Ee myself, Sng to, ay will see Nie eelienhiashscrale 
_ You will be concerned to learn, that the scloatal penton who sug- 
gested these observations, (Sir David Wilkie,) recently died near Gib: _ 
raltar, on his return from a visit to the Holy - He had secured a 
large amount of memoranda at Jerusalem, Detd Sea, Bethlehem, and 
other places in Palestine, from which he hoped to create a new and» 
better order of scripture painting; in which, had his life been spared, 
a he would undoubtedly have succeeded. But his work is done, and the 
. gifted pencil which has so often made the canvass breathe, is forever 
= laid aside. With sentiments of respect, I remain your obedient and 
Be humble serv servant, E. R. Beapue. 
os Aleppo, August 27, 1841. 
Barometrical Observations. Sg 
_. Placess  |Barom. |Therm, | Weather. Time. {| Remarks. 
\2Y.958 | 594° fine Mar. Ist |Level of Mediter. 
Jerusalem, 27.488 | 55 fine « 3d 
es St. Saba, 35 threat’ning rain] “ 4th) | 
= ater, 31.372 | 68 do, wind x. | “ 5th Jevelof Dead Sea. 
BE etchay ne et P0554 26 rain “5th 
: “nd ee ts farther up, |29.106| 674 foggy * 6th 7 
{Four and a half hours : , * 
above Jericho, } 28.406 | 70 fine ete 
Jerusalem 27,278 | 644 high wind “ 6th | 
Recapitulation, without reference to Thermometer. 
Jerusalem, higher bern the Mediterranean, : oe 2,520 feet. 
ae ee eRe, thes 
____ Dead Sea, nt ‘a - Sa er ie Lm 
Jericho” ewe ss yo ee 
22. Picture of a Peonen Archer, by David Scott.—Mr. John Dun- 
“top of Edinburgh, well known a few years ago as a most intelligent and 
amiable traveller in this country, has recently transmitted for the Trum- 
| bat Gallery of Yale College, a splendid picture by Mr. Scott, an artist 
“ of the Edinburgh school. This painting is three feet ten ihokies, by 
“ » three feet three inches, and is superbly framed in the Elizabethan pattern. 
Mr. Scott completed his studies at Rome, where he imbibed a decided 
partiality for the works of Michael Angelo, to the most beautiful of 
whose Sybils some resemblance is traced in the face of the Parthian 
archer. 
. _ The figure is massy and powerful, like some of the forms of American 
Indians whom Mr. Dunlop had seen and admired beyond the Mississippi. 
In illustration of Mr. Scott’s genius, Mr. Dunlop has been so kind as to 
forward to us a copy in-folio of twenty four engraving? « of designs by 
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