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resting in a scientific point of view. Since our last notice Mr. 

 de Russegger has written twice, viz. from Roserres, in the 

 country of Fazoglo, on the 19th December, 1837, and from 

 Fazoglo, on the Blue River, on the 8th of February, 1838. — 

 In the mountains of Shegedi, in Sennaar, he found a very con- 

 siderable vein of silver ore, the matrix being quartz, and the 

 rock through which it passes clay slate ; and in the chain of 

 Okelai and Keduss, on the western boundary of Abyssinia, he 

 met with an immense mass of quartz, (in granite), containing 

 various silver and copper ores. At Roserres the traveller 

 joined the army of Mustapha Bey, and continued his journey 

 to the south, through the negro countries of Fazoglo, Akaro, 

 Kassan, and Kamamil, to Shangolla, on the limit of the Gal- 

 las countries. On his way back to Fazoglo he examined the 

 whole tract in a mineralogical point of view. He found ma- 

 ny rivers, the alluvial deposits of which are so rich in gold, 

 that they may be worked with great profit. But the richest 

 district was discovered in the country of Fazoglo. — " Between 

 the chains of Fallowu and Fasangoru, lies the valley of the 

 river Adi, which, in an extent of two or three German miles, 

 is covered with mountains of quartz, containing quartz iron 

 ores, with native gold imbedded in them. We found this lat- 

 ter metal in great quantities, both in the solid rock and in the 

 rolled stones of the river. I bring with me a fragment of 

 quartz containing native gold, one grain of which weighs two 

 carats. The whole of the alluvial ground between these 

 quartz mountains, is immensely rich in gold, and the negroes 

 are extensively engaged in washing for it along the river Adi, 

 a circumstance hitherto quite unknown to the Egyptians. — 

 An army of a thousand men might be set to work directly; and 

 with the cheapest arrangements, and scarcely less simple than 

 those of the negroes, each would obtain gold to the amount of 

 6 or 8 florins convent, mon. (12 to 16 sh.) per day. The lo- 

 cality is extremely favourable, for the distance from the Blue 

 River, which bears large barges during the rainy season, is on- 

 ly three leagues, and there is plenty of wood." Upon the 

 whole, Mr. de Russegger feels convinced, that the little insu- 

 lated mountains of the tropical part of Africa, contain inex- 

 haustible treasures of various metals. He hoped to arrive at 

 Cairo towards the end of June. 



Curious experiment in grafting. — A gardener at the botanic 

 garden of Metz, named Simon, has grafted a scion of the ches- 

 nut on an oak, and the experiment has perfectly succeeded. 

 The Royal Academy of Metz mentions this curious fact in its 

 ' Report on the Progress of Gardening in 1837.' 



Capricorn caught in Switzerland. — Near Wattenburgh, 



