374 jpi/coveries in Africa.— Silver Mine. 



In order that the collections may he profitable to the arts,' 

 they ought only to be formed where a degree of knowledge 

 already acquired may give them 3. value, and where a nume- 

 rous population and the natural difpofition of the people 

 afford a prefage of luccefs }n the education of the pupils. It 

 is for that reafon I propofe to form J5 grand depots of pic- 

 tures at Lyons, Bourdeaux, Strafburgh, Bruffels, Marfeilles, 

 Rouen, Nantes, Dijon, Touloufe, Qeneva, Caen, Lille, 

 fylentz, Rennes, and Nancy. 



c<i But it is little to have determined the places for thefe 

 Repots— —it is neceffary to make choice of fuch collections as 

 prefent an interesting feries of paintings of all matters, of all 

 kinds, and of all fchools ; and I think it is neceiVary to ap- 

 point a committee charged with the labour of preparing for 

 each of the cities pointed out the collection adapted for 

 them.'* 



A decree paffed agreeably to this report. 



DISCOVERIES IN AFRICA. 



According to accounts from Triefie, dated March 1801, 



Imblifhed in the German Mercury. Horneman the traveller 

 iad written to a friend in Egypt, by the lait caravan from 

 t>arfur, which had been abfent for two years, becauie the lafi 

 had been plundered during the unfettled Hate of affairs in 

 Egypt. At the time Horneman wrote he was at the court 

 of the king of Darfur, where he had met with a very favour- 

 able reception, and was treated with great kindnefs. 



SILVER MINE. 



We lately announced the difcoverv of a lode of filvor in 

 the Herland mine. The working of it, we are forry to hear, 

 has been discontinued^ as the produce was not equal to the- 

 expenfe. Several other minesin Cornwall have been aban- 

 doned for the fame reafon.* 



HORSE WITHOUT HAIR. 



The following notice has been publiihed by Profeffor 

 PfafT, of Kiel, refpecYina; the horfe without hair : in one of 

 the Berlin journals, Neve Berlinifche Monatfchrij't for Fe- 

 bruary, 1801, G. F. Sebald, groom and farrier at Ulm in 

 Suabia, has given a fliort account of the real nature of the 

 horfe without hair, which has lately been defcribecl by La- 

 fteyrie in the Jour?inl de Phyjlquc* . ' This horfe had excited 

 {he attention alio of the German naturalifts: he was confi- 

 dered in general as a' variety produced by the influence of 

 climate, and Profeffor Nauman inferted an engraving of him 

 In 'his Manual on' the Science of the Horfe, and affigned to 

 him a very warm climate as his native country. ' 



c Fhilofophical Magazine, p- 36 of this Volume, 



