It is the purpose of, this paper to show, in what manner we arrive at the knowledge of simple sounds, by the analytical examination of our speech, or the resolution of it into its principles. These simple sounds may be represented to the sight, by means of certain figures, appropriated to those sounds. Such figures then become the principles, first, of the writing of our speech, and, 2dly, of the reading of our written language.

L'amy, Esq; one of the Justices of Peace for the county of Forsar, and Mr John Guild, one of the Magistrates of Dundee, inclosing an affidavit made before them, of Jens Anderson, master, and Mads Jenson, mate of a Norwegian ship, relating to the appearance of a supposed kraken or sea-worm, on Sunday, August 5. 1786. about 15 leagues to the eastward of the coast of Scotland, in north latitude 56.16. The appearance was that of three low islands or sand-banks of a grayish colour, within less than a mile's distance from the ship, and extending about three miles from the one extremity to the other. It remained in sight about fifty minutes, and upon the springing up of a breeze, gradually funk into the water. The account contains no further particulars worthy of notice, and is perfectly confident with the idea of this being nothing more than a fog-bank, of which the appearances are familiar to mariners.

“Mr Bogle, whom, out of your kindness, you were pleased “to send into this quarter, having (thank God) arrived here in “perfect health, I had, at an auspicious hour, the pleasure of an “interview with him, and was rendered fo completely happy on “the occasion, that it might in reality have been thought an in“terview with yourself. The letter which you addressed to me, “and the presents you sent by Mr Boole, I have likewise re“ceived safe. May your happiness and prosperity daily in“crease. All the particulars which Mr Bogle verbally repre“sented to me, I perfectly understand. You were pleased to “write me, that you had sent orders for establishing peace with “the Debe Doria, agreeable to my request.

“Il sera peut être agréable à la Societé d'apprendre que l'on “a appliqué à Dijon, avec fuccès un remede que l'on doit à “un medecin de votre isle: l'alkali caustique pris intérieure-“ment pour le calcul ou la pierre. M. Durande, medecin “de cette ville a eu un malade qui avoit rendu beaucoup de “gravier par les urines, et avoit de grandes douleurs. Le ma-“lade, en même tems, ne vouloit pas entendre parler de se “faire fonder. M. Durande lui a administré l'alkali causti-“que dans un bouillon de veau, qui contenoit à peu près une “livre d'eau. Il a commencé par dix gouttes, et a fini, en “augmentant la dose, par l'administrer jusqu'à quarante “gouttes. Au bout de fix femaines, les accidens avoient telle-“ment cessé que le malade a dit n'avoir plus befoin de rien. “Il y a dix mois, et il se trouve très bien.

At the same Meeting, Mr Commissioner Smith reported the opinion of the Committee appointed to examine the three Dissertations offered as Solutions of the Count de Windischgratz's Problem, [See supra, Aug. 6. 1787.]; which was, That none of the three Dissertations amounted, either to a solution, or to an approximation towards a solution of that problem. The Committee, however, intimated their opinion, that one of thefe Dissertations, superscribed with the following sentence, Si quid novisti rectius istis, &c. though neither a solution of the problem nor an approximation to it, was a work of great merit. The Royal Society, hereupon, pronounced their judgment in terms of the said report; and they requested Mr Fraser Tytler to transmit this judgment, and the opinion of the Committee by a letter to the Count de Windischgratz.

We have examined the sample of spirits, which was sent by Dr Hunter of York to the Royal Society, and we have read the account of the experiment on the sermentation and distillation of carrots by which the said spirit was produced. The experiment was made by Mr Thomas Hornby, druggist in York, with one ton and eight stone of carrots, which, after being exposed to the air a few days to dry, weighed 160 stone, and measured 42 bushels; they were washed, topped and tailed, by which they lost in weight 11 stone, and in measure seven bushels; being then cut, they were boiled with the proportion of 24 gallons of water to one third of the above quantity of carrots, until the whole was reduced to a tender pulp, which was done in three hours boiling.