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rock, the estuary, the storm, &c. &c. The word nymph 

 also means the holy one, or one set apart. 



Pluto — the miner, or one who lives in a cave. 



Sesostris — the name applied to Rameses the Great by the 

 Greeks, — implies the fortunate, scientific, and powerful 

 prince. 



Silenus — the staggering drunkard. 



Venus — the woman of the community ; the courtesan. 



Of the names of countries : — 



Abyssinia — the country of rain. 



Ethiopia— the country of springs or wells. 



Assyria — the old country of power. 



Egypt — the cultivated valley. 



The Euxine — the little sea. 



7%^ ^c?W«fic— the sea of enchantment, &c. &c. &c. 



The author affirmed that examples of this kind were so 

 numerous and so striking, that it was impossible to ascribe 

 them to accidental coincidence; and he inferred from all, that 

 these names were given by the Phoenicians, and that the 

 Hiberno-Celtic was the language spoken by that people. 



2. " On the Propagation of Light in Uncrystallized 

 Media/' By the Rev. H. Lloyd, F. R. S., M. R. L A., Pro- 

 fessor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Dublin. 



The objects of the author have been — 1. to simplify and 

 to develop that part of M. Cauchy's theory, which relates 

 to the propagation of light in an ethereal medium of uni- 

 form density ; 2. to extend the same theory to the case 

 of the ether enclosed in uncrystalhzed substances, taking 

 into account the action of the material molecules. 



Some of the simplifications adopted in the first part of 

 these inquiries suggest themselves naturally. Thus the axes 

 of symmetry of the medium are taken as the axes of coordi- 

 nates, and the direction of propagation is assumed to coin- 

 cide with one of these axes. By these suppositions the 



