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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. 
Stlenus—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. 
The Adriatic—the sea of enchantment, &c. &c. &e. 
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 Pheenicians, 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.1. 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 uncrystallized 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 
