384 Foreign Literature and Science. 



was opened on the 8th of January last by Charles Dupin, in 

 quality of professor of mechanics applied to the arts. He 

 was followed by Clement Desorrhes, professor of chemis- 

 try, and lastly by J, B. Say, professor of economy of indus- 

 try, [economie indiistrielle,) 



20. Mineralogy. — F. S. Beudant is about to publish at 

 Paris his mineralo2;ica] and geological tour in Hungary, in 

 the year 1818. The price of the three volumes with the 

 atlas, is seventy francs. 



21. The Himalaya chain of mountains,— X report was 

 made to the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, on the 17th of 

 Feb. ISil, by Capt. Hodgson and Lieut. Herbert, relative 

 to the trigonometric measurement of the mountains of the 

 central chain of Himalaya. Tins important memoir con- 

 tains, 1st, a physical description of those countries, and of 

 the instruments employed in the operation. 2d, latitudes of 

 the {]ve principal stations, deduced from a series of 122ob- 



ifefvation 



one of the stations, viz. place of departure, deduced from the 

 latitude of Jiipiter. 4th, the determination of a base of 

 27,000 feet. Sth, the chain of triangles to the number of 

 lil. 6th, a table of heights above the level of the sea of 

 thirty-eight summits or peaks of the mountainous cbam, 

 covered with snow. The greatest height is 25,589 feet, 

 (= 6ve miles nearly,) lowest height 16.043 feet. The 

 Himalaya has more than twenty summits higher than Cbim- 

 borazo. 



22. Tribe of ScotacJcs. — Few geographers or translators 

 have spoken of the Scotaclcs,^ people of Hungary, remarka- 

 ble witli respect both to their number, and their manners. 

 They are of Sclavonian origin, and form ^ race betw^een 

 the Schivons, the Vasmiaks, and the Poles j but they differ 

 totally from those nations by their dialect, character and 

 customs. According to some travellers, they have, almost 

 n\\ of them, men and women, white hair, it being wy rare 

 to find any one with dark locks. They live in patriarchal 

 style, and assist each other as parts of the same family; the 

 father confides the oversight of his house to the sou whom 

 he thinks best qualified for the tni^;!, and the others respect 



