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persons of his family. He died on the 21st of April, 1812. His 

 eldest son, Gregory, ordered the same labours to continue, both on 

 account of the wishes of his father, his own love of science, and 

 his patriotism. '1 hough his time was devoted to the service of 

 Government, he did not neglect the organization of the Arscharu- 

 nian Society. In consequence of his instructions, James Duz,* his 

 brother, and Baptiste Duz, his nephew, have just finished the most 

 material part of their labours. Circular tetters have been sent to 

 the Armenians in every country. Every thing has been arranged j 

 and measures have been taken to enable every Armenian for the 

 future to co-operate for the general good, either by his talents or 

 fortune. 



Their principal object, like that of the illustrious Mikitar, the 

 founder of the Academy, is to publish instructive books of all 

 kinds, to print the ancient Armenian authors, especially the manu- 

 scripts, as they can procure them, to translate into Armenian the 

 classical works both ancient and modern, to collect new information 

 respecting Armenia, in order to communicate it to their country- 

 men, and to the philosophers of Europe. Botany, mineralogy, 

 zoology, geography, must he improved by the labours of these 

 learned men. Curious details have been published respecting the 

 fish lately observed in the Euphrates and Araxes, respecting wild 

 races of sheep and goats, and the splendid race of horses called 

 Nejouk, of which so little is known in Europe. 



III. Explosion in a Coal-pit near Newcastle. \ 



On Tuesday, Sept. the 6th, the foul air in the Leefield pit, be- 

 longing to Mr. Humble, in the parish of Chester-le-Street, tired at 

 a hole, where a man was boring to ascertain the distance the men 

 were off the waste, just at the moment that the men and boys de- 

 scended to their work. Many of the men got out, when the viewers 

 and several men descended again, and succeeded in bringing the 

 remainder to bank, where they were laid to all appearance dead, 

 hut we arc happy to say they all recovered that day. On Friday, as 

 the men were descending again to promote the ventilation of the 

 pit, it unfortunately fired again, when four men were killed, and 

 five others much hurt. Some men from the neighbouring collieries 

 descended on Saturday, and brought the sufferers to bank. Two of 

 the deo ased have left families, one a wife now pregnant and seven 

 children, the other a wife and five children. 



• James Doz iraa partly educated in Paris. The French language, music, 



painting, natural philosophy, chemistry, and mineralogy, occupied him exclu- 



! resided jo the Fi iltal, Sim- his etun to his country he 



li;i- continui I hit studies with ard.iur. His example excited die emulation of 



I 1)11%, whnrhoke to behii fellon labourer These two are well acquainted 



stiifa I and other European Ion and much benefit must 



Ihejr. enii{ il n <i exei Moos, 



+ Thi« explu ■ in the Inst number of the J ninth. Tlu> notice 



ed from the > . Chronicle, of Sept, 17. 



