The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-01-27
VARIETIES,
From tire London Monthly Magazine"
for October end November, 1909
LITERARY AND PHiLosornIcAL

pei OF st. Bardulph, GALE Il by some, the Temple
of the Names at Aries, have been found, among
many frss ;nents of large earthen urns, similar
one of the same substance; two beautiful lacry.
matores, one of whichis Of considerable length
fine sepulchral lamp of earth, in good pre- SER.
vation, upon which is winged genius pria-
Pus OF bronze, turned green by being in contact
with bronze ring, designed to suspend it by,
smal bracelet for child, in bronze, to which
is fastened medal Of the colony of Mines, ,he
impression much efl.,ced, and almost illegible
twelve glass beads upon wire, two of red glass
jo;ned together, one of white glass, and the drop
ots pencant likewise uf glass another larger
bracelet III bronze small drum a head Of
Medusa OF blue glass, thick, and in relieve.
NJ HiEKSxE. has invented kind of
bellows, N ahioL the current of air may be in
creased or diminished at pleasure, without inter
rupiinFits action.
M KLArRoTH, member of the Academy of
Sciences ct Petersburg, has set out for Teiiiis,
The capital oil Georgia. with view TO proceed to
Teheran. in Persia lie intends to spend several
years in the latter country, in order to make him
seltthoroughly acquainted with it,.
The account OF Captain KRusENsTIERN's
Voyage round tie world, is preparing with the
greatest dispatch Almost all the enEravings
ere finished. The text is in the Russian language
but the captain will himself publish German
translation
The Imperial Academy of Sciences, at Peters
burgh, has published: III, thirteenth, volume of
Its M emoirs. with the title of Ncun Acta dcuGe-
2mis Scientidrunt Inferidiis Peuoboiitane -
,Toth;s volume is PrehNed the history OF tue Aca-
deny from 1895, TO 1865 biographical accounts
often Academicians, who have died since that pc
riod anorg whoa is the celebrated naturalist,
ERIC LAxNAN, who was born at Abo, in Fin.
land in 1857, and died near TobolsIs, in Siberia,
IN 1895. Among the reports made to the Aca-
deny, is one on the direction of balloons and
mother on M Pallas's Travels in Tauris. The
mathematical memoirs inserted in this volume
are thirteen in number, four Of which are by the
celebrated EULER. The department of physi-
calsciences, comprehends, among others, an in.
teresting memoir on the mines of Siberia, by NJ
HERMAN, under the title of Description Of the
celebrated Silver Mines OfZmeof, or Mount Al
tar, in Siberia This mine, which has long been
known, has been wrought only since 1745, at the
expepce of the crown The quantity of ore cb
tanned from it annually amounts to- 1900 OOs
pubs and the total produce from 1747 TO 1898,
was "a "A puds Of silver, among which was a.
boot 1000 of gold The pud weighs from thir.
{, hive to forty pounds, SO that this produce may
be estimated at forty four millions of rubies, or
2bout.a million year The astronomical me-
moirs are three in number One by Mr.. Henry,
8 Seniains Observaop OF the Planet Venus the
Escord by Nj STEPHEN RUMowsxy, treats of
she Figure of the Earth the third is n supple
,neW, to Euer's Theory of the Moon, by M
SCHUBERT.
= On tho 22d of August, last year, NJ. ANDRE.
OIL, and Nj BRioscEiI, assembled in balloon at
fadna When the me rcury had fallen to fifteen
lnones, about the height of three miles and an
hail, the latter began TO feel an extraordinary
paipi,atjuR OF the heart, without any painful sen.
sstion III breathing, When the mercury was
down tn twelve, (four miles and an half he was
ovefpowered with pleasing sleep, that SOON
became real lethargy. The balloon continued
ascending, and when the mercury was about nine
inches, (near six miles, NJ. Andreoli perceiy-
cd himself swollen ali over, and could not move
his LETT hand When the mercury had fallen to
S,5 laboutsix miles and quarter the balloon
burst with n loud explosion, 8. began to descend
rapidly with much noise, which awoke Nj Eri.
oschi 1t fell about twelve miles from padua,
without any injury to.the aerial travellers.
The celebrated CANoyA, who rs 10 receive
one hundred thousand crowns for colossal sta.
tute OF Napoleon, III bronze, has engaged the as.
sistance Of the German artists, al Visnns, who
cast the statute OF Joseph II under the direction
OF the celebrated professor zAUnER
&c The subterraneous passage by which the Ro-
man Emperors went privately from the Palace of
the Cesars, on Mount Ceus, at Rome, to the
Fiaviau amphitheatre, haas Deen lately discover
ed. From IT have been tax n a number of ar
chheciurai fragments, capitals, cornlces, ard
vases, proofs OF the sp.endor Of its decorations
Some fine torsos heye also been found, and
head of Mercury, which have belonged to the
statue formerly in the garden Of tho Pope, and
Row in the Chiaramonti MUSEUM Several
pipes ard cutters for carrying off water were al
so discovered and twenty rooms of very small
dimensions, and lighted only from the top
These are presumed TO be The jornices, so fire.
quently mentioned by Martial, Seneca, and Ju-
yenaI
Mr.. LAMBERT, who lately travelled through
Lower Canada, and the United States, has begun
&c print an account Of his observation. on the
present state ot those Interesting Countries. His
work Will make three volumes octave, and will
be illustrated with variety of engravings, from
drawings made on the spot.
Some copies of the original quarto edition of
Mr. BARLow's fine poem ofthe Coluinbiad, have
been imported from America, by Mr. Raymond,
of Pail Mall, and ave to be had al four i.,,ineas
in boards. The volume taken altogether, is orc
of the most elegant that ever issued from the
press.
a Companion 20 Miss Byron's Celia in search
Of a Husband, will soon appear under the title of
Celia Suited /; and contains Sketches of modern
female habits and manners.
Mr.. b. Cook. Of Birmingham, considering the
superior advantage which would result from
discovery of some method of providing security
against fires within doors, conceives that this de-
srab'e ord might be in great measure answer.
mon ones, hc ~ nks, might be afforded as chegp
CURED, they might be made quite as elegant and
handsume those Of tiis most costly materials.
He also suggests the forming of the ioists raf
tiers and beams, which might be cast hollow, of
the same metal by which means fire could not
be easily communicated from one room to ano.
ther.
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