. The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany. candidate for Magellansprizc»medaL—-The mottc^—Viresacquiret cedendo. A papei, intitledj * The disco-very of the means of finding the Longi-tude, by another candidate for tiieprize-mxdal. The motto—Mea-sure a thing without an end. October 5. A paper, in Frencli,giving an account- of a remarkabledistemper <vjhich raged among cattle^in the southern parts of Montargis,during the year 17 84. By M«Gastiilier. A paper from Timothy Mat-lack, esq. and dr. Wister, of Phi-ladelphia, giving an account anddescription of a thigh-bone of some un-knonjjn
. The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany. candidate for Magellansprizc»medaL—-The mottc^—Viresacquiret cedendo. A papei, intitledj * The disco-very of the means of finding the Longi-tude, by another candidate for tiieprize-mxdal. The motto—Mea-sure a thing without an end. October 5. A paper, in Frencli,giving an account- of a remarkabledistemper <vjhich raged among cattle^in the southern parts of Montargis,during the year 17 84. By M«Gastiilier. A paper from Timothy Mat-lack, esq. and dr. Wister, of Phi-ladelphia, giving an account anddescription of a thigh-bone of some un-knonjjn animal, of a most enormous siz,eylately found at Woodbury-creek,in Gloucester county, New-Jer-sey. By a comparison of measures,it appears, that the animal towhich this bone belonged, musthave exceeded in size the largestof those -whose bones have beenfound on the Olii©, of which wehave any account, in the propor-tion of about ten to seven, andmust have been nearly cioiible theordinary size of the elephant. A letter from Mr. Robert Pat- f. The varied Landicape. 413 tersjn, of Philadelphia, contain-in 2; <ifi explanatiojiy on the principle:of hydrostaticst of that curims phceno-menont first shserved by dr, trujiklutjviz. * That when a glass tumbler,about two thirds ftllcd with equalparts of water and oil, is inovedgenrly, backwards and forwards,in the hand, or made to swing, atthe end of a chord, like the pen-dulum of a clock; chs surface ofthe water, in contact with the oilfloating upon it, will be throwninto a violent wave-like commoti-on, while the upper surface of theoil will remain comparatively pla-cid and even. The doctor, in relating the experiment, whichhe does not himself explain, ob-serves, ** that having shewn it toa number of ingenious persons,those who are but slightly ac-quainted with the principles ofhydrostatics, ^c. are apt to fancyimmediately, that they understandir, and readily attempt to explainit; but that their explanationshave been deficient, a
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