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Scientific Intelligence.
PHILANTHROPIC COLONIZATION . FROM the last Paris Papers it appears , that this subject has begun to occupy the attention of the public in France . Mr . Wadstrom , who published a work on Colonization in England , some time ago , presented his work to the Council of Five Hundred . In his addiess , ha descants upon the advantages which may he derived from a
philanthropic system of colonization , ami cites with approbation the plan which has been formed in this country by the Siena Leone company to carry the principle into effect . The Council of Five Hundred , in compliance with his suggestion , appointed a committee to examine into the subject of Philanthropic Colonization , and expressed their approbation of the design . The society called Les Amis des Noirs ,
established during the time of Brissof , for the abolition of the slavetrade , is now revived , and devotes its attention to this subject . It is ; attended by the seven negroes , deputies to the councils from St . Dominique ; and Gregoire Lanthenas , & c . have presented several interesting reports upon the subject . ASTRONOMT .
PATHS , March 22 . THE sun had been seen some days without any spot , but on the 19 th of February there appeared a small one on its eastern limb . It had arrived there in the ni ght time , as well as that which was formed in the present decade . It will employ thirteen days and a half to traverse the sun ' s disk , according to the time of the sun ' s rotationin regard to the earthwhich I have determined to be 27
, , days , 7 hours , and 37 minutes . In comparing with each other the large spots visible by the naked eye in the year 1752 , 1764 , 1777 , and 1778 , 1 consider them to be the same spofyor at least formed at the same point of the solar globe , where there is , probably , a local cause , which , from time to time , produces at the same place the same phenomenon . LALANDE .
METEORS . A letter from Lyons states , that a luminous body was observed in the canton of Calvire , on the evening of the 18 th Ventose ( March 8 ) . It appeared to direct its course from the east to the west , traversing the heavens from Calvire to Mont-d'Or , where it fell . It made itself be distinguished in its course by a noise like that of a long and violent discharge of musquetry . L . ilande has published the following
note respecting these singular meteors : ' One frequently observes , ' says he , ' globes of fire in the atmosphere . J have mentioned above 3 6 instances of ' that kind in the Connoissances des Temps for the year 1779 . That observed on the 18 th of Ventose ( March 8 ) in the department of Ain , at seven in the evening , was attended with some singular circumstances . The
heavens were serene , and a large g lobe , as bi g as the moon , was seen to proceed fiom the east , and to advance with a rapid motion towards the west . It was followed by a train of light , the rays of which , collected into bundles , were terminated b y small globes . Six or seven sprigs of stars were seen on each side of the train , At the end of
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Scientific Intelligence.
PHILANTHROPIC COLONIZATION . FROM the last Paris Papers it appears , that this subject has begun to occupy the attention of the public in France . Mr . Wadstrom , who published a work on Colonization in England , some time ago , presented his work to the Council of Five Hundred . In his addiess , ha descants upon the advantages which may he derived from a
philanthropic system of colonization , ami cites with approbation the plan which has been formed in this country by the Siena Leone company to carry the principle into effect . The Council of Five Hundred , in compliance with his suggestion , appointed a committee to examine into the subject of Philanthropic Colonization , and expressed their approbation of the design . The society called Les Amis des Noirs ,
established during the time of Brissof , for the abolition of the slavetrade , is now revived , and devotes its attention to this subject . It is ; attended by the seven negroes , deputies to the councils from St . Dominique ; and Gregoire Lanthenas , & c . have presented several interesting reports upon the subject . ASTRONOMT .
PATHS , March 22 . THE sun had been seen some days without any spot , but on the 19 th of February there appeared a small one on its eastern limb . It had arrived there in the ni ght time , as well as that which was formed in the present decade . It will employ thirteen days and a half to traverse the sun ' s disk , according to the time of the sun ' s rotationin regard to the earthwhich I have determined to be 27
, , days , 7 hours , and 37 minutes . In comparing with each other the large spots visible by the naked eye in the year 1752 , 1764 , 1777 , and 1778 , 1 consider them to be the same spofyor at least formed at the same point of the solar globe , where there is , probably , a local cause , which , from time to time , produces at the same place the same phenomenon . LALANDE .
METEORS . A letter from Lyons states , that a luminous body was observed in the canton of Calvire , on the evening of the 18 th Ventose ( March 8 ) . It appeared to direct its course from the east to the west , traversing the heavens from Calvire to Mont-d'Or , where it fell . It made itself be distinguished in its course by a noise like that of a long and violent discharge of musquetry . L . ilande has published the following
note respecting these singular meteors : ' One frequently observes , ' says he , ' globes of fire in the atmosphere . J have mentioned above 3 6 instances of ' that kind in the Connoissances des Temps for the year 1779 . That observed on the 18 th of Ventose ( March 8 ) in the department of Ain , at seven in the evening , was attended with some singular circumstances . The
heavens were serene , and a large g lobe , as bi g as the moon , was seen to proceed fiom the east , and to advance with a rapid motion towards the west . It was followed by a train of light , the rays of which , collected into bundles , were terminated b y small globes . Six or seven sprigs of stars were seen on each side of the train , At the end of