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lire. Thus, for inftance, the foetus of 
frogs are furnifhed on the fides of the 
head with organs of refpiration, analogous 
to the gills of fifhes. “Thefe organs in a 
fhort time become indurated, die, and drop 
off, before the individuum has attained to 
the perfect developement of its exiftence. 
The horns of ftags, which fall off and 
renovate every fpring, complete in the 
{pace of a year all the fucceffive periods 
of their diftinét life; but a feries of years 
is neceflary to achieve the different periods 
of the exiftence of the animal. 
Some remains of a Roman antiquity 
have been lately difcovered at Nimes, in 
France, in confequence of an order given 
by the municipality to demolifh a parapet 
toa convent of Dominicans. Under the 
parapet was found a Corinthian entabla- 
ture, the cornice of which was much im- 
paired. -On the frieze, which was in to- 
lerable prefervation, was this infcription, 
engraved in the ftone, with holes to retain 
the metal which had been melted into it: 
IMP. CESAR. IVL. F- AVGVSTVS. 
COS. XI. TRIB. TEST. VIII. 
PORTAS. M.*. ROS. DA.’. 
In the third year of the republic, the 
direétor of the military hofpital, of his 
own authority, overturned the infcription, 
fo that many parts of it were dashed to 
pieces. It was not then fufpeéted that 
under the entablature there exifted an 
antique edifice, which was the reafon 
that almoft all the architrave was taken 
away at firft; but the municipaliry having 
perccived, by the demolition of a {mall 
part of the modern wall, which ferved as 
a lining to the ancient one, the appear- 
ance_of Corinthian capitals, they ordered 
all the modern wall to be demolifhed, the 
architrave to be repaired with as much 
care as poffible, and the frieze. on which 
was the infeription to bereplaced. They 
alfo caufed the earth to be raifed again up 
to the ancient pavement, and a wall to be 
built at the diftance of fix fect from the 
monument, in order tw fecure it from 
injury. The ancient edifice is twenty- 
five fect feven inches in height, and tixty- 
one feet fix inches in length, frontwife 
(en facade) not including two round 
towers, nineteen feet in diameter, at each 
end, and forming an avazt-corps of nine 
feet. Four pilafters, twenty-eight inches 
wide by twelve inches in projection (de 
fuillie) with a column in’the wall, the 
whole of the Corinthian order, divide 
the overtures of the monument, in which 
are yet founded, 1ft, two large porticoes, 
full arched, in the centre, having twelve 
feet overture, and feparated from the im- 
poft to the architrave by a column which 
sefts upon a cupola, leyel with the im- 
Varieties. Dr. Beddoes on the Nitrous Acid. 
» SS 
poft; 2d, twe other porticoes, alfo full- 
arched, of fix feet’ overture each, over 
which is a femi-circular niche, covered 
by great ftones decorated with mouldings, 
which anfwer to the architrave. The 
form of this edifice, to judge of it by what 
remains, indicates a fortreis, which the 
Romans had ornamented with all the ele- 
gance. of archite€ture. Some of the con- 
noiffeurs imagine it to have been a capitol. 
More than 300 medals of the latter 
zra of the Roman empire, in high pre- 
fervation, have been lately dug up in the 
neighbourhood of Is-fur-Tille; among 
which are the following : 
A.D, 3 . 
117. Two medals of Lucila, wife of FElius 
Cefar. 
138. Two ditto of Faufina, wife of Antoninus. 
138. Two ditto of Antoninus, emperor ; on the 
reverfe a figure feated on a globe. 
There are four more medals of the 
fame emperor, but not with this device. 
161. One model of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 
Pius ; on the reverfe three figures. 
161. Two medals of Fauflina, wife of Marcus 
Aurelius, and daughter of Antoninus. 
130. One medal of Crifiina, wife of the em- 
peror Commodus. 
The difcoverers of this new hiftorical 
treafure have been invited to beftow them 
towards the enrichment of the cabinet of 
medals belonging to the central {chool at 
Paris. 
oe ER 
[The following Letter, by forme accident reached 
us too late, to appear in its proper place.j 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
| i the colle€tion of obfervations on 
nitrous acid, now in the prefs, and of 
which the firft (and perhaps the fecond) 
century will appear in March next, 1 fhall 
have the fatisfa¢tion of producing evi- 
dence from very various and diftant quar- 
ters. I fhall give a fecond letter from 
Mr. Scorr. of Bombay.’ The pofitive 
evidence is fuch as appears to be incapable 
of being invalidated by negative; efpe- 
cially as the facts to be brought forward 
will account to a certain extent for the 
general failures that are faid to have been 
experienced in fome places. 
Some correfpondents, who are advan- 
tageoufly fituated, have been obliging 
enough to vary their trials confiderably 5 
and even to extend them to gonorrhcea.. 
I am, fir, yours, 
Clifton, Fan. 1, 1798. T.Bepnots. 
P.S. Ihave feen great fervice from “the 
nitrous acid in hepatic and dyf,eptic cafes. 
Several faéts of the fame nature have been 
generally mentioned to me. If particulars 
were tranfmitted to me, I would print them 
as an appendix to the Siphylitic Collection. 
TrArYrrcepn VrTyy 
