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smoke. This discovery seems to set at rest the question so 

 long agitated by the learned ; namely : whether the ancients 

 were acquainted with the use of vents or chimneys for car- 

 rying off smoke ? In the same apartments were also found 

 several pieces of marble and alabaster, valuable on account 

 of the bas-reliefs and inscriptions with which they are 

 adorned. 



Their majesties afterwards proceeded into a triclinium op 

 dining apartment recently discovered. The walls of this 

 magnificent saloon are covered with paintings of the most 

 exquisite taste, and representing fishes, birds, and game of 

 all kinds. Here there are three couches of mason work in 

 perfect preservation, being the places in which the ancients 

 rested during their meals. Adjoining the three beds, there 

 Still exists a marble foot, which must have served as a sup- 

 port for the table on which the dishes were placed. 



His majesty on quitting the ruins expressed a most ar- 

 dent desire that the exertions made to expose them topuWic 

 view should be continued, and has since issued the neces- 

 sary orders to his ministers of finance. 



. The following account of the present state of the uni- 

 versities and other seminaries of education in the new- 

 kingdom of Westphalia, is published in the foreign jour- 

 nals. The universities of tlalie, Gottinaen, Heluistadt,- 

 Marbourg and Rinteln, contain in all 1207 students. There 

 are, also, 52 gymna^na or classical schools in the kingdom, 

 at which are educated 6, S3 1 children : the inferior schools, 

 at which reading, writing, and arithmetic are taught, 

 amount to 3,600, and are frequented by 233,338 children of 

 both sexes. In each of the two great cities of Brunswick 

 and Magdeburg there are 33 public institutions for every 

 branch of education, besides private seminaries. In the 

 public schools the hours of teaching are so arranged, that 

 the children who attend them are generally able to earn their 

 livelihood at the intervals. In the above two cities alone 

 900 scholars are instructed in the sciences. In short, on a 

 moderate compulation there is a teacher for every 30 chil- 

 drei; throughout the kingdom. 



The university of Jena is also described as being in a very 

 flourishing condition. The number of students, which in 

 1807 scarcely exceeded 100, is now quadrupled. The Mine- 

 ralogical Society established at Jena a few years ago is in 

 great repute. In September last this society held its anni- 

 versary 



