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obliged to fhut her up.? Dr. Anfelmi 
has difcovered that if the teats of the 
cows be wafhed witha Uecoction of to- 
bacco, the ravages of thefg extraordinary 
depredatois may be eff-ftually prevent- 
ed. 
The moft rigorous meafures are adopt- 
ed’ in the Aufirian dominions to fuoprefs 
all books that have not the fanction of the 
Commiflioners appointed to examine 
them. Almoft ail French werks, writ- 
ten before er fince the Revolution, and 
the greater pait of the new German lite- 
rary productions, are profcrioed. 
A new compofition, for preferving in- 
flammable bodies from the effeéts of fire, 
has been made known at Hamburgh, by 
Profeffor Patmer. It is compofed of 
one part of fulpbur, one of red uchre, and 
fix of a foiution of copperas. 
M. Giozerr has found that magnefia 
communi¢ates to all the earths a refrac- 
tory quality. Glafs-makers’ crucibles, 
formed of any clay which is not ferrugi- 
nous, to which a third or half of magnefia 
of Bandifaro is added, refit the a&tion of 
fire in the molt perfect manner. 
The large hydrographical chart of the 
White Sea, which has been fome time 
preparing under the direction of Lieute- 
nant General GOLENISCHTSCHEFF-Ku- 
TUSOF, wil foon be printed. 
nometrical furvey of this fea, comprehend- 
ing the bays, and a part of the Northern 
Ocean, has been made, and the depth and 
nature of the bottom were afcertained and 
examined, and fixteen principal points of 
the ¢oalt were determined by aftronomical 
obfervation ; fo that this chart has been 
brought to confiderable perfection, and will 
render the navigation of that fea much fafer 
than it has hitherto been. 
M. J. E. Petnizer embraces a f{yf- 
tem of aftronomy different from that 
which is commonly received. In proof 
of the truth of it, he appeals to the fol- 
lowing teft. According ta the Nautical 
Almanac for the prefent year, there will 
be a conjun&ion of the fun and moon on 
the 30th of March, at 10° 53’ P. M.; 
but, according to M. Pellizer’s calcu- 
Jation, that conjunétion will take place 
March agth, 20’ 2” A.M. Mz Pelli- 
zer propolés that the diflance of thefe two 
luminaries fhould be obferved on the 26th 
of March, at 20! A.M. when they will 
-be found, according to his calculation, 
at 39° 30’ diftance ; while, according to 
the received aftronomy, it ought to be 
g8° 40’ 
A trigo- ; 
Literary and Philofophical Intellizence. 159 
Dr. PAULET has made many experi- 
ments on the poifon of vipers in the foreft 
of Fontainbleau ; from which it fhould 
feem that the bite of this reptile may .be 
fatal to animals who can obtain no ailiftt- 
ance; but the Doétor is almoft certain 
that it may be cured, not by volatile al- 
kali, nor by the cautery, but by more 
fimple means, which he propofes to make 
known. 
Two Wallachians lately found in the 
forefts of the Bannat, belonging to Count 
Hunyvapbes, two hundred and eighty 
Greek medals of gold, which they carried 
to the mint at Carlfburg, whence they 
were fentto the royal treafury at Her- 
manftadt, the capital of Tranfylvania.— 
They are fuppofed to have been .ftruck in 
the time of Lyfimachus, and their value 
is about three hundred pounds. The 
treafury of Hermanftadt has received intel- 
ligence, alfo, that evident traces, afid the 
ruins of a town, very confiderable in ex. 
tent, have been difcovered in the moun- 
tain Grediftye, in the fame county. 
A new edition of the Roma Antica of 
Venuti has been. juit publifhed at Rome, 
with Supplement and Notes, by Puixip 
Visconti, brother to the celebrated an- 
tiquary of that name fettled in France. 
The learned Zazca is ftill employed 
on his Catalogue of all the Coptic 
Manufcripts in the Library of Cardinal 
Borcia. He has been long engaged in 
refearches with regard to the typography 
of ancient Rome ; and’it is fuppofed that 
he will throw great light on the fubje&. 
In the courle of the laf {pring feveral 
ancient monuments were difcovered at 
Bois-de-Vaux, at a fmall diftance from 
Laufanne. ‘This difcovery was made by 
accident in working at the mines. Ac- 
cording to fome authors, it was the fite of 
the fuppofed city of Carpentras; and, 
according to others, of the ancient Lau- 
fanne. 
M.STRauvss announces, that 2 folution 
of platina, precipitated by ammonia, 
wafhed, dried, and expofed to a red heat 
for half an hour in a covered crucible, may 
be amalgamated with from five to feven 
parts of mercury by trituration ina warm 
mortar. ‘This amalgam may be laid over 
copper, anc the mercury be driven cf by 
heat ; a fecond coatirg is appiied, mixed 
with chalk, and fprinkled with water, 
and the’ plate is again ignited, and afier- 
wards burnifhed. 
copper veflels may be defended irom the 
action of acids. 
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