The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-06-15
s5Atsceslameoua.
VARIETIES
LITERARY e, PHILOSOPHICAL.
{rRo1 THE LoNpoN MONTHLY MAoAzINf
- ron FEBRUARY, lSi0)


Dir. Scott, late oriental professor at tho Roy
al East-India College. has in the press, an edi.
tior ofthe Arabian Nights Entertainments, 10 be
unpublished with engrayings from designs by
Suirke. The last edition in four vols. duodeci.
mp, of the translation from Galis,ld's French yer.
sion, received considerable additions from the
pen of Mr. Cough Of Enfield. This Edition Dr.
Scott adopts as his bas,s, carefully revising and
Occasionally correcting 1t from the Arabic origi.
M. To this he has added new volume, com.
prisng thirty.iive Tales, now first translated
from an Arabic copy OF the One Thousand and
One Nights, brought into Europe by Edward
tyortley Mou,agu, and deposited in the Bodiei-
an Library & also lntroductiep & notes illus.
ttative of The religion, Manners, Customs, and
domestic Hsbits, &C. OF tie Mahunnedans.
Henry Kinde lHsily Esq. OF Upton, Essex. gen.
uernan advanced in years, and who used 10 be
hs. up annually sor three or four months with a
Violent FIT ofthe govt, having read in some old
beck thata loadStone worn next the skin was
sure preseryatiyc against that excruciating dis
ease, and knowing that some vi the finest and
most powerful magnets are found in Cniconda,
employed an agent in India 10 procarc him on:.
from that province. This stone clipped into
convenient shape, Inc constantly wears scwed in
si,iute fannel case, suspended from black ribbon
rouTfsi his neck next his skin. Il is about two
lnch.s long, an inch and half broad, and two
tentbs OF an inch thick, and its magnetic virtue
IS very great. It much resembles n piece Of
slate; such as school boys learn to cypher on
MT. PeEiy says that he now and then has some
slight tr.ytches, which only serve to remind him
OF the terrible paroxysms to which he once was
subject. He happened one day to omit hanging
this amulet about his neck another and another
day passed, and as several years had elapsed
without hit, he began to think that the magnet
had altered his system, and rendered him intan-
gible by govt. One night however he awoke in
torment; he called for his safeguard and threw
1t about his neck lie escaped with slight at
tack, and has never since been without his piece
OF loadstone, which he wears night and day, and
enjoys perfect freedom from all the pains infict-
ed by his old enemy.
RUSSIA. ~
The skeleton OF the Mammoth found in the
ice, at the mouth of the river Lena, in Siberia,
which has been for some time publicly exhibited
at Moscow, is said to be intended for the Mu
scum OF the Imperial Academy of Sciences, at
Petersburg. Professor Tlesius has made forty
drawings of the skeleton, and its various parts,
which he mems to publish in folio, with obser-
sations. On some points he differs from Cuver.
The greatest cold OF last winter observed at
Moscow, was in the night of the lIth Of Janua-
airy. Mercury exposed 10 the open air, in cup
by DR.. Rehmann, frozen so hard, that it
might be cut with sheers, and even filed. Count
Boutourlin found the Mercury IN three thermo-
meters. withdrawn entirely into the ball and fro
zen; but in another it was seen BY himself and
four other persons, from O'clock till half after
at $50 X. (46f FL Mr.. Rogers, of Troitsk, is
said to have seen it at $40 (441 F) before it :
troze and withdrew into the ball
cEEMAwY.
The last October bous far at Leipsic, although
Mt boasted OF rs numerous collection Of litera-
ny novelties rs usual, was by no means so well
attended by purchasers on former occa.
sio1s.
No c<fy q t,n< IL
Gal catalogue, published during the fair, Us con-
tributing new publications on this occasion; of
these the total number was TT. Seven hundred
and fifteen were German productions, and sixty
two were written in tie other European langua-
ges OF the German works liz were new cdi-
tons, seventy nine were aimanacks, and other
periodical works. The rest chiefly consisted of
compilations and elementary works, for the best
of schools Indeed books of tgis last dcscrp-
ton were mere numerous than at any former
fair.
Fifty seven novels or romances have been pro-
duced during the year. The most popular of
these, Dis Whal CHRONOLOGICAL, is from the
fertile and pathetic pen of M. Goethe. The
names of Lafon,aine, Wagner, and Voss, also
appear in the Leipsic catalogue as the authors
of several works of this description and M.
Kotzebue has flyoured his admirers with new
volume OF Tales. Under the head of Novels and
Romances, we find volume with the title CT
.SchfIlfInG 1.-The adventures of the unfortunate
ScblI and his folio wers form the subject OF these
ana.
FRANCE.
The use Of copper vessels in cookery is Justly
dreaded, and various articles are, nevertheless,
dressed iii such vessels, without acquiring any
Injurious qualities. M. Proust determined to
discover, it possible, the cause of these contra
dictory effects He boiled for above an hour, in
a copper vessel, quantity OF strong vinegar,
which completely filled the vessel. The most
active reagents, such as sulphirated hydrogen
did not discover the smallest effect produced on
tue liquor by the copper He found however
that tie copper becomes oxided, or rusted, only
when the vessel is not full in which case, a
portion of its surface is exposed to- the action of
the atmosphere, the oxygen Of which CONT mes
with it. This theory he verified by many expe-
rirne nts. Che heat produced during tile time of
boiling, by greatly dilaring the air which comes
into Contact with the copper, prevents this
combination. The accidents then which some
times follow the use Of copper vessels, are oc.
casoned ~ SufIeriog liquids to cool in them, du
ring which time the air has to the surface
oftle copper. This theory certainly explains by
what means it may happen, that one person shall
use with safety, and consider as not unwboIe-
some, the same vessel which another person Snds
extremely deleterlous. Hence also our house
wives viii perceive the reason, why cleanliness
is their security, when their culinary vessels be.
come parity untiimed BY continued use
M. Yauquelin has analysed a meteoric stone
which Eel! on the 22d OfNIay, 1903, at Stannern,
An MOravIa, and found in one hundred parts oft
she following substances