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Another authority, confined to no particular department of 

 the Natural History of the Bible, is J. J. Scheiichzer, who 

 died in 1731. His great work, Physique Sacree, embraces a 

 wide range of inquiry and speculation, not only concerning the 

 Natural History- of the Bible, but every thing remarkable in the 

 works of art. It may be supposed, that in eight folio volumes 

 on the subjects above enumerated, there woidd be enough, and 

 more than enough, both of that which depends on evidence, and 

 of that which is merely theoretical ; but to an author who knows 

 how to separate the wheat from the chaff, superfluit}', though 

 often troublesome, does not produce loathing or disgust. It was, 

 we presume, by such a spirit of patient inquiry, that Dr. Har- 

 ris was enabled to endure the strange vagaries of Parkhurst, for 

 the sake of what so fearless a theorist might sometimes, even 

 by his boldness, contribute towai'ds probability and truth. Of 

 Scheuchzer Dr. Harris has made principal use for determining 

 the serpents and insects mentioned in Scripture. Rudbeck is 

 his principal authority for the fishes, and Lenniius and Braunius 

 for the minerals and precious stones. 



In the use he has made of the authors above mentioned, and 

 of various others. Dr. Harris manifests a due discrimination, 

 and puts it in the reader's power generally, in cases of doubt, 

 to weigh the evidence for himself: and we consider him to 

 be entitled to the thanks of the public for having brought 

 within a reasonable compass the most valuable materials on 

 the subjects of which he treats ; for having arranged them 

 in a convenient method ; and, in general, for having arrived 

 at his own conclusions, on the best evidence which the sub- 

 jects admit. 



A Correct Abstract of the Ne'jo Act for ascertaining and esta- 

 blishing Uniformity of Weights and Measures: to 'which are 

 added Six Original Tables, compi'ising the Old and New 

 Standards, &c. &c. ; by the aid of u^hich Dealers and Pur- 

 chasers may easily understand the total Change throughout 

 the United Kingdom, which will take place May 1 st, 1 825. 

 By Henry Butter, Master of the Academy, Goswell Road. 

 London, 1825. 12mo pp. 40. 



We are glad to see the class of cheap publications fami- 

 liarly explaining and reducing to the pmposes of business the 



flowers in autumn afford one of the most brilliant and gorgeous objects in 

 nature, the expression of Solomon in all his glory not being arrayed like 

 one of these, is peculiarly appropriate. I consider the feeling with which 

 this was expressed as the highest honour ever done to the study of plants ; 

 and if my botanical coniecture be right, wc learn a chronological fact re- 

 specting the season of the year when tin- Sermon on the Mount was de- 

 livered.'' 



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