crossed the Siena d'Estralla, he entered the province of the mines. He remained at Barbacena some time, to make some astronomical observations, and then proceeded to the topaz mine of Capan, from whence he went to Ouro Prito, the capital of that rich province. M. de Castelnau from his experiments that the coefficients of elasticity diminish in a continuous manner as the temperature rises, but iron and steel are exceptions to this otherwise general rule. M. Wertheim has also made experiments as to the influence of the galvanic current upon the elasticity of metals. He finds that this current produces a momentary dim-describes it as a very curious city, both for its posiinution of the coefficient of elasticity in the metallic tion amongst gold mountains, and for the old Porwires over which it passes by its own action, tuguese style in which it is built. The expedition independently of the diminution produced by the afterwards visited the rich gold mines of Catta elevation of temperature. The diminution ceases Branca, Marro-Velho, and Gongo-Soco, all bewith the current, no matter how long its action may linging to English companies. The rainy season have been.-A paper was received from M. Fizeau then came on, and rendered dangerous their pason some experiments made with a view to obtain sage through the great desert of Rio San Franphotographic designs on paper from a daguerréo-cisco; and the expedition in consequence, entered type plate engraved by chemical means. The the province of Goyaz, by the Indian Aldea of problem consists in acting upon the daguerréotype Santa-Anna, and proceeded to Villa Boa, the capimpressions by an agent which eats into the dark ital, situated in the centre of Brazil. M. de Casparts, without affecting the light parts of the telnau represents this country as exceedingly rich. plate; or, in other words, which attacks the silver Gold is found abundantly in the river gravel, and in presence of the mercury, without affecting the pieces of native gold of several pounds weight are latter. A mixed acid, composed of nitric, nitrous, frequently discovered. The diamonds of Rioand chloric acids, has this property. The opera- Claro are remarkable for their size; and in the tion should be performed with the acid of heat. lake of Salinas pearls are found in shells of the The formation of the chlorure of silver, which is Unio kind. The expedition was going, when the an insoluble salt, would soon check the action of last intelligence left, to embark on the Rio Tothe acid, if it were not removed by an ammoniacal cantin, which it was to descend, in order to reach solution. After this first process, the plate would Goyaz by Arraguay. All this country is in the be engraved too slightly for good impressions to power of the most warlike tribes of the desert. come off; the plate is therefore rubbed over with On its return from this excursion of 600 leagues, linseed-oil, and then wiped, so as to leave the oil the expedition was to continue its journey towards only in hollow parts. The prominent parts are Lima, passing by Cuyaba, and Matto-Grasso.—Ib. then gilt by the galvanic process, and the reliefs being protected by gold, the hollow parts can be deepened at the will of the operator.-A paper by M. Vergnaud, on explosions in powder-mills, was read he is of opinion that these explosions are EIGHTEEN months since we published letters not produced by sparks from the crushing of the from M. Botta, announcing his interesting discovsilex, but by electrical sparks resulting from eries at Nineveh; and subsequently reported on peculiar circumstances, which he proposes to in- the progress of the exploration, and of the arrival vestigate.-A communication was made by the in Paris of a collection of drawings, inscriptions, scientific commission which was sent to Egypt. and fragments of sculpture, which were submitted In the atlas published by the commission are a to the Academy of Inscriptions, on whose report, great number of hieroglyphics, some of which the minister instructed M. Eugène Flandin to prorepresent the zodiac. In attempting to decipher ceed to Mosul, and assist in further researches. them, M. Champollion found the word autocraton, Letters just received, dated Mosul, June 9, give by which Nero was in the habit of signing his some later particulars. The writer says "The acts; consequently, it was presumed that the zo-works are going on actively at Khorsabad, (the diac was of the reign of Nero. Since the publica-modern village, built on the site of the old capition of the above work, M. Champollion has visited tal,) and the sculptures continue to present the Egypt, and, not being able to discover this inscription, he fancied that he had been hoaxed by the commission, and complained of the supposed hoax to the Academy. The members of the commission have, therefore, protested against his complaint, and declared that if he did not see the inscription, the fault was his own, not theirs, and they assert positively its existence.-Some amusement was created in this sitting by the exhibition of a Chinese polished metallic mirror. On the back of this mirror are certain engraved designs, which, when the rays of the sun strike upon the polished surface, are reflected upon the ceiling of a room as visibly as if they were engraved upon the face of the mirror.-Athenæum. WE learn from Alexandria, that the Mission of back at Thebes, in September.—Ib. Prussian Savans, under Dr. Lepsius, was expected same characteristic trait-everything warlike, and nothing appertaining to religion. We cannot yet form any idea of the plan of these buildings, although we have laid bare two halls, 108 feet in length, and a number of smaller rooms. Khorsa bad is built over one corner of an immense quadrangular enclosure, formed of walls built of bricks, bearing inscriptions, with towers at regular distances. The whole military and civil life of the Assyrians could be made out from the buildings and inscriptions which remain here. We have hitherto not experienced any opposition from the authorities; though they, in their ignorance, imagine that to find treasure must be our object. We have a quantity of objects to send home, as soon as our ambassador at Constantinople furnishes us with means of transport by the Tigris."-Ib. THE TELEPHONE, by Capt. John Taylor.-The chief object of this powerful wind-instrument is for conveying signals during foggy weather, by sounds produced by means of compressed air forced through trumpets, audible at six miles distance. The four notes are played by opening the valves of the recipient, and the intensity of sound is proportioned to the compression of the internal air. The small-sized telephone instrument, which is portable, was tried on the river, and the signal notes were distinctly heard four miles off. said that he had on this, as on former occasions, been led to the identification by finding in lists of drugs in Arabian medical writings, a name similar to that of hyssop in Hebrew. He then read some passages of Scripture where the hyssop is mentioned; from which it follows that the plant must COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY.-We have so frequent- have grown in lower Egypt, and about Mount ly stated our conviction that Association is the pre-Sinai before and during the Exodus, and aftervailing principle of the present age, that we have nothing left but to record the corroborations of the truth which are constantly occurring. We have now before us a "Proposal for establishing a College of Chemistry, for promoting the science, and its application to Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures and Medicine." The provisional council is rich in noble, parliamentary and learned names; and from the commercial character of our country, the success of such an institution may be reasonably predicted. The proposed college will, it is stated, "be mainly devoted to PURE SCIENCE: at the same time, to meet the exigencies of this country, and to adopt the latest improvements in the continental schools, an appendage will be provided devoted to the economic arts, where inquiries relating to pharmacy, agriculture, and other arts may be pursued. Thus it will be adapted to all classes of students."-Athenæum. wards, about Jerusalem; that it must grow on walls or rocks; and that it must get to a sufficient formed a bunch to be used in sprinkling; and that size to yield a rod or stick; that it must have it must have cleansing properties; and also that it should have a vernacular appellation similar to its Hebrew name. Many plants had been brought forward, but none of them possessed all the requisites. They either did not grow on walls, or they did not form a stick, or they had no cleansing properties, and none of them had a name like the Hebrew ezob or ezov. Dr. Royale had seen in Rhazes that a species of hyssop grew near Jerusalem; and Burckhardt describes a plant which he saw in the neighborhood of Mount Sinai called aszef. The name and description caused him to infer that this must be the caper plant, one of whose names is aszef. He then proceeded to show that the plant possesses all the qualities required for its identification with the hyssop; its name is similar; it grows upon rocks and walls; it is mentioned as becoming a shrub of a hardy and woody substance, when growing in a congenial climate; ancient authors speak of its detergent qualities; and it is still retained as an aperient root in some of the continental pharmacopoeias. From all these characteristics the professor concluded that the caper plant was the Hyssop of the Bible.-Athenæum. MISCELLANY. MARKET WESTON CHURCH-We have much pleasure in bringing to the notice of our readers a successful application of science in restoring to a perpendicular position the north wall of Market Weston Church. The church is supposed to have been erected in the fourteenth century. From age and casualties the north wall had declined outwardly nineteen inches from the perpendicular, and threatened the utter destruction of the building. Under the superintendence of Mr. Cottington, this wall, (the weight of which had been calculated at 240 tons,) has been brought up to the perpendicular, by the process of expanding by heat three bars of iron, two and a half inches in diameter, which AMID the "rumors of wars" by which the traversed and connected both walls of the church. European House of Peace is just now so unnaturThese bars, (which had screws worked on one ally disturbed, and, in view of the long and trouend of them and projected beyond the south wall,) bled life which, in peace as in war, the old man were inclosed in cast iron boxes filled with lighted who writes the following letter has led, there is charcoal. When the bars were fully expanded by something so genial and touching in such a remithe heat, the screws were wound up firmly to the niscence as it expresses, that we travel some undamaged south wall. The charcoal boxes were little out of our course to give it currency. From then removed, and the process of cooling com- what a tower of eminence, dearly won and wearily menced. Gradually the bars contracting equal-maintained-over what a sea of storms and revoly with their previous expansion, compelled the whole mass of the wall to follow the irresistible power now exerting itself, and in four successive operations the whole wall rose to its original perpendicular.-Bury Post. lutions, that have altered the physical boundaries, and changed the moral land-marks, of the nations of the world-along what an avenue of countless graves, furnished by the sword, the axe, and the natural touch of wasting time-through what a MSS. OF EULER.-A letter from St. Peters-wide, wild field of perplexing shadows-does the burgh mentions that, among the MSS. in the monarch, made wise by years, and wiser still by the chastening weight of the mighty crown upon University of Dorpat, have been found twenty- his faded brow, travel back, to this memory of his three manuscript and unpublished works of the vigorous manhood and exiled time! The letter celebrated mathematician, Euler. These manugoes to the heart like a homily; and the vanity of scripts, in Latin, French, and German, all dealing strife, and the nothingness of grandeur, and the with the most profound questions of science, have been purchased by the Imperial Academy of Sci- pleasantness of the voices like this rising up above them both, are its themes. At Hammerfest, the ences in the capital, and will be included in a new most northerly establishment, we believe, of civiledition of Euler's works, which that body is pre-ized Europe, the Norwegian Vice-Consul, Burk, paring for publication, and which will extend to something between 25 and 28 large quarto vol umes.-Athenæum. ASIATIC SOCIETY.-At the last meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society, a paper was read by Prof. Royle, on the identification of the Hyssop of the Scriptures with the Caper plant. The Professor recently celebrated the eighty-second anniversary of his birth-day; and, on that day, he received an autograph letter and a gold medal from the King of the French. One face of the medal has the monarch's bust; and, on the other, is this inscription:-"Given by King Louis Philippe to M. C. Burk, in memory of the hospitality received at Hammerfest, in August 1795." The letter is dated from Neuilly, and runs thus:-"It has always been pleasant to me, to feel that the traveller Muller is still unforgotten, in a country where he journeyed in lowly guise and unknown; and that journey is ever pleasantly remembered by me. Among my recollections, I put in the first rank the frank and cordial hospitality extended to me, a stranger, throughout the whole of Norway-in Norland and Finmark in particular; and now, when forty-nine years have past away since that pleasant time, and few are left of those by whom that hospitality was given, it is most agreeable to me to express to all who remain, through you, the gratitude which still survives."-Athenæum. ces, being constructed on the company's premises, NEW USES OF INDIA RUBBER.-About three years ago we published an account of this interesting substance, detailing its history, the manner in Such are the numerous purposes to which huwhich it is obtained from the various trees that man ingenuity can apply a single, and to all apyield it, and the uses to which it was then applied. pearance an insignificant substance the exuded At that time its chief and almost only use was in sap of a tree; showing that science not only supthe manufacture of Macintosh's waterproof cloth, plies our more obvious wants, but creates others, the fabrication of some surgical apparatus in which and calls into use hitherto neglected materials to elasticity and pliability were the objects desired, supply them. Nothing in nature is useless; if the rubbing out of black-lead pencil-marks from we cannot now see its value, let us rest assured paper, and a few other minute and unimportant that the time will come for its profitable applicaapplications. Now, however, this substance is tion.-Chambers' Journal. employed in some highly important branches of our manufactures, and has become a valuable agent WE rejoice to see, in the journals of our French in the arts and sciences-showing what an exten- neighbors, that the keeper of the seals has, at sive field the rapid advance of science may open length, interfered to put down the crying abuse up for the appliance of materials hitherto consid- which has converted the courts of criminal justice, ered as next to useless. From its peculiar elasti- in that country, into an arena whither the idle went city, its impermeability to air and water, its being in search of an emotion-as, in Spain, the ladies soluble only in naphtha, and from its great dura- sit at bull-fights. A recent trial, at the Assizes bility, it has been successfully employed in the for the Seine, has been attended by all the circumfabrication of various cloths, besides that of Mac- stance of a dramati performance; and the fair intosh for air-cushions, safety-belts and jackets; and well-dressed have intrigued for reserved places, ligaments and bandages for gloves, stockings, bra- and jostled for places at all, as at the début of and other articles of dress; for boots, stoppers some renowned actor. The attributes of law are for bottles, and numerous other purposes. With mocked by the presence of these trivialities-the these appliances most of our readers may be fa- whisper of the curious, the exclamation of the miliar; but few may know, or might expect, that mere sight-seer, and the sigh of the sentimental, it would be employed as a pavement for stables, disturb the calm and passionless character proper lobbies, public halls, and the like; that it is now to the place of Justice, in her solemn hour of debeing used in the construction of life-boats; and liberation; and the lives of trembling men are that is also proposed to use it extensively in the weighed in balances that seem, amid such accesfitting up of our men-of-war. The Elastic Pave-sories, as unreal and dramatic as the acted catasment Company have lately erected machinery for trophes of the mimic stage. For these seekers the preparation of the material for these important after excitement, whose craving nothing less than purposes, and can produce it, it seems, at a price suf- the mortal agonies of a trial of life and death can ficiently moderate to admit of its general adoption. satisfy, it were better to revive the gladiator's As a pavement for stables. the caoutchouc pre- circus of old times, than let the courts of criminal paration is said to be unequalled, preventing the justice be ever entered in a spirit of lounging critlodging of stale matters, and their consequent nox-icism, or fashionable curiosity. We observe, by ious exhalations; requiring little litter; and pre- the way, referring to another notorious trial, in serving the knees and other parts of the horse from which this abuse was carried to its highest pointinjuries which are apt to be received in stone-paved justice ran, for a time, the risk of changing her stables. By a little precaution, the ammonia, character altogether, amid the comments of the which now exhales to the injury of the horse's sentimental and the tears of the sympathizers-and health, may be collected and sold as a manure, at the ladies of a certain part of France lost more repfrom two to three pounds per horse per annum. utation than they can recover, at least in this geneThe stables of the commissioners of Woolwich ration,-that the Vicomte de Leotaud has sold the dockyard have been paved with this material for diamonds recovered by him from the wretched upwards of two years, and are allowed to be su- Madame Lafarge, and sent their price to be disperior in point of cleanliness, freedom from smell,tributed among the poor of the towns of Tulle and Brive.-Athenæum. and healthiness, to what they were previous to the laying down of the elastic pavement. It has PRISONERS SET AT LIBERTY.-Very early this also been laid down in the Adiniralty courtyard, morning, July 19, the Bashaw set at liberty all the and the carriage entrance court to Windsor Castle, prisoners of Abukir. This act of clemency was where it has given much satisfaction. "With announced to Ibrahim Pasha on his arrival at the respect to its application to marine purposes," palace to inquire after the health of his father; ss the Railway Gazette, "a life-boat is now it is said he shed tears of joy on the occasion. taking a new direction; and the place in which to study their habits and varieties is now the Egyptian Hall, in Piccadilly. To the Ojibbeways have succeeded the lowas, a body of whom, fourteen in number, warriors, squaws, and a “ papoose," have arrived at that town residence from their seat on the Upper Missouri, near the Rocky Mountains of North America, for the purpose of exhibiting their war and other dances, songs and games, under the arrangement of Mr. Catlin. They are headed by their principal chief, "White Cloud," and their "Great Medicine Man ;" and this is the first time, it is said, that the head of a tribe, or a mystery man," has ever left his native prairies for a foreign land. In personal appearance these men are inferior to their predecessors, the Ojibbeways; still, we warn our country women, after what has passed, to be on their guard against the seductions of "Ro 66 ware of Strutting Pigeon," and her sister squaws, who are, we understand, very formidable-looking persons. One of them is called "Oke-we-me," the " Female Bear that walks on the back of another;" and the name is, we think, very significant of what an English lady may expect in the wigwam of an Indian chief. These people are amongst the most warlike of the North American tribes-more wild and uncouth than any who have yet made their appearance in this country-and well worth visiting, we understand, for the striking pictures they exhibit of the rude and savage life of the forest and the prairie.-Athenæum. MR. GEORGE STEPHENSON.-This eminent engineer, at a recent entertainment at Newcastle, gave the following account of himself:-"The first locomotive that I made was at Killingworth colliery, and with Lord Ravensworth's money. Yes! Lord Ravensworth and Co., were the first parties that would intrust me with money to make à locomotive engine. That engine was made 32 years ago, and we called it My Lord.' I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand. In this respect great perfection has been reached, and in consequence a very high velocity has been attained. In what has been done under my management, the merit is only in part my own; I have been most ably seconded and assisted by my son. In the earlier period of my career, and when he was a little boy, I saw how deficient I was in education, and made up my mind that he|man Nose" (“No-ho-mun-ya.") Let them beshould not labor under the same defect, but that I would put him to a good school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man, and how do you think I managed? I betook myself to mending my neighbors' clocks and watches at night, after my daily labor was done; and thus I procured the means of educating my son. He became my assistant and my companion. He got an appointment as under-reviewer, and at nights we worked together at our engineering. I got leave to go from Killingworth to lay down a railway at Hetton, and next to Darlington; and after that I went to Liverpool to plan a line to Manchester. I there pledged myself to attain a speed of 10 miles an hour. I said I had no doubt the locomotive might be made to go much faster, but we had better be moderate at the beginning. The directors said 1 was quite right; for if, when they went to Parliament, I talked of going at a greater rate than 10 miles an hour, I would put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour, but it must be done, and I did my best. I had to place myself in that most unpleasant of all positions the witness-box of a parliamentary committee. I was not long in it, I assure you, before I began to wish for a hole to creep out at. I could not find words to satisfy either the committee or myself. Some one inquired if I were a foreigner, and another hinted that I was mad. But I put up with every rebuff, and went on with my plans, determined not to be put down. Assistance gradually increased-improvements were made every day and to-day a train, which started from London in the morning, has brought me in the afternoon to my native soil, and enabled me to take my place in this room, and see around me many faces which I have great pleasure in looking upon."-Sun. It is understood that a treaty is, at present, in course of negotiation, on the part of England, with the Prussian government, for the suppression of literary piracy, and protection of copyright, in the two countries; and that if the object be satisfactorily attained, it will be proposed also by our government to all the States included in the Zollverein. DRAWING OF THE PICTURE-LOTTERIES. THE drawing of the Art-Union prizes having taken place, it is generally supposed that this and other picture-lotteries have been legalized by act of Parliament. Such is not the case, however: the act, as its preamble states, is simply "an act to indemnify persons connected with Art-Unions, and others, against certain penalties." It discharges from all penal liabilities those connected with ArtUnions until the 31st of July next year; the parties concerned with distributions and other schemes of private individuals being only allowed till the 1st of October ensuing. Lord Monteagle's bill originally contained a clause legalizing the ArtUnions, and providing for their regulations; but this was struck out by the Commons, and not restored by the Lords, on the understanding that a special act should be introduced early next session. PENSION ON THE CIVIL LIST.-The following There is little doubt but that Art-Unions will be are the pensions which have been granted during the year ending June 20-Dame Maria Bell, legalized on certain conditions; and the report of 1007. a year, in consideration of the services the committee will probably influence government rendered to science by her late husband, Sir in laying down the restrictions under which these Charles Bell; Miss Ann Drummond, in consider-associations are to be sanctioned. The report is ation of the public services of her brother, the lamented Mr. Edward Drummond, assassinated by Macnaghten, 2007., a year; Mr. Robert Brown, the botanist, 2507., a year; Dame Florentia Sale, wife of the hero of Jellalabad, 5007., a year; and Sir William Rowan Hamilton, the Astronomer Royal for Ireland, 2007., a year: making altogether, 1,2007. per annum thus conferred.-Ath. IOWA INDIANS.-The migration of the Indian tribes driven from their ancient hunting grounds is not yet printed; when it is, we shall return to the subject. Meanwhile, it seems desirable that the managing committees of Art-Unions should con sider the best means of carrying into effect the pur poses of these associations to the satisfaction of subscribers, and so as to disarm the opposition of the printsellers. This opposition is chiefly directed against the distribution of prints; and it would be well to take the opinion of the mass of subscribers as to the value set upon these prints, befor deciding upon making enemies of the printselle who were at first the best friends of Art-Unions, | share for his friend d'Alembert. This work, deand have latterly become rivals in self-defence. monstrative alike of his acquirements and irreligion, We do not counsel any truckling to opposing inter-occupied his mind while concealed, during the ests; we only question if the prints are generally period of terror, from October, 1793, to the following appreciated, or if the possession of those already March, when, outlawed and refused an asylum by circulated has had such a beneficial effect as is sup- Suard, he ended his life by poison on a spot which posed. A medallion in bronze, or a small plaster-I have often visited. He then, also, for the first cast, well-finished, from some fine piece of sculp- time as he says, attempted to versify, and, in reture, would be preferred by many persons of taste taliation of some lines from his wife, the sister of to a mediocre and uninteresting print. The com- Marshal Grouchy, to whom Napoleon imputed the mittee intend offering a prize of 5001. for the best disaster of Waterloo, addressed her an epistle under cartoon for an oil-picture to be painted for the pur- the semblance of a Polish exile in Siberia. The pose of being engraved from. This is well-meant poetry is that of a mathematician, but a most exliberality; but pictures of such universal and last-pressive distich which I have heard his accomplishing interest as to bear multiplying by thousands ed daughter, the spouse of my friend General without losing their charm, are not to be had to Arthur O'Connor, repeat with filial pride and virorder. A line engraving of surpassing excellence tuous sympathy, deserves notice. It indicates his from the work of some great master would be ac- resolution to encounter every risk rather than conceptable to most people, and exert a beneficial cur in the horrors which so deeply stained that influence on the popular taste. The Cartoons of epoch, though certainly not without reproach himRaphael might be carefully copied and engraved; self in having prepared the way for them. there is not a set of perfect copies extant; there- «Ils m'ont dit : choisi d'être oppresseur ou victime; fore they would be valuable.—Spectator. J'embrassai le malheur, et leur laissai le crime." MR. J. TOULMIN SMITH, in his “Discovery of America by the Northmen in the Tenth Century," has shown the high antiquity of the pedigree of the sculptor Thorwaldson, in his descent from Thornfinn, and Gudrid his wife, two of the earliest colonists of the American Vinland, the exact site of which is so much disputed. They passed a winter at Straumfiord, i. e., The Bay of Currents, where their son, Snorri was born, and which spot Mr. Smith identifies with Buzzard's Bay. Snorri Thornfinnson was thus born in the present state of Massachusetts, in the year 1007, being the first of European blood, of whose birth in America we have any record. From him the celebrated living sculptor Thorvaldson is lineally descended, besides a long train of learned and illustrious characters, who have flourished during the last eight centuries in Iceland and Denmark."-Gent. Mag. 66 Ibid. "THE REV. SYDNEY SMYTH was a creditor." True, and the ball went with great force considering the little powder it had; for all the reverend speculator hazarded in the Pennsylvanian funds was 6007. !--Ibid. BURKE had the sole management of the Annual Register at its appearance in 1758, and some subsequent years. He was paid 601. or 501. per annum for his labors; so very humble was this great man's commencement.-Ibid. THE PEASANT OF PALESTINE.-"The peasant of Palestine must have been far superior to the country people of England. Every year he made three journeys to attend the celebration of the three great festivals. These journeys, with their turns and changes for the sake of variety, would bring him into acquaintance with a great number of perLAVOISIER. In the elaborate article of a recent sons, places, and adventures, and would thus give Quarterly Review, on the atrocities of the revo- him much scope for observation and reflection. lutionary tribunal, I was much disappointed at not An English farmer may live all his days in a nook discovering a special advertence to the most inter- of his native country without extending his knowlesting of the accompanying circumstances, in the edge by observation or report over a larger space loss sustained by science, on that occasion, of than the few miles between his own village and Lavoisier, one of its brightest ornaments, when the the nearest market town, and then he will meet great mathematician, La Grange, mournfully re- those only who live within a very moderate circle marked, "Il n'a fallu qu'un moment pour round that town; not so the yeoman of Israel. In faire tomber cette tête, et cent années, peut-être, many instances he had to pass over spaces from 50 ne suffiront pas pour en produire une autre." to 120 miles. He would meet and travel in comLavoisier, just then engaged in experiments of pany with men branching off right and left in all pregnant importance to human life, disdained not, directions. All would have something to tell of says his eulogist Cuvier, to solicit a few days' their own territories. Friendships formed by trav respite for their completion, but in vain. "The re-elling together would give rise to frequent invitapublic wants no philosophers or chymists, nor shall tions between members of distantly settled tribes. the course of justice be arrested," was the charac-Thus a general knowledge of the whole country teristic answer of the execrable Coffinhal. Cuvier would be spread everywhere. The dwellers in presumes that these experiments related to animal Dan would know far more about Beersheba than transpiration.-Ibid. Hampshire men know of Lancashire, and the tribes beyond the Jordan would have a far better idea of CONDORCET, in his posthumous "Esquisse des the whole Mediterranean coast, derived from interProgrès de l'Esprit Humain," (Neuvième Epoque,) course with those settled in that direction, than the pays a due tribute to the genius of Newton, while men of Norfolk have of the coast of the Irish chanmaintaining that a student just emerged from his nel. We may convince ourselves how certainly college course was then, that is in 1794, more this was the case, by turning over the Bible simply advanced in mathematics than our great country- to mark how generally the localities of the whole man was, or could have been, in the preceding country and their characteristics were known to century, so progressive had been the movement of the public at large. Thus, to take a single science in that interval,-an advantage of which instance out of multitudes. The prospects from he claims, and no doubt justly, no inconsiderable | Lebanon,—the odor of its cedars, brought out by |