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Rudiger on the Tails of Comets.
Gilb. II. 99.

O. Gregory's Astronomy. c. 21.

The Comet of 1680 had a tail at least 100 millions of miles long.

Lambert on the Apparent Orbits of
Comets. A. Berl, 1771.352.
Boguer. A. P. 1733. 321. H. 71.
Clairaut Théorie du Mouvement des
Comètes.

Clairaut on the Planetary Perturba-
tions of the Comets. A. P. 1760. II.
128.

Dalembert Opuscules. II.

Boscovich on the Orbits of Comets.

S. E. VI. 198, 401.

Fuss on the Perturbations of Comets.
S. E. X. 1785. 1.
Lagrange on the Perturbations of Co-
mets. S. E. X. 1785. 65.
Sir H. Englefield on the Orbits of Co-
mets, 4. Lond. 1793. R. S.

To which are to be added,
Conjectures on the Nature of the
Aurora Borealis, and on the Tails
of Comets, by Dr. Hamilton, of
Dublin.

Brydone's Tour in Sicily and Malta.
Observations and Conjectures on the

Nature and Properties of Light, and
on the Theory of Comets, by Wil-
liam Cole.

The following list is from the Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum:

Cometa. A Treatise on Blazing Stars,
Lond. 1618. 4to.

Warhafftige Beschreibung des diesem

1664 Jahre am Decembris allhier zu Hamburg zum erstenmahl gesehen anitzo aber noch biennenden Grossen und grewlichen Cometen. Hamb. 1664. 4to.

Descriptio Cometæ observati Vienna
1664. Vien. 1665. 4to.

Memento to the World concerning
Comets. Lond. 1680. 4to.
CometicaObservationes habitæ Romæ,

Anno 1680, 1681. Rom. 1681, 4to. Comeet-gospreck tasschen Mr. Abraham ende Justinus. Dord. 1681. 4to.

A Judgment of the Comet visible in
Dublin in 1680. Lond. 1680. 4to.
Unmazgebliches Bedencken ob die
Cometen zukunfftige Ungluchsfalle
als Krieg, Theurung, Pestilentz,
grosser Hern Todt, &c. 1681. 4to.
Cometomantia; or, a Discourse on
Comets. Lond. 1684. 4to.
Exercitatio de Cometa Anni 1728
quam Academiæ Disputatione sub-
jecere duo Societatis Jesu Religiosi.
Ingolst. 1724, 4to.
Aeumerckinghe op de tegenwoordige
Steert-Sterre. 4to.

Traité de la Nature et Presage des

Comètes, et de la Façon de faire des grandes Lunettes. Lyon. 1665. 8vo.

Notes showing how to get the Parallax

of Comets, or other Phænomenon, at Two Observations. Oxf. 1668. 12mo,

A Madras paper mentions a very singular rencontre, showing the enterprize and ferocity of the tiger in a field of action that hitherto had been thought secure from his attack. The crew of the Kedgeree Dawk boat, while at anchor near Saugor, in 7 fathoms, were alarmed by the noise of a tiger swimming toward them. He approached the boat, and having got so near as to reach it with his claws, attempted to get on board, from which he was prevented more by the height of the gunwale above the water, than by any opposition from the crew, who were too much alarmed to exert themselves with effect. The tiger continued, according to the report of the boat's crew, up ward of forty minutes alongside, frequently renewing his attempts to climb on board. The marks of his claws were distinctly visible on the planks above the copper.

Among the MSS. of the Oriental Library of Monte Casino, which may be considered as the cradle of sciences and letters, after the barbarism which followed the destruction of the Roman empire, there has just been found a Greek MS, of Apollonius Evander, the nephew of Apollonius of Rhodes. Among

Among other important objects which this MS. contains, is a very detailed account of the eruption of Vesuvius, in the reign of Titus.

There is now exhibiting at Mentz an elephant of surprising intelligence. The musicians of the theatre (says a Paris paper) gave him a concert. The first piece produced a deep sensation; but a solo on the horn transported him: he was much agitated, beat time with his trunk, and accompanied the instrument with certain sounds.

St. Bartholomew's Hospital exhibits at this time a case of a most formidable disease, happily unknown in these northern regions. The subject is a native of the Brazils, with the true elephantiasis, or Arabian leprosy. The present case exhibits all the peculiarities described by a late writer, viz. the tuberculated countenance, the want of hair below the scalp, the femoral tumour, &c.

A farmer, who had annually sustained considerable loss among his sheep, by the yellows, when feeding on red clover, communicates, that he had been successful for the last six years in preventing the repetition of injury, by taking, on the first discovery of the disease, a little blood from every one of them, and removing them to another farm, 14 miles distant. He leaves it to better judges to determine, if the bleeding, the change of air, or the journey, wrought the effect.

M. Lang, a wealthy landed proprietor in Styria, has been extremely suc cessful in extracting oil from grape-stones. He calculates, that all the vines in the Austrian monarchy will furnish yearly 800,000lbs. of good oil. He has communicated the process, which is not difficult, to his government, by which he has been promised a liberal remuneration.

The first volume of the works of Confucius has been issued from the mission-press at Serampore, in Bengal: it is printed in the Chinese character, with a translation, which refers, by numbers over each sentence, to the corresponding words of the Chinese text, and is accompanied by an ample commentary. For Sir William Jones's testimony to the high morality of the writings of Confucius, see Gen. Chron. vol. i. p. 386.

One hundred and eighteen ripe fruit, weighing nearly three stone weight, were gathered last week from a lemon tree in the green-house of Sir J. Newport, near Waterford; one lemon weighed 15 ounces, and measured 12 inches in circumference. Several ripe fruit, and a full crop of green and young lemons, are now on the tree. It is planted in a prepared compost under the floor of the green-house, as a standard tree.

M. Bader, Counsellor of Mines, at Munich, in Bavaria, has invented an aquatic sledge, which may be impelled and guided on the water by the rider himself, without any other aid. It consists of two hollow pontoons, 8 feet long, made of sheet copper, closed on all sides, joined to each other in a parallel direction, at the distance of six feet, by a wooden frame. Thus joined, they support a seat resembling an arm-chair, in which the rider sits, and impels and steers the sledge by treading two large pedals before him. Each of these pedals is connected with a handle, fixed perpendicularly in the afterpart of the machine behind the seat, and in the interval between the two pontoons. In the front of the seat stands a small table, on which the rider may read, write, draw, or eat and drink. His hands being at perfect liberty, he may even play an instrument, load and fire a gun, &c. Behind the seat is a leathern bag, to hold any thing he may want in his excursion. This vehicle is much safer than a common boat, the centre of gravity being constantly in the middle of a very broad base; a circumstance which renders upsetting, even in the heaviest gale, absolutely impossible.

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