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in all the varieties ; whereas there was one variety in which 
only a trace of carbon could be procured.—Idem. 
18. Tea.—A colony of Chinese established itself in Bra- 
sil, soon after the king of Portugal fixed his residence there, 
and applied to the cultivation of tea with so much success, 
that they have now three mul}ion of trees in full bearing. — 
Rev. eee 
19. 4 skull found in a tree.-—The English Journals 
state that a labourer in the county of Warwick, in cutting an 
ald ash tree which he had felled, found in thecheart of the 
log, the cranium of an unknown animal, ‘The wood: that 
surrounded it was perfectly sound, as well*as the bark, and 
nothing apparent could lead to the conjecture how the skull 
could have been introduced. ‘Tbe cavity atiline a the 
skull was about four inches in diameter. 
20. New dipbinninie Cypher.—Richard Chenevix, F.R.S. 
has invented a new cypher, which satisfies the rules pre- 
scribed by Bacon, and which he 1s confident it will be im- 
possible to unravel. He has engaged to pay 100/. to any 
person, who, before the end of the present year, will 
find out bis character ; 50l. if they succeed in nbsp 
a pbrdse of two lines. 
21. A new mineral substance has been discovered ty 
Garolin, in the blue quartz of Finland. It is composed of 
45.5 silex, 23 alumine, 10 of a rose red matter, unlike any 
known substance, 8.5 of magnesia, 5.6 oxide of iron, and 7.4 
of water. It is called Steinheilite, from count Steinheil, the 
governor of Finland, a distinguished mineralogist, who first 
separated this substance from the genus quartz. 
22. New Mathematical Instrument.—M. Maestens, of 
Halberstadt, has invented an instrument, by which can be 
iraced the ellipses, the parabola, and the hyperbola, in any 
given relation of the parameter to the axis. 
23. Sednetabtie! Bk the al directed enterprize of the 
‘American Consul at Trieste, a steam-boat called the Caro- 
tina, performs every Monday the passage between that port 
