76 [July, 1S44. 



Map (No. 3,) of the boundary lines between the United 

 States and the adjacent British provinces, &c. Compiled 

 by Lieut. T. I. Lee & W. M. C. Fairfax, under the direc- 

 tion of Major J. D. Graham, U. S. Topog. Eng. From 

 Major Graham. 



The Chairman read a portion of a letter from Richard Kip- 

 pist, Esq., Librarian of the Linnean Society of London, dated 

 May 29, 1S44, requesting specimens of seeds and seed-vessels 

 of this country. Referred to the Botanical Committee. 



Mr. Geo. R. Gliddon read some extracts from a letter dated 

 Khartoon, (1600 miles up the Nile, at the junction of the 

 White and Blue Rivers,) 22d and 26th March, 1S44, address- 

 ed by Mr. Abeken (the friend and * compagnon de voyage ' 

 of Dr. Lepsius,) to Joseph Bonomi, Esq., at Cairo, and by this 

 last gentleman communicated to Mr: Gliddon at Philadel- 

 phia. 



After describing the Journey and proceedings of the Prussian 

 Scientific Mission, from their departure from Korosko (Lower Nu- 

 bia) on the 8th January, to the return to Khartoon of Dr. Lepsius 

 and himself, from their excursion into the province of Sennaar along 

 the Blue Nile, as far as the 13th degree of North Latitude, Mr. 

 Abeken says, in regard to the Monuments and Pyramids on the 

 Island of Meroe : 



" Thus the fabulous antiquity of Meroe has dwindled away ! I 

 dare affirm, that, on the whole Island or Peninsula of Meroe, there 

 is not one vestige of remote antiquity ; and, for my own part, I have 

 no doubt, that ./Ethiopia received its religion, literature and civiliza- 

 tion entirely from Egypt ; and that even at a comparatively late 

 time. We are anxious to see the works of Tirkaka (3d King of 

 the Ethiopian, or Cush-ite Dynasty — the XXV. Dynasty of Mane- 

 tho — B. C. 695 — see RosellinVs chronology in Gliddon , s Ancient 

 Egypt,) at Gebel Barkal ; and to try whether, perhaps, we can 

 make out a connecting link between him and the later ./Ethiopians 

 of Meroe.'' 



