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1807.] 
fad equally important and extraordinary, 
that one of his pupils is able to repeat, 
in any order you pleafe, and without the 
leatt miflake, a table of fifty cities in all 
parts of the world, with the degrees of 
longitude and latitude in which they are 
fituated ; whereas I, who have for fixty 
years devoted my attention to geography, 
cannot repeat four of them. ‘The fame 
is the cafe with chronology: in the An- 
nuare I have inferted 240 dates from 
ancient and modern hiltory, and M. de 
Fénaigle’s fcholars repeat them all. I 
do not think that the ableft hiftoriogra- 
pher could tell ten of them. What an 
altonithing aid in the ftudy of geography 
aud hiftory !* 
Italy. 
The Abbate pins has undertaken 
a complete. Syltem of Geographical Nu- 
miftnatics, im twelve folio volumes, to 
contain a defeription of the mof{t inte- 
refting coins and medals of antiquity, 
and of all the cabinets of medals in Eu- 
rope, both public and private, of which 
thie author can obtain a defeription. 
The fame Abbate is about to publith 
the ninth yolume hf his Lettere e Differ- 
tuziont Numifnatiche ; to contain the 
defcription of the Greek medals in the 
cabinet of Gotha. * 
CaLANDRELLA, an aftronomerat Rome, 
has publithed Obfervations on the Paral- 
lax of Lyra, which he 
five feconds. This difcovery.would great- 
ly diminifh the fuppofed diftance of the 
fixed ftars; and land of feven billions 
of miles, it would reduce it to two or 
three. 
A Raccolta dei C laffics Ttaliani,ovaCol-. 
meri of [talian Clathics, has appeared 
Milan, in 18 volumes. The firtt eight 
ye ti contain the Tor ve fior entine. di 
Giovanne Villani, cuttadino fiorentino. 
Volumes 9 to 15,¢contain a collection of 
the Opere di meffer Angelo Firenzuolo, 
Jiorentino.. The 14th volurne contains 
‘an hitherto unpublifhed work, under the 
title of Tratto del governo della fumiglia, 
di Angelo Pendolfini, fiorentino. ‘The 
15th, 16th 1, and 17th volumes, confift of 
a complete and correct edition of the 
# We have already stated, that the fame 
power of artifigial recolie€tion has for many 
years been practifed before mifcellaneous com- 
panies by a gentleman in London, who has 
never made any fecret of his difcovery, and 
who has promifed to communicate its prin- 
ciple to an early number of the Monthly Ma- 
gizine. 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
defcribes to be, 
167 
hiftorical works of Francefeo Guicciar- 
dini. Inthe 18th volume are given the 
firft two days of the Decame: ‘one di Boc- 
cacio. 
M. aan an ble Danith mine- 
ralogut, has arrived at Rome from Nae 
ples, where he has made many intereft+ 
ing oblervations on the lavas, and on 
minerals. in general. From Naples he 
fent off to Paris eight chefts full of ar- 
ticles of that kind, where thirty-fix others 
wil! fuon follow to the fame place. M. 
Weergard himfelf wall’ foon return to 
Paris, and intends to cli a aarrative 
of his tour. 
M. Sincen, a native of Germany, vel 
obtained from the papal government the 
exclufive privilege. of a branch of com- 
merce of his own contrivance, No per- 
fon at Rome ever conceived the idea of 
cavbonizing turf; and as the cooks em- 
ployed fcarcely any other fuel than char- 
coal made trom wood, the confumption 
of that article was eftimated at 3000 
facks per day. Hence jome conception 
may be formed of the quantity of woed 
required for tis. purpofe. M. Singer 
having remarked thatthe Pontine marthes, 
were capable of fupplyimg an immenfe 
quantity of turf, he made from it a kind 
of charceal, which “has no difagreeable 
fell, and which, when ufed for the 
forge, pofleties the iuportant advantage 
of giving more heat than commen chare 
coal, without injuring iron. 
Portugal. 
A tranflation of Voltaire’s Henriade 
into Pertuguefe, is announced by the 
Marquez de Bellas, formerly ambaffador 
extraordinary at the court of London, 
and now at the head of the judicial de- 
partinent in his own country. 
America. 
Che following account of the very fine 
ne cunieguences of the bite of a rat 
tle-fnake, is equally curious and interefi- 
ing. In the fummer of 1801, Mrs. Alfred 
Beeman, of Luzerne county in Penn- 
(ylvania, was bitten by a rattle-fnake. 
She was then in the fourth or fifth month 
of her pregnacy. ‘Notwithfianding thé 
alarming fymptoms commonly attending 
the bite of that animal, Mrs. Beeman 
recovered, and was delive sred without . 
accident at the ufual time. The child 
feemed healthy; but no fooner did it 
begin to fuck, than it turned quite black 
like the fuake, {welled confiderably, and 
foou died. A puppy was then procured 
to draw the brealt; the anunal died in 
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