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cumnavigating the globe, has sent out travellers to cross the ice 
from the eastern coast of Asia to the western coast of America. 
Professor Rask of Copenhagen, the author of an Icelandic 
and Anglo-Saxon Grammar, has been for some time studying 
Sanscrit at St Petersburg, with the view of proceeding to the 
Birman empire, to study the Pali language, and the sacred 
books of the Buddhists. He proposes to inquire into the origin 
of the languages of the north in the mountains of Caucasus. 
M. Sieber, a Bohemian naturalist, who travelled in Egypt 
and Syria in 1817 and 1818, is about to perform a journey in 
Abyssinia. 
43. Dr Spioc and Dr Martins's Travels in Brazil. — We are 
informed that a series of works, descriptive of the travels and 
observations in natural history, made in Brazil in the years 1817, 
1818 , 1819 and 1820, by Drs Spix and Martius, who were sent 
out by the King of Bavaria, are in progress of publication. The 
journal of the travels will appear in two volumes quarto, with 
numerous maps, geographical and geognostical ; portraits of In- 
dian scenes in different parts of the country, &c. The descrip- 
tion and history of the animals, will appear partly in quarto, 
partly in folio. We observe, the folio numbers will contain 
figures of 37 new apes. This disagreeable tribe appears to be 
almost inexhaustible. The plants are to be published in impe- 
rial quarto. 
44. Methods of detaching Paintings in Fresco. — M. Stefano 
Barrezzi of Milan has lately discovered a simple method of de- 
taching paintings in fresco from one wall, and transferring them 
to another. This is effected bv a cloth, which is stuck to the 
face of the picture. The method has even succeeded in rough 
and uneven walls. M. Barezzi was some time ago engaged in 
separating the great picture of Marco d’Oggivne in the Church 
della Pace.— Rev. Encyclop. Mai 1821. 
45. Society of Travellers. — A Society has been established in 
Liverpool, of those gentlemen who have visited distant countries, 
either with the view of natural history, or general science. We 
have long had in view the establishment of such a society in 
Edinburgh, where so many travellers from all quarters are either 
resident or occasional visitors. 
