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Is it wonderful that such uncommon doses as we hear of, are taken, 
pe, and indeed required at the West, and that disappointment is every 
# where experienced by physicians in the action of medicines? And 
these examples are but few out of many that might be given. 
_ This circular has been addressd as a memorial to the Legislature of 
New York, praying that a law may be enacted, declaring that all im- 
* ported articles intended for medical use, which may appear to the prop- 
er Custom House Officer to be spurious, counterfeit, or adulterated, 
;. shall be subject to competent inspection, and if found to be of base 
a character, confiscated and destroye 
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a letter to Prof. B. Silliman, Jr.)—It was my rare fortune to travel two 
< directly opposite the city of Mosul,) it would appear that that also sus- 
2 tains a similar relation to the others. From this fact, the view which I 
= Presented in the article in your Journal, that Nineveh was latterly made 
Stones sculptured and carved sent to England from the disentombed 
Palaces of Nimrood, there is an obelisk of considerable size, containing 
&8 appears from the partially deciphered inscription, a chronological list 
Of the kings of Assyria, beginning with Ninus,—and it would seem that 
it agrees with authoritative Egyptian chronology. apts 
jess space to detail farther. The time is fone 
these inscriptions translated out before them in detail, and in the mean 
curate copies of the inscriptions and drawings and plans of athe fig- 
ures and rooms which have been disinterred. He goes to England 
immediately for this purpose. f pies 
aa ; OBITUARY. 
she hoof Avexanver Bronentart.—This distinguished man has 
_ his mortal career, and his obsequies were performed at Paris, 
___We have in progress a translation of a par of a discourse upon his 
life cukciomann inseam hai de Doaumont, but its length 
