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Scientific Intelligence.

it was a luminous spot , less visible than the largest of Jupiter ' s satellites , but greater ; it perfectly confirms what has been already seen three or four times relative to the volcano in the moon . GEOGRAPHY . THE Spaniards have published the details of a voyage round the world , undertaken by the order and at the expence of Government , through the zeal of Don Antonius de Valdes , Minister of Marine , to enrich geograph y and natural history , and enlarge the sphere of our knowledge . The manneis , usages , and police of the inhabitants of the Babaco Isles , not before discovered , will form an interesting addition to the history of the globe .

. MINERALOGY . M . PICOT-LA P EYROUSE , inspector of mines to the French Republic , and associate member of the Institute , has communicated the result of his journey to Mont Perdu , with observations on the nature of the most elevated ridges of the Pyrenees . The height of Mont Perdu , one of the highest-summits cf the Pyrenees , is 3435 metres , or 176 3 toises . The bases of this mountain , and the masses which are mortised in the mountains , of which it is the center , "

contain a quantity of exuvitc of organized bodies , even to an elevation of more than 3000 metres . The author concludes from hence , that Mont Perdu , which incloses such a profuse abundance of marine petrified bodies , even in large classes , has been formed under the waters of the sea . When the sea accumulated the large calcareous masses at the center of the Pyrenees , there existed continents filled with quadrupeds . The mixture of marine bodies with the bones of quadrupeds , demonstrates that they have been

deposited here by the sea . The primordial tops of the Pyrenees were not placed at the point in which at this day the greatest elevations of the chain exist . Most of the summits of these regions being crowned , or bearing a calcareous girdle on their flanks , it is probable that the waters which elevated the hi ghest crests in the center , deposed the same secondary rock on its summits , which , they covered again in toto . PHYSICS .

A MEMOIR of M . Cets on the advantage of employing analogy in the natural sciences , and on its application to botany for the progress of rural occonomv , has for its object to prove that the properties of bodies being the result of their organization , the more relations there are between beings , the more the uses to which we can apply them arc assimilated .

METALS . Professor Chladni , of Wittenberg , has published observations on a mass of-iron found in Siberia by Professor Pallas . The problematic mass in question was found between Krasnoyarsk and Abekansk , in the high si : te mountains , quite open and uncovered . It weighed 1600 pounds ; had a very irregular and somewhat compressed figure , like a rough granite ; was covered externally with a ferruginous kind of crust ; and the inside consisted of

malleable iron , brittle when heated , porous like a large sea sponge , and having its interstices filled with a brittle hard vitrified substance of an amber yellow colour . ' This texture and the vitrified substance appeared uniformly throughout the whole mass , and without any traces of slag or artificial fire . Dr . " Chladni thinks it probable that this iron is of the same nature as the so-called fire-balls ( bolides ) or flying dragrons , and he quotes a variety of observations made on these phenomxna .

CYDER FRUIT . A prize gobblet , of six guineas value , was adjudged by the Hereford Agricultural Society , at their last meeting , to the Rev . T . Alban , of Ludlow , for producing the best specimen of cyder-fruit , raised from seed 5 and the Society recommended that the apple be called the Alban .

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MEMOIR AND TRIAL OF THE CELEBRATED THEOBALD WOLFE TONE, Article 44
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 51
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 55
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Scientific Intelligence.

it was a luminous spot , less visible than the largest of Jupiter ' s satellites , but greater ; it perfectly confirms what has been already seen three or four times relative to the volcano in the moon . GEOGRAPHY . THE Spaniards have published the details of a voyage round the world , undertaken by the order and at the expence of Government , through the zeal of Don Antonius de Valdes , Minister of Marine , to enrich geograph y and natural history , and enlarge the sphere of our knowledge . The manneis , usages , and police of the inhabitants of the Babaco Isles , not before discovered , will form an interesting addition to the history of the globe .

. MINERALOGY . M . PICOT-LA P EYROUSE , inspector of mines to the French Republic , and associate member of the Institute , has communicated the result of his journey to Mont Perdu , with observations on the nature of the most elevated ridges of the Pyrenees . The height of Mont Perdu , one of the highest-summits cf the Pyrenees , is 3435 metres , or 176 3 toises . The bases of this mountain , and the masses which are mortised in the mountains , of which it is the center , "

contain a quantity of exuvitc of organized bodies , even to an elevation of more than 3000 metres . The author concludes from hence , that Mont Perdu , which incloses such a profuse abundance of marine petrified bodies , even in large classes , has been formed under the waters of the sea . When the sea accumulated the large calcareous masses at the center of the Pyrenees , there existed continents filled with quadrupeds . The mixture of marine bodies with the bones of quadrupeds , demonstrates that they have been

deposited here by the sea . The primordial tops of the Pyrenees were not placed at the point in which at this day the greatest elevations of the chain exist . Most of the summits of these regions being crowned , or bearing a calcareous girdle on their flanks , it is probable that the waters which elevated the hi ghest crests in the center , deposed the same secondary rock on its summits , which , they covered again in toto . PHYSICS .

A MEMOIR of M . Cets on the advantage of employing analogy in the natural sciences , and on its application to botany for the progress of rural occonomv , has for its object to prove that the properties of bodies being the result of their organization , the more relations there are between beings , the more the uses to which we can apply them arc assimilated .

METALS . Professor Chladni , of Wittenberg , has published observations on a mass of-iron found in Siberia by Professor Pallas . The problematic mass in question was found between Krasnoyarsk and Abekansk , in the high si : te mountains , quite open and uncovered . It weighed 1600 pounds ; had a very irregular and somewhat compressed figure , like a rough granite ; was covered externally with a ferruginous kind of crust ; and the inside consisted of

malleable iron , brittle when heated , porous like a large sea sponge , and having its interstices filled with a brittle hard vitrified substance of an amber yellow colour . ' This texture and the vitrified substance appeared uniformly throughout the whole mass , and without any traces of slag or artificial fire . Dr . " Chladni thinks it probable that this iron is of the same nature as the so-called fire-balls ( bolides ) or flying dragrons , and he quotes a variety of observations made on these phenomxna .

CYDER FRUIT . A prize gobblet , of six guineas value , was adjudged by the Hereford Agricultural Society , at their last meeting , to the Rev . T . Alban , of Ludlow , for producing the best specimen of cyder-fruit , raised from seed 5 and the Society recommended that the apple be called the Alban .

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