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Mr. GELL having completed his ele- 
gant work on the Froade, is preparing 
his ‘* Ithaca ;* being an aceount of his 
Voy age through the whcle of the Dalma- 
tian I{Ja:ds, with numerous engravings. 
WotF has -publifhed a new edition of 
the Liiad, and Heyne has publihed the 
text of the Iliad, with fhort notes, in two 
octavo volumes. 
Wormius has anfwered WotF's 
Scepticifms on the Genuinenefs of Cice- 
so°s celebrated Oration for Marcellus. 
WEISKE has completed his edition of 
Xenopbdon, 
The National Inftitute of Paris have 
propofed, as a prize quettion, ‘* To give 
a Theory cf the Perturbations of the 
lanet Pallas, difcovered by Dr. Ol- 
bers.” 
The prize given by C. LaLanDE, to 
the perfon who fhall have made the mott 
motereiting obfervation, or publithed the 
memoir moft ufetul to the progrefs of Ai- 
tronomy, has been decreed to Prazzi, for 
his work, entitled ‘* Precipuarum Stella- 
rum inerrantium Pofitiones media tueunte 
Seculo xix, ex Obfirvatimibus habits in 
Specula Panormitana.” Panormi, 1803, 
one volume, folio. 
A vacancy having occurred, by the 
death of Dr. Pricfley, among the foreign 
affociates of the National Inftitute, M. 
Kuaprorg, of Berlin, who is known as 
the difcoverer of three new metals and 
four earths, was elected to that place. 
M. Messi£r, member of the National 
Inftitute, afcertained the pofition of the new 
planet Q/éers, on the 2d of June, at 13 
hours, 5 minutes, 56 feconds, true time: 
its right afcenfion was 248°. 36’. and its 
declination 10°. 14’. 22”. north. On tue 
17th of the fame month, at midnight, 41 
rin. 56 fec, its right afcention was 239°. 
55’. 30". and its declination, 10°. 55°. 
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The Committee cf French Literati, 
em;loyed in preparing the great work cn 
Egypt, the refult of all the refearches 
made during Bosaparte’s expedition to 
that country, have late'y made a report 
on their progrefs to tre Minixer of the 
Home-department. There are already a 
hur dred copper-plates engraved, of which 
47 are ancient Egyptian menuments, 3 
Eeyptian handicratts, 17 new Egyptian 
Aructures, and 28 relative ro the natural 
hitory of that country. One hundred 
and fixty copper-olates are at prefent cn- 
graving, among which are a number of 
flatues, infcriptions, and other jeffer re- 
mains of antiquity. 
Some important 
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improvements have 
Literary and Philofephical Intelligence. 
[Sept. 1, 
lately been introduced into the iron-works 
at Satka, in Roffia, by a perfon named 
Juna ScHaroF. One of the molt re- 
markable of thefe, isan invention by which 
the machinery employed in driving the bel. 
lows for the eight furnaces, is greatly 
fimplified, and the fame effeét produced. 
Toele bellows were formerly driven by 
tour wheels, which were kept in motion 
by a-.large current of water; but, by 
Scharof’s contrivance, one wheal is made 
to perform the whole operation, with half 
the water previoufly required. The in- 
ventor of this apparatus can neither write 
nor read, and had been employed merely 
as a carrier of wood at thele works. 
CHEVALIER, an optician at Paris, has 
invented an initrument by which the vine- 
planters will be enabled to ipa their 
wine. 
M. TrovuviLLe has made a new hy- 
pee machine, which throws up water 
to a great height without any other me- 
chani{m, and folely by the condenfaticn 
and rarification .of the air in air-tight 
{tone chambers placed one above another. 
He has been prefented by the Bureau, at 
Paris, for the Encouragement of Arts and 
Manutactures, with 15,000 livres. 
The Temple Neuf or new church at 
Strafburg, now cont ins within its walls, 
or fhortiy will, three fupcrb libraries, 
pertectly diftiné&t, however, from one ano- 
ther. The firft 1s the library of the ci- 
devant cential fehool, containing 40,000 
volumes, ard which the learned and re- 
{pectable Oberlin 1s now bafily employed 
in tran{porting and arranging, for the 
third time; this library is “el in the 
immenfe and fuperb choir of the church; 
it is very lofty and vaulted, and a bealitir 
ful daiage has been lately fet up. In an 
elevated faloon in this choir is the library 
ot Schoepjlin, the property of the city ; 
and in the upper fiory of the grand andi- 
ditor of the ancient univerfity, and which 
is an appurtenance to the faid choir, is 
placed the library of the Univerfity, now 
transformed inro an academy. One part 
of this library has windows in the choir. 
The whole will form a beautiful enfemble 5 
and it is agreed upon that the librarian of 
the academy is likewite to be that ot the 
ancient central {chool. 
Newfpapers publifbed in Rompe Before 
the Revolution, the City of Rome produced 
no gazeite or political journal, except the 
Diario di Roma, an inhgnificant unintereft. 
ing paper, which accordingly did not con- 
tinue long. The news-readers had_re- 
courfe to the gazettes of Venice and Flo- 
rence, which were to be met with at the 
principal 
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Me ost, 
