THE 



EDINBURGH NEW 



PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, 



EXHIBITING A VIEW OF THE 



PROGRESSIVE DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS 



IN THE 



SCIENCES AND THE ARTS. 



CONDUCTED BY 



ROBERT JAMESON, 



OfSSSOn OF NATURAL HISTORY, LECTURER ON MINKRALOGY, AND KEEPER OP 

 THE MUSEUM IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH ; 



FeDowof the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh; of the Antiquarian and Weraerian Societies 

 of Edinburgh; Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and of the Royal Dublin Society ; 

 Fellow of the Linnean and Geological Societies of London ; of the Royal Geological Society of 

 Cornwall, and of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ; of the York, Bristol, Cambrian, Northern, 

 and Cork Institutions; of the Royal Society of Sciences of Denmark; of the Royal Academy of 

 Sciences of Berlin ; of the Royal Academy of Naples ; of the Imperial Natural History Society 

 of Moscow ; of the Imperial Pharmaceutical Society of Petersburgh ; of the Natural History So- 

 ciety of Wetterau ; of the Mineralogical Society of Jena ; of the Royal Mineralogical Society of 

 Dresden ; of the Natural History Society of Paris; of the Philomathic Society of Paris ; of the 

 Natural History Society of Calvados; of the Senkenberg Society of Natural History ; Honorary 

 Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York ; of the New York Historical 

 Society ; of the American Antiquarian Society ; of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia ; of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, Sfc. ^c. 



OCTOBER 1826... APRIL 1827. 



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EDINBURGH: 



PRINTED FOR ADAiyi BLACK, NORTH BRIDGE, EDINBURGH ; 



AND LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, & GREEN, 



LONDON. 



1827. 



