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name to the list of the deities worshipped by the northern nations in 
the Roman period. 
The Runic inscriptions which were discovered about two years ago 
at Maeshowe in the Orkneys have been deciphered and translated by 
Profs. Stevens, Munch and Rafn with but partial success. TI per- 
ceive by a recent announcement that much light has been thrown on 
them, and a more satisfactory explanation offered by Dr. Barclay, 
Principal of the University of Glasgow. 
In Africa some very important discoveries have been made. Many 
interesting relics, including a large number of inscriptions, amongst 
them one in Libyan characters, have been lately exhumed in 
Algiers ; and other explorations at Carthage have yielded some most 
valuable remains, especially specimens of Phoenician Epigraphy. 
_ In Industry and Art the great event of the year has been the 
International Exhibition ; oa nobly has this glorious project for 
national improvement by national competition been a second time 
carried out. The building, however open to objection as a specimen 
of architectural taste and skill, seems to have admirably answered 
the purposes for which it was intended, and the Exhibition itself 
must be regarded as completely successful. An examination of the 
awards of the judges presents results well worthy of consideration ; 
my limits, however, permit me only to take a passing glance at them. 
In machines of all classes, tools, philosophical instruments, naval 
architecture, cars and carriages, glass and lace, Great Britain stands 
foremost—in ceramic works and those in metal, in dyes and chemicals, 
in sculpture, and, strange to say, in food substances, France bears 
the palm, whilst she disputes precedence in woollen fabrics with 
Austria and England, in furniture with Italy and Spain, and bears 
favourable comparison in painting with the Belgians, the Dutch, the 
Zollverein, and the Scandinavians. Our continent has not been as 
well represented at this exhibition as at that of 1851. Our friends 
in the United States have been so engrossed with the deplorable war, 
which has taxed all their energies to supply materials for its prose- 
eution, | that their contributions Hee) been wholly Eisptop or hGnabe to 
“eimiant the unrivalled resources of Sanat in woods and in minerals. 
In this display we have again had the advantage of Sir W. Logan’s 
assistance, and the Province can point with pride to the Catalogue 
of her Economic Minerals by one of her most gifted sons as the 
model of what such a work should be. Nor should I omit noticing 
