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Page iii - Schultz gives an account of some very curious experiments on cercfcritt ephemera; and although, of all vertebral animals, birds are those which have the shortest lives, he brings forward, in opposition to these beings of a few hours, the instance of a paroquet, carried in 1633 from Italy into France, which was still living in 1743, and which, consequently, was above 110 years old.
Page ix - Saratov?, in the Russian dominions, deserves attention ; in 1748, when the Russians first fetched salt thence, the lake was almost solid with salt, and to such a degree, that they drove their heavy waggons over it, as over a frozen river; but since 1757, the waters have so much increased, that at present, it is nothing more than a lake strongly impregnated with salt. The waters of the ocean contain salt in different proportions ; the water of the Baltic Sea contains one sixtyfourth part of its weight...