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state, that no man living was so well 

 <iualific(l, by tlie various essential quali- 

 ties of head," heart, and good intelligence, 

 to record trnly the niomciitous, and, wc 

 inigiit say, the cruel events of tliis age. 

 The sycophants have acquired an ascen- 

 dancy which seems to threaten all nio- 



[Ang. T, 



Sir Joseph Banks has published an 

 account of au ancient canoe found in 

 Linoohisbire, It was discovered in 

 April last, at a depth of eight feet under 

 the surface, iu cutting a diaiu parallel 

 with the river Wittiam, about two miles 

 east of liiiicoln, between that city and 



ral and political trnlh, as the cHcct of Ilorsley Deeps. It seems hollowed out 

 the percolating naline of corniplion; 

 but the character of the age, and of llic 

 ■wars and bloody deeds wliicli liave dis- 

 graced it, may 1)0 safely trusted to l!ie 

 just feelings of a \\'atSv->n; and we are 

 thus rescued from Ihe double disgrace 

 of witnessing great crimes, and enduring 

 their hired or pensioned apologists. In 

 regard (o both works, we hope to bet?na- 

 Lled, in future immbers, to lay other jiar- 

 liculars before our readers. 



The Rev. Thomas Mai'iuce, Anth.or 

 «f Indian Antiquities, will sliorlly pub- 

 lish in quarto, by subscription. Observa- 

 tions on the Kuiiis of liabvlon. as re- 

 cently visited and described by Claudius 

 James Rich, esq. resident for the East- 

 India Comiany at liagdad. It is his 



of an oak tree, and is thirty feet eight 

 iin-hes long, and measures three feet iu 

 liie widest part. The thickness of the 

 boUom is between seven and eight 

 inches. Another siniikir canoe was 

 discovered two years ago in cutting a 

 drain near Ilorsley Deep, which was nn- 

 forlunalely destroyed by the workmen 

 belurc it was ascertained what it was. 

 Its length was nearly the same as liiat 

 of the ibrmer, but it was four feet ai;<l a 

 half wide. Rosides these, three other 

 canoes, resembling the above in con- 

 struction, have been found in the same 

 county. One in a pasture near the river 

 Trent, not far from Gainsborough ; and 

 two in cutting a drain through Ihe fens 

 below Lincoln. One of these is dcjjo- 



objcct to prove thai the famed Tower of sited in the British ]\Inseum. AU 

 Babel was a Temple of the Sun, and these canoes are remarkable for the free 



that the whole of that vast city was con- 

 structed nfion an aFtronomical i»lan ; 

 also, the high advance of the ancient 

 race of Fire-Worshippers, its founders, 

 in metalhngic science, in architectural 

 design, in geometry, in mechanics, in 

 Iiydraulici-, in the art of engraving, <;o- 

 louring, &c. He will likewise add some 

 strictures on the Labylonian bricks, and 

 on their inscriptions, preserved iu the 

 British Museum ; on the ruins of Pcrse- 

 polis, or Chelminar; on the prcsnnicd 

 antiquity of the arch, im where to be 

 found amid these ruins; and on the ori- 

 gin of writing. The whole will be ac- 

 companied with illustrative engravings. 

 We are glad to find that Joseph Lan- 

 caster, undaunted by personal losses or 

 opposition, still perseveres in his useful 

 career. He lately stated, at a public 

 dimier of the friends of his system iu 

 London, that in the space of little more 

 than twenty months he had travelled 

 above 45,000 miles, lectured to above 

 113,000 persons in near 450 lectures, 

 and expended above one thousand 

 poun s of the proceeds of these loctmcs, 

 in the expenccs attendant on the pro- 

 mulgation of this great cause. He has 

 above (iOO schools on his lists, and he par- 

 ticularly noticed one at Ciucinnatti, on 

 the Ohio, 700 miles from New York, 

 .tor 900 children. Two pupils conver- 

 sant in his system have gone down the 

 Mississippi, to extend his system there. 

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rain of the oak timber, so that the mill- 

 wrights and carpenters who examined it 

 declarcil, that in their opinion it was of 

 foreign growth, and the produce of a 

 warmer country. This perhaps shews 

 that the growth of our timber has be- 

 come less rapid and luxuriant, in conse- 

 quence of the destruction of forest.s, 

 which has rendered the country more, 

 exposed, and its climate less mild. 



The select and highly valuable li- 

 brary of William Roscoe, esq. of 

 Liverpool, is now on sale. It was col- 

 lected by that gentlcmfui during a period 

 of more than thirty years; and comprises 

 many of the rarest works in tlie infancy 

 of printing; first editions of flic Greek 

 and Roman Classics; tlic choicest pro- 

 ductions of Italian, French, and English 

 Literature; an cxtciisive collection of 

 works on Natural History, the Arts, 

 Typograi)hy, Bibhography, See. Among 

 the books are some fine specimens of 

 the block-books, before the invention of 

 types, the Psalter and Durdndus of 



1459, both on vellum; the Catholicou of 



1460, by John Gnttenbcrg; the Lnctan- 

 tius of 1465, by Swcynheini and I'an- 

 nartz : with the genuine productions of 

 the press of upward of one hundred 

 printers, before the close of the fifteenth 

 century. — Also some fine illuminated 

 Manuscripts; comprising a splendid 

 Bible, on vellum, folio size, embellished 

 with miuiatures, supposed to be by the 



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