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granite.) coffin, with its usual lid, hav- 
ing a carved resemblance of the person 
whom it contained, covered with hiero- 
glyphics, very imperfect from the effect 
of weather. 
Towards the end of April, or early 
in May, will be published in royal 4to, 
(illustrated by twenty-four engravings) 
The Fossils of the South Downs, or 
Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex. 
By GipEon MANTELL, F.L.S. member 
of the Geological Society, &e. This 
work will contain interesting particu- 
lars of the course, position, and geo- 
logical relations of the plastic and 
London clay, chalk, blue marl, or 
galt, green sand, weald clay, Sussex 
marble, and iron sand; and a minute 
description of a very extensive series 
of organic remains, many of which 
have not been previously noticed. The 
researches of Mr. Mantel) have brought 
to light an important group of strata, 
which in its physical characters resem- 
bles the Purbeck beds, but in the nature 
of the organic remains is more nearly 
related to the Stonesfield slate. These 
strata contain the bones, teeth, and 
scales of a monitor of gigantic magni- 
tude; the bones and plates of several 
species of tortoise, or turtle; the stems, 
&e. of vegetables of the palm tribe; 
the remains of shell-fish, and of several 
unknown animals. The fossils of the 
Sussex chalk, hitherto but little known, 
have also received considerable eluci- 
dation. Mr. Mantell has been able to 
identify the remains of eighteen differ- 
ent kinds of fishes; fifty species of 
shells; a delicate and beautiful species 
of crustaceous animal (which he has 
named Astacus Leachii,) and numerous 
genera and species of zoophytes. 
That ingenious mechanist, Mr. AP- 
PLEGATH, ‘is about to apply one of 
those inventions by which he proposed 
to improve Bank notes, to book print- 
ing. His first experiment will he 
made on a work of general circulation, 
Mitchell’s Universal Catechist. As a 
book in question and answer, the mo- 
notonous effect of the page will be re- 
lieved by the questions being in red 
and the answers in d/ack ; and it merits 
notice that both colours are produced 
at the same instant by one machine, 
The volume will,therefore,be acuriosity 
in typography independent of its su- 
periority as a book of general instruc- 
tion. 
Sacred Lyrics; by JAMES EDMES- 
TON, vol 3, will shortly appear. 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
In our last Number we noticed Mr. 
Thelwall’s recent publication “ The 
Poetical Recreations of the Champion.”’ 
From the manner in which we felt our- 
selves called upon to speak of that 
work, it will be readily believed that 
we rejoice to find that he has once more 
resolved to cultivate the Muses, At 
the end of that volume a brief sketch 
is presented, accompanied by some spe- 
cimens of a national poem, which, he 
there informs us, has been thirty years 
in meditation, and to which it seems 
he is now assiduously devoting what- 
ever portions of his time can be spared 
from his professional engagements. 
We are promised a specimen of this 
Epic, which we hope to introduce in our 
next Number, 
Mr. CHARLES Dugpotrs, of King- 
street, Covent Garden, will have to sub- 
mit by auction in the course of the 
present season an unpublished collec- 
tion of poems by the author of the 
Seasons, in his own hand writing. 
Amongst them is,a version of the 104th 
Psalm, so much commended by his 
divinity tutor, Mr. Hamilton; a curi- 
ous elegy in the Scottish dialect, the 
only known specimen of Thomson’s 
writing in that style, and a Poetical 
epistle to Sir William Bennet of Ches- 
ter, his early friend and patron. The 
manuscript was presented by Thomson 
to Mallet, who was at that time tutor 
to Lord George Graham, shortly after 
the poet’s arrival in Londou, te whom 
he had a letter of introduction. TheEarl 
of Buchan has verified the hand writ- 
ing by a comparison with those pieces 
in his possession, and has kindly sent 
a fac-simile of the song, beginning with 
“ For ever fortune wilt thou prone, &¢.”’ 
The Account is printing of a Jour- 
ney, undertaken in the year 1820, into 
the Oasis of Siwah, with maps, plans, 
and views of all the most interesting 
objects that are found in that district, 
principally with a view to ascertaining 
the Site of the Temple of Ammon; by 
A. Linant. To this will be added 
views and particulars collected in the 
Desert of Mount Sinai; including de- 
tails of some considerable Egyptian 
remains found there, and many hiero- 
glyphical inscriptions, now brought 
thence for the first time, being the re- 
sult of a journey made through that 
country, by the same traveller. 
The Life and Correspondence of 
BrsHOP HORSLEY is preparing for 
publication, by his Son, in an octavo 
volume. " 
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