15B SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



cution df the tfumpet isiparticulrtiiy astonishing. For eacit 

 instrument the inventor has contrived a moulhpiece adapted 

 to its nature, which answers with the greaiest perfection to 

 the capacity of the human organs. 

 Intended tour The chev. von Hoegemuller, superinteiidant of the Aos* 

 iuthe Last. ^^^^ ^^lilitaty studs, i& to set off in November (vn a tour in 

 the East, with the necessary instrumeiits and attendants, 

 under the patronage of prince Charles. His principal oL)- 

 ject is the natural histor\' of the horse ; but he will n>uke a 

 point of endeavouring to answer any quesiious, that shall 

 be addressed to him by the learned who cultivate sieogra- 

 phy, p])ilo!ogT, archaeology, numismatics, &c. He intends' 

 to traverse Hungary, Transylvania, Buchowina, the Ukraine, 

 embark at Odessa for Constantinople, and thence proceed' 

 to Aleppo. 

 Ancient busts Mr. Jefferson, the president of the United States of Ame- 

 Scan ladumsr ^'*^''*' ^^^^ "^ possession several busts made by Indians. They 

 are nearly of the natural s ze, and reach to the middle of the 

 body. The features are well marked, and characteristic of 

 the copper^coloured or American race. In one, represent- 

 ing an aged savage, the wrinkles and the expression of the 

 coimtenance are very well marked. These busts were found 

 in digging at Palmyra, on the river Tennessee. The sub-- 

 stance of which they are formed, and which is extremely- 

 hard, is not known: some suppose them to have been cut 

 by the chissel out of solid stone ; others that they are a com- 

 position, first moulded, and then burned. Whether they 

 were idols, or busts of distinguished persons, is equally 

 questioned. Who were the progenitors of the present race 

 of Indians, that were capable of thus executing a tolerably 

 good resemblance of the human head, face, neck, and shoul- 

 ders? 

 Extensive General David Memweather writes to Dr* Mitchill p£ 



ridges of shells i^fg^ York, that the vast bauks of shells commencing on. 

 the southern bank of the Savannah, near White Blutl, ex- 

 tend in a right line through a space of about a hundred 

 miles from the borders of the sea toward the sotith-w est; 

 The ridges are not entire, but the ground is rnqre. elevated 

 to the breadth of six or eight miles than it is above or be- 

 ^gw. Not only oyst-er-shclls, but those of cockles, and others, 



are 



