93 American Elk domejllcnted, 



this celebrated country. They have corre(5led many topo- 

 graphical errors, the neceflary confequencc of mere admca*- 

 furement, by aftronomical obfervations ; and laid the foun-. 

 ditions for a corrc6l geographical map of the country. A 

 complete knowledge of the monuments of antiquity which 

 now remain (moftly in Upper Egypt) has been obtained ; 

 and plans of the fcite of many celebrated antient cities have 

 been taken. Drav/ings have been made of the fculptures on 

 the antient monuments, as well as of the monuments them- 

 fclvcS: In the fepulchral excavations of Thebes many mum- 

 mies in high prefervation have been found ; and, which is 

 of much greater importance, along with them feveral rolls of 

 papyrus, which enrich the pofleflbrs with fome of the moft 

 antient manufcripts in the w^crld. On the bafe of a periftile 

 at Efne a fculpture of the zodiac has been difcovered, in which 

 the folftice is indicated in Virgo ; and another in the great 

 temple of Dendara, which reprefents the fun in Leo : his 

 approach to Cancer has alfo been obferved. Thefe fliow dt 

 the fame time the antiquity of the temples, and the know- 

 ledge which the Egyptians polTefled of the preceffion of the 

 equinoxes. 



Two vafes containing about two thoufand Roman gold 

 coins have lately been difcovered near Beauvais in France. 

 They confift chiefly of the emperors from Galba to Geta in- 

 cluflve, many of them of beautiful workmanftup and in high 

 prefervation, They were eagerly feized upon by the perfons 

 in the neighbourhood, and it is believed that the fear of 

 lofing them keeps fome of the moft valuable of them con- 

 cealed ; efpecially thofe of the emprefles. This will, how- 

 ever, probably for a long time be a fource of valuable fpeci- 

 mcns for cabinets \ for fooner or later they will come to 

 light. 



THE AMERICAN ELK DOMESTICATED. 



We are happv to find that a fuccefsful attempt to tame 

 this animal has been made by Mr. Chancellor Livingfton, 

 Prefident of the New-York Society for promoting Agricul- 

 ture, Arts and Manufactures . It may not perhaps be too 

 much to hope, that at no very diftant period the old world 

 may thus receive from the new a ufeful domcftic animal in 

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