formed in avery confined cavity, whence 
they may have been carried by a whiri- 
wind. In this cafe they muft naturally 
have defcended in a fhower. Our cele- 
brated chemift, Klaproth, has fhewn me 
the firt and fecond volumes of the New 
Journal of Chemittry, publithed by Gebler, 
who there gives a very interefting account 
of fimilar fhowers of peaie or feed. For 
the reft, thefe tubercles contain a farina- 
ceous fubftance refembling that which is 
extracted from potatoes, turnips, and other 
roots. It would be both ulelul and pro- 
fitable to cultivators to make themfeives 
acquainted with the fcaria, and to avail 
themfelves of its valuable properties.” 
The colle&tion of antiques belonging to 
the King of Pruffia, is much more nume- 
rous and important than is generally ima- 
gined, The number of ftarues isiat kat 
one hundred and fifty. It contains more 
than three hundred bufts, bas-relicfs, &c. 
and more than fifty fmall figures in bronze, 
which deferve particular notice.. Among 
thefe monuments, many poffefs the higheit 
merit, and would adorn the largeft and 
moft celebrated collef&tions. 
at prefent arranged, they are not feen to 
advantage, nor does the collection appear 
numerous. If they were placed in one 
capacious gallery, they would enfure the 
admiration even of thofe who have feen 
the grand mufeums ot the fouthern regions” 
of Europe. The lively intereft which the 
King of Pruffia takes in all eftablifhments 
eminently ufeful to the fciences and the 
arts, encourages a bope that he will ftill 
enrich the capital of his dominions with 
an extenfive general roufeum, capable of 
comprifing the numerous treafures of art 
belonging to his heufe. - Berlin, which 
already poffefles fo many means of inftruc- 
tion, fo many inftitutions which contribute 
to the improvement of the arts and {ci- 
ences, would be an infinite gainer by the 
foundation of fuch a mufeum. 
The annual exhibition of works of art, 
at Zurich, took place I:ft year in the 
month of May. The buft of Lavater ex- 
reuted in white marble by M. Danneger 
of Stutgard, was admired by all the con 
noifieurs, and was confidered by them as 
the mafter-piece of the whole exhibition. 
This buf, fomewhat larger than life, re- 
prefents Lavater in‘ his ordinary drefs and 
- with a mcdern mantle, intended for the 
monument which the countrymen of 
Lavater are about to ereét to his “me- 
mory. Zs 
Dr. Struve, 2 ikilful .phyfician of Gor- 
litz, has invented a machine, the abject of 
As they are. . 
‘with balls well turned and 
Literary and Philofopbical Intelligence: ee 
which is toapply galvanifmto the purpofe 
of diftinguifhing real from apparent death. 
Mr, William Haas of Bafil, a fkilful 
engraver of characters, propofes to publith 
an edition of the, Old Tefament in the 
Hebrew language, with characters which 
he has recently engraved. From a {peci- 
men of this edition, it appears that he has 
completely fucceeded in giving a diitinck 
form to fuch letters as have fome refem- 
blance, and in giving to the general ap- 
pearance a typographic hasmony pleafing 
to the eye. For the textyhe will foilow the 
juftly-efteened edition of Vander Hoogt, 
publithed at Améterdam, in 1705. Mr. 
Haas has already printed in Hebrew, for 
the ufe of the Jewifh worthip, different 
works, the execution of which hasprocu ed 
him the commendations of tho‘e motft con- 
verfant with the oriental languages, 
The Infiitution for the Deaf and Dumb 
at Leipfick, is gradually becoming a moft — 
ufeful eftablithment. It contains.upwards 
of twenty pupils, who have all learned to 
fpeak diftin€tly, and the molt forward of 
whom comprehend what is faid to them 
by the motion of the lips. They are in- 
ftruéted in religious knowledge, reading, 
writing, accounts, &c. 
The celebrated Dr. Gall was forbid- 
den at Drefden, to receive. any females 
among the fubfcribers. to his lectures. 
He till continves his peregrinations 
with a view to eftablifh his new doc- 
rines. From Drefden he proceded to 
Torgau where he viiited with his ufual 
fuccefs the hofpital and the houfe of 
correction. From Torgau he repaired to 
Halle, and thence to Jena, where he had 
among his auditors the duchefs Anna A- 
melia of Saxe Weimar, who was accompa- 
nied by the venerable Wieland. A partt- 
cular account of his fyftem will be given 
in our next. 
M. KrarprotH, a fhort time before 
his death, difcovered that the folution 
of the metailic oxydes im alkalies are as 
eafily precipitated in their metallic fate, 
by the other metals foluble in the fame al- 
kalis, as the «cid folutions of thefe me- 
tals are by phofphorus. He has made a 
‘very ingenious application of this procels 
to the analyfis of tin ores. In the opera- 
tion, tungiteia is {eparaged from. tung ftate 
of ammonia, by the addition of zinc, in 
the form of black flakes. _ oy, 
M. Benzenberg, profeflor of phyfic and 
aftronomy at Duffeldorp, has given an ac- 
count of twenty eight experiments made 
polithed, 
which were caufed to fall from a height of - 
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