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Tfle of France, and perhaps to Europe. I fhall leave them at 

 Timor, to which we intend to return when we have explored 

 thefouth part of New Holland. 1 have little hope of bring- 

 ing back many from that ftrange country . The commodore 

 has already informed me that it is almoll impoflible to carry- 

 on board living plants on a coa(t fo dangerous, and to ftow 

 them in a vellel where fo much room is required for perform- 

 ing the multiplied manoeuvres rendered neceflary by- the in- 

 creased danger. 



" I think we (hall leave this place about the end of the 

 month in order to explore the fouth coaft of New Holland/* 



The court of Madrid has determined to fend out two fga- 

 -vans to make difcoveries in the interior of Africa. They are 

 now at Paris, but are to vifit this country for the purpofe of 

 purchafing mathematical and agronomical inftruments. They 

 wifh alfo, previous to their departure, to have an opportunity 

 of conferring with the African Society, and of feeing Mungo 

 Parke, who is fo eminently qualified to give them that pre- 

 vious information which may enable them to profecute their 

 refearches with fuccefs. 



ANTIQUITIES. 



The prefect of the department of the C6tes-du-Nord having 

 ordered fome refearches to be made by digging in the village 

 of Courfeult, two leagues from Dinan, the workmen employed 

 came to the ruins of a buried city, refpe&ing the exigence or 

 deftru&ion of which no traditionary accounts are preferved. 

 Several antiquaries are of opinion that it was the antient ca- 

 pital of the Curiofolites, the name of which is dill preferved in 

 the corrupted appellation of Courfeult. Several highways, the 

 pavement of which is in good prefervation, end at this vil- 

 lage, and proceed in the following directions : one towards 

 Rennes, another towards Vannes, a third towards Cou- 

 tances, and a fourth towards the lea. A quantity of walls, 

 of greater or lefs thicknefs, have been found, which, no 

 doubt, formed the houfes and flreets of the town; citterns; 

 the half of an octagon temple; a great many medals of 

 Nero, Tiberius, Fauftina, Conftantine, and others, with fmall 

 bronze figures. There is reafon to hope that more important 

 difcoveries will be made to decide the uncertainty which pre- 

 vails among the learned in regard to the exiftence of this 

 iiitient town. 



Jn our eleventh volume we informed our readers that 

 M. Von Hammer among other interesting obje&s had disco- 

 vered and got pofieffion in Egypt oi an Arabian MS. of great 



antiquity, 



