374 MiscellaTieoiis. 



bones he saw may be exaggerated, but it would be interest- 

 ing to make researches in the spot he has visited. 



The Instructions for Vaccination, drawn up by the Vac- 

 cine Society of" Copenhagen, have been translated into the 

 Icelandic language by M. Thorarsen. It is expected that 

 by this means the ravages of the siPiall-pox will be entirely 

 slopt. The work has been printed, and the copies distri- 

 buted, gratis, throughout Iceland, accompanied with en- 

 gravings. 



It has heen mentioned in some of the foreign journals, 

 that ]\J. Klaproth, the orientalist, had set out for Pekin with 

 the Greek missionaries. This is not the case, however; 

 M. Klaproth having set out for Kiachta with M. Helm, a 

 botanist, in order to explore the frontiers of Chinese and 

 Russian Tartary. At Kiachta M. Klaproth composed a 

 Chinese and Japanese dictionarv. 



The university of Coimbra, in Portugal, has been enriched 

 by a bequest of the library of Monsenhor Hasse, who lately 

 died at Lisbon. The rare books and manuscripts of this 

 rich library amount to nearly 12,000 volumes. Besides 

 some Latin and Spanish works of the 15th century, it con- 

 tains every thing, both in pririt and manuscript, upon the 

 Portuguese legislation, as well as uiost of the scarce works 

 upon Portuguese and Spanish literature. 



An institution for the cure of the deaf and dumb has been 

 established in Sweden. The number of these unfortunate 

 beings is very great there : the dioceses of Upsal, Vcxio, 

 Cahiiar, Ikera, and Carlstadt, alone contain 287. 



Basilius, a learned Greek physician at Constantinople, 

 has published a collection of letters in order to forni a pure 

 modern Greek epistolary style. IJe has introduced into it 

 several letters of Alexander Maurocordato, the Turkish mi- 

 nister who had so nmch influence in the ailairs of the Otto- 

 man cabinet l)etveen the years 1(553 and 1699. These let- 

 ters, which are the most interesting of the collection, are 

 followed by some others of Nicolas Maurocordato, the son 

 of the minister who was alternately prince of Wallachia and 

 Moldavia. The work is also enriched with some notices 

 upon learned Greeks; sucli as James Manas d'Argos, Ge- 



rasimus. 



