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second part of his “Plantes Hquinoriales” 
is finished. - - 
In the second part of M. Von Hum- 
‘goLDi’s. collection of Astronomical Ob- 
servations, he has given the latitude and 
longitude of a great number of places,. 
which he determined during his travels 
along the Oronoko, Atabapo, Tuamini, 
‘Femi, Cassiquiale,and Rio Negro. Maps 
of this portion of the South American 
continent, that is of the Oronoko, the 
river Magdalen, the province of Joren 
-de Bracomorros, and of the western part 
of the river of. Amazons, which M. Von 
Humboldt took on the spot, and made 
drawings of in the years- 1801-1302, 
during his residence at Quito and Mexico, 
are in the hands of the engraver. With 
these the author intends to publish the 
bases of his maps, and various. astrono- 
mical and geographical enquiries, by M. 
Oltmanns, The third part of the same 
collection contains the elevation of five 
bundved points’ of Spanish America, 
which M. Von Humboldt determined by 
means of the barometer, “ 
RUSSIA.- . 
Petersburgh, Dec. 6.—A mercbant 
‘has. sent to Petersburgh from the 
coasts of the Frozem Sea, the head of 
_an animal of extraordinary. size, and in 
very «perfect preservation. 
has been presented to the emperor by 
the minister for commerce: and his majesty 
has rewarded the merchant with a gold 
medal. ; 
in the government of Simbitsk, in 
the circle of Korssun, four versts from 
the crown village Kassaur, there is a dis- 
trict where the earth has been burning 
for three years. | No fire is seen; but. 
much smoke, which issues at various 
places. The ground sinks in sensibly; 
and on pressing it at the edges, flames 
burst out. The inhabitants’ of Kassaur 
say, that not far from that place, the 
earth had burned in the same manner 
twelve years ago, and had become 
extinguished. of itself. | Where the 
ground was dug into, a spring of water 
was found. - H 
GERMANY. e 
. On the 14th of January, at fifty-three 
Review of New Musicai Publications. 
This. head . 
[March 1, 
minutes after five in the evening, a rather 
violent shock of an earthquake was felt 
throughout Vienna, and its suburbs. In 
most of the houses, objects that ‘did not 
stand firm were thrown down, the bells 
rang, and ali the effects usual on such - 
occasions, were observable. _At the 
observatory, Mr. Triesnecker noticed the 
following particulars of this phenome~ 
non:—The duration of the shock was 
about a minute. There were twd very 
distinct oscillations in. the direction’ of © 
from south-west to north-east, and re- 
ciprecally: the , wind was north-nerth- 
east, Rcaumur’s thermometer.stvod at 
eleven and a half degrees below zero, aud. ~ 
the barometer twenty-eight inches~ six’ 
and a half lines: Of three pendulum” 
clocks, one was stopped; the other two 
continued going: their isochronism. only 
was deranged. 
M..\Stmon, of Berlin, has recently 
made some experiments on the laws of 
electric repulsion.. Coulomb, by means, 
of the torsion of wire in his electrical ba- 
lance, seems to have ascertaived that 
the electrical repulsion is in the. mverse. .. 
ratio of the square of the distance. ‘To 
prove this law, to his audience by a - 
more simple and firm apparatus, M. 
Simon constructed a pair of scales, all 
the parts of which were made of glass,’ 
and coated with gum lac. Though 
inferior in sensibility to Coulomb’s appa-. 
ratus, “it appears sufficiently sensible 
for experiments of this kind, since each 
degree of deviation of the tongue of the — 
balance from0, was equal to the weight © 
of -04 of a grain.’ The result of M. 
Simén’s experiments, the circumstances 
of which he varied in every possible way, 
was, that the electric repulsion was in ° 
the simple inverse ratio of the distance. 
In trials with the gold leaf, electrameter, | 
this law was established with still more. 
precision,, than in those which he made 
with the pith balls. " It is to be 
observed, that Volta has always denied . 
the truth of Coulomb’s law ; and asserted 
that experiments with the electrophorus, 
show the electric repulsion and attrac-- 
tion to be simply. in the inverse ratio of 
the distance, — Nee ; 
REVIEW OF NEW. MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. _ 
Three Sonatas, for the Piano-forte. Composed and 
dedicated to Lady Arinitage, by F. 4. Dabmen. 
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JSe , 
6 Pale sonatas are obvious!y intend: 
ed for the use of juvenile. practiti- 
couers. Their style is easy, and the 
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passages are well disposed for the band- 
of the tyro. To say that they are pleasing 
would be ‘scarcely doing justice to their 
- merit? somé of the ideas are at once dri- 
ginal and beautiful; and the whcele 
evinces a taste for this species of compo- 
ston, much above medioctity, , 
ie Ai second 
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