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 LIV. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



THE COMET. 



1MTR- Encke's investigations on the orbit of the comet which 

 ■L*-*- is now visible, prove that it moves in a hyperbola. — Mr. 

 E. has found the following elements : 



Time of passage through the perihelion Sept. 29, "02259 



Longitude of the perihelion 4° 25' 57"*2 



Longitude of the ascending node 279 15 31 -6 



Inclination of the orbit 54 43 7*8 



Eccentricity 1-006046 



Logarithm q 0-0217381 



THE DISCOVERY SHIPS. 



The following is an extract of a letter from the agent to 

 Lloyd's at Hull, dated the 7th of October: 



" The Mary-Frances, Capt. Wilkinson, has arrived from 

 Davis Straits, and reports that she saw the Discovery Ships 

 beset in the Middle Ice on the 1 7th of July, in lat. 70. long. 5. 

 Capt. Wilkinson entered the ice on the following day in lat. 66. 

 long. 20. and penetrated to the West Land on the 26th, where 

 he remained until the 9th of September, when he bore away for 

 England, having taken 15 whales. He was nearly as high 

 as Lancaster Sound, and states that the prospect for the Dis- 

 covery Ships was very favourable, as the weather was fine, and 

 the coast unusually free from ice. As he never met them af- 

 ter he got through the barrier of ice, there can be no doubt 

 of their having had an equally favourable passage. The Mary- 

 Frances and the William-and-Ann were the only ships which 

 got through the barrier in the month of July ; the remainder 

 of the fishing vessels having attempted the passage in a higher 

 latitude, did not succeed until August. There had been no 

 losses ; but one of the ships (the Jane, of this port) had sus- 

 tained considerable damage." 



ANTIQUITIES. 



Part of a Roman villa was opened on Tuesday the 2 1 st of 

 September, at Wigginton, in a field belonging to George Cobb, 

 Esq. of Broughton Castle, when a room 20 feet long by 14 

 feet wide was completely uncovered, and a great portion of 

 ihc tessellated pavement was found nearly perfect. There are 

 other remains scattered over a considerable extent of ground, 

 which have not yet been examined. — Oxford Journal. 



MUNGO PARK. — AFRICA. 



We have been favoured by a gentleman interested in African 

 discovery, and who lias travelled a considerable way into the 



interior 



