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of travellers, since the earliest settlement of the country. The 

 mound is situated on a woody plain, with a gentle declivity to- 

 wards the river, and a small stream washes its base, and, 

 during the autumnal rains, or the melting of the snow in spring, 

 runs with the velocity of a torrent. Tlius it has gradually 

 washed away the earth, and laid open the mound for a consider- 

 able space, and in this situation the cup was noticed by the 

 discoverer. It was then in a bruised and shapeless mass, but 

 being taken to a silversmith, was put into the shape it now 

 presents, which is probably the shape it originally had. It 

 bears no device or ornamental mark of any kind, being a 

 perfectly plain heavy piece of workmanship." — Schoolcraft 

 Lead Mines, Sfc. p. 276. 



2. University of Bonne. — This institution, which has lately 

 been founded by the King of Prussia, and endowed in the most 

 liberal manner, is situated at Bonne, on the banks of the 

 Rhine, between Cologne and Coblentz. The immense chateau 

 of Bonne, ci-devant residence of the Elector of Cologne, is ap- 

 propriated to the university; and the fine chateau of Popple- 

 dorf, with its plantations, are to be the botanical gardens. A 

 large astronomical observatory will be immediately erected. 

 Many libraries have been acquired by purchase and donations. 

 The anatomical theatre, the medical and surgical hospitals, 

 and the institution for midwifery ; the cabinet of physic, the la- 

 boratory, the museum of natural history, of antiquities, of Ro- 

 man and German coins, medals and monuments, found in the 

 environs of Bonne; the Bonna Castra of the Romans, are already, 

 or will soon be, completed. 



There are at present forty-five Professors placed in the Uni- 

 versity by the King of Prussia, and there is place for ten more 

 at least. The body of the University is composed of five fa- 

 culties. The faculty of Theology, at present, possesses, for the 

 Evangelical or Lutheran Confession, the Professors Augusti, 

 Liicke, Sack, and Giescler; for the Catliolic Confession, the Pro- 

 fessors Seber and Gratz; several more Professors for this fa- 

 culty are expected. The. faculty of Jurisprudence is composed 



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