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No. 51,—Josuva at THe Barri or Ai—arrenpep By Draru. 
“O’er the pale rear tremendous Joshua hung; 
Their gloomy knell his voice terrific rung ; 
From glowing eyeballs flashed his wrath severe— 
Grim Death before him hurled his murdering spea 
Conquest of Canaan, by Pres. Dwight, Book 6th, line 643. 
No. 52.—T'e Last Famiiy wao Perisuep in tHe Dewar. 
An infant exhausted by cold, wet, and hunger, lies dead in the 
lap of its mother, whose whole soul is engrossed, and all her fac- 
ulties so absorbed in the contemplation of this calamity, that she 
is insensible to the horrors of the scene which surrounds her, and 
does not even see that her husband is just dashed from the rock 
(their last and only place of refuge) by a violent surge, and is 
perishing at her feet. The father throws up his eyes and hand 
to heaven, saying—* Heavenly Father! oh, smite us at once 
with thy eS and put an end to this lingering misery !” 
No. 53.—“I was in Prison AND YE CAME UNTO ME.” Matt. xxv, 36. 
Remark.—Some account of the first room may be given at 
another time. Among the most interesting objects which it con- 
tains, are the group by Mr. Augur, of Jephthah and his daughter; 
and the busts of Homer, Demosthenes, and Cicero, recently pre- 
sented by Mr. Edward E. Salisbury. Some of the portraits, &c. 
&c., are worthy of further notice. 
Yale College, October 1, 1840. 
Art. I].—On the identity of Edwardsite with Monazite, (Men- 
gite,) and on the Composition of the Missouri Meteorite; by 
Cuartes Urnam Sueparp, a. of gc in he: Medical 
College of South Carolina. 
~ Tur Journal of the Frapkdin Institute for May, 1840, contains 
the following translation from Poecenporrr’s Annalen der Physik 
wnd Chemie, No. I, 1840, of an article by Gustavus Roser, on the 
identity of Edwardsite and Monazite. , 
“The royal collection at Berlin received a fragment of gneiss 
from Norwich, in Connecticut, containing a part of a crystal of 
Edwardsite, which although fractured on either termination, had 
a sufficient number of planes remaining to determine its angles. 
Shepard (American Journal of Science and Arts, xxxu, 162) cor- - 
rectly referred this mineral to the oblique-rhombie system, and 
