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the connection it would establish between our eastern and 

 European possessions. 



So much for the Trans-European part of the route. The 

 principal ports from which vessels sail for Alexandria, are 

 Malta, Marseilles, Leghorn, Genoa, Naples, and Corfu ; and 

 of these, the best probably is Malta. It gives not only a 

 good opportunity for fitting out, and laying in, a proper assort- 

 ment of supplies, but for obtaining a servant, Maltese being 

 a dialect of Arabic sufficiently near to be understood by Arabs. 

 It would be of great use, however, if the servant, besides 

 Arabic, also understood Turkish. The hire of a good ser- 

 vant, will be from twelve to twenty dollars a month. Each 

 traveller may take about one hundred pounds in Spanish dol- 

 lars or German crowns, from Malta, as the exchange is much 

 higher in Egypt, and a part of this sum may be converted in 

 Egvpt into Turkish gold, though Spanish or German sil- 

 ver will do very well for the expences of the Red Sea. 

 Bills on Bombay can be cashed at Mocha. The whole ex- 

 pence from Malta to Bombay will be about one hundred and 

 fifty pounds ; but it is far from being advisable to carry more 

 money than is absolutely wanted, and that which is carried 

 should be concealed and divided as much as possible. 



Columbo, Ckylon, May 9, 1825. 



Art. X. — Observations and Experiments tending to show 

 that the Sense of Taste is not a separate one. By a Cor- 

 respondent.* 



I THINK there is no such sense as taste, distinct from the 

 other known senses. It has been always well known, and is gene- 

 rally admitted, I believe, that we do not taste when we have 

 our noses stopped, or our breath held, and it is also found, that 

 a particular complaint, or illness, will sometimes take off both 

 the power of smelling and tasting, and yet not hinder the 



" We shall be glad to hear again from the author of this article.— Ed. 



