ftjf8 Learned Tour. 



other acids. I have given to this earth the name of aguf! 

 erde (taftelefs earth) becaufe a combination of it with acids 

 is uifipid." Profeffor Trommfdorff informs us, that a full 

 analyfis of this earth, accompanied with an accurate defcrip- 

 tion of the foflil by Dr. Bernhardi, as well as an analyfis of 

 a. German foflil that contains chrome, will appear in the firft 

 part of the eighth volume of his Journal of Pharmacy, along 

 with other eifays of importance to chemlfts. 



LEARNED TOUR. 



A letter from Rome of a recent date contains the follow- 

 ing article: — " Mr. Hamilton, a young man twenty-five 

 years of age, nephew to Sir William Hamilton, the Britifh 

 ambaflador at the court of Naples, and fecretary to the Britifli 

 ambaflador at Conrtantinople, is about to undertake a learned 

 tour through Greece, Afia Minor, Syria, and Egypt. With 

 ihis view, during his reiidence in this city, he engaged various 

 artifts, to whom he is to allow handfome falarles. He takes 

 with him as architeft an Italian named Baieftra ; a ftatuary, 

 alfo an Italian, is engaged merely for the purpofe of fuper- 

 intending the cafts ; as models of all the monuments not 

 tranfportable are to be taken on the fpot. Don Tito, of 

 Naples, is to attend Mr. Hamilton, as landfcape-painter, 

 and to defign ruins; and the Calmuc Feodor, an ingenious 

 draftfman and engraver, who about eight years ago was fent 

 by the court of Carlfruhe to Rome, but who was left there 

 feveral years without any protcftion, and who on that ac- 

 count was in narrow circumftances, is engaged to paint 

 figures. Thefe artifts are all engaged for two or three years. 

 Mr. Hamilton proceeded from Naples to Palermo, and thence 

 to Conftantinople, where he pafled the winter, that he might 

 begin his tour through Greece in the fpring. 



*' Befides the above artifts, Mr. Hamilton carried along 

 with him from Naples a band of mufic. The whole tra- 

 velling party, after they have been joined by fome Englifh 

 gentlemen of fortune at Conftantinople, will confift of from 

 fixty to eighty perfons." 



