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few marks of injury, and those slight; 
excepting upon the leftside of the work 
that lay uppermost. The fracture of 
the nose of the Sphinx, as well as a 
blow upon the man’s forehead, were, 
with some other less material bruises, 
the unavoidable effects of the labour 
upon discovery. The adjustment of 
the hair of the Sphinx, *is the same as 
that of the younger empress Faustina ; 
yet it resembles almost as closely the 
dress that we have frequent occasion to 
notice upon Roman monuments of an 
earlier time. Of the Roman origin of 
this monument, there is irresistible 
proof in the great mass, found in and 
around the very spot where the Sphinx 
was discovered, of antique remains: 
such as bricks, tiles, pottery, fragments 
of bronze, and other relics, that are 
decidedly of Roman fabric ; and which, 
as well as the Sphinx, lay concealed 
in a soil that apparently had not for 
centuries been disturbed beyond the 
depth of the ploughshare. A sepulchral 
inscription to the memory of one or 
more legionary Roman soldiers, was 
dug up a few days sooner than the 
Sphinx, and at the distance of no more 
than about twenty-five paces from it. 
A bronze Sphinx, has also been found 
perfect, excepting the loss of the wings, 
which from the appearance of the back, 
had evidently been torn off- This was 
dug up last summer within a few yards 
of the spot where the stone sphinx was 
discovered. The little image exhibits 
in its present state, no further com¬ 
pound than of the lion and the virgin ; 
and from the arrangement of the hair 
resembling that of Julia Maesa, or of 
her daughter Julia Scemias, (mother of 
the Emperor Heliogabalus,) as well as 
from its inferiority of style and execu¬ 
tion, it is doubtless of a later time than 
the large Sphinx. This stone Sphinx, 
Mr. Hay apprehends to have been a 
principal decoration of the temple 
erected at Camulodunum, in the time 
of the first Claudius, and is Recorded by 
Tacitus to have been destroyed by the 
natives, irritated by the tyrannous 
sway of the Romans at that station. 
The historian says expressly that this 
temple, which had been erected in ho¬ 
nour of the deified Claudius, was looked 
upon by the inhabitants as a fortress, 
built for the purpose of their eternal 
bondage. 
The Rev. H. Cotes, vicar of Bed- 
lington, is about to publish the Resur¬ 
rection of Lazarus, in a course of ser¬ 
mons on the eleventh chapter of St. 
John’s Gospel, from the French of 
Beausobre. 
Early in January, will be published, 
a complete Course of Arithmetic, in 
three parts, with a key: containing the 
theory and practice of numbers clearly 
illustrated upon pure mathematical 
principles, so as to lay a correct foun¬ 
dation for the study of the mathema¬ 
tics, while it forms a pleasing and use¬ 
ful introduction to mercantile transac¬ 
tions; arranged for the use of schools 
and private students, by W. H. White, 
head-master of the Commercial and 
Mathematical School on the founda 
tion of Sir William Harpur, Bedford. 
The author's Young Ladies’ and Gen¬ 
tlemen’s Arithmetic is just published, 
and may be had as above, and at Mr. 
Turner's, Optician, Camberwell, price 
Is. 3d. 
The proprietor of the Portraits cf the 
British Poets, informs the subscribers 
to that work, that in consequence of the 
much-lamented death of Mr. Thurs¬ 
ton, the publication of Part XI. has 
been unavoidably postponed from the 
1st of Nov. to the 1st of January, when 
two parts will be published together. 
A new edition is in the press of John¬ 
son’s Dictionary in Miniature; im¬ 
proved and enlarged by George Ful¬ 
ton, author of a Pronouncing Diction¬ 
ary. Spelling Book, &c. 
The Letters of Junius, with prelimi¬ 
nary dissertations, and copious notes, 
by Atticus Secundus, is printing 
in one neat pocket volume, with seven 
portraits and a vignette title. 
The Carnival of Death, a satirical 
Poem, by Mr. Bailey, author of What 
is Life ? and other Poems, will soon 
appear. 
IRELAND. 
At Letterkenny, Aug. 31, about ele¬ 
ven a.m. there was a weak breeze from 
the south-west, the barometer at 
‘ changeable,’ with an appearance of 
heavy rain, which-began to fall about 
forty minutes after eleven, and conti¬ 
nued until twelve, at which time there 
was a dead calm, and the rain ceased. 
The sun had not. shone during the 
morning, but a few minutes after twelve 
the darkness increased in a most ex¬ 
traordinary manner. At one there was 
not sufficient light to transact business ; 
the domestic fowls went,to roost; and 
mechanics and labourers quitted their 
work. Neither barometer nor thermo¬ 
meter changed a line from what they 
had been at ten o’clock. There was a 
dead calm, and the chimney smoke rose 
in 
