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apt to lo’e the glofs which enhances their 
merit, and wherein their neatnefs confitts. 
The following 1s the refult of the de- 
tails and feries of proots, colleéted by 
Citizen Biot, a Member of the National 
Inftitute, who was fent into the depart- 
ment of Orne, by order of the Minifter 
of the Interior, to afcertain the reality 
of a meteor obferved at Aigle, on the 6th 
of Floreal, year 11, as copied from his 
Relation of the Journey, printed by order 
of the Inftitute.—It is certain that in the 
neighbourhood of Azg/e, on Tuelday, the 
6th ot Floreal, year 11, towards one 
o’clock at noon, a violent explofion took 
place, which lafted during five or fix mi 
mutes, with a continual peal or rolling. 
This explofion was heara at the diftance 
of near. 30 leagues round about. On that 
fame day, fome moments before the ex- 
plofion at gle, there-appeared in the air, 
a luminous globe, impreffed with a rapid 
movement. This globe was not obferved 
at Aigle, but it was feen from many cther 
of the neighbouring towns, very diftant 
from one another. The explofion which 
took place on the 6th of Floreal, near 
Aigle, was pofterior to the appearance of 
the fiery globe that was feen in the air. 
‘The reporter computes the number of the 
{tones that ‘fell under the above circum- 
fiances, at two or three thoufand. They 
burnt thofe who took them up at the mo- 
ment o! their fall, when they had a very 
fulphureous fmeli. Long after, Citizen 
Biot dilcovered the fame fmell in breaking 
to pieces fome of the largeft. The wit 
nefles to the fall of the ftones are almoft 
all the inhavitants of twenty hamlets, 
fcattered over an extent of more than two 
leagues fquare, and in the number of 
whom are found men, women, and child- 
ren of all ages; fenfible and ingenious 
farmers, curates, military men who have 
pafled through the wars of the Revolution, 
and alike exempt from impoitions and 
from fear. No teftimony appears to in- 
valide the fact, or to yary the principal 
circumitances. The fiery globe, moving 
in the atmofphere with great rapidity, 
was feen from Caen, from Pont-Audemer, 
and from the neighbourhood of Alengon, 
Falaize, and Verneuil. The explofion was 
heard round Ajgle, in a circumference of 
more that thirty leagues. The heavieft of 
the ftones that have been colleéted weigh- 
ed feventeen pounds. 
At the Univerfity of Mofcow Le&ures 
are now held on Natural Hiftory, Phyii- 
cal Science, Commerce, and the Hiftory 
gf European States, for the inftruction of 
Literary and Philsfopbical Intelligence. 
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the public at large ; perfons of both fexes 
being admitted, and even invited to attend 
them. 
Although the Botanic Garden at Mal- 
“maifon has not been eftablifhed above 
three y ars, it is one of the moit diftin- 
guifhed and interefting in France. No 
pains are {pared to obtain the moft pre. 
cious productions from every part of the 
world, and it is the principal aim of the 
owner of the garden, to fiock it with fuch 
ufeful plants and animals as may be na- 
turalized in France. 
Laft year the Peterfburg public, for 
the firtt time, enjoyed the {pectacle of a 
Panorama. Views of Rome, Berlin, and 
Riga, were exhibited by M. Titikery 
an artift from Berlin. When Mr. Ticiker 
arrived at Riga, he entered his Panorama 
as pictures, and was charged at the ujual 
rate of one and a half rubie per inch, 
the whole amounting to the fum of 14,000 
rubles. But application being made to 
the Emperor, he ordered to let the whole 
be imported duty-free. 
The literary Society of the county of 
Mansfeld, in Saxony, have propofed a fub- 
{cription for ereéting a monument to the 
great Martin Luther, in the place of his 
nativityk—The King of Pruffia has pa- 
'tronized this undertaking, by fubieribing 
100 Frederics-d’or, and allowing all let. 
si addrefled to the Society, relative to 
this monument, to pafs poft-free. The 
Society requeft not only the pecuniary 
contributions of the admirers of the great 
Reformer, but likewife pians for the mo- 
nument, and hinis fora fuitable inferip*tion. 
A feries of inftructive Hittorical M.fapss 
by C. Kruser, are now publifhing'y in 
Germany. There is a map for each ‘cen- 
tury, difplaying, at one view, the chai \ges 
that had taken plaee in) confequence \; of 
war, congueft, cr the difmembermen { of 
ftates. 
M. KaramsiIn, atranflation of whc ‘fe 
Travels was laft year publifhed in Lor 
je 
don, has been appointed Hitioriographe ‘*f. 
of the Ruffian Empire ;-and the Emperca’ 
has ordered, that he fhall have accets tc 
all the archives and collections of docu-. 
ments and deeds. 
There are now thirty-four printing? 
offices in Sweden, thirteen in Stockholm, 
two in Gothenburg, two in Lund, and 
one in nineteen other towns. In thefe 
printing-offices, five newipapers and jour. 
nals are printed at Stockholm, four at 
Gothenburg, two at Upfal® Calmar, and 
Linkoping, and one in fourteen other 
cities, 
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