doubt of the kind of wood which had Works of Vignole, by Messrs. Le Bas preceded the present sand or grit. The and Debret. There now remains to be combustion which assisted the change engraved, the Restorations of the Temple of peat into coal, he considers, as having been effected by means of the pyrites.

GERMANY.

The ingenious LINK has proved, by a series of experiments, that animal albumen and vegetable gluten are of similar principles, if not the same.

of Patrician Chastity, by M. Dubut: the Temple of Vesta at Rome, by M. Coussin; the Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella, by M. Grandjean; the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, by M. Menager; the Arch of Titus, by M. Guenepin; the Temple of Fortune at Præneste, by M. Huyot; and of the Pantheon, by M. Leclerc ; to which we may also add the restorations of the Portico of Octavius, by M. Chatillon; and the Temple of Mars the Avenger, by M.

Messrs. PARROT and ENGELHARDT have determined with great accuracy, the respective levels of the Black and Caspian Sea, and it appears that the latter has sunk 200 feet, and has lost 30,000 square leagues of its surface. May not Gauthier. the whole, in the course of ages, form a hasin like the London and Paris basins? As one among a hundred similar The Mediterranean was determined by proofs of the deliverance of Europe, (into the French to be twenty-seven feet lower the hands of despots and bigots,) six than the Red Sea; and the Pacific individuals, authors, printers, and pubOcean is known to be twenty-three feet higher than the Gulf of Mexico.

FRANCE.

lishers, have been sentenced to be transported, we suppose to Guyana, for an alleged libel; other cruel sentences of twenty years and ten years solitary imprisonment, are daily features of the triumph of that odious system which the free English people are insultingly called on to celebrate by festivals, monuments, and new churches!

Between the years 1455 and 1487, there were printed twenty-two different editions of the Bible in Latin; and, between 1462 and 1490, thirteen editions in German. In 1712, Baron Charles Hildebrand, of Canstein, caused to be cast such a number of types, that all the pages of the Bible might be kept set up, The Geography of New Holland, acfor a permanency. His Biblical Estab- cording to M. MALTE BRUN, is now lishment, formed in the Orphan-House, completed. Its coasts to the EAST are at Halle, in Saxony, produced in the called New South Wales. The island space of ten years, one hundred and to the SOUTH is called Dieman's Land, twenty-five thousand copies of the Bible; and is separated by Bass's Strait. and one hundred and thirty thousand SOUTHERN coast is from East to West, copies of the New Testament; and ac- successively Grant's Land, Napoleon's cording to an exact calculation made at Land, Flinder's Land, and Nuyt's Land, Halle, published in 1812, there had been The WESTERN shore, from South to vended in the space of a hundred years, North, consists of Leuwin's Land, Ebel's one million nine hundred and forty-three thousand and sixty-two complete copies of the Bible; and a proportionate number of copies of the New Testament.

ITALY.

Land, and Endracht's Land. The NORTHERN Coast from West to East, is De Witt's Land, Dieman's Land, Darnheim's Land, and Carpenter's Land. On the Northern coast is the Gulf of Among the works published during Carpentaria; on the Western, the Gulf these ten years by the pupils of the of Chicus-Marius; and on the Southern, School of Architecture, at the expence of the Gulf of Bonaparte. The strait Napoleon, we may distinguish the Ruins which separates the Northern Point from of Pæstum, by M. Lagardette; a Col- New Guinea, is called Torres Strait. lection of Town and Country Houses, The coasts of New Guinea have not yet by M. Dubut; Tuscan Architecture, been accurately surveyed. by Messrs. Grandjean and Famin; a M. LAPLACE finds, from thirty-seven Collection of the finest Tombs of Italy, of the best experiments on the length of by M. Grandjean; the Ruins of Pom- the seconds pendulum in different latipeii, by M. Mazois: the Complete tudes, that the increase of gravity from

the equator to the poles, follows the The American Ornithology is at length law which theory points out as the most completed, by the appearance of the 9th simple; and, he concludes, that the den- volume. Mr. WILSON, in this celebrasity of the earth must augment regularly ted work, has figured and described 278 from the surface to the centre; and species of the feathered tribe of the Unihence he infers the original fluidity of ted States, 56 of which are asserted to the whole a state, he adds, which no- have not been known before. thing but excessive heat could produce.

Dr. HOSACK is about to lay before the Literary and Philosophical Society M. DUPIN, counsel to Sir R. Wilson, of New York, the results of his experMr. Bruce, and Captain Hutchinson, iments and observations on the mode has lately written an interesting and of communication existing between the circumstantial Narrative of the Escape mother and fœtus. It is familiarly of M. COUNT de LAVALETTE. A trans- known, that physiologists are much dilation has just been published in London. vided in opinion on this interesting subjec; and Dr. H. we are informed, is The Literary and Philosophical So- disposed wholly to reject the present ciety of New-York, established and in- received doctrines concerning it. He corporated in the year 1814, have lately denies to the placenta the office of lungs, offered to the public the first volume of and maintains that the blood, already their Transactions in large 4to. This oxygenated, passes by direct communivolume, besides the elaborate and valuable discourse of the President, contains a large body of interesting and novel information, relative to the literature and science of the American States.

cation from the mother to the fœtus in utero. He has long inclined to this belief, and in 1807, promulgated these opinions as teacher of midwifery in the University of New York.

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MONTHLY REPORT OF DISEASES IN N. W. LONDON;
From May 24, to June 24, 1816.

THE complaints which have most frequently arrested our attention, are meazles and scargeneral, severe usual,

may probably be accounted for by the strange vicissitudes of weather we have witnessed this month. Depletion in general is the plan of treatment found most successful; but I ought not to overlook the benefit experienced in a variety of instances from nitre in combination with opiates. In those cases where a repetition of bleeding seemed unavoidable, from a recurrence of the pain and fever, added to great strength of arterial action, a few doses of these medicines have effected more in the space of twenty-four hours than the loss of the largest quantities of blood; and I have reason to believe that this treatment will often supersede the necessity of bleeding altogether, though the state of the pulse and severity of the pain may seem to demand it.

One of the rheumatic patients has been affected by a most copious expectoration of mucus from the lungs, and, although kept free from pain, labours under fever of a hectic kind, and is in a state of debility, which I fear must terminate fatally. Pulmonary consumption is not unfrequently occasioned by rheumatism and gout. Morton, in his Exercitationes de Phthisi, notices the fact, that, not only these affections long continued, are succeeded by complaints of the lungs, but even the first attack sometimes occasions an acute and incurable Phthisis, that it is not relieved by the ordinary pectoral medicines, but requires the liberal exhibition of remedies which he supposed to be efficacious in the treatment of the original disorder. The same fact was also recorded by Sydenham, who professed, however, a contrary opinion respecting the object of treatment. Where the disease, he observes, has been translated to the lungs, the curative indications are not to be levelled at the gout, but it is to be treated as a real peripneumony, by bleeding and gentle purging. To the propriety of the practice I give my cordial assent, though I should adopt it on different principles---I know of no disease in which bleeding and purging are more efficacious than in gout.

I refer to a case of severe scald in a child, for the purpose of introducing to the notice of the public a remedy for burns---the oil of turpentine, first I believe recommended by Dr. Kentish, and which for its efficacy is unequalled. I am anxious to impress the importance of an attention to this subject, because this accident, more perhaps than any other, requires immediate care, on account of the pain and vesication consequent on delay. If the remedy be at hand, and can be immediately applied, it will be found to abate the pain, and if continued a sufficient time, will prevent the formation of blisters and subsequent sores, which are known to be so tedious in healing. In this instance the scald was occasioned by boiling tea---the parts were instantly immersed in cold water, and kept in that situation till I was called, when I changed the application for linen rags kept constantly wet with the oil of turpentine, and the parts recovered their healthy action before the following morning. Practitioners are however divided on this subject, some still preferring the use of cold water; but from much observation, may actual experiment on my own person, I have formed a contrary opinion. 11, North Crescent, Bedford Square. J. WANT.

REPORT OF CHEMISTRY, NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, &c.

THE HE following are the means recommended by M. ORFILA, in his elaborate work on Poisons, to be employed in combating the effects produced by Belladonna, Datura stramonium, Tobacco, Digitalis, Anagallis arvensis, Aristolochia clematitis, the different kinds of Hemlock, the laurel, and the rue :--

the rose,

"1. If the poison have not occasioned copious vomiting, two or three grains of tartar emetic, and 20 or 30 of ipecacuanha, mixed in a small quantity of water, should be administered, to favour its immediate expulsion; and there is little danger of hastening absorption, if the quantity of water in which the emetic is mixed be not considerable. The action of vomiting should be aided by titillating the throat with a feather.

"2. If some time have elapsed since the poison was swallowed. and it is supposed to have passed into the intestinal canal, two or three grains of tartar emetic, and from an ounce to an ounce and a half of sulphate of soda, should be given; exhibiting at the same time purgative glysters.

3. If, after these means have been employed, symptoms of cerebral congestion remain, blood-letting from the jugular vein must be had recourse to, and repeated according to the temperature of the patient, and the benefit derived from it.

"4. Acidulated drinks, particularly vinegar largely diluted with water, should be exhibited in small dozes, and frequently repeated. If these acidulated li uids, however, be strong, or not exhibited until twenty or thirty hours after the poison has been taken, and inflammatory