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common paper, and which he therefore 
Calls Syrian paper. 
To Messrs. Pourttot, Fayortr, and 
Hvtxiy, of Paris, for five. years, fora 
machine for making the lace, called tré- 
cot de Berlin, toiled araignée, oetl de per- 
driv. ; we 
To Messrs. ALzERT and Martin, for 
ten years, fora fire and steam engine of 
double power. ; 
To M. Desovenes, locksraith, of Pa- 
ris, for five years, for improvements in 
portable iron bedsteads. 
To M. Lanes, of Paris, for ten years, 
for a new lamp, with a double current of 
air, which he calls, melas-statique. 
To M. Keyser Denise, of Parit, for 
five years, for a musical instrument, 
which he denominates, harpe-hurmonico- 
Sorte. 
To M. Erzearp Drcranp, of Mar- 
seilles, a patent of importation for fifteen 
years, fora machine for cutting nails, 
and striking the head at the same time. 
To M. Jean Dunois, founder, of Ly- 
‘Ons, for five years, for the improvement 
of the pneumati> tinder-box. 
To M.- Ricuarp Warp, of New 
York, captain and proprietor of the 
American ship, Mentor, a patent of 
importation for ten years, for a new me- 
thod of lighting the compass, in the bin- 
nacie ofa ship. -. 
To Messrs. Grgann, brothers, of Pa- 
ris, for additions, and improvements in 
their steam-engine. 
To M. Main, of Niort, for ten years, 
for a new method of tauning Jambs and 
kids’ skins. 
To M. Dereras, of Paris, for five 
years, for a particular apparatus for ob- 
taining light with phosphoras, 
GERMANY. 
M. Cuatxes Orro, a paper maker, of 
Saxony, has discovered a method of sizing 
‘paper while it is still in the vat, and in 
every season of the year, without using 
either the shreds of skins, or any other 
animal substance. 
The proprietor of ene of the principal 
glass-houses in Bohemia asserts, that he 
has discovered the secret of rendering 
giass malleable and ductile. 
ITALY- 
in the evening of the 26th of June, a’ 
“terrestrial water-spout appeared about a 
league seuth-erst of Carmagnole, in the 
departmeyit of toc Po.” The weather was 
stormy. ‘She cle 4 which gave rise to 
this meteor, was greyish, aud not-very 
large; but it began to lengthen on one 
side, forming as 4t were, a very sharp tail, 
[Noy. J, 
which approached the earth in a serpen- 
tine line. The cloud bad then the shape 
of a reversed cone, part of which emitted 
a very perceptible yellowish light; this 
cone, about half way between the sum- 
mit and base, might. be eight or nme 
yards in circumference. As it ap- 
proached the earth, a kind of cloud that 
looked like smoke, having also the ap=- 
pearance of a kind of cone, was formed, 
and its summit advanced towards the wa-~ - 
ter-spout. The duration of this meteor. 
was twenty minutes, during which it tra- 
versed a space of more than eighit huridred 
yards, and then descended in a deluge of 
water. In its way, it overthrew a young 
oak, and stripped the bark-from a mul- 
berry-tree, the roots of which were ‘al. 
most entirely laid bare, by the removal 
of thé earth, which covered them. The 
bark was reduced to a dry,’ whitish, and. 
almost friable substance. The lower 
cone also exerted its fury upon the. dust, 
which it raised, and the corn which was - 
then cutin the fields, and which it carriged © 
away and dispersed. A man, who was 
in the line traversed by this phenome 
non, feeling himself beginning to rise, | 
held by a bush, that he might not be car- 
ried away. A quarter of an hour afteg 
the disappearance of the water-spout, 
there was a thunder storm, with hail, 
The thermometer was at 18°, and th,z- 
mercury in the barometer, which at first 
stood at twenty seven inches si lines, - 
rapidly fell, 24 lines. 
Another phenomenon, attended hew- 
ever with still more ‘mischievous effects; 
occurred on the 8th of July, near Aix, in» 
the department of Mont Blanc.. The 
wind was south,’ and the thermometer at 
22° : the cloud in which it originated, ap 
peared in the form of a water-spout, 
about six miles from Aix, at a consider- 
able elevation.’ It proceeded along the © 
chain of the Lesser Alps, situated north-— 
west of Chamberry; it was sightly 
charged with electric matter, and carried’ — 
ain with it a prodigious mass of flakes 
of ice, with a tremendous noise. Having 
traversed. the distance of about eighteen — 
miles, along the summit of the moun-— 
- 
,tains, a contrary. current of wind meeting 
it above lake Bourget, about six miles — 
from Aix, detached a portion which was — 
carried toward the — north-north-east; 
while the other continued its course west=_ 
ward, towards the Lyonnois. © In both 
directions, the storm spread devastation — 
through the vallies, The town of Annecy — 
has not a single pane of glass, or tile left — 
whole, The lumps of ice were as large 4 
i ii ee ie aq. 
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