2065, S5X4897, 295×581, and 413X 415. He was then asked to give the factors of 36083; but he immediately replied that it had none; which in fact was the case, as 36083 is a prime number. One gentlemen asked him how many minutes there were in forty-eight years; and before the question could be written down, he replied 25,228,800; and instantly added, that the number of seconds in the same period was 1,513,728,000. In one case he was asked to tell the square of 4395; he at first hesitated, but, when he applied himself to it, he said it was 19,316,025. On being questioned as to the cause of his hesitation, he replied that he did not like to multiply four figures by four figures; but, said he, "I found out another way, I multiplied 293 by 293, and then multiplied this product twice by the number 15, which produced the same result." On another occasion, the Duke of Gloucester asked him the product of 21,754 multiplied by 543: he immediately replied 11,801,562: but, upon some remark being made, the child said he had, in his own mind, multiplied 65202 by 181. Although in the first instance it is evident that 4395 is equal to 293× 15, and consequently that (4395)2=(293)2 X(15)2; and that in the second case 543 is equal to 181X3, and consequently that 21734X(181×3) =(21734×3)×181; yet, it is remarkable that this combination should be immediately perceived by the child. Perhaps this child possesses an intuitive knowledge of some important properties of numbers; and, although he is inca pable at present of giving any satisfactory account of the state of his mind, or of communicating to others the knowledge which it is so evident he does possess; yet there is reason to believe that, when his mind is more cultivated, he will be able to divulge the mode by which he operates, and to point out some new principles of calculation. With this view a number of gentlemen have taken the child under their patronage, and have formed themselves into a committee for the purpose of superintending his education; but, whether they shall be able wholly to accomplish the object they have in view, much depends on the assistance they may receive from the public. For our parts, we feel a deep interest on the subject, and hope the readers of the Monthly Magazine will liberally participate with us. A fire broke out in the printing-office MONTHLY MAG, No. 232. at Serampore, on the evening of the 11th of March, destroying 2,000 reams of English paper, and founts of type in fourteen languages, besides English. The loss could not be less than 12,000l. and all the literary labours of the missionaries are interrupted in consequence. CAPT. FLINDERS, the circumnavigator, has discovered that, when the head of a ship is to the westward, there is an increased variation in the compass. Mr. W. HAMILTON, of the island of St. Nevis, writes to the editor of the Oxford Herald, that the Souffreire still continues to burn, and that it is now ascertained that a new crater has been formed to the north-east of the old one, from which it is only separated by a narrow ridge. This new crater throws out smoke and flames, and on the night of Tuesday the 9th (June) made a shew of another eruption; but nothing took place beyond an emission of stones and ashes, most of which fell back into the abyss from whence they came. The whole appearance of the mountain is changed, and the ascent, where it had been most difficult, rendered plain and easy, by the filling up of ravines, and swelling of pre. cipices. The Conical mount has been destroyed, and an immense lake of boiling water supplies its place; from this lake vast quantities of black sand are perpetually thrown up: and on the southwest side there is a large furnace, which is constantly seen to throw up red-hot stones. The beds of the Wallihon and Rabacca rivers are completely levelled, and appear throughout almost the whole of their respective courses to be changed into volcanoes, abounding in fissures, from which flame, smoke, and sulphur, are constantly emitted. She passed A patent Metallic Life Boat, on pneumatic and hydrostatic principles, that will neither sink nor overset, yet serve all the ordinary purposes of ships' boats, either for rowing or sailing, was tried last week near London-bridge. It was the ebb tide, during the time of the greatest fall, and she had her crew on board, and was filled with water. through with the greatest safety, and discharged a considerable portion of the water which had been purposely put into her. This Life-boat is made of malleable iron, lead, and tin, twenty feet long and six feet wide, and draws only ten inches of water, with twenty-five persons. They possess valves, that without pumping, or personal aid, discharge all the water from them, which valves act occasionally as Kk pneumatic, pneumatic or air valves; they are hy drostatically ballasted with confined water, taken in or put out at pleasure; and are remarkably buoyant and lively in agitated water. It is the invention of Mr. DODD, the engineer. RUSSIA. In the course of 1811, the Emperor of Russia founded at Zarsko Zelo, an introductory school for youths destined to fill the first offices of the state. Only young nobility of good morals will be admitted; they must already have received the rudiments of general instruction. The number is never to be below twenty; and never to exceed fifty. The number of professors is fourteen: they teach the Russian, German, and French languages; the moral sciences, mathematics, natural philosophy, history, the belles-lettres, the fine arts, and the use of arms. during the summer, with stores of the plant Chererophyllum sylvestre, which is one of the principal ingredients. FRANCE. A new comet was discovered by M. Pons, of Marseilles, on the 20th of July. Its course was then between the feet of the Camelopard and the head of the Lynx.-It was discovered afterwards at Paris by M. Bouvard, and, according to the calculations of these astronomers, it passed its perihelion on the 15th of September, when its distance from the sun, taking that of the earth at unity, was 0,77835, and its inclination to the ecliptic is 74° 20'. M. HUMBOLDT has announced his intention of shortly quitting Paris on his travels through Asia, and he purposes making some stay in Tibet. To ascertain the origin of animalcules, a French chemist lately took a glass globe, that would hold about six common bottles of liquid, well rinsed it with distilled water, and then filled it with water, which he had just distilled a se By a sketch of the literature of Russia, from 1801 to 1805, lately published, it appears that the number of works published within five years was 1304; of which 756 were originals, and 348 trans-cond time. Having inverted it on a lations. The number of works translated from the French amounted to 262; the number from the German to 198. The works in thcology were 213; those in philosophy only 22; the novels 210. The number by Russian living authors were 339; anonymous works were 742. A meteoric stone, of the weight of fifteen pounds, fell to the earth, on the 1st of March, 1811, in the village of Konleghowsk, dependent on the town of Romea, in the government of Tschernigoff, in Russia, and making part of the domains of Count Golovkin: its fall was preceded by three violent claps of thunder. When it was dug out from the depth of more than three feet, through a thick layer of ice, it still possessed heat: it was remarked, that at the third clap of thunder there was an extraordinary explosion, with a loud noise, and throwing out a great quantity of sparks. As a proof of the low state of literature in Russia, it ought to be remarked, that in the grand national library, lately completed and opened at Petersburgh, out of 250,000 printed volumes, 30,000 relate to theology! SWEDEN. A physician at Stockholm has discovered a method, hitherto unknown, of curing the most obstinate cases of sy platis, The Royal College of Medicine approve of it, and have given notice to the apothecaries to provide themselves, pneumatic trough, he expelled about five-sixths of the water by introducing first a portion of oxygen gas, and then three times as much hydrogen gas. He then corked the globe in the trough with a cork that fitted it very tight, and tied a piece of wet bladder over the cork as soon as it was taken out. When this bladder was dry, he covered it with putty, and tied another piece of bladder over this. The globe, thus prepared, he placed in very hot dung, into which it was sunk to the level of the water, and covered it with a frame. In 12 days he removed the frame, and examined the globe; no alteration was perceptible; in 15 days it was in the same state; but, the heat of the bed having diminished, some fresh hot dung was added; care being taken to agitate the globe as little as possible in moving it. In 15 other days the water appeared not perfectly limpid; but no peilicle, or distinct substance of any kind, was perceptible. In 18 days, as soon as the frame was re moved, the water appeared greenish. On a closer inspection, long vegetations of a beautiful green color were per ceived ramifying in all directions on the bottom and sides of the vessel. Several that were of a larger size, but less green, were suspended in the water, and had & mucous appearance. Mr. Fray now removed the globe to the window of his study. In 5 days he opened the win duw, dow, the sun then shining on the globe, and perceived here and there, on the summits of the vegetations, little insects, moving about pretty quickly. He counted ninety-six moving in various directions. They were all of the same species; and he soon discovered that they were of the genus Podura. For a few days their number increased, and they were more brisk in their motions: but in about three weeks, or less, their motion had ceased, and they were dead. Their bodies soon changed color, and became of a whitish grey. As soon as the sun had acquired some power, the green matter gradually grew pale. At length it disappeared entirely, its filaments were decomposed, and all this organic and vegetable matter was precipitated to the bottom of the water, where it formed a very white mucous sediment. After some months, the surface of the water was covered pretty copiously with an oily matter. On opening the globe a slight smell of mouldiness was perceived. A drop of the water, with a little of the pellicle swimming on it, being taken up with the point of a toothpick, and examined with the microscope, it exhibited an immense number of globules, of various sizes, almost all motionless: in every drop of water however one or two were perceived, that had a very slow motion. Messrs. THENARD and CLUZEL being sent to Flushing to direct the means of health, they ordered earthen vessels to be placed in the apartments for the soldiers as well as those where prisoners were confined; these were filled with oxymuriatic acid, greatly diluted with water, and they obliged every man employed on the fortifications to dip his bands into one of the vessels every morning before he went out to his work, They placed similar vessels in the ditches of stinking inud, so that, from these and the fumigations employed, the workmen were immersed day and night in an atmosphere of oxymuriatic acid, and preserved their health. 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