394 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



greater part of them are by authors anterior to the Christian 

 jEra, and to the school of Alexandria. The authors quoted are 

 140 in number, whose writings have been lost, or are entirely 

 unknown. There are among them titles of works which have 

 not come down to us, and unedited fragments of poets and his- 

 torians ; they quote the most celebrated manuscripts of Homer, 

 such as the two of Aristarchus, those ofAntimachus, of Argolichus, 

 the common one, in short, all the best of them ; but no autho- 

 rities are so often quoted as those of Aristarchus, Aristophanes, 

 and Zenodatus, that is to say, the learned men to whom the 

 poems of Homer are indebted for the most ingenious corrections. 

 The manuscript, however, does not contain the Iliad entire, but 

 only the firagments which relate to the pictures. 



Gent. Mag. Ixxxix. 445. 



3. Premium of the Highland Society of London. — At a late gene- 

 ral court of the Society, the following premiums were resolved : — 



Twenty guineas, and the medal of the Society, to the author 

 of the best " Essay on the Present State, Character, and Man- 

 ners, of the Highlanders." The Essay to be delivered to one of 

 the secretaries on or before the 1 st of March next. 



Twenty guineas, and the medal of the Society to the author 

 of the best " Essay on the Remains of Buildings, and such 

 Monuments as may evince the Degree of Civilization which the 

 ancient Gaelic Scots had attained." The Essay to be given to 

 one of the Secretaries, before March, 1821. 



Twenty guineas, and the medal, to the author of the best 

 " Essay on the Etymology of the Gaelic language ; its Con- 

 nexion with other Languages, where it originally existed, and 

 whence derived," The Essay to be given in before the 1st of 

 March, 1822. 



Twenty guineas, and the medal, to the author of the best 

 " Essay on the ancient History of the Kingdom of the Gaelic 

 Scots, the Extent of the Country, its Laws, Population, Poetry, 

 and Learning." The Essay to be given in by the 1st of 

 March, 1822. 



Twenty guineas, and the medal, to the author of the best 



