v6 FoJJlh. 



though It is commonly believed among the learned, that in 

 the time of Herodotus, that is nearly 500 years before Chrift, 

 the knowledge of this language was already loft. 



Since thefe infcriptions were prefcnted to the Inftitute, 

 Bonaparte has ordered engravings to be made of them, in 

 order to gratify the curiofity of the learned in all countries. 



V 



FOSSILS. 



Faujas St. Fond has lately brought to Paris fome curious 

 foffils, having on them the impreffion of plants ; which he 

 found under lava at the depth of twelve hundred feet. Juflien, 

 Desfontains, andLamark, haveobferved that feveral of tl^efe 

 impreffions belong to plants common in Europe at prefentj 

 fuch as leaves of the chefnut tree, of the birch, mountain-afh, 

 the maple, an entire cone of the pimisjylvejlris, and a portion 

 of a cone of the pinus Jhtiva. Fabricius and Latreille dif- 

 covered in them alfo the impreffion of an infect, which is the 

 common bjidrophylus or water-beetle. Faujas St. Fond 

 intends to publiih an account of this difcovery, illuftrated 

 with engravings. 



ployed in that book, inftead of giving their own opinions, founded on a 

 tuppofed refemblance of the figures to the objects to which they arbitrarily 

 applied them, they would have come nearer to the author's meaning than 

 they have done. — Edit. 



ERRATA IN VOL. VII. 



P*S e 3 56, !• 1 1) for this r. their .- p. 360, 1, 5. for her r. the : p. 362, 1. 1 j, 

 for mere r. more : p. 372, 1. 4, iotfulphat, r. fufybmet. 





