Muriate of ^Irer. — -Ci/ilnnire Goals. — Slahie of Memnon. 7 1 



of the corrosive sublimate innocent, 25 grains of fresh ghiten, or 

 \o of dry gluten, or from 500 to 600 grains of wheaten flour, are 

 necessary. 



REDUrxrON OF MURIATE (cHLORIBE) OF SILVER^ 



The use of nitrate of silver in laboratories, as a test for the 

 muriates causes a quantity of muriate of silver to be collected, 

 which is usually reduced to the metallic state l)y fusion with pot- 

 ash — a process generally accompanied with a loss of silver. The 

 following way is more economical. 



Take a clean zinc or iron vessel, or else a glass vessel, with 

 pieces of clean iron or zinc in it ; cover it with water, and add 

 the muriate of silver with a little sulphuric or muriatic acid. The 

 reduction soon begins, and offers a very curious sight, particularly 

 when the muriate is in lumps ; it begins on the surface, and ex- 

 tends over the whole in the form of ramifications, and penetrates 

 the inner part, so that in less than an hour considerable lumps 

 of the muriate of silver are reduced. Some heat is generated in 

 the process which assists the reduction ; or if it goes on slowly, 

 the mixture may be warmed. Wash the reduced metal with a 

 little muriatic acid — Annales de Chim'ie xiv. 319. 



THE FRENCH FLOCK OF CASHMIRS GOATS. 



The flock, consisting of 175, imported into France in 1819, 

 and placed at the north-east of Toulon, has been removed to a 

 more congenial climate at St. Omer, near Paris. The kids from 

 this flock are al)undantly covered with magnificent down of which 

 the Cashmire shawls are made ; and they are superior in strength 

 and appearance to the indigenous kids of the same age j which 

 leaves no doubt of success from the naturalization. 



THE STATUE OF MEMNON. 



The Russian Ambassador at the Court of Rome has received 

 a letter from Sir A. Smith, an English traveller, who is at present 

 at the Egyptian Thebes. He states, that he has himself exa- 

 mined the celebrated statue of Memnon, accompanied by a nu- 

 merous escort. At six o'clock in the morning he heard very 

 distinctly the sounds so much spoken of in former times, and 

 which had been generallv treated as fabulous. "One may," he 

 says, " assign to this plieaomenon a thousand different causes, 

 Ijefore it could be supposed to be simply the result of a certain 

 arrangement of the stones." The statue of Memnon was over- 

 turned by an earthiiuake ; and it is from the pedestal that this 

 mysterious sound is emitted, of which the cause has never been 

 ascertained, and which was denied merely because it was inex- 

 plicable. 



ANTAUC- 



