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under circumftances that favour their ge- 
neration. Thefe, he fays, chiefly occur 
in pring, after the grafs has, in fome de- 
gree, covered the ground, by which the 
dung is fhaded from the fun, or early in 
the autumn, after the hay-crop is re- 
moved. ‘This laft is unqueftionably the 
moft convenient, and leaft objectionable 
period for the purpofe in queftion. 
Recent refearches among the records 
in the Tower of London, and in the li- 
brary of the faculty of advocates at Edin- 
burgh, have difcovered fome of thofe an- 
cient documents of the hiftory of Scot- 
land, which were fuppofed to have been 
Joft in confequence of the depredations of 
Edward I. and of Oliver Cromwell. 
is not improbable but more may yet be 
fund. Even the lift of the titles of a 
feries of charters of the twelfth or thir- 
teenth century, is now neceffarily invalu- 
able, on account of the light which it is 
capable of throwing on the laws and man- 
ners of thofe times. A catalogue of fuch 
titles of charters, the firit fruit of the new 
difcoveries here announced, has been juft 
publifhed under the aufpices of Lord Fre- 
deric Campbell, by the learned Wiiham 
Roberifon, efq. keeper of the records in 
the regifter-ofiice at Edinburgh. 
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Oo Kh ee 
a Sate 
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bebe (DP 
Oo Pp r 
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“This alphabet (the deficient letters be- 
sug fupplied on the authority of Chifhull) 
is taken from “the Sigean infeription, 
fo called from the promentory and town 
of Sigeum, near Troy, where it was 
found. It is engraved on a pillar of 
beautifully white marble, nine feet high, 
two feet bread, and eight inches thick ; 
Fifty Articles of Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
Lee 
[Feb. 
The Misstonary SOCIETIES of Scot- 
land, in corref{pondence with thofe of Eng-+ 
Jand, are appearing to eftablifh at Glaf- 
gow a feminary which is to be appro- 
priated for the inftruction of perfons of- 
tering themfelves for foreign miflions, in 
thofe-parts of knowledge which aredeemed 
indifpenfibly requifite to qualify them for 
the undertaking. A news-paper, if con- 
nection with thefe religious focieties, and 
exclufively devoted to moral and religious 
purpofes, has recently been fuccefstully 
eftablifhed in London, under the title 
of ** The Weekly Regifter.” 
We learn that Mr. Fr¥ has been fa- 
voured with numerous valuable communi- 
cations, for his propofed Pautographia, 
which is intended to exhibit fpecimens of 
upwards of fuur hundred different alpha- 
bets, and oral languages. Notwithitand- 
ing the terms of the fubfcription are al- 
ready fixed, the author has determined to 
embrace every article which may be re- 
commended as ferviceable to the caufe of 
literature, or gratifying to cvrioity. We 
are happy in being enabl d to prefent our 
readers with a fpecimen of this unique and 
very promifing work, {elected from that 
part of it which is imtended to exhibit the 
early ftate cf the Greek alphabet ; 
VAR4HA 
LLY“) ee 
4fPe2 gue 
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O+ ON 
pach 6 
which, as appears by an excavation in 
the top, and the tenor of the infeription, 
fupported a buft or ftatue of Phanodicus, 
whofe name it bears; and was undoubt- 
edly erected beiore the time of Simonides, 
who flourifhed 500 years before Chrift. 
The anti uity of it is evinced by its 
being read alternately from left to right, 
and 
