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acid and alcohol, or pyroxylic spirit ; and it is remarkable, 

 that to form them it is sufficient to pass carbonic acid into a 

 solution of baryta in spirit of wood, or of potash in ordinary 

 alcohol. I do not doubt but that similar bodies can be ob- 

 tained with pyroacetic spirit, but I shall leave to you the 

 pleasure of isolating them. *,*.*.* " 



« * * * * j ghafl communicate next Monday to the 

 Academy, some observations which may interest you more 

 than any other person;* I mean on compounds very analo- 

 gous to double chlorides, and which I have obtained by 

 means of urea and the alcaline chlorides. Such bodies ap- 

 pear to me decisive on the theory of the amides. * * * * " 



Sir William Betham read a paper " On the Affinity of 

 the Phoenician and Celtic Languages, and on the Cabiri and 

 their Mysteries." 



According to Sanconiathon, men in the third generation 

 from Protogonus began to worship the sun under the name of 

 BaalSamen. The Irish, and all the other Celtae, worshipped 

 the sun under the very same title of beoil famajn, the Lord 

 of Heaven; and the aestuary of the Mersey is named JEstu- 

 avium Belasamena by Ptolemy. 



It is probable, as asserted by many writers, that the 

 patriarch Noah was deified under the names Deucalion, 

 Ogyges, Saturn, Janus, &c &c, for all these names are, in 

 the Celto-Phcenician, appositely significant of the attributes 

 of the supreme God : Deucalion signifies the circle of life, 

 or the sun's course ; Ogyges, the supreme wisdom ; Saturn, 

 the Lord ; and Janus, the rider of ages. 



Sydyk, the 11th from Protogonus, according to Sanco- 

 niathon, is supposed to have been the patriarch Shem. He 

 is said to have been the father of the seven Cabiri. These 



* For Dr. Kane's researches on the double chlorides and amides of mercury, 

 see Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. xvii. p. 423. 



