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in perfect preservation. A number of 
animals, alive or stuffed, or kept in 
spirits of wine, including a variety of 
curious articles from the different is¬ 
lands he has had intercourse with, 
complete the collection. 
The Academical Society of the Lower 
Loire has proposed a prize, consisting 
of a gold medal, value 300 francs, for 
the best answer to certain questions re¬ 
lating to the yellow fever. It is requir¬ 
ed to trace its origin, specify its causes 
and nature, to describe the state of 
the atmosphere and local circumstances 
where it prevails.—to notify its identity 
or otherwise with similar fevers in 
Europe, &c.—to distinguish whether it 
be complicated with any other malady. 
Also a second essay to indicate the 
means for preventing its spreading, the 
proper modes of quarantine, &c. " The 
memoirs to be addressed post free to 
the secretary general of the society, 
previous to the 1st of May, 1822. Each 
to bear a motto, with a repetition of it 
in a sealed paper, containing the name 
and address of the author. 
The ships in the French navy, in No¬ 
vember, 1820, were 8 of 118 guns, 2 of 
110, 12 of 80, 27 of 74, 1 frigate of 24, 
and 30 of 18, 10 corvettes and 28 brigs. 
According to the report of the minister 
of marine, there are in 1821, in actual 
service 73 armed vessels of different 
descriptions, and on different stations. 
For the sake of exercising young offi¬ 
cers, some of the armed ships are em¬ 
ployed as transports in the merchants’ 
service. 
The great works to complete the 
basins of Cherbourg and Brest, and the 
general magazine of Toulon are in pro¬ 
gress. 
An extraordinary event happened in 
the environs of Aubenas, on the 15th of 
June last. A loud report was heard, 
during five or six minutes, to the extent 
of six miles round. The inhabitants 
knew not the cause ; when a high hill, 
called Gerbier de Jone, at the"foot of 
which springs the Loire, disappeared, 
and presented nothing but a lake. This 
hill was high, and it was difficult to 
reach the top, at the extremity of which 
there was a spring. The commotion 
was so strong, that it produced an 
earthquake five leagues ill circumfe¬ 
rence. 
Some early works (as it is said) of 
Napoleon, are announced in the Paris 
journals. They are of 1791 and 1793, 
and called 44 M. Bonaparte to M. Butto 
Fuoco,” and 44 The Supper of Beau- 
eaire.” 
A society has been formed at Paris 
for the encouragement of geography, 
by the printing of scientific memoirs, 
the publication of maps, the distribu¬ 
tion of prizes, and defraying the ex¬ 
pellees of travellers having important 
objects in view. 
DENMARK. 
A Danish family, desirous of purchas¬ 
ing a beautiful mummy for one of the 
museums in Copenhagen, wrote to M. 
Dumrecher, Danish consul at Alexan¬ 
dria, who, assisted by M. Tedenat, the 
French Consul, procured an intelligent 
man to set out for Upper Egypt, with a 
finnan from the Pasha, to search the 
tombs of the ancient kings. For the 
greater dispatch, they employed two 
different parties of the natives, from 
Longsor and from Karnack. The for¬ 
mer were the most fortunate, discover¬ 
ing a tomb that had never been opened, 
and where they found, on the third 
day, a mummy with five cases ; they 
asked for this 6090 piastres of Egypt, 
(£133.) which was paid them. ? The 
fellahs of Karnack, thus disappoint¬ 
ed, and having had three days’ toil 
for nothing, had warm disputes with 
those of Longsor; and mischievous con¬ 
sequences might have ensued, as their 
villagers took a part in the quarrel, if the 
possessor of the mummy had not given 
1000 piastres (£22.) extra to the Arabs 
of Karnack, to whom also some partici¬ 
pation was made by those of Longsor. 
This mummy is the most superb and 
beautiful of an that have been hitherto 
discovered. To judge of it, from the 
ornaments in relief, which decorate the 
cases, and especially one whereon gold 
has been lavished, from the rich style 
of the amulets, from the largeness of 
the papyrus, and all the liieroglyphical 
embellishments about the body,‘it must 
haA'e been that oi some Egyptian king 
or prince. This conjecture is corrobo¬ 
rated by the number of cases, as the 
mummies of the greatest persons in 
general have only three. 
RUSSIA. 
The Russian frigate, Voslock, Capt. 
Bell in ghau sen, has arrived from a voy¬ 
age of discovery, &c. in the South Pa¬ 
cific. She reached 70° S. nearly in the 
track ot Captain Cook, and reports his 
Sandwich land to be an island or is¬ 
lands. 
The Emperor Alexander has erected 
at Abo, in Finland, a magnificent ob¬ 
servatory, the direction of which he 
entrusted to Baibeck, the celebrated 
astronomer. 
AFRICA. 
