Thermometer. FEBRUARY, 1816. Barometer. Winds. || Weather. 1 P. M. 15 minutes after sunset. of cold. 7 30 A. M. 15 minutes after sunset. 134 34.5 133 124.5 136 219 27 20.7 18.7 28.5 16.5 6 16 20 28.5 24.5 40 38 16.5 13 9 5 3 9 2.5 2.7 16 5 15.5 15 17 3 30 28 18/25 31 26 19/27 32 32 20/25 41 35 21/21 135 25 11.7| 4 18 38 2227.5 36 32 24.5 37 11.5 |17 3 33 23.5 31 23 34 19.5 42 Cloudy. 29.11 23.86 23.94 S. W. Rain. 29.46 29.50 29.52 W. 29.69 29.70 29.72 N. 29.92 29.89 29.89 29.89 29.89 29.94||S.W. 30.06 29.97 29.81||N.E. S.E. Fair. 29.75 29.70 29.60 N.E. N.E.Snow. 29.30 29.09 29.30 N.E. S.W. Rain. 29.96 30.04 30.11| |S.W. S.W. ||Fair. 30.41 30.39 30.28||N.E. |N.E. ||Fair. 29.40 29 53 29.55|| N. N. Snow. 29.72|29.70 29.80|| N. E. Fair. Snow. 29.90 29.95 29.95||S.W. S. Fair. Snow. 25 35 44 34.5 29 29.70 29.66 29.66 E. S.W.Cloudy. Cloudy. 26 29 14 135 20 46 29.72 29.72 29.76||N.W [N.W.Fair. 27/20 31 30 15 34 30.0430 0530.00||N.W.] S. Fair. 28/31 46 134 28.5 47 29 9730 0330 10||S.W. I S. E. Fair. 29/40 142 39 18.5 42 49.81 29.629.66] S. S. Rain. Means 17.1 29.1 24 10.6 30.5 ||29.72 |29.69|29.70|| 29.1|24 Thermometer. MARCH, 1816. Barometer. | Winds. Weather. 1 P. M. 1/30 14.5 34.5 24.5 46 224 42.5 36.5 19.5 45 6/21 526 33 33.5 21 :34 10 38.5 817.5 20 94 21 10/16 32 1116 33 29 12/21 40 33 13.18 14 35.5 42 15 10.5 21 21 16 14 1721 18 4 43 5 30.03 30.12 30.15] N.W.] S. E. Fair. Fair. 30.12 30.0 29.99 N.W. E. Fair. 29.89 29 94 29.99) N.E. 【N.E. ||Fog. 30 09 29.9% 29 83 N. E. N.E 29.85 29.99 30.10] N.W.|N.W.||Fair. 30.12 30.10 30.05 N.E. S. W. Cloudy. Cloudy. 29.93 29.80 29.64 N.E. S.E. Cloudy. Snow. 29.50 29.60 29.63 N.W.N.W.Snow. Fair. 29.719.70 29.80] N.W.N.W.Fair. 29.97 29.98 30 02 N. W. N. W. Fair. Fair. 7 139.730.21 30.20 30.17,N.W.S. W. ||Fair. Fair. 142 30 00 29.93 29.90 N.E. S.E.Cloudy. Cloudy. W. 29.97 29.96 29.8.; S. Fair. Fair. 29.50 29.40 29.50 S. W. N.W. Rain. 30.0230 03 30.04 N.W. E. Fair. 30 02 29.34 29.66 S. W. S.W. Fair. 29 82 29.84 30.00 N.W.N.W.||Cloudy. Fair. 30.53 30.53 30 54 N.W.N.W.Fair. 30.49 29.89 29.77 N.E. N.E. Snow. Cloudy. 29.85 29.60 29.5 N.E. Snow. Cloudy. 29.67 29 71 29.74 N.W.N.W. Fair. 30.01 30 05 30.0.N.W.N.W. Fair. Fair. 30.15 30 07 29.95 N.W. S. W. Cloudy. Fair. 29.80 29.83 29.83 N.W.N.W. Cloudy. Fair. 29.64 29.80 29.83 N.W.N.W. Fair. Fair. 29.83 29.66 29.63 S.E. 29.66|29.63 10.5 12.5 198 18 17.7 1 21 2017 27 26.5 14 28 23 10. 33 28 38.5 Mean temperature deduced from three observations each day 27.73° March 11.-Irised halo about the moon, 30o diameter. 23.--The thermometer at 7 1-2 degrees below zero, at this season, is very uncommon. 28.—Severe thunder shower; the cloud was extensive, but very narrow and uncommonly low. MISCELLANEOUS AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. A Greek literary society has been recently established at Athens. It is composed of the most distinguished native and foreign literati residing in that city. Of Some curious fraginents of Homer's Iliad have been discovered by Angelo Maja, attached to the Ambrosian library at Milan. One of these is a MS. pre-eminently beautiful, and of all the Homer MSS. the most venerable and the most admirable. these only fifty eight fragments remain, each of which has its picture, and the whole comorize about 800 verses. Maja intends publishing these precious reliques. The penmanship is simple and elegant. A correspondence between Hume, the Marchioness de Barbantine, and the Countess of Boufflers has lately been discovered, and excited much curiosity. Letters from Trieste state, that Count Gottorp (Gustavus, late King of Sweden) is in that city, with a retinue of fourteen persons, among whom is one female. The Count intends to proceed without delay to Jerusalem; but according to appearances, the funds of the party are not adequate to so distant an expedition. The Count shews himself very little in publick. He will embark in a French ship for Corfu, and there collect all the information for his farther progress. From a late official calculation, the annual income of some of the principal landed estates of England are estimated as follows. Duke of Northumberland Duke of Devonshire Duke of Bedford Duke of Marlborough £ 125,000. 115,000. 107,000. 95,000. 90,000. Duke of Buccleugh 90,000. Earl Grosvenor 84,000. Duke of Portland 80,090. Marquis Cholmondeley 78,000. Marquis of Hertford 77,000. Earl of Bute 76,000. University of Upsal in Sweden. During the first six months of 1814, the number of students at the University of Upsala was 1109; of which 693 were present, and 416 absent. Among this number were included 93 sons of nobles; 300 sons of clergymen, 294 sons of tradesmen and citizens, 175 sons of farmers and peasants, 262 sons of publick functionaries, 30 sons of military men, and 2 foreigners.—As to the kinds of study pursued by these youths, the number attached to theology was 269; to jurisprudence 159; to physick 123; to philosophy 307; and to various other sciences, 251.-The number of donations and exhibitions by patrons was 193; of which 26 by the King; 20 of physick and theology; and 137 founded by individual benefactors to literature. Spanish Missionaries. As one of the curious means adopted by Ferdinand the 7th to secure his newly assumed power, we learn from Spain, that he sent Missionaries throughout the country, to doctrinize the people who have been influenced by the late revolution; these Missionaries are Franciscan Friars belonging to the Apostolical Colleges. At a town 12 leagues from Madrid, one of these Friars got up into the pulpit, and harangued his hearers on the subject of the late constitution. He said it was heretical, jacobinical, destructive of religion, morality, &c.-For a long time coughings were constantly heard throughout his audience, till at length a tall whiskered muleteer, who could bear it no longer, got up and cried out, "Father, this is not the Gospel; you were sent here to preach the Gospel, and not a political discourse." In an instant all the audience rose up, the poor Friar took to his heels, escaped through the Sacristy to the Curate's house, and being pursued, fled over the garden wall. Mr. Pitkin, member of Congress from Connecticut, has published a work on the products, commerce, manufactures, publick debt, and revenues of the United States. We have not been able, in the present number of the North-American Review, to bestow on this publication the attention which it deserves. It is a book which every statesman, and every man who is concerned in publick affairs, or who desires to judge of them correctly, ought to have in his hands. It does not contain systems and principles, and speculations, like the work of the great founder of economical Science. It abounds in facts and tables, and is rather to be consulted than read. It is one of those books which are convenient to have at hand, to clear up occasional doubts, and settle particular inquiries. HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Count Rumford's Legacy. Through the attention of the gentlemen whɩ kindly undertook to be agents for the University in relation to this cacern, Messrs Welles and Williams of Paris, the documents on the subject have been recently transmitted. It appears that the executors of the Count's will, the Baron De Lessart and Daniel Parker, Esqrs. have settled the estate with the greatest fidelity and care, and that the sum arising to the College from the Count's bequest, is from nine to eleven hundred dollars per annum, the capital being vested in the name of the University, in the French funds. Officers of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected May 28th, 1816. Edward Augustus Holyoke, M. D. President. John Thornton Kirkland, D. D. L. L. D. Vice President. Hon. John Davis, L. L. D. Hon. Josiah Quincy. John Farrar, Recording Secretary Hon. Josiah Quincy, Corresponding Secretary. John Gorham, Cabinet Keeper. COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATIONS, Revd. Dr. Kirkland, Revd. Dr. Freeman, Hon. Nathieniel Bowditch. Prof. Willard, Prof. Farrar. Donations received during the last year. Memoirs of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburgh for the year 1809, presented by the society. Transactions of the Literary and Philsophical Society of NewYork, vol. 1st. by David Hosack, M. D. A volume of the Transactions of the Royal Veterinarian Society of Copenhagen, by the Society. Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Stockholm, for the years 1812, 1813, 1814. Maton's British Cottage architecture, by William Paine, M. D. Eulogy on the late Dr. John Warren, M. D. by Hon. Josiah Bartlett, M.D. |