A Wt ::' ftmpU Earth. aSy 



coins, he fet out for Steyermark. Here, however, the eir- 

 cumftance was difcovered by the magiftrates, and 274 of the 

 coins have fince been tranfmittcd to the Imperial cabinet. 

 Twenty of thcfe pieces arc ftill wanting, but the Auftrian 

 jrovernnient is makino; fcarch after them. All thefe coins 

 are in excellent prefervation, but a few of them are a little 

 cut. They comprehend 76 of Nero; 95 of Vefpafian; 42 of 

 Trajan, two of them exceedinglv well preferved ; 2j of Adrian; 

 10 of Antoninus; 12 of Domitian ; 11 of Lucius Verus; 9 of 

 Galba, three of them exceedingly good; i of Marcus Aure- 

 lius; I of Marciana; 8 of Fauftina, three of them in fine 

 prefervation; 8 of Otho, and i ofyEmiiius. 



The proprietors of an enclofure near Montpellier, in lately 

 digging up a plantation, difcovered a tomb in which was en- 

 clofed an alabafter urn, the cover of which was cemented 

 down. On opening they found in it afhes, an alabafter in- 

 cenfe-pot, the handle of which reprefented the head of a 

 ram, a fepulchral lamp, and feveral pieces of money llruck 

 in the reign of Domitian. Another difcovery for the amufc- 

 ment of antiquarians has alfo been made in France — a temple 

 has lately been found which was dedicated to Ceres, and 

 which, according to hiftory, was fituated on the road from 

 Paris to Chartres. 



A NEW EARTH. 



Profeffor Tromnifdorff has announced that he has difco- 

 vered a new fimple earth in the fo called Saxon beryl. " I 

 examined," fays he, " this foffil, and expc6led to find in it 

 glucine, but could difcover no traces of it. The new earth 

 which I found poffefles the following properties, by which it 

 diliinguifhes ilfelf from other earths : — It is white, and to- 

 tally infoluble in water. In a freili ftate, when moiftencd 

 with water, it is fomewhat du&ile. In the fire it be- 

 comes tranfparent and very hard, fo as to fcratch glafs, 

 but remains infipid and infoluble in water. The burnt earth 

 diffolves very eafdy in acids, and produces with them pecu- 

 liar falts, which are entirely void of tafte. Fixed alkalies 

 dilfolve this earth neither in the dry nor the wet way; and it 

 \i equally infoluble with the carbonic acid and with caiiftic 

 ammonia. It has a great'-r affinity to the oxalic than to 



other 



