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veins. — See the outlines; ee the pulmonary arteries; ff the two branches of the trachea ; gg the 

 lungs ; H the aorta — in the outlines; i the cceliac artery — in the same ; l the oesophagus, turned to 

 a side; MM the renal capsulie, or glandulae renales — in the outlines ; n a small part of the liver 

 fixed to a rib by a thread — in the outlines ; coo intestines ; p the duodenum ; q the pancreas fixed 

 to a rib by a thread ; ii the gizzard, a thelacteals which come from the duodenum ; b the lymph- 

 atics of the liver ; cc a plexus formed by the above-mentioned lacteals and lymphatics, which sur- 

 rounds the coeliac arter}'. d a lymphatic from the gizzard ; e a lymphatic from the lower part of 

 the oesophagus; ff a network formed by the lymphatics upon the aorta; gg the two thoracic ducts; 

 ii the trunks of the lymphatics of the neck ; kk the glands through which the lymphatic vessels of 

 the neck pass. That of the left side is oblong, and could not well be represented in a figure ; 1 the 

 thoracic duct of the left side, and the lymphatic vessel of the neck, opening together into the inside 

 of the jugular vein; m a part of the lymphatic vessel of the right side of the neck, opening into the 

 jugular vein; n the thoracic duct of the right side, joined by a part of the lymphatic vessel of the 

 neck, and then opening into the inside of the jugular vein. 



XXX F^. A Catalogue of the Fifty Plants from Chelsea Garden, presented to the 

 Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries, for the Year \T67, pursuant 

 to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. By JVm. Hudson. F. R. S. p. 470. 

 This is the 46th presentation of this kind, completing to the number of 2300 



different plants. 



XXXVI. Interpretation of the Inscription on a Punic Coin, struck in the Isle 



of Gozo, near Malta, never hitherto explained. By the Rev. John Swinton, 



B. D., F. R. S. p. 235. 



On one side of this coin is the head of a woman veiled, and on the reverse 

 that of a sheep, under which stands a word formed of 3 Punic characters. The 

 piece itself is well enough preserved, and the letters in particular have almost en- 

 tirely escaped the injuries of time. The first of these characters is taken for Koph. 

 The 2d strongly resembles a form of the Punic or Phoenician Lamed, the other 

 being indubitably one of Nun. Admit this, and the word may be read kavlin, 

 or cavlin ; though the Jod, after the Punic and Phoenician manner, is here sup- 

 pressed, such a suppression among the Phoenicians and Carthaginians being by 

 no means uncommon. We shall, perhaps, not find it so difficult to point out 

 the place where all these medals were struck. 



There is a small island in the Mediterranean only 5 miles from Malta, deno- 

 minated anciently FATAOS, or gavlos, both by the Greeks and the Romans ; 

 as we learn from Diodorus Siculus, Mela, and Pliny. This island, which is 

 about 3 miles in circumference, was occupied by the Phoenicians in very early 

 times, and afterwards by the Greeks. When the latter were possessed of it, 

 the capital, named also gavlos, was one of those cities called by the Greeks 

 ATTONOMOI, governed by its own laws, and consequently, as it should seem, a 

 kind of free independent state. The Carthaginians therefore, who probably 

 succeeded the Greeks in the occupation of this island, may reasonably be pre- 



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