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‘ixperiments which I made upon the Carthagena bark, 
of rather better quality than the market generally affords, 
yielded about one-twelfth less quinine than the Calisaya ar- 
rolenda. 
REMARK. 
When the Calisaya bark was first introduced here, it was con- 
sidered an inferior article, the decision being grounded upon 
its external characters, and would not bride its cost in South. 
America; but such is the deception of external appearances, 
that when submitted to the infallible test of experiment, it 
was proved to be the best. Specimens of the Galaars and 
Loxa barks may be procured from Charles Marshall, jun. 
druggist, of this city. 
G. W.C. 
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I, Foreien. 
Poreign Literature and-Seience; extracted and translated by Proi. Grikcomr. 
: ae Morality of the Greek and Roman Philosophers. —A 
Latin Discourse obtained the prize in the Academy of 
Leyden in 1823, on the question, Whether and to what extent 
the philosophers (Greek and Roman) founded morality upon 
the existence and attributes of the Divinity? Leyden, 1824. 
pp. 137. 4to. Biase : 
The author determined to consult, in his researches, no 
tigations The ancient Greek poets are not always explicit — si 
on the relation between God and man; and the whole of them _ 
wandered in the darkness of polytheism. Nevertheless, they 
taught the existence of God, and even of an original or st 
preme deity —the chastisement of vice, and the recom 
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