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necessary to nse kettles or saucepans of a particular con- 
struction, They ought to be suspended by their rims, in 
large circles of wrought iron or copper, the better to keep in 
the heat. The circle of a saucepan ought to be half an 
inch more in breadth than the saucepan is in depth. 
But to return to the main branch of my subject. If the 
present state of our knowledge does not admit of our esta- 
blishing with a rigorous precision the highest temperature 
which it is possible to excite by means of the combustion of 
inflammable bodies; the calculation which I have sub- 
mitted to the Class may nevertheless serve to guide our 
conjectures on this interesting subject. They will at all 
events show what is wanting to enable us duly to appreciate 
the subject. 
[To be continued.] 
LII. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 
ROMAN ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED IN THE KINGDOM OF 
WESTPHALIA. 
M. Horrman, a German engineer, who has been long 
engaged in examining the banks of the Rhine, with a view 
to ascertain at what point Cesar passed that river, has 
transmitted to the Gottingen Academy a deiached account 
of certain interesting objects discovered near Neuwied. - 
Tt is well known that there was in the environs of this 
frontier town a Roman camp intended to check the incur- 
sions of the German nations, and in particular the Catti. 
It was a short distance from this point that Cesar con- 
structed his celebrated bridge. M. Hoffman in October- 
1811 drew a plan of the whole country, with a view to as- 
certain the precise spot which was occupied by the Romans 
at that period. He also made a drawing of the camp which 
they had near Bonefeld, three leagues and a half from 
Neuwied. 
To judge from its extent, this camp, which the moderns 
would call a redoubt, might contain a cohort. A single 
tent served ten men, and the Romans encamped much more 
closely than the moderns. The four parts of the camp 
were unequal, probably on account of a fosse which passed 
through the middle. The two upper parts, which abutted 
on the Pretorian gate, are smaller than those which are 
beneath and abut on the Decuman gate. The camp in 
question is situated on the high road on tie banks of the 
Rhine, near Neuwied, The objects discoyered in it may 
Ue not 
