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ment of Blackstone, Ivanhoe, Kenil¬ 
worth, the Cavalier, and Fotheringay 
Castle* are publishing at Leipzic, &c. 
The Brother's Wilmans, of Frank¬ 
fort on the Main, are publishing pros¬ 
pects of Hamburg, Lubeck, and Bre¬ 
men, in addition to their views of 
Frankfort, with topographical de¬ 
scriptions, by learned residents of 
flie respective places, which do them 
great honour ; and in regard to the 
painter and engravers, they need not 
blush to have their works placed in 
comparison with the landscapes of 
Hearne, Byrne, Middiman, and Heath. 
Messrs. Perthes and Bcsser, of Ham¬ 
burg, have published an excellent 
translation of Thomson's Liberty, by a 
Clergyman, with elaborate illustrative 
notes. 
Professor Zimmerman, of the Gym¬ 
nasium of Hamburg, has finished the 
first three months’ delivery of the 
Dramatic Criticisms, which he com¬ 
menced in January in quarto numbers. 
The pocket editions of Sir W alter 
Scott and Lord Byron published at 
Zwickau, in Upper Saxony, meet with 
many admirers on the continent. 
AMERICA. 
Vessels from the lands situated to 
the south of Cape Horn have arrived in 
different ports, with cargoes of seal 
skins. The regions visited by the New 
York navigators lie in about 62 degs. 
lat. where vegetable life is so rare, that 
a little grass, in a few favoured places, 
and some moss on the rocks, are all the 
forms of it that exist. The dreary cli¬ 
mate exhibits, during the entire sum¬ 
mer, perpetual snow and ice; not a 
tree, nor even a shrub appears. The 
minerals brought home by Mr. B. As- 
tor, are partly primitive and partly 
volcanic. The samples produced to 
Dr. Mitchell are—1. Quartz, in com¬ 
pact and crystallized forms. 2. Ame¬ 
thyst, in crystals. 3. Porphyry, in 
small masses. 4. Rough onyx, in peb¬ 
bles. 5. Lumps of coarse flint. 6. Ele¬ 
gant zeolite, like that of the Ferro 
Croupe in the North Atlantic Ocean. 
7- Pumice stone. 8. Pyrites surcharged 
with sulphur. The manuscript chart 
made by Mr. Hampton Stewart, is an 
instructive addition to geography, and 
ought to he incorporated in the charts 
of the globe. Geologists will learn 
with surprise that the high grounds 
and summits of the rocks, in several of 
the spots that have been visited, are 
strewed with skeletons of whales, and 
relics of other marine animals, leading 
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to a belief that the whole of the mate¬ 
rials have been hove up by the opera¬ 
tion of volcanic fire from the depths of 
the ocean. 
INDIA. 
A satisfactory report has been re¬ 
ceived at Rome, from the Dominican 
missionaries in Tonquin. The letters 
are dated Feb. 22, 1819. This vicariat 
is considered as the best supplied in all 
Asia with ministers of the Christian 
religion. The missionaries live in per¬ 
fect security, and their forms of wor¬ 
ship are treated with resjieet. They 
have two colleges, in which a number 
of young persons are prosecuting useful 
studies in theology, the Latin toiigue, 
ethics, &c. These are a nursery for 
future catechists and priests connected 
with the missions. There were six 
Spanish and thirty Chinese Dom inieans, 
also twenty-four secular priests. At 
the above date, baptisms of children, 
5,585, of adults, 338, communicants, 
146,430, and marriages, 955. 
EGYPT. 
In the journey to Dongolah, in com¬ 
pany with the expedition under the 
direction of Ismael Bey, M. Frederick 
Caiilaud halted some time at Thebes, 
where he made an interesting discovery. 
O 11 the 17th of August last, he found 
in one of the subterraneans of Thebes, 
a mummy coeval with the time of the 
Greeks. On the head of the embalmed 
personage, is a gilt crown, in the form 
of a lotus. The body is wrapped up in 
bandelets, after the "Egyptian manner. 
On the case or sarcophagus, which en¬ 
velopes the mummy, inscriptions are 
visible, some in Greek and others in 
hieroglyphics. On the right side, there 
appears* tied with fillets, a manuscript 
on papyrus, in the Greek language. 
The linen that covers the mummy is 
overspread with Egyptian subjects and 
hieroglyphic signs. In the interior of 
the case, the signs of the zodiack are 
represented. 
This valuable monument is in ex¬ 
cellent preservation, though the design, 
the ornaments, and the colours are not 
so perfect as in some more ancient 
works. It appears from hence that 
the Egyptians attained, under the 
Greeks, an acquaintance with hiero¬ 
glyphics. The famous stone of Roset¬ 
ta had already proved this, as it regards 
the epoch of Ptolemy Epiphanes ; and 
certain inscriptions recently found at 
the feet of the Sphinx, in the excava¬ 
tions of Capt. Caviglia warrant the 
opinion that the art of their writing had 
been 
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