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acid and alcohol, or pyroxylic spirit ; and it is remarkable, 
that to form them it is sufficient to pass carbonic acid into a 
solution of baryta in spirit of wood, or of potash in ordinary 
alcohol. Ido not doubt but that similar bodies can be ob- 
tained with pyroacetic spirit, but I shall leave to you the 
pleasure of isolating them. * * * *” 
«© * * * * T shall communicate next Monday to the 
Academy, some observations which may interest you more 
than any other person;* I mean on compounds very analo- 
gous to double chlorides, and which I have obtained by 
means of urea and the alcaline chlorides. Such bodies ap- 
pear to me decisive on the theory of the amides. * * * *” 
Sir William Betham read a paper “ On the Affinity of 
the Pheenician and Celtic Languages, and on the Cabiri and 
their Mysteries.” 
According to Sanconiathon, men in the third generation 
from Protogonus began to worship the sun under the name of 
Baal Samen. The Irish, and all the other Celta, worshipped 
the sun under the very same title of beal ramajn, the Lord 
of Heaven; and the estuary of the Mersey is named Aistu- 
arium Belasamena by Ptolemy. 
It is probable, as asserted by many writers, that the 
patriarch Noah was deified under the names Deucalion, 
Ogyges, Saturn, Janus, &c. &c., for all these names are, in 
the Celto-Phcenician, appositely significant of the attributes 
of the supreme God: Deucalion signifies the circle of life, 
or the sun’s course; Ogyges, the supreme wisdom ; Saturn, 
the Lord; and Janus, the ruler of ages. 
Sydyk, the 11th from Protogonus, according to Sanco- 
niathon, is supposed to have been the patriarch Shem, He 
is said to-have been the father of the seven Cabiri.. These 
* For Dr. Kane’s researches on the double chlorides and amides of mercury, 
see Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. xvii. p. 423. 
