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the Elements of Euclid, merely on account of the difficulties at- 

 tending that sixteenth proposition ? Here then is a striking 

 proof, from the most certain of the sciences, of what I have 

 before asserted, that no author can endure the test to which 



F. E s wishes to subject the Genesis of Moses. The Sy- 



stevialSfnl urce mw^l be expkxled for its vague classification, and 

 the Elements for contradiction — Euclid condemned as a sciolist, 

 and Linnaeus reprobated as a pretended physiologist, at this tri- 

 bunal. 



Dr. Prichard will readily excuse me for not taking his advice, 

 of exercising myself upon the hypothesis of the German pro- 

 fessor and our erudite countryman ; although I do not think it 

 impossible to show, from the positive declarations of Scripture 

 and tlie extensive signification of the terms, that God did not 

 found the Jewish code upon the laws of the Egyptians, or any 

 heathen nation whatever. He must perceive that I am engaged 

 upon subjects that afford me much greater " amusement," and 

 more satisfaction than even the total overthrow of their hypo- 

 thesis could bestow*. 



I am, sir, 



Your very obedient servant, 

 \V\Gonibe, August 10, 1816. AndREVV HoRK. 



XXXn. Description of the Mineralogical Cabinets and Public 

 Libraries of Copenhagen, and of the Gynmasium of Chris- 

 tiania in Norway. By Leopold Von BucHf. 



-L HE collection of minerals belonging t(^ the University of Co- 

 penhagen is in fact very considerable, and, as might be expected, 

 every thing belonging to the north is found here in extraordinary 

 beauty. Arendal's epidote, of an extraordinary size ; scapolite, 

 crystals of yellow titanium. There fossils are first seen here in 

 perfection. I never saw such beautiful and large zircon crystals 

 from the syenite of Friedrichsvaern as in this collection. All the 

 pieces are excellently kept, which is seldom the case in such 

 large collections ; and it may not be amiss to inform those who 

 before were ignorant of that circumstance, that Professor Wad, 

 whose merit is so great, belongs to the VVernerian school. 



The royal collection in Rosenburg is also one of the most re- 

 markable and distinguished J not from the plan of the institution, 



* In my last commtanication, No. 217, p. 339, instead of "the thrtt 

 iarticles," it should read " the third article." 



t From Travels throup.h Norway mid Lapland, translated by J. Black, 

 with Notes by Professor Jitmeson. 4to. 1813. 



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