1805.1 
Great expectations are formed by men 
of letters on the Continent, of the Hiftory 
of Ruffia, which is in great forwardnefs, 
by M. Karamsin. 
Several periodical works have been. 
commenced in the prefent year in Ruffia. 
Among thefe, one intitled ‘¢ Notices of 
of the North,” is to be publifhed by M. 
MaRTIGNORO, well known for his Tranf- 
lation of Longinus. This paper will ex- 
hibit the hiltory of learning and civilization 
in Ruffia, and will’ contain the lives of 
the moft illuflrious men of that country. 
Another journal will be publifbed at 
Mofcow, under the direction of M. Ku- 
TOSOF, ancient curatoi of the univerlity ; 
it willbe intitled «« The Friend of Illumi- 
nation 3 or, Journal of the Scienccs and 
Aris.”’ There is alfo to be a journal for 
the fair fex, which will be a mifcellany of 
profe and verfe. |. ee 
At the abbey of St. Ulric, Augfburg, 
have been diicovered the relicks of St. 
Atra, which were depofited under an-al- 
tar confecrated to that faint. They were 
inclofed in a tomb of ftone ; but they are 
now to be transferred to a fhrine made 
from the precious metals. In the mean 
time thofe bones have been put under feal, 
unul the arrival of the Empercr, who 
will perform the inauguraticn of the 
firine. The concourfe of pious fouls 
who come to pray to the faint is extreme ; 
fome are faid to have travelled nearly one 
hundred miles for the purpofe of paying 
their devotions to ber. The legend fays 
that St. Afra was the daughter of a king of 
Cyprus. 
A third letter from M. Humeontpr, 
concerning his travels in South America 
and Mexico, was lately read in the Na 
tional Infiiute ef France. In the firt he 
fia'ed the obfervations which he had made 
in the Atlantic Ocean, at the top of the 
Peak .of Teseriffe, and in the province 
of New Andalufia. In the ‘fécond, he 
deferibed the operations performed in the 
province of Venezuela, and the plains of 
Cazobozzo, where he made fome curious 
€- periments on the Eyimnotus eleciricus.— 
In the third memoir he has given 4 fhort 
account of h's navigation on the Croo- 
noko, Rio Negro, and the Carfequaire, 
executed with great danger, to determine 
aftronomically the communication of the 
Orinaro with the Amazons river.. The 
parts of his memoirs which contain an ac- 
count of the geography, botany, and nr'- 
neralogy, of thofe countrics, 25 well as of 
the manners and cuftoms of the people, 
will be fhortly puolithed. 
Literary and Philfophwal Intelligence. 
'a proper fyflem of education. 
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The Kinc of Swepen feems very de- 
firous of introducing into his dominions 
A Board, 
appointed for the purpofe of fuperintend- 
ing public infruétion in Sweden, has 
lately commifficned a young Swede of the 
name of BrRookMAN, who has greatly 
diftinguifted himfelf by feme critical 
pieces, and a Treatife on Education, te 
make a tour through feveral countries of 
Europe, to collect information on the fub- 
ject. 
The following edict, iffued at Vienna, 
will fhew bow far the interference of the 
Aufirian Government is likely to contri- 
bute to the interefts of real knowledse.— 
«* According to an imperial edict of the 
thirteenth of Otober, all leStures in the 
Univerfity of Vienna, on logic, metaphy- 
fics, practical philofophy, and phyfics, 
mult be celivered in Latin.” And, by 
anotner edict, ** Ail private teaching, 
without a licence from the heads of the 
Univerfity, is forbidden; and thofe who 
are taught in this manner, and without 
fuch a licence, are prohibited from fand- 
ing a competition for any fituation which 
is to be decided by the literary attain- 
ments of the candidates.. 
At Uduifburg a machine has been in- 
vented, which turns a mill in the fame 
manner as a current of water does, but 
with lefs expence. The investor, whofe 
name is OrGa, has offered to Government 
to produce fuch a machine, .provided he 
receives a patent for the exclufive privi- 
lege of making them for twenty years. . 
M. Ricurer is at prefeot occupied in 
a feries of experiments upon nickel. In 
its pure flate this metal is very malleable, 
nearly as brilliant as filver, and more at- 
tractable by the loaditone than iron. It 
contains copper; but M: Richter has ~ 
found a method of freeing it from this 
metal. The oxydes of the purified nickel 
are of a much more lively green colour 
than the ordinary oxydes, and their folu- 
tion in ammonia is of a pae biue colour. . 
A, number of engineers,. over whom 
Ton SALVADOR DE XIMENESS was ap- 
pointed, to prefide, have, under the pa- 
tronage of the Spanifh Gevernment, been 
engaged te prepare charts of the diffvrent 
provinces of that kingdom, and typogra- 
phical defizes of all the principal towns) 
Two members of this eftablithment have 
been felected for the geometrical and 
aftionomica! operations, who travel to all 
places to which the project extends, that 
the charts may ke compleied with the 
greatef accuracy. | : a 
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