1805.] 
which has paffed to a ftate of red enamel, 
By this operation it is increafed in weight 
one-twelfth. The copper thus combined 
with phofphorus acquires the Bardnefs of 
fteel; of which it has the grain and co- 
Jour ; and like it is’ fufceptible of the 
fineft polith ; it can be eafly turned, and 
does not become altered in the air. The 
copper emits no finell when rubbed. The 
dark red enamel which ts formed in this 
experiment may be employed with advan- 
tage for porcelain and enamels, as this 
red does not alter in the fire. 
It is afcertained by experiment, in the 
New York fhips, which go en whaling 
voyages of twenty months duration and 
more, that fcorbutic fymptoms appear 
among the crews, unlefs they have tem- 
porary fupplies of fre/b vegetable matter. 
Thefe will of themlelyes work a cure, 
but it is well known that they are irore 
efficacious when confumed raw than if they 
are fubjefted to any culinary operation. 
Under this convidtion the Americans eat 
their pumpkins, potatoes, &c. in their na- 
tura! and crude {tate- 
Dr. Buacuty gives the following re- 
cipe as highly efficacious in the cure of 
dropfy, by external application. Recipe :— 
Saponis, Aceti, et Spt. Vini ana partes 
equales. The whole boty is to be rub- 
bed with it at bed-time, as long as the 
patient can bear the application, occation- 
ally giving him brandy or wine. This 
remedy, joined to the other remedies of, 
dropfies, cures, generally in two or three 
applications ; the water difappearing by 
peripiration. Oedematous legs bound up, 
with the mixture plentifully rubbed on 
them, are quickly reduced in fize. : 
The Boylfionian prize-medal, of 
Harvard college, has been adjudged to Dr. 
James Mann, for his Diflertation on the 
Caufes, Nature, and Cure of Autumnal 
Difeafes of Infants, as prevailing in the 
New Eneland S:ates. 
Dr. Joun Rusa has jut publifhed a 
work entitled Elements of Life, cr the 
Laws of Vital Matter. 4 
Dr.SHapRaCH RICKESTON is engaged 
ina Work on the Means of preferving 
Realth and preventing Difeales, founded 
principally on an Attention to the Non- 
Naturals in Medicine. 
Mr. C. S. RaFrinesque has been for 
fome time engaged in collc&ting materials 
for a Catalugue, or Flora, of the country 
for an hundred miles or more, round Phi- | 
Jadelphid. He has already expiored the 
two fhores of Maryland, the State of 
Delaware, and the northern part of Vir-,, 
ginia. He is now engaged in vifiting the 
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northern parts of Pennfylvania and New 
Jerfey, and in the next feafon he expeéts 
to vifit the fouthern part of New York, 
and Long Ifland. | 
On the 13th of December, 1803, be- 
tween eleven and twelve in the forencon 
the inhabitants of the village of St. Nicho- 
Jas, near the {mall village of Maefing, 
were alarmed by a noife which refembled 
the reportof cannon, A peafant locking 
at the clouds, which became dark and 
gloomy, heard a fingular hiffing in the 
air, and faw a ftone fall through the 
rafters of the barn, which he found warm, 
and it weighed three pounds and a quar- 
ter. 
A prize is oftcred by the National In- 
ftitute of France, for the belt Memoir of 
the Literary State of France in the Foure 
teenth Century. 
_ The Society at Copenhagen have offered 
three prizes to the, beft Memoirs on the 
Cultivation of Foreft Trees, confidered in 
relation to the purpofes of thip-building. 
The Teylerian Society have prepofed as 
a fubject for a prize-effay, the following 
quefion :— What Advantages has 
Chriftianity de:ived from Miffions, during 
the laft Two Centuries ; and what Succels 
may be expected from the Miffionary So- 
Cicties at prefent exilting. 
The Inguifition publifhes annually a 
lift of the books which it prohibits. That 
for the laft year includes the Decade Phi- 
lofopbique, on which the Editors of this 
Journal fay :—‘* We thank the holy cffi- 
ser for having placed our publication in 
the fame lit with the fineft pieges of Cor- 
netile ; Locke on the Human Underitand- 
ing 3 the wo:ks of Pope, and the Dif- 
courfe on the Re-eftablifhment of Reli- 
gious Worfhip. Tis is, in fadt, too 
much honour for a Jqurnal. But the 
more fenfioly we feel our own unworthi- 
nefs, the more we feel the value of the fa- 
vours with which the Inquifition bas ho. 
noured us.” 
The King of Prusstra difcoyers much 
zeal for the improvement of the univerfities 
in his dominions. M. Massow, one of 
his minifters, is employed in forming and 
executing plans for this purpofe, and the 
Sovereign himfelf has, withhis own hand, 
tranimitted circular letters to the feveral 
univerfities, exhorting them to co-operate 
with him in his views for their improve- 
ment. 
SCHWEIGHEUSER has publithed two 
more volumes of his new edition of Athy- 
nus, with very copious notes. 
The Aspe pe Lisie’s long expefted 
tranflation of Milton’s Paradife Loft, is 
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