricuHéL 
and G. Locux are Vice Prefidents. Two 
gentlemen of talents in that particular 
line, from every State in North America, 
are eleSted as correfpondents. 
The manufafture ef paper from fra 
feems to haye been carried from England 
to Silela, where M. ENGELLAN is ear- 
rying on the bufipe(s on a large {cale. 
M. EDELCRANTZ has invented a new 
fafety-pilton for Ppin’s Digefter, which 
may be applied with effect to the boilers 
of fteam engines. | 
In France, a new method of procuring 
very ftrong vinegar from grapes has 
been difcovered, the prime coft of which 
4s not one penny per quart. 
The fullowing proceis is recommended 
as the helt for preparing liquid ammoni- 
ac:—-Slake fixteen ounces of lime with 
water (0 make # Zato a liquid pafte, 
which put intea ftone or glafs retort ; add 
fixteen ounces of pulverized fal-amouiac, 
and c ver the mattrals with a cap, to 
which mult be adjatted a tuhe of fufBcient 
length to reach to the botrom of the reci- 
pient. Mark oa this secipiept the height 
' %o which, when it is -adapied to the ma. 
trals, forty-eight ounces of water would 
rife ; putin it the half of that quantity of 
waer, and faiten it to the cap. Then 
Jute the intertlices with paite mace of flour 
and gypfum, and diftil in the ufual way. 
Whe extremity of the tube being plunged 
isto water, the ammoniacal gis 1s abforb- 
ei without any danger ot burfting the 
yellels. Continue the diftijlation till the 
liquid has reached the point marked. In 
oe manner, forty-eight ounces of highly. 
turated {pirig of fal-ammouac are ohe 
tained. 
fidence in the Crimea, fucceeded in forme 
ing a very valuable collection of ancient 
coins, infcriptions, and various other anti- 
quities, found im that once-celebrated 
country, has lately publithed, at Berlin, 
an interefling Defcription, in the German 
Language, af the Articles colletted under 
the title, ** Collection of fome Antigut 
ties made on the Coatt of the Black Sea,’” 
with twenty-one pilates, and a good ma 
Pro‘eflor Lance, at Halle, is publith. 
ing a correé edition of the Works of Ifg- 
crates, with explanatory Notes. 
In the fereft of Mount Grediftye, in 
the county of Hunyade, in Tranfylvania, 
fome remains of an extenfive ancient.city 
have b-en difcovered ; but nothing that 
could lead to a knowledge of its name, 
except that on one brick are the following 
letters : ' 
PER Sco Rilo. 
In the-circumjacent country, 2 great num 
ber of gold coins have been dilcovered, 
which are in a good ftate of prefervationy 
e7ch of them being cqual in weight to 
2% ducats. -On one fide are three male 
figures; the firft and iat carrying 
hatchets ; and below -is the infcripticn== 
KicCix. On the reverie is an eagle ac reft, 
holding a crown in its right claw. It 
ts fuppofed by M. Exuenu and other 
learned numifmaticians, that thele pieces 
of money were coised at the Hewulcan 
City, Cos, and .that the three male 
figures reprefent a Confell preceded and 
followed by a-Ligter If the opinions of 
the learned be well founded, thele coins 
mult be above 2000 years.old. The Auf- 
trian Government has ordered further re- 
fearches to be made in the reighbeurhood. 
D. M. LaGasca, a,pupil of tie pro- 
feflors in the royal botanical gerden at 
Madrid, who had undertaken a botanical 
tour through Spain at the expence of tae 
King, has difcovered, in tne neighbours 
hood of Pajares, in Afturia, contiderabie 
quantities of the Icelandic mofs, hich 
has hitherto been confidered as peculiar to 
the boreal regions. . 
The Emperor of Russtra, for the pur- 
pofe of encouraging the Inoculation of 
the Cow-pock, has ordered that five rn- 
bles be paid to every ijurgeon or phy- 
fician fer each child alee people, whom 
he can prove to have jnoculated gratis 
with vaccine matter. 
A Ruffian Tranflation of Longinus’s 
Work on the Sublime, by Mr. Mare 
TINOV, has lately been publifhed at Pe- 
terfoburg. - 
Several important difcoveries of An- 
tigues have aiready been made in conic- 
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