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Scientific Intelligence.
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE .
NAVIGATION . "MTR . COTTO > , the India Director , has invented a machine , and J * presented it to the Company , which will effectually prevent the j ? udder of a vessel being unshipped at sea . . Mr . Pitcher has lately contracted with Government to build two new row boats of war on a new conductionin six weeks tim <\ They
, are to carry one cannon in the bow , and two short carrotiades in the stern . Theyare to be seven feet wide , 18 feet deep , and 60 feet in the keel ; and to contain 6 *; men , 60 of whom are to be rowers . Their great utility is , to go in any direction , independent of wind or tide .
ORDNANCE . THE Board of Ordnance are now having tried at Woolwich , under the inspection of Mr . Ives , late Gunner of the Ardent and now of the Gelykeheid , some carronades that were found most effective on board of the Ardent , in Lord Duncan's engagement with the Dutch . Their trial being first made in this shiancl immediatelunder the orders of
p , y the late Captain Burgess , and from whom Mr Ives received particular instructions respecting their management , is the reason of his being thought the most eligible person to attend their trial at Woolwich Captain Burgess ordered , at the commencement of the action , that wherever they first recoiled , that should be the place from which he would have them afterwards discharged . By this means their
management was directed with more certainty , effect , and expedition . ARCHITECTURE . A PATENT has lately passed the Great Seal , which promises much advantage to the public—it is an improvement on all kinds of stoves and the construction of fire-places , on the princi ples so ingeniously laid down the celebrated
by Count Rumford . Its objects , we understand , are , to give a much greater heat than by any stoves now in use , and a remedy , or cure , for all sinoaky chimnies ,
VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS . SOME accounts brought by ships from the North Sea make mention of a more than usuall y terrible eruption of Mount Hecla in Iceland , which has devastated a track of country round it , the most productive in pasturage of any in the island . Few explosions , within the last century , have discharged any thing more than stones , & c . but , in this
case , we are told there was a copious discharge of lava for sixteen days . A great number of the rude habitations of the natives , which abound in this comparatively productive spot , have been destroyed .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Scientific Intelligence.
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE .
NAVIGATION . "MTR . COTTO > , the India Director , has invented a machine , and J * presented it to the Company , which will effectually prevent the j ? udder of a vessel being unshipped at sea . . Mr . Pitcher has lately contracted with Government to build two new row boats of war on a new conductionin six weeks tim <\ They
, are to carry one cannon in the bow , and two short carrotiades in the stern . Theyare to be seven feet wide , 18 feet deep , and 60 feet in the keel ; and to contain 6 *; men , 60 of whom are to be rowers . Their great utility is , to go in any direction , independent of wind or tide .
ORDNANCE . THE Board of Ordnance are now having tried at Woolwich , under the inspection of Mr . Ives , late Gunner of the Ardent and now of the Gelykeheid , some carronades that were found most effective on board of the Ardent , in Lord Duncan's engagement with the Dutch . Their trial being first made in this shiancl immediatelunder the orders of
p , y the late Captain Burgess , and from whom Mr Ives received particular instructions respecting their management , is the reason of his being thought the most eligible person to attend their trial at Woolwich Captain Burgess ordered , at the commencement of the action , that wherever they first recoiled , that should be the place from which he would have them afterwards discharged . By this means their
management was directed with more certainty , effect , and expedition . ARCHITECTURE . A PATENT has lately passed the Great Seal , which promises much advantage to the public—it is an improvement on all kinds of stoves and the construction of fire-places , on the princi ples so ingeniously laid down the celebrated
by Count Rumford . Its objects , we understand , are , to give a much greater heat than by any stoves now in use , and a remedy , or cure , for all sinoaky chimnies ,
VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS . SOME accounts brought by ships from the North Sea make mention of a more than usuall y terrible eruption of Mount Hecla in Iceland , which has devastated a track of country round it , the most productive in pasturage of any in the island . Few explosions , within the last century , have discharged any thing more than stones , & c . but , in this
case , we are told there was a copious discharge of lava for sixteen days . A great number of the rude habitations of the natives , which abound in this comparatively productive spot , have been destroyed .