56 Prof. Rigaud m those MSS, in G. Britain, which contain 
Both of these were imbedded in the peat ; and the smallest, 
which resembles a modern coffee-pot, is from the last of these 
places. A leg had been broken from it, which was replaced 
with a new one by the person into whose possession it first 
came. It has been cast in one piece, and shews that the work- 
men were expert in the art of moulding. That it was intended 
for boiling some fluid which was to be used hot, is plain enough. 
The other is a common cooking-pot, the very model of our 
own. It is a much ruder piece of casting than the last, but is 
extremely substantial and weighty, as indeed is the former. It 
is 10 inches high ; the coffee-pot is 8. 
Both of these vessels are made of the same composition of tin 
and copper as the celts, and other well known instruments of the 
Romans, commonly called Roman Bronze. 
It is probable that they are Roman utensils, as these places 
also lie within the limits which this people occupied when in 
Scotland. The remains of a station have indeed been traced 
near to Linton. 
Edinburgh, April 182S. 
Art. VIII. — Some Account of those Manuscripts in Great 
Britain, which contain the Greek Text of the Mathematical 
Collections f Pappus. By S. P. Rigaud, Esq. M. A. F.R. S. 
Savilian Professor of Geometry, and Professor of Experimen- 
tal Philosophy in the University of Oxford, &c. &c. Com- 
municated by the Author. 
Th E Mathematical Collections originally consisted of eight 
books. Fabricius, indeed, in his Bibliotheca Graeca, seems to 
think that the number might have been greater, but he speaks 
with hesitation, “ nam in prasfat. libi duodecimum librum alle- 
gare videtur (pag. 252.), incertum est propter luxata versionis 
verba, an alterius potius scriptoris (Euclidis fortasse) librum 
duodecimum elementorum intelligat.*” The passage referred to 
occurs in the end of the preface to the seventh book, and if 
Fabricius had looked to the Greek text, as given by Halley in 
in his edition of Apollonius de sectione rationis, he probably 
would have entertained no doubt. Some of the manuscripts 
