1805.] 
Citizen Mongez attributes to the 
Saxens the ruin of Noviomagus Lexo- 
viorum. Hiftory informs us, that to- 
wards the end of the fourth century the 
Saxons were eftablifhed on the -coaft of 
Belgium, and of the fecond Lyonnaife, 
after having ravaged them. The coalt of 
the Lyonnaife is called, in the Notitza 
Imperit, Littlus Saxanicum; and it is 
from Bayeux, that the Saxons acquired 
the name of Saxones Bajocaffini, bécaufe 
Bayeux had become their particular re- 
fidence. , 
We mut here obferve, that the name of 
Saxones did not then defignate, as now, 
the inhabitants of Saxony only.. The 
countries, from whence that warlike peo- 
pie {pread over the,coats of Great Britain 
and of the Gauls, extended to the north 
upon the fea: from the Rhine tothe Elbe, 
and even beyond the Oder; and to the 
fouth, as far as to the countries occupied 
by the Franks. | 
We fhall not guit Citizen Mongez, 
without taking notice ef certain antique 
fepuichres—a defcription of which has 
been communicated to him by Citizen 
TRAULLE, already known to advantage 
by fome other difcourtes, no lefs valuable. 
We fhall haften, therefore, to anuounce to 
the public the refult of a fubterranean 
refearch made at Vron, a village, diftant 
34 myriameters from the city of Abbeville, 
on the road to Calais. 
In the laft age, they cut away the 
ground thereabouts to the depth of three 
or four metres, in order to diminifh the 
declivity of the high road. But only two 
vafes of black earth were then found, 
which the learned Caylus caufed to be 
engraved in his Collection. ‘The above 
labour has been relumed, and .complete 
fuccefs has already crowned the moft 
active zeal in this laudable purfuit. 
A number of bodies, ftretched out at 
Jength, have been difcovered ; allof which 
had lying by them, either arms, or the 
blades of knives, and veffels of pottery. 
Near one of thefe fkeletons was placed an 
iron fword, fimilar to that which was the 
objeét of a memoir; read by Citizen Mon- 
gez during the courle of the preceding 
quarterly fitting. The point only ex- 
hibits a difference—inftead of being 
round, it terminates-in a triangle. The 
remains of a bow are attached to this 
{word, : 
On the right fide of mott of the bodies, 
was a lance, or a javelin; the iron’ of 
which was placed fo as to rife above their 
head, Neax others were found knives 
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fimilar toour’s; grains of glafs-ware, of 
amber, of red-earth coloured yellow, and 
a long pin of bronze,- which feems to 
have ferved for faftening the hair. Theie 
lait were probably the fkeletons. of wo- 
men. me 
According to Citizen Mongez, ‘the 
above fepulchres are ancient ,Gallins. 
—-We may refer them to. the fir€ 
times of the vulgar cra, unlefs they be- 
long to the time of the Saxons, who, as 
already obferved before in treating of 
Noviomagus, defolated the coasts. of 
Belgium and of the fecond Lyonnaife, 
towards the end of the fourth century. 
Mr. Douvctas, in his Neenia Britannica, 
attributes, a fimilar mode of fepulture, 
found on the eaftern and fouthern coafts 
of England, to the Anglo-Saxons. 
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL 
SOCTET 
CHEMISTRY. 
HE frft fix papers in the new yo- 
lume of the Tranfaétions of this So- 
ciety were all communicated by Doétor 
PrifsTLey. The firff gives an account 
of ‘* Experiments on the Tranfmiffion 
of Acids, and other Liquors, in the forny 
of Vapour over feveral Subftances in a 
hot Earthern Tabe.”” Of thefe experi- 
ments, we fhall notice one or two gt the 
mere remarkable:---Sending the vapour 
of nitrous acid over an ounce of irow 
filings, 140 ounce meafures of air were 
obtained, which was chiefly inflammable; 
witha little phlogifticated. When copper 
was ufed, the air was dephlogifticated at 
firtt; but when it came over flowly, it 
was nitrous. Over charcoal, inflammable 
air was produced, without any fxed.air. 
From the charceal of bones, one-fitth part 
was fixed, the reft phlogiftic, air. The 
Doctor tried the fame experiment with a 
variety of ether fubftances, and each 
fub{tance: yielded a different retult. In 
another part of this paper, we have an 
account of ‘' the production of fulphur by 
beating water impregnated with vitriolic 
ad air.’ \n this experiment, fulphur 
is formed much fooner when the common 
air is expelled from. the tube, by heating 
a little of the impregnated water previ- 
oufly to its being hermetically fealed. 
By this means the fulphur will appear the. 
firt day, and in three or four days the. 
produétion wiil have attained its maxi-. 
mum, the whole tube being covered with 
white cryftals, After fome days there 
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