Identity of Edwardsite with Monazite. 249 



No. 51. — Joshua at the Battle oe Ai — attended by Death. 



"O'er the pale rear tremendous Joshua hung; 

 Their gloomy knell his voice terrific rung ; 

 From glowing eyeballs flashed his wrath severe — 

 Grim Death before him hurled his murdering spear." 



Conquest of Canaan, by Pres. Dwight, Book 6th, line 643. 



No. 52. — The Last Family who Perished in the Deluge. 



An infant exhausted by cold, wet, and hunger, Ues dead in the 

 lap of its mother, whose whole soul is engrossed, and all her fac- 

 ulties so absorbed in the contemplation of this calamity, that she 

 is insensible to the horrors of the scene which surrounds her, and 

 does not even see that her husband is just dashed from the rock 

 (their last and only place of refuge) by a violent surge, and is 

 perishing at her feet. The father throws up his eyes and hand 

 to heaven, saying — " Heavenly Father ! oh, smite us at once 

 with thy lightning, and put an end to this lingering misery !" 



No. 53. — " I was in Prison and ye came unto me." Matt, xxv, 36. 



Remark. — Some account of the first room may be given at 

 another time. Among the .most interesting objects which it con- 

 tains, are the group by Mr. Augur, of Jephthah and his daughter; 

 and the busts of Homer, Demosthenes, and Cicero, recently pre- 

 sented by Mr. Edward E. Salisbury. Some of the portraits, &c. 

 &c., are worthy of further notice. 



Yale College, October 1, 1840. 



Art. II. — On the identity of Edwardsite with Blonazite, {Men- 

 gite,) and on the Composition of the Missouri Meteorite ; by 

 Charles Upham Shepard, Prof, of Chemistry in the Medical 

 College of South Carolina. 



The Journal of the Franklin Institute for May, 1840, contains 

 the following translation from Poggendorff's Annalen der Physik 

 und Chemie, No. I, 1840, of an article by Gustavus Rose, on the 

 identity of Edwardsite and Monazite. 



" The royal collection at Berlin received a fragment of gneiss 

 from Norwich, in Connecticut, containing a part of a crystal of 

 Edwardsite, which although fractured on either termination, had 

 a sufficient number of planes remaining to determine its angles. 

 Shepard (American Journal of Science and Arts, xxxii, 162) cor- 

 rectly referred this mineral to the oblique-rhombic system, and 



