NetD Patents and Mechanical Inventions. 14J) 



was not situaled here. I shall not 

 prononiicc positively ; we must wait 



1823.] 



was lonj and wearisome, I enjoyed 

 good health. I lost seven camels : 

 wheat was a franc a pound, and every 

 thing else in proportion. The Prince 

 has more than once assisted me ; when 

 camels were not to be had at any price, 

 lie has given me some. 



M. Jomard has published some ob- 

 servations annexed to the foregoing 

 letters. Discussions, he says, have 

 arisen relative to the place called 



for further detiiils than what can be 

 gathered from a letter written in 

 haste. 



One very interesting result ap- 

 pears to be clearly established from 

 the journey of M. Cailliaud, which is, 

 Ihat many of the antiquities of Nubia 

 are posterior to tiie monuments of 

 Thebes. I have ever been of opinion 



Wetbeyt Naga, in the torrcspondenee that, if Ethiopia was the cradle of the 



of M. Cailliaud ; it is situated three 

 quarters of a day's journey from Chen- 

 dy, and it is there where fifteen little 

 pjramids are found. On entering the 

 Desert, and advancing eight leagues 



arts, Egypt was the scene of their 

 development; new discoveries make 

 this more and more manifest. It was 

 at Thebes and at Memphis that the 

 sciences and arts rose to that elevation 



south-cast from this point, we find wherein we find them in the monu- 



several little temples; one of which mcnts of those districts: the develop- 



has some sphinxes in front of it, and ments proper to the soil and climate of 



another contains some Corinthian clia- the Thebais are very diflerent from 



piters. The posilion of Westbeyt those of Ethiopia. 

 Naga, in its relation to Chendy and When the Greeks became masters 



Assour, and that of the more conside- of Egypt, they mingled their style with 



rable ruins discovered by M. C. south- the Egyptian, and, in their turn, car- 



soulh-east of Chendy, and six leagues ried their arms and architecture into 



from tlie river, considered as the resi- Ethiopia. The magnitude of the ma- 



dence of the priests of Merde, will be terials, which with me is an evidence 



■about twelve leagues south-south-east of high Egyptian antiquity, is a eha- 



of Assour. This distance of the Col- racter which most of the Nubian mo- 



lege of Meroe from the town itself numents are destitute of. The religion 



must appear rather considerable, and and the arts of Egypt will never be 



we are surprised to find it so far from explained by the climate and produc- 



the Nile. It is reasonable to think, tions of countries situated between the 



that the latitude given by the ancients tropics. 



for the site of Meroe would be that of 1'he zeal of M. C. in his researches 



the observatory itself, and of the spot is indefatigable. He has traversed 



wherein the priests resided. Butthere more than a thousand leagues ; and in 



must be about twenty-five minutes about a year's time he will return to 



dilferenee in latitude between the ruins France, with scientific spoils, a de- 



of Assour and those that are eight scription of all the known Oases, the 



leagues south-south-east of Chendy. whole course of the Nile to the tenth 



From these considerations (adds M. degree of latitude, and a portfolio rich 



Jomard,) I am inclined to infer, that in observations relative to monuments, 



the College or Observatory of Meroe geography, and natural history. 



NEW PATENTS AND MECHANICAL INVENTIONS. 



To John Neilson, of LinlMgotv; for Saxifraca, or Saxifrage. . . Crassifolia. 



certain veffctable Substances, not la- ^ ,. Cordifolia. 



ttierto used by Tanners and Leather- , ^ . , Orbicularis. 



dressers, to be employed in Tanning Rhciim, or Rhubarb, .Sibiricnm. 



and colouring Leather; and that certain • , Crispiuii. 



vegetable Substances, not hitherto used ., Tartaricum. 



by Dyers, may be employed in the Art Geranium, or Geraniim, •• Macrorliiziiin. 



of Dyeing. , . . Reflexiini. 



T^IIE leather which he makes and — ■ , •• Lividinn. 



, colours is produced by the fol- , • ' PIio;iini. 



lowing process of manufacture. ' " > •' Angelatum. 



He lakos the following plants, "*"'^'"'" ' An.in<a„a. 



namely,— ' vuiosa. 



Polygonum, 



