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second would be 104.066. This observation is favourable to 
the conjecture of Wetter; “that the quantities of heat dis- 
engaged in combustion are in definite proportions.—Ibid. Oc- 
tob. 1824. 
8. Rovan Learnine. The Seven Seas; or Dictionary and 
Grammar of the Persian Language. By his majesty the king 
of Oude. Lucknow. 1822. In 7 volumes folio, 15 inches 
in height by 11 in breadth. Printed at his majesty’s press.— 
This magnificent work is the fruit of the labours and research- 
es of the sultan of Oude, Ubulmasaffir Muiseddin Schahi Seman 
Ghiatiddin Haider Padischah; that is to say, the father of 
the brave, the adorer of the faith, the Schah of the age, the 
conqueror of the faith, the lion, and the padischah. His ma- 
jesty has sent several copies to the East India Company, to 
be distributed in Europe. The first six volumes contain the 
dictionary ; the seventh is devoted to the grammar. Upon 
each leaf, and above the page, are engraved the arms of the 
sultan-: two lions, holding each a standard, two fishes, a 
throne, a crown, a star, and the waves of the sea. Since the 
time of Abulfeda, the learned prince of Hamah, of the dynasty 
Ejub, who died in 1332, and is well known in Europe asa 
historian and geographer, no Asiatic prince has done such an 
essential service to science as that to which it will be indebted 
to the sultan of Oude, by the composition and publication of 
this dictionary, the most complete of all that have hitherte 
appeared.—Revue Encyc. Sept, 1825. 
9. Philology.—According to a work published in Germany 
by the learned philologist Adelung, there exist on the earth 
3,064 languages: 5871n Europe; 937 in Asia; 276 in Afri- 
ca; 1,264in America. The author doubtless comprehends 
in this enumeration the various idioms and patois in use in the 
different provinces of the same country.—/bid. 
10. Geneva. Mutual Instruction —This method introdu- 
eed into our country by the Society of Catechumens acquires, 
every year, an increasing influence. In the month of July, 
1822, the schools of St. Gervais and la Grenette contained 
together 345 children; that of St. Anthony was opened in the 
month of November of the same year, and in the begmning 
of 1824 it contained 174 children. ‘Thisrapid progression in 
the number of pupils is an indubitable proof of the success of 
