442 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
In a subsequent communication, Bases Gottingen, Aug. 8, Prof. 
Woehler continues: On examining under the microscope the min- 
eral powder which had been freed five platinum, gold, chromic 
iron (in part), silica, iron, and tin, and from which the ruthenium, 
c. een removed by a regia, besides many grains of 
meenenron le gas, which, conducted into baryta water, produced a 
cloudine 
am. satisfied, therefore, that besides the laurite, iridosmine, 
chromic iron, hyacinth, ete., the Oregon platinum contains micro- 
inet was valued ae m previous to the war, ata , thousand dollars ; 
it is offered now for nee re manuscript catalogue of the 
minerals accompanies ac There is a ony of Elliot’s Indian 
: “ ba ; 
io of February, 1795, and was at his death within 
of the completion of his 75th year. Mr. Peabody was in the 
strictest s sense of the term the architect of his own fortunes. Com 
