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are to escort the embassy, which will now consist of nwirft 

 than a hundred persons, through the desert of Robi and 

 Yellow Mongolia to the citv of Pekin. 



M. BerfTman, who has lately communicated to the public 

 an interesting account of his long residence among the Kal- 

 mucs, is now preparing for another journey in the little 

 frequented districts of Asia, which he has been invited by 

 government to undertake, with the most liberal allowance 

 ior his support. M. Bergman has been appointed an as- 

 sessor of the colleges ; and leave has been given him to 

 choose a physician, naturalist, and draughtsman, to accom- 

 pany him. The benevolent Alexander has made provision 

 ior the wives of the travellers, in case any of them should 

 die in the course of their journey. 



M. Herman, professor of natural history at Dorpat, who 

 last year made a tour through a part of Russian Finland, is 

 about to return to that country with a drausrhtsman. It is 

 supposed that on his return he will publish a journal of 

 these two tours. 



M. Giesecke, a Prussian mineralogist, has been for some 

 time at Copenhagen. It is believcJ that the government 

 proposes to send him to Greenland, where he will spend 

 some years in examining that country in a mineralogical 

 and ecological point of view. Hitherto the Moravian mis- 

 sionaries have hetn the on'v persons who have ventured to 

 reside for several years in Greenland. 



ANTiauiTIRS. 



One of the houses of the city of Pompeii, buried under 

 the lava of Vesuvius in the 79th year of the Christian aera, 

 has been discovered by clearing away the lava, and a great 

 many antique vases, coi^is, musical instruments, and a 

 brazen Hercules, with several excellent paintings in fresco, 

 have been found in it. 



Some further account of this discovery is contained in the 

 following letter, dated Naples, May 1, 1804 :-r-'* During 

 the course of a search by digging, begun about seven years 

 ago, the workmen discovered the capital of a pilaster, which 

 was supposed to be the lateral face of a large gate. Last 

 winter, the labour being resumed, the corresponding pi- 

 laster was found. The brazen hinges of the gate were 

 transported to the Museum at Portici. The house to which 

 this gate conducts is large and commodious, and richly or- 

 ramcnted with paintings and mosaic. It is surrounded by 



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