1825.] 
to the depth of water running down that 
plane. Very numerous weirs and side- 
locks would be necessary, to render this 
river navigable for any much larger vessels 
than at present navigate it with great dif- 
ficulty. 
M. Auzoux, a physician, has pre- 
sented to the Academy of Sciences, Paris, 
a piece of artificial anatomy, representing 
the body of a man according to natural 
dimensions. The solidity of the material 
employed, permits this piece of mechan- 
ism to be taken to pieces and put together 
again, with such scientific accuracy, that a 
student, with an anatomical book in his 
hand, may find out, and trace into the most 
minute particulars, every portion of the 
human frame. 
GERMANY. 
Rare MSS. in the Library of the Abbé 
Gittwieg, in Austria.—Among the valuable 
MSS. in this valuable library, are the fol- 
lowing :—1. Ciceronis Cato Major, a MS. 
of the 12th century, on parchment, in 
12mo., marked K.43.—2. Ciceronis Lelius, 
Paradoxa, somnium Scipionis.—3. Prisci- 
anus Grammaticus; making, with the pre- 
ceding, a volume in 4to., MS. of the 14th 
~ eentury, on parchment.—4. Senece Pro- 
verbia, in 4to. parchment, d. 17.—5. Valerii 
Martialis Epigrammata, f. 19.—6. Quintili- 
anus, De Officio Discipulorum ex Precepto, 
in folio. 
SWEDEN, 
Stralsund. —The Conswl-General and 
Director of the Posts of the King of Nor- 
way and Sweden has just published a 
History of Charles X., better known by 
the name of Charles Gustavus, King of 
Sweden. This work is interesting, as it 
throws new light upon the reign of Queen 
Christiana, and the Thirty Years’ War, in 
which the Swedes took so active a part. 
DENMARK, 
Copenhagen.—M. Rask is about publish- 
ing a Grammar of the Language spoken 
by the Natives of the West of the Duchy of 
Holstein. This language derives directly 
from the Anglo-Saxon, and presents an 
exceedingly curious affinity to other Ger- 
manic and Scandinavian languages. Many 
men of letters have united to publish an 
edition of all the historical and fabulous 
works of the middle ages that are written 
in this language. 
8ST, HELENA. 
The sepulchre of Napoleon has occasioned 
a discussion that has much occupied the 
attention of Government and the Last- 
India Company. Mr. Torbet (proprietor 
of the earth where repose the remains of 
the man who, at one time, grasped the 
empire of the world) ‘speculated that he 
should gain £300 or £400 a-year, by im- 
posing a tax on the curiosity of the nume- 
rous visitors of the spot. The authorities. 
of the island attempted to do away with 
this degrading monopoly, when Mr. Torbet 
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demanded that the body should be exhumed, 
and placed elsewhere. The Government 
put-a stop to this scandalous proceeding, 
and ordered the East-India Company to 
pay a sum of £500 to Mr. Torbet, on con- 
dition that the body of Napoleon be suffered 
to remain in its present place of interment. 
This has been accepted; and the celebrated 
tomb may now be visited without charge. 
BRITISH INDIA, 
Caleutta.— An Ourang-Outang, or man- 
like: ape, of the unprecedented height of 
seven feet, and of proportionate bulk, has 
lately been described by Dr. Abel, to the 
Asiatie Society of Calcutta. It was, after 
many attempts, killed under a tree, from 
which it had fallen in consequence of seve- 
ral bullet-wounds, at Ramboon, on the 
western coast of Sumatra; having, as is sup- 
posed, wandered from the large and almost 
impenetrable’ forest, situated about two 
days’ journey inland. The skin of this 
extraordinary creature is preserved in the 
useum of the Society; it is of a dark 
leaden colour, covered, unequally, with 
brownish -red, shaggy and glossy hair, which 
is long on the flanks and shoulders. The 
head was well proportioned to the body, 
the nose prominent, the eyes large, and the 
mouth rather larger in proportion than that ° 
of man; the chin was fringed with a curling 
beard, reaching from ear to ear, and the 
visage by no means disgusting. His chest 
was wide and expanding, and waist rather 
slender ; his legs rather short, as compared 
with his arms; the feet and hands had very 
nearly the human form, except that the 
thumbs were smaller, and situated higher 
towards the wrists, than in man. His 
walk was erect, but waddling and not 
quick, unless when his hands were used to 
assist, or a branch of a tree, to push him- 
self along—his chief agility being shewn 
in climbing trees, and springing from branch 
to branch, when pursued. The perfect 
state of his teeth shewed that he was young, 
and in full vigour. He was without any 
vestiges of a tail. 
; SOUTHERN OCEAN. 
Captain Hunter, of the Donna Carmelita, 
has discovered an island in the Southern 
Ocean, situated lat. 15° 31’ S., and lon. 
176° 11’ E. from Greenwich, named Ona- 
cuse, or Hunter’s Isle (briefly mentioned in 
p- 275 of the April number of the M.M.) 
The complexion of the inhabitants nearly 
resembles the Malayan, but their expression 
of countenance approaches more to Euro- 
pean. Both men and women have the 
little finger of the left hand cut down to 
the first joint. Most of them are tattooed 
with red, and wear armlets. The women 
have their faces cut, and daubed with blood. 
They are excellent swimmers, In their 
traffic they shew great probity, and a polite- 
ness very uncommon. ‘The island is, for 
the most part, composed of Java, which, in 
some places, resembles metal. , 
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