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may be difHcult to reconcile with the great brilliancy of the colours 

 displayed. 



Feb. 18.— Dr Hope, Vice-President, in the Chair. The 

 following communications were read : — 



1. Notice respecting the Application of Heated Air to 

 Blast Furnaces. By Robert Bald, Esq. F. R. S. E. 

 (To be continued.) 



2. An attempt to illustrate the remaining monuments of 

 the Ancient Etruscan Language. By the Rev. John 

 Williams, A. M. F. R. S. Ed. 



The principal object of this paper, was to defend some interpre- 

 tations of words in the ancient language of Etruria, proposed by 

 Lanzi, and attacked by Niebuhr ; as well as to point out some new 

 analogies with other dialects. The languages which the author 

 proposes particularly to call to his assistance are, Greek, Latin, 

 Anglo-Saxon, and Cambrian or Welsh. The paper concluded with 

 an application of these aids to a variety of words in the Etruscan 

 language. 



March 4. — Siii Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Presi- 

 dent, in the Chair. The following communication was read : — 



On the Gradual Elevation of Land in High Northern 

 Latitudes. By J. F. W. Johnston, Esq. F. R. S. Ed. 



In this paper, the author shewed, by a number of phenomena 

 observable within the coasts of Sweden,, chiefly around Stockholm, 

 and on the shores of the Lake Macler and its arms, that the con- 

 clusion of the Swedish surveyors in 1821, that a change of the re- 

 lative level of the land and water along the coasts of the Baltic had 

 in many localities taken place, could not reasonably be disputed. 

 He then considered if it were possible that the level of the Baltic 

 could have* fallen, being, by its connection with the North Sea, a 

 branch of the great ocean ; and concluded, from the permanency 

 of the respective level of the land and water on the coasts of Po- 

 merania, among the Dj^iish islands," and at some points on the 

 shores of Finland, that the level of the Baltic Seu had undergone 

 no change of level for the last six hundred years. The change 

 observable on the coasts of Sweden, therefore, must be due to an 

 elevation of the land, now gradually, though insensibly, in pro- 



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