Miscellanies. 



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Esq. and myself, in March last, as you will see by reference to the 

 dates. 



You will be concerned to learn, that the talented gentleman who sug- 

 gested these observations, (Sir David Wilkie,) recently died near Gib- 

 raltar, on his return fi'om a visit to the Holy Land. He had secured a 

 large amount of memoranda at Jerusalem, Dead Sea, Bethlehem, and 

 other places in Palestine, from which he hoped to create a new and 

 better order of scripture painting ; in which, had his life been spared, 

 he would undoubtedly have succeeded. But his work is done, and the 

 gifted pencil which has so often made the canvass breathe, is forever 

 laid aside. With sentiments of respect, I remain your obedient and 

 humble servant, E. R. Beadle. 



Aleppo, August 27, 1841. 



Barometrical Ohservations. 



Recapitulation, loithout reference to Thermometer. 



Jerusalem, higher than the Mediterranean, . . 2,520 feet. 



St. Saba, " " " . . 0,606 " 



Dead Sea, lower " " . . 1,414 " 



Jericho " " " . . 0,617 " 



22. Picture of a Parthian Archer, ly David Scott. — Mr. John Dun- 

 lop of Edinburgh, well known a few years ago as a most intelligent and 

 amiable traveller in this country, has recently transmitted for the Trum- 

 bull Gallery of Yale College, a splendid picture by Mr. Scott, an artist 

 of the Edinburgh school. This painting is three feet ten inches, by 

 three feet three inches, and is superbly framed in the Elizabethan pattern. 

 Mr. Scott completed his studies at Rome, where he imbibed a decided 

 partiality for the works of Michael Angelo, to the most beautiful of 

 whose Sybils some resemblance is traced in the face of the Parthian 

 archer. 



The figure is massy and powerful, like some of the forms of American 

 Indians whom Mr. Dunlop had seen and admired beyond the Mississippi. 

 In illustration of Mr. Scott's genius, Mr. Dunlop has been so kind as to 

 forward to us a copy in folio of twenty four engravings of designs by 



