1896; ] 
a new region in the interior of Africa, more 
than five hundredemiles jin} Jength,) and ex, 
tending to the tenth degree of northern, lati- 
tude.” This gentleman has likewise deter- 
mined the position of the city of Meroe, of 
which he found the ruins in the Delta, 
_ formed. ‘by the Bahr-el- Abriel (the White 
Leth and the Bahr-el- Azraq (the Blue 
be iver), precisely in the spot where.D’ An- 
€ had placed them upon the authority 
of Theféni authors. © Avenues of sphynxes 
and of lions, propylea and temples. in the 
Exyptian style, forests of pyramids, a vast 
osure formed with unbaked bricks, 
edit to point out in this place the exist- 
ence ‘of a large capital, and may serve to 
elucidate the much agitated, but still unde- 
cided question, “ whether civilization fol- 
lowed the course of the Nile from Ethiopia 
to ‘Egypt; or, whether it ascended from 
Egypt to Nubia?” 
“Roman Antiquities. —In the department 
of the Lower Seine a subscription was en- 
ter ‘into for the purpose of exploring an 
ancient-enclosure in the neighbourhood of 
Dieppe, which was called the Camp of 
Cesar ; and recently some Roman ruins, 
which it is supposed belonged to some re- 
ligious edifice, or to a cemetery, have been 
discovered: some‘rings of glass have been 
found, together with some clasps and the 
remains of some helmets; also medals of 
the Higher and Lower Empire, as well as 
some Celtic coins. At Besancon (Doubs), 
achannel of Roman construction was found 
close to a house in one of the principal 
streets. It is 6 feet in height, and 19 
inthes broad, and it is imagined that its 
shape ) was ‘that of a parallellogram, It ex- 
tends 27 feet, in a direction from north-east 
to’south-west, on its longest side; but, on 
the other sides it is too much choked up 
tobe measured with exactness. This chan- 
nel, which ‘passed. probably under an edifice 
to ‘which it served asa dfain, is built en- 
tirely of stonés, with much care and regu- 
larity, but without either lime or mortar. 
From its appearance and the manner of its 
construction, it appears to belong to the 
time of the Lower Empire: what remains 
of it is in so good a state of preservation, 
ei the present proptietor has been able to 
Fae, ‘its supposed former destination 
being obliged to repair it. 
Teale the Circle. —An Italian, by 
lacariie, recently published at Pa- 
etric and rigorous solution of 
ice es roblem of the quadrature of 
nig f 
mt: 
‘te 
satisfied was he of the cor- 
és 0 ‘his process, that he placed 300 
i ‘in ‘the hahds’ of his publisher (Ba- 
tet), to be given to whoever could prove 
ive oneous, he'merely reqniting that the 
ation ; slioula ‘be signed by two mem- 
of ‘thie Acailemy of Science belonging 
Sy yeiagsic class, and by two pro- 
fang yt Polyteclinic School ;—but, 
ft etnitea) no competent judge 
nai oui the soltitigh ‘satisfactory. 
wo 
Varieties. 
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It is singular enough, that at the time 
this! pamphlet*of M2 Malacdatne made its 
appearance. in. Paris (wexlearn from the 
mathematical and philosophical push 
dence of Messrs. Garnier. and Quételet), 
one.on the trisection ‘of an angle est 
have been published at Constantinople, by 
Seid Hussein Massdariedschisade (son of 
the receiver of tolls), This small. work is. 
extremely remarkable, as affording a just 
idea of the progress of mathematical stu-. 
dies among the Turks. The author aspires 
to the glory of having solved the problem 
of the trisection of an angle, hitherto so 
vainly sought. Seid Hussein has not only 
imposed upon the Sultan, but upon himself 
and all the professors and members of the 
Academy. Having stated that in the great 
Encyclopedia of France it was declared 
this problem could not be solved, he 
thus continues: ‘‘ Praise! and once again, 
praise! By the grace of God—by the mi- 
racles of the Prophet, our lord and saviour of 
the two worlds, and by the force of favour- 
ing fortune, and the influence of the fruit 
of justice of the monarch at the present 
time adorning the throne, overwhelming 
with felicity the earth placed under his pro- 
tection—destroyer of the wicked who revolt 
against him—preserver of the most true of 
all religions,—the most weak, the most in- 
efficient of his servants, Massdariedschisade 
Seid Hussein, first assistant in the Imperial 
Academy of Engineers, has, the 13th day, 
of the month Schaaban,, of the year 1237, 
fortunately discovered the demonstration of 
the trisection of an angle, and the are which 
measures it—which demonstration mathe- 
maticians haye, for these last thirty years, 
believed could not be found. My most 
humble hope is, that it will please the high 
and just will of his majesty to cause the 
statement of this event to be inserted in 
the annals of the empire, that the mathe- 
maticians of Europe may not be able to ap- 
propriate this invention to themselves.”’ 
Statistics. — The -ratio of the births, 
deaths, and marriages to the whole popula- 
tion in the kingdom of Naples was as fol- 
lows: 
In 1822, 1: 24—1°: 35—1: T11. 
1823, 1: 24-17; 33—1 : 110, 
1824, 1; 23—1: 27—1 : 127. 
Returns have not been made to any later 
eriod. 
: Poland.—Since the year 1819, three sci- 
entific journals, six political ones with libe- 
ral principles, two, satirical, seven literary, 
two for the ladies, one literary and musical, 
one journal of agriculture, and one de- 
signed for the Jews, have ceased, from dif- 
ferent causes, to appear in, Warsaw. At 
present only the following are in. circula- 
tion in the Polish eapital: one legal, three 
scientific, one sylvan (on the management 
of forests), one on the useful arts, one mo- 
ral, four literary, five political, one for the, 
German poor, one musical, one on agricul- 
ture, 
