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rest. It was an essay by John Johnson, Esq. Forres, on the antiquities of 
Burghead, the well-known seaport and promontory which both in ancient and 
modern times has been regarded as marking the termination on the south of the 
Moray Firth. From a review of General Roy’s Military Antiquities in North 
Britain, and of other authors who have touched on the subject of the Roman sta- 
tions to the north of the great wall which traversed from sea to sea between the 
Firths of Forth and Clyde, and especially of the Itinerary of the Monk Richard 
of Cirencester, and the relics recently brought to light by excavation, the author 
shewed it to be extremely probable that Burghead was the Ultima Pioroton of the 
Romans, and one of the “ are finis Imperii Romani.” <A copy of Richard’s 
Chart, founded on the Geographer Ptolemy’s descriptions, with various drawings 
and sections exhibiting the modern appearance of this station, and the positions 
of the ancient walls and ditches, and of the Roman well, were adduced to illus- 
trate the essay. Mr. Johnston did not enter much into the history of Burghead 
as a Danish strength, into which it was converted by the northern rovers after it 
had been relinquished by the Roman soldiery ; but we trust that the Institution 
will still have it in its power to elucidate this part of its now obscure but interest- 
ing annals. 
FOREIGN. 
Acts of the Geographical Society.— August 7, 1829. Dr. Richardson thanked 
the society for the honourable mention they had made of the part which he took 
in the late Expedition of Capt. Franklin towards the Polar Sea. 
Mr. Noél Champoiseau called the attention of the society to the labours of Mr. 
Diard, and presentcd a notice of the travels of this naturalist. 
Mr. Bruguiere gave in the remaining part of his manuscript on the Orography 
of Hurope, comprising the systems Sardo-corsic, Tauric, Sarmatic, and Brittanic. 
Mr. Alex. Barbie du Bocage read for Mr. Warden an Analysis of the work of 
Lieut. Maw, entitled, Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, &c. 
Meeting of the 2\st August 1829.—The Abbé Manet sent the society a copy of 
his Memoirs on the Ancient and Present State of the Bay of Mount St. Michael. 
Mr. Cadet of Metz read some notices of the remarkable events in the Voyage 
of Capt. Parry in 1827. 
A letter from Mr. Gauttier d’Arc was read, containing some curious details on 
new excavations made at Pompeii. 
Mr. Chodzko offered a Map of Italy, engraved on stone, to serve for the his- 
tory of the history of the Polish Legions in Italy ; and the drawing of the Stand- 
ard of Mahomet, obtained near Vienna, by Sobieski. 
Mr. C. Moreau gave in copies of his Memoirs on England, Ireland, and Scot- 
land. 
The same geritleman renewed the proposition which he had already made to in- 
vite the return of correspondence to ascertain several series of questions upon the 
different Points of the Globe, and announced that the Royal Asiatic and Medico- 
Botanical Societies of London had authorized him, in their name, to address 
these different questions to their numerous correspondents established on‘the dif- 
ferent Points of the Globe. 
Mr. De la Roquette proposed that Mr. Moreau’s suggestion should be acted 
upon, and that copies of these questions should be transmitted to the learned so- 
cieties mentioned by this gentleman. 
Academy of Sciences.—October 26, 1829. M. Cuvier made, in the name of 
the Section of Natural History, a very favourable report upon the Zoological Col- 
lections made by Messrs. Quoy and Gaimard in the Expedition commanded by 
Capt. d’ Urville. 
Mr. Dumeril made a favourable report on the work of Mr. Larrey, entitled, 
Military Clinical Surgery. 
Mr, Becquerel read a memoir on the probable Mode of Formation of several 
Minerals, which enter into the Composition of the Mineral Crust of the Terres- 
trial Globe. (See notice, at p. 309 of the present No.) 
