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Major into Tombuctoo, and to make him leave the country if there, is remark- 
able. 
This document was brought by.the nephew of a certain Babaia, with two let. 
ters from Major Laing, to Mr. Warrington; and it further reported, that the 
Major was sent out of the town under the care of a sheik of the Arabs of the De- 
sert, by name Ahmed Barbooshi, who, on arriving at his own place of residence, 
killed him in the most cowardly manner. 
it appears bj y the route pursued by Mr. René Caillé, that he ascended the Joliba, 
or Niger, in going to Timé. His road was E.S.E. of Timbo. The point where he 
traversed the river does not appear far from 10° 15’ N. lat. and 11° 45’ W. long. 
from Paris, which, with the calculation made by Major Laing of the north lati- 
tude of the sources of the Joliba, rising in the mountain of Somaa, at 9° 15/, 
and 1600 feet above the level of the sea, would give us two well ascertained points. 
We might say the same of Bammakou, Yamina, Sego, Sansanding, Ginné, Lake 
Dibbo, and Kabra, not that their longitudes are at all well known, but because 
there can be no doubt that they are situated on the same river. 
After receiving the prize offered by the Geographical Society for the successful 
traveller to Tombuctoo,—the cross of the legion of honour,—and moreover, from 
the minister of the interior, the sum of 3,000 francs, he is to continue his studies 
at Paris, previous to another exploratory expedition into the interior of Africa. 
Travels of Champollion.—The intention of this young man’s journey, cele« 
brated for his successful attempts at deciphering hieroglyphics, and the ancient 
methods of writing employed in Egypt, is to study on the spot antiquities and 
monuments of all kinds, which, observed by the learned traveller, may, by cone 
firming and completing the results of previous labours, lay open to us the history, 
institutions, and manners of a country, to whom the west owes the origin of its 
sciences and of its civilization. Since Mr. Champollion’s departure, many letters 
from him have been published in the Bulletin des Sciences Historiques, in the 
Bulletin des Sciences Geographiques, in the Globe, (French paper,) and in our 
Literary Gazette. 
Dr. Parrot’s Excursion to Mount Ararat.—A scientific expedition has set 
out from Dorpat, for the exploration of the country around Mount Ararat. It is 
headed by Dr. Parrot, and accompanied for greater security by a military escort. 
Messrs. Fedorow, Hehn, Schiemann, and Behagel, accompany the expedition, in 
the various departments of astronomy, botany, zoology, and mineralogy ; and 
Professor Kruse, of this university, has furnished the travellers with a manuscript 
chart, for the historical and antiquarian illustration of the countries of Iberia, Ar- 
menia, and the ancient Colchis, together with a copious commentary on the points 
to be cleared up. The late empress mother, Maria Feodorovna, shortly before 
her death, bequeathed 1000 rubles for the instruments and their carriage, besides 
600 in addition for the astronomer of the expedition. —Foreign Quarterly Review. 
Scientific Journey in the Morea.—The occupation of a part of Greece by the 
French troops, gave birth to the idea of a scientific expedition in this celebrated 
country. The care of exploring this classic ground, has been trusted to men 
whose names are well known in science. 
The composition, and the different objects of the labours of the commission, 
as stated by the Bulletin, are as follows : 
lsé Section.—Natural Sciences, Colonel Bory de Saint-Vincent, chief of the 
commission ; Virlet, Geology and Lithology 3 Pector, Zoclogy ; Despréaux, Bo- 
tany ; Brulet, Entomology ; Boblaye and Pétier, engineers and geographers ; 
Bacuet, landscape-painters ; and Launay, topographer. 
2d Section. —Archeclogy, Mr. Dubois, chief; Quinet, history and antiquities ; : 
Schinas, history of the Grecian language; De Wincrel and Amaury-Douval jun., 
historical-painters ; Lenormand, inspector of the fine arts. 
