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ried partly under the bed of the river 
Rother, where it is supposed to have 
lain 500 years. The following descrip- 
tion of it has appeared in the local 
newspapers :— 
“ It is conjectured, witha great degree of 
probability, to have been a Dutch or Da- 
nish vessel Jost in the great storm of 1286, 
which diverted the original course of the 
Rother to its present chamel. On a ca- 
sual inspection the appearance of the ves- 
sel favours but little sach hypotheses as 
ascribe to it a title to such remote anti- 
quity ; it differs apparently but little from 
a west-country barge of the present day ; 
though several minutiz observable on a 
closer view, together with the date 
ascribed to the several articles found on 
board, give it nevertheless some claim to 
attention as a relic of former years. A 
flat-bottomed boat, much decayed, though 
apparently of more modern construction 
than the vessel itself, has been discovered 
astern, and has occasioned conjecture to 
recede still further from the idea of ascri- 
bing to it even that degree of antiquity 
which it had previously held claim to, but 
is supposed, generally, to be altogether un- 
connected with her; her planks are put 
together after the present mode, she is 
eaulked with hair, and as high as the ves- 
sel’s stern. A plate of pewter or silver 
has been detached from her larboard quar- 
ter, where it was affixed by nails, it has 
the letters J) 3{ at the top; in other parts 
of the vessel the following articles were 
found:—A_ time-keeper, greatly resem- 
bling a milk-skimmer, and but little de- 
cayed ; the holes for the insertion of pegs 
to note down the time, as recorded by the 
escape of the sand in the hour-glass; two 
dead eyes, thinner than the present make ; 
three can-hooks, apparently modern ; the 
breast bone of a bird, as thick as a two- 
penny piece; the horus of some animal, 
and several pieces of rope and iron. ‘The 
vessel is caulked with moss, her stern is 
straight, and her rudder pressed close 
against her stern, on the starboard side.” 
The Cento, a volume of prose selec- 
tions, from the most approved works 
of living authors, will appear in the 
course of the ensuing month, 
The Rev. T. H. Horne, m.a. has in 
the press, a third edition of his Intro- 
duction to the Critical Study and 
Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, in 
four volumes octavo, corrected, and 
illustrated with numerous maps and 
fac-similes of biblical manuscripts. It 
is expected to be ready in the course 
of November next. At the same time 
will be published, with one new plate, 
a small supplement to the second edi- 
tion, (of which a limited number only 
will be printed,) so arranged as to be 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
[Oct. I; 
inserted in the respective volumes, 
without injury to the binding. 
A Chart of all the Public and En- 
dowed Free Grammar Schools in tie 
Kingdom, is in the press. 
Mr. Joun Hunt will shortly publish 
the Vision of Judgment, by Quevedo 
Redivivus, said to be from the pen of 
Lord Byron. 
The Rev, R. T. ENGLAnp, editor of 
the “ Letters of the Abbé Edgeworth,” 
is preparing for publication, the Life 
of the celebrated Father O’ Leary. 
GoETHE’s Poetical Works, in one 
volume 18mo. with ten wood en- 
gravings, will be published in the 
course of October. 
Mr. W. 8S. Hararis has lately exem- 
plified, by experiment on the Louisa 
and Caledonia men-of-war at Ply- 
mouth, the utility of his invention for 
restoring the electrical equilibrium, by 
the means of a copper conductor fixed 
in the masts, through the bottom of 
ships. Mr. H. proposes to place in 
the back of the masts a slip of copper, 
which is to be continued to the inte- 
rior or hole of the cap of each mast; 
consequently, coming into contact 
with the mast above, the continuity 
will be preserved, without preventing 
the upper masts being lowered. The 
conductors of the lower masts are to 
be continued to the keel, and made 
to communicate with one or more 
copper bolts in contact with the exte-~ 
rior copper or the water, ‘This arrange- 
ment preserves a permanent conduc- 
tor, so long as any part of the mast is 
continued. We have often recom- 
mended the same principle for the 
preservation of houses and buildings. 
Lead or copper should be used instead 
of the ridge tile, and a slip of the same 
material should be continued to the 
ground. This would constitute the 
most perfect species of conductor. 
The pointed rods, often erected at 
great expense, are silly toys, or spe- 
cies of philosophical clap-traps ad- 
dressed to the gazing vulgar. 
Mr. THoMas Date, B.a. of Corpus 
Christi College, Cambridge, author of 
the ‘“ Widow of the City of Nain,” is 
preparing for publication a new trans- 
lation of the Tragedies of Sophocles ; 
the object of which has been, to ren- 
der the various metres of the Greek 
tragedian, by measures, as nearly cor- 
responding with the original as the ge- 
nius of the English language will 
permit. The work will be comprised 
in two yolumes octayo, and is expect~ 
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