448 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
' On the Structure of the Algonquin Language ; by Henry R. Schoolcraft. 
Supposed Runic Inscriptions from the Coast of Maine; by A.C. Hamlin. 
On the Value of the Physical conformation as an element of ethnological science ; 
by Daniel Wilson. 
Queries relative to some indications of human instinct, as illustrated by primitive 
arts; by Daniel Wilson. 
Considerations upon the evidences of the early voyages of the Scandinavians to 
this Country, and upon the cosmical myths supposed to relate to America; by A. - 
©. Hamlin. 
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2. The Meteor of July 8th; by W.Sprzi1man.—Since the appear- 
ance of the large meteor on the evening of the 8th of July, I have en- 
deavored to collect all the information I could respecting it: and as I did 
not see it myself, I have had to rely entirely on information obtained from — 
others, and was thereby, at first, led into an error both as regards its angle 
of altitude, andthe direction in which it was seen from this place. It was 
my first impression, (and I so expressed myself verbally, and by letters to 
others,) that its first appearance was, at an angle of 35° above the hori- 
zon, north-northwest of Columbus. To be more definite in its direc- 
tion from this place, I took with a compass both its direction and allti- 
tude, as pointed out by Dr. Hopkins who saw it from a favorable position 
to observe. From the course pointed ont by Dr. Hopkins, the meteor 
he was, and also as seen from Columbus at an angle of 30° above the F 
horizon, it must have been at least thirty-six miles high, At Holly Sprin : 
I learn that the meteor appeared a little east of south, and at an altitude 
of about 35° above the horizon, and as Holly Springs is about forty 
