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been translated as if they were in tbe dative ease. The expression 

 is the ordinary form in the ablative. Nor are alee primoB Tampiancs 

 in the dative. They are in the genitive after decurioni. 



E-eburrus, the son of Severus, a Spaniard, a decurio of the first 

 ala of Pannonians termed the Tampian, is specially named, as one 

 of those to whom the privileges oi civitas and connuhium were given, 

 because this revised copy belonged to him, and was made for his use. 

 The original at Eome gave the names of all those to whom the 

 privileges had been ceded ; in each copy made for an individual, only 

 his name was given, with occasionally the addition of the names of 

 his wife and children. The seven names (omitted in my extract), 

 with which the inscription ends, are those of the witnesses who 

 attested the truth of the copy. On this subject, vide Marini (^Atti 

 de Frat. Arv., ii. p. 433) ; Platzmann (Juris Homani Testimoniis) 

 Morcelli {de StiL, ii. p. 309) ; Borghesi (Actt. Acad. pont. ArchcBol^ 

 X. p. 131) ; Cardinali {Diplomi Imperiali) j and Henzen (JBhein 

 Jahrli, xiii. p. 98.) 



FORMATION OF ICEBERGS AND TRANSPORTATION OF 

 BOULDERS BY ICE. 



BY JOHN RAE, M.D. 



Head hef or e tTie Canadian Institute, 2Qth January, 1859. 



Having spent seven summers and two winters on the Arctic coast of 

 America, although I did not particularly devote my attention to the 

 phenomena connected with ice, I could not fail to notice some of the 

 more remarkable aspects peculiar to such latitudes, especially as regards 

 its formation into icebergs, and its power as an agent in carrying boul- 

 ders and large masses of rock from one locality to another. Some 

 notes of the results of such observations, slight as they are, may pos- 

 sibly be of interest to the members of the Canadian Institute, as 

 embracing conclusions arrived at on the spot. In thus treating of 

 these subjects, I may be repeating observations already set forth by 

 others. If so, I must plead as an excuse, my ignorance of the fact, 

 and my readiness to give way to any prior claims, if such be brought 

 forward by their originators* 



