182 



Scienti/ic InivUlgcn ct\ — Statist ics. 



STATISTICS. 



1. Number of pupils which attended the universities of the Neth- 

 erlands In the year 1827, and who were inscribed on the lists of the 

 different faculties. 



Uni verities 



rii 



rheol.i Law. I Med. (Science. 



Leyden, 



Utrecht, 



Groningen, 



Louvain, 



Leige, 



Ghent, - 



158 



1 



191 



169 



95 



92 



68 



i 



168 



1 



1 



185 



1 



207 



62 

 21 



29 



70 



89 



165 



10 



45 

 14 



83 



78 

 11 



Philos. Total. 



167 

 168 



84 

 373 

 154 



21 



588 

 498 



287 

 678 

 506 

 404 





Total, 

 In 1826, 



2,961 



2,774 



T 



ncreas 



Lr 



) 



187 



Report of Minister of the Interior, 1829. — Rev. Encyc. Aoxit^ 1829. 



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2. Peruvian geography and geognosy, — Extract from a statement 

 of the labors of M. Pentland in Peru, by Alex, be Humboldt* 



The great chain of Peruiian Andes is divided, between the 14th 



and 20di degrees of south latitude. 



branches 



which are separated from each other by a wide valley, or rather by a 

 Plateau J the surface of which is elevated two thousand and tliuty 

 three toises above the sea. The northern exti'emity of this table 

 includes the Lake Titicaca. The shores and islands of this lake are 

 remarkable for having been the seat of ancient Peruvian civilization, 

 and tlie center of the empire of the Incas. The western chain sepa- 

 rates the bed of the Lake Titicaca and the valley of the Desaqua- 

 rado from the shores of the Soutli Sea, and it presents a great num- 

 ber of volcanos still in activity. Its geognostic constitution is essen- 

 tially volcanic, while the eastern chain consists entirely of mountains 

 of secondary and transition formation, of micaceous schist, syenite 

 porphyr}^, red sandstone, marl containing fossil salt, gypsum, ai 



J 



da 



little calcareous oolite. 



rliich 



From this eastern chain, issue a great number of torrents, w 

 empty into die Rio-Beni, and which bear down with them portions 

 of auriferous sand. One of these streams deposits so great a quan- 

 tity of this gangue, that it has given to the little valley of Tipiani, in 

 the district of Lai'ecaia. the name, now so celebrated, of Dorado or 



