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their histories, is a stone, covered with sculptures and 
inscriptions of the ante-Columbian era, on which the word 
ORINX, or as some read, ORINS, is the only one legible. 
Again, the tradition of the island of O’Brazil is still 
vividly preserved, both by the Irish and the Welsh, and it 
is by this name the latter indicate the country alleged to have 
been discovered by their Madoc. So strong was the belief 
in this tradition in Ireland, in the seventeenth century, that a 
patent is said to have been taken out for the island, when it 
should be discovered, and a pamphlet, purporting to be an ac- 
count of its discovery, obtained circulation in London in 1675. 
From these considerations the author inferred, that per- 
haps the story of St. Brendan, who is said to have spent 
seven years in the land of promise, at the other side of the 
Atlantic, may not have been altogether without foundation, 
and that if so, it is not improbable that Christianity may 
have been introduced into the new world by Irish eccle- 
siastics of the 6th century. 
Professor Kane read a paper “ on the Ammoniacal and 
other Basic Compounds of the Copper and Silver Families.” 
Having verified Berzelius’ formula for the ammoniacal 
sulphate of copper cu so; + 2 NH; + Ho., Dr. Kane pointed 
out, that, from the circumstances of its formation, and others, 
the real formula must be (NH3HO + S03) + NH3.cul; and 
that by heat it loses NH3.u0. and leaves a compound NH3.cu 
o + s0;.; by still more heat there remains 2 so; + 2 cu o 
++ NH3 or CwO0.S03. + (NH3-Cu 0) SO3. and by water there is 
formed the ordinary basic sulphate cwo.so; +3 cwo + 4 Ho. 
Dr. Kane describes likewise a new basic sulphate as so; 
+8cwo-+ 12no. and he arranges these two salts as 
1 = cuwo.so;cuo + 2(cuo + 2 Ho). 
2 = cu o.so;. cuo +6 (cuo+2 Ho). 
and seeks to establish an analogy with the ordinary salts of 
the same family, as 
ZnO. SO;HO + 6.HO and cuz 0.s03.cu 0 + 6cuo0 
