Mutual Tastruction in Geneva. | $83 
second would be 104.066. This observation is favourable to 
the conjecture of Wetrer ; “that the quantities of heat dis- 
oe hon in combustion are in definite proportions. —/bid. Oc- 
fob. 1824, 
_8. Royat Learniva. Phe Seven Seas; or Dictionary and 
Grammar of the Persian Language. By his majesty the king 
of Oude. Lucknow. 1822, In 7 volumes Soho, 15 inches 
tn height by 11 in breadth. Printed at his majesty’s press. — 
This magnificent work is the fruit of the labours and research- 
es of the sultan of Oude, Ubulmasafiir Muiseddin Schahi Seman 
Ghiatiddin Haider Padischah; that is to say, the father of 
the brave, the adorer of the faith, the Schah of the age, the 
conqueror of the faith, the lion, and the padischah. His ma- 
jesty has sent several copies to the East India Company, to 
be distributed in Europe. The first six volumes contain the 
_ dictionary ; the seventh is devoted to the grammar. Upon 
each leaf, and above the page, are engraved the arms of the 
oe ses wie a each a standard, two fishes, a 
thr: crown and the waves of the sea. Since the 
time of Abulfeda, ie Teafned prince of Hamah, of the aay 
Ejub, who died in 1332, and is well known in Europe as a 
historian and geographer, no: Asiatic prince has done such an 
€ssential service to science as that to which it will be indebted 
to the sultan of Oude, by the composition and publication of 
this dictionary, the most complete of all that have hitherte 
a evue Raye Sept, 1825. 
ee hitology. According to a work published in German: 
by the rite philologist Adelung, there exist on the ear 
3,064 languages: 587 in Europe; ‘937 in Asia ; 276 in ‘Arie 
ea; 1,264in America, The author doubtless comprehends 
in this enumeration the various idioms. and patois in use in the 
different provinces of the same country.—Ibid. 
10. Geneva. Mutual Instruction. —This method introdu- 
we into our: “country by the Society of Catechumens acquires, 
“year, an. ‘increasing influence. In the month of July, 
epi the schools of St. Gervais and la Grenette contain 
together 345 children ; that of St. Anthony was opened in the 
month of November of the same year, and in the beginning 
ef 1824 it contained 174 children. ‘This rapid progression in 
the nuinber of pupils is an indubitable proof of the success of 
