3U6 Astronomical Society.— Conite. 



Island of St. Helena, and Hon. Member of the Board of Agri- 

 culture. 8vo. 95. 



An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa, Territories in the In* 

 terior of Africa, by El Hage Abd Salain Shabeenie, a Native of 

 Marocco, who personally visited and resided as a Merchant m 

 those interesting Countries. With Notes critical and explanatory. 

 Edited by James Grey Jack*ori, late British Consul at Santa 

 Cruz, South Barbary, &:c. &c. &c. To which are added, Let- 

 ters descriptive of several Journeys through West and South Bar- 

 bary, and across the Mountains of Atlas ; personally performed 

 by Mr. Jackson, between the Years 1790 and iSOo. Also, his 

 Translations of several very interesting Letters in the Original 

 Arabic, from Muhamedan Potentates to Christian Kings, exem- 

 plifvijig the peculiar Phraseology of that Oriental Language; 

 African Anecdotes, Fragments, &:c. 



Preparhig for the Vress. 

 A Grammar of the Arabic Language. By James Grey Jack- 

 son, Professor of Arabic ; late British Consul at Santa Cruz, iii 

 South Barbary, &c. 



XLVni. Proceedings of Lcmiied Societies. 



ASTRONOMJCAL SOCIETY. 



April 14. xHE continuation of Dr. Pearson's paper on a new. 

 Micrometer was read ; and illustrated by some specimens, which 

 were laid before the Society. It is principally adapted to the mea- 

 surement of very small angular distances, such as tbe diameters 

 of the planets, the distances of double stars, &c. ; and promises 

 to be a. valuable addition to the apparatus of every practical as- 

 tronomer. There is no instrument, at present, which will mea- 

 sure such small objects so accurately. 



XLIX. Litelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



CONlTE. 

 y Blackh'eath, April 2. 



Sir, — XN my account of the Western Isles of Scotland I have 

 described a new mineral by the name of Conite; that name having 

 been conferred on it from the powdery form in which it occurs. 

 As it is there mentiuned as having been found as yet, only in Mull 

 and in Glen Farg, it will not be uninteresting to your mineralogi- 

 cal readers to know that I have since discovered it in the Kilpatrick 

 hillsj iu the trap of which that district consists^ and also in Sky. 



I have 



