is preferred in forges. Take the. hands from the bellows, and it begins to go out; its consumption is thus husbanded, while the workman is at the anvil.

Mr. Proust also observes, that heath-charcoal, or that of its roots has the same property, and ceases to burn as soon as the bellows ceases to blow.

Proceeding upon the supposition that azote, which is contained in so many kinds of charcoal, might cause that incumbustibility, that characteTises some of them; Mr. Proust treated several of them with potash, to observe what effect this would have upon their combustibility, in case that principle should not be found in them.

Chesnut-wood charcoal, treated first with potash and then with a dilute acid, in order to cleanse it from a quantity of soluble ashes,

became more combustible than before; for instead of requiring twenty-six seconds, it took no more than sixteen to detonate with five parts of saltpetre No traces of prussic acid could be discovered in the ley. Charcoal of heath also became improved by this mode of treatment. Indigo charcoal yielded a considerable quantity of prussiate: the residuum observed to have required an increase of combustibility.

was not

Two successive operations upon coak formed from some excellent coal, dug at Villa nueva del Rio, near Seville, caused a diminution of its combustibility. The first ley contained prussiate.

Some fine anthracite, which burned with great difficulty without any flame or odorous vapour, yielded evident traces of prussic acid. It is probable therefore that it derived its origin from fossil coal. This autheracite was found very near the monastery of Harbas, at a little distance

Cases illustrating the effects of Oil of Turpentine in the expelling the tape worm, by John Coakly Lettsom, M D. and president of the Medical Society.

The doctor prescribed a course of male fern, with occasional catharties, as recommended by madame Nonfiet. In this plan the gentlethree months; in which period he man persevered for the space of discharged, at two different times, about eight yards of the teenia. In April, 1810, he again applied to the doctor, in consequence of labouring under his former complaints; adding, that he imagined, from the long use of the plant recommended, his pains, and particularly the dy spepsia and general debility, had increased. The doctor then ordered the oleum terebinthine rectificatum, in a dose of nine drachms by weight, and after it a little honey to remove the heat and unpleasant taste it might occasion. In a week after taking the oil, the patient informed the doctor, that in a few hours after taking this dose, more than four yards of the teenia were discharged, at the second motion, and also a quantity of matter, resembling the substance of the skins of the tœnia. The medicine produced little or no pain, and at least much less than the purgative he had taken after the use of the male forn. The subsequent

motions contained no tonią, nor any of the substance before mentioned. He experienced no pain or heat in the urinary passages, though the urine continued to impart a scent of turpentine for three or four days. The patient has since remained in perfect health, enjoying a degree of comfort, to which he had been a stranger for the preceding half year. He also said that the medicine, while swallowing, occasioned less heat than the same quantity of bran dy, or other spirit; and that the taste, and heat, which it caused, were soon removed by the honey.

From this, and other instances, the doctor is induced to conclude, that the best method of taking the oil, is without any admixture: that the dose of nine drachms occasions very little inconvenience: and that this quantity, perhaps owing to its quick purgative effect, excites no in gitation in the urinary passages, although it imparts its peculiar smell to the urine.

De Luc's electric column.

The small bells connected with the electric column invented by Mr. De Lue, whien have been frequently before noticed in this publication, were perceived to cease ringing for about ten miantes on the 4th of September; then (the apparatus remaming untouched,) to begin again to ring by intervals, stopping per haps halt a second or more, at a time: they stopped for several days after this, and began again, and atother times stopped for hours: Va the 18th of November, they were removed from the column, not having been heard that morning.

On purifying olive oil for the pivots of chronometers, by M. Ez. Walker. Phil. Mag. xxxvi; 372. Nothing has been found to decrease the friction in time-keepers so well as oil. But it has long been known that its use in marine chronometers is attended with very bad consequences; for it gradually loses its fluidity during a long voyage, and adheres to the machine; by which all regularity in its performance is Mr. Walker in 1799, to make exprevented. These considerations led periments of methods to improve the quality of oil for this purpose; in which he succeeded so as to separate a thick mucilagiueres matter from even the best oil, which mucilage was opake and whitish, water. heavier than oil, but lighter than The oil from which the mucilage has been taken is exceedingly transparent in a fluid state, but when frozen appears much whiter than common oil exposed to the same degree of cold.

About ten years ago Mr. Walker sent some of this oil to Mr. Bar

raud, requesting him to make trial of it, and in March 1802, Mr. B. informed him "that he had just

received a chronometer in which the prepared oil had been used; which having performed a voyage of 16 months to and from India, was then vibrating as freely as at first, and keeping the rate it went out with to a fraction of a second." In a letter to Mr. Walker, inserted at large in the original paper, Mr. Barraud farther states, " that for upwards of ten years he had constantly used the prepared oil for his chronometers, and in their return from long voyages always found the oil in good condition, and much better than any he had been able to procure before; Mr. Barraud also induced Mr. Brockbank to try it, who very gratefully acknowledged the advantage he had derived from its use; having found Mr. Walker's oil, on the return of his chronometers from India, far superior în quality to any he had before been able to procure."

The following is Mr. Walker's directions for preparing the pure oil,

above mentioned.

The oil must then be poured inte a smaller phial, which being nearly full, must be well corked, set in a cool place, and be suffered to stand undisturbed for three or four months, or until all the water shall have subsided, with the mucilage on the top of it, and the oil perfectly transparent swimming upon the top of the mucilage. When time has thus compleated the operation, the pure oil must be poured off into very small phials, and kept in a cool place, well corked to preserve it from the air.

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thought that the ambition of the emperor of France has been, of late, turned to the works of peace. Warlike ambition, with him, is consum-` mated. He has established his character as the first warrior of this or perhaps any other age. What remains? That, without which all his victories will be of little account in the estimation of posterity, and are, it is likely, as little in his own-the triumphs and trophies of peace. The world is yet to be astonished by more uncommon deeds than the extraordinary Here, issue of some great battles. indeed, a mere military man may place the summit of human excel

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