Notices respect i7ig New Books, 221 



The position of the vessel, its contents, the soil in which it 

 was imbedded, added to every other circumstance connected with 

 its situation, leaves not a doubt on my mind, of its having found 

 its resting-place by chance. It was buried two feet seven inches 

 under the surface of the bank, with two unbroken straths of turf 

 soil above it. Standing nearly erect, it was filled with the same 

 materials in which it was enveloped. It must have been crushed 

 by the consolidating pressure of the superstratum on the sub- 

 siding of the waters of the lake, as each fragment lay con- 

 joined to its corresponding fracture. 



Could the age of these vessels be ascertained, might not some 

 data be formed as to the duration of this depth of the alluvial 

 matter now occupying so large a proportion of what must have 

 been deep water when the lake was in its primitive majesty ? 

 I intend sending these fragments to Edinburgh for preservation, 

 and that they may be compared and remain with their kindred 

 shreds of former times. 



I am, &c. 

 Strathendry, Aug. 27, 1819. GavIN InGLIS. 



XXXIX. Notices respecting New Books. 



Peintures Antiques de Vases Grecs, de la Collection de Sir John 

 CoGHiLL, Bart, pullites par James Miixingen, Rome, 1 8 1 8*. 



iVxR. MiLi.iNGEN has been long honourably known as a learned 

 and judicious antiquary; having published in 1812 a valuable 

 collection of inedited Greek medals in quarto; and in 1813, a 

 collection of paintings of Greek vases in folio, with 63 plates, 

 preceded by an introduction full of curious researches and ob- 

 servations. This present work is the more valuable, as the col- 

 lection of Sir John Coghill has been lately brought to the ham- 

 mer, and we believe entirely dispersed. This precious collection 

 had been formed by M. de Lalo, |)rivate treasurer to the late 

 Queen of Naples ; at his death it v/as purchased by Chevalier 

 Rossi, and afterwards came into the hands of Sir Jolm Coghill. 



Mr. Millingen's present work contains in the introduction 

 some positive ideas on the manufacture of the Greek vases of 

 baked earth : they are in a great measure contained in three let- 

 ters written by M. de Rossi. 



The site of some verv great ancient cities is still a subject of 

 dispute and learned research ; and two or three thousand vases 

 of baked eartii, most of them made four or five centuries before 



• VVc are indebted for the followintj review of the inf^cnioiis work of our 

 counlryiuan Sir John CofrhiH, to the Journal des Havaiu for May last, and for 

 tlic translalija of it, to the Literary Gazette. 



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