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hausted. Within these few years, the fortifications of the city 
and citadel of Namur have been receiving great enlargements; 
and the spring happening to be in the way of them got encum- 
bered, and finally disappeared. Not long afterwards the whole 
mass of the mountain was observed to be in motion, inclining in 
a direction towards the river Meuse; owing, as is reasonably con- 
jectured, to the pent up water having increased to such a quantity 
as to heave the mountain from its foundations. It has continued: 
ever since imperceptibly moving forwards in the same direction, 
without any part of it tumbling away, or any crevice breaking 
out in its sides. Already it has advanced as far as the old’ road 
to Dinant, which it now covers so completely, that a new line of 
communication has been obliged to be opened by a bridge over 
the Meuse. The country people have given it the name of The, 
moving mountain, and look to see it, ere long, depositing itself 
in the bed of the Meuse. —Journal de Gand. 
MUNGO PARK, 
The Liverpool Mercury contains an extract from a letter which 
has heen received by a gentleman of that town from his brother 
at Juddah, a sea port onthe Red Sea: This extract purports to 
give some information respecting the above enterprising traveller. 
It is as follows: 
“ Dec. 13, 1818. 
“On my landing at Juddah, a place where I did not expect 
to hear an English word, 1 was accosted by a man in the com- 
plete costume of the country, with ‘Are you an Englishman, sir?’ 
My answer being of course in the affirmative, appeared to give 
him pleasure beyond expression. £ Thanks and praise to God!’ 
he exclaimed, ‘ I once more hear an English tongue, which [ 
have not done for fourteen years before.’ I have been much 
amused by him since ; his account of the Abyssinians, the in- 
habitants of a country that has absorbed fourteen years of his 
existence, is indeed truly interesting.-You must, no doubt, have 
heard or read of him; he is that Nathaniel Pearce spoken of by 
Mr. Salt in his Account of his Travels in Abyssinia. He was 
left there by Lord Valentia, and has been the greater part of the 
time in the service of one or other of the chiefs in various parts | 
of the country. At the time I met with him, he was endeavour- 
ing to make his way to Tombuctoo, where he says Mungo Park 
is still in existence, detained by the chief. He says the whole 
country almost idolize him for his skill in surgery, astronomy, 
&ec. &e. They say he is an angel come from heaven to admi- 
nister comforts to them; and he explains to them the motions 
and uses of the heavenly bodies. He is, Pearce says, very desirous 
to make his escape, but finds it impossible-—* What!’ say wy 
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