384 Foreign Laleraiure and Science. 



was opened on the Sth of January last by Charles Dupin, in 

 quality of professor of mechanics applied to the arts. He 

 was followed by Clement Desormes, professor of chemis- 

 try, and lastly by J. B. Say, professor of economy of indus- 

 try, [economic industr telle.) 



20. Mineralogy. — F. S. Beudant is about to publish at 

 Paris his mineralogical and geological tour in Hungary, in 

 the year 1818. The price of the three volumes with the 

 atlas, is seventy francs. 



21. The Himalaya chain of mountains. — A report was 

 made to the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, on the 17th of 

 Feb. 1821, by Capt. Hodgson and Lieut. Herbert, relative 

 to th3 trigonometric measurement of the mountains of the 

 central chain of Himalaya. This important memoir con- 

 tains, 1st, a physical description of those countries, and of 

 the instruments employed in the operation. 2d, latitudes of 

 the five principal stations deduced from a series of 122 ob- 

 servations of the heiuht of the sun or stars. 3d, longitude of 

 one of the stations, viz. place of departure, deduced from the 

 latitude of Jupiter. 4th, the determination of a base of 

 27,000 feet. 5th, the chain of triangles to the number of 

 121. 6th, a table of heights above the level of the sea of 

 thirty-eight summits or peaks of the mountai;ious chain, 

 covered with snow. The greatest height is 25.589 feet, 

 (=five miles nearly,) lowest height 16.043 feet. The 

 Himalaya has more than twenty summits higher than Chira- 

 borazo. 



22. Tribe of Scotacks. — Few geographers or translators 

 have spoken of the Scotacks, ^pvoph of Hungary, remarka- 

 ble with respect both to their number, and their manners. 

 They are of Sclavonian origin, and form a race between 

 the Sclavons, the Vasmiaks, and the Poles; but they differ 

 totally from those nations by their dialect, character and 

 customs. According to some travellers, they have, almost 

 all of them, men and women, white hair, it being very rare 

 to find any one with dark locks. They hve in patriarchal 

 style, and assist each other as parts of the same family; the 

 father confides the oversight of his house to the son whom 

 he thinks best qualified for the trust, and the others respect 



