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ftate, colle&ted from the antient chronicles, 
and other authentic documents, is begun 
by Mr. O. G. Gibcuaist. 
The Rev. ].Evans having altered his plan 
(announced in this Miscellany fome months 
ago), re{pecting his Sketch of the Denomi- 
nations, has interwoven his account ot fe- 
veral mew feds, and his augmentations of 
the Dexominaiions already given, with the 
laj? edition. 
Dr. Watxins’s long expected volume 
of Scripture Biography, for the ule of {chools, 
will make its appearance early in June. 
Mr. 1. Evans has in the prefs, and 
will fhortly publith,a Cambrian Itinerary, 
which is meant to contain a complete Hz/- 
taxy and Dejcription of the Antiquities and 
Beauties of Wales, according to its geogra- 
phical divifion into counties; with a cor- 
reét delineation of its Briti/b, Roman, Sax- 
on and Norman ruins, and a particular ac- 
count of the rivers, feils, mountains, 
agriculture; manufactures, markets, cities, 
caftles, monaficries, manfions. &c. 
Tie whole to be illuftrated by a correct 
map of the Principality, including the 
-youds, and alfo a Collequial Vocabulary, 
Englith and Welth, with eafy rules for 
Welth pronunciation. 
The Brivifh Mineralogical Society have 
circulated a notice fo farmers and perfons 
engaged in experiments on agriculture, 
that having of late increafed the namber of 
their members, they find- themfelves en- 
abled to extend the plan of their inftitu- 
tion, from the analyfis of minerals, in the 
ufual fenfe of the term, to that of the va- 
rious foils which are made the bafis of 
agricultural cperations. ‘They therefore 
give this public notice, that they will ex- 
amine, free of expenfe, all fpecimens of 
earths or foils, with a view of determining 
the nature and proportion of Nheir differ- 
ent contents, with as much accuracy as 
fhall feem requifite. They require, how- 
ever, that the perfons fending {pecimens 
fhall comply with the following conditions: 
‘<That the f{pecimen be about three or 
four pounds in we ght, inclofed in a deal box, 
properly packed with hay, and along with it 
an account be added of the parifh and ccunty 
trom which it is procured, the name ot the 
fender and his addrefs, per poft, and an anfwer 
"to the following queries—W7hat is the depth 
of the feil?—What the nature of the fub- 
foil is it on a hill or Jevel ground ? and, 
if the former, what is the afpect ?—-how 
near to any river or ftream ?—and is the foil 
' 3tfelf dry or fpringy >—what is the rotation of 
crops which it ufually bears? has it ever 
been limed, or had any other earth laid on? 
Any other particulars worthy of notice may 
ae 
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Literary and Philofophical Intelligences 
devours every thing, 
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alfo be added, and a fpecimen of the fub-foil 
fhould alfo be enclofed. Before the fpeci- 
men ispacked up, it fhould be gently dried, 
either in the fun or in any warm place, for 
afew days, but muit on no account be heated 
over a fire. The box, containing the fpeci- 
mens, muft be fent, carriage paid, to Mr. W. - 
H. Pepys, jun. No. 24, Poultry, London.” 
The fociety intend, if confiftent. with 
their other occupations, to return the refult 
of the analyfis within two months of the 
arrival of the fpecimen. i 
Extraordinary Infcription! — Among 
other monuments brought from Egypt 
by the officers of the army of General 
Buonaparte, is a valuable one found at 
Rofetta, which, fay the French journals 
“‘will go near, perhaps, to change our 
ideas, to revive our loft hopes, and ena- 
ble us, at length, to refolve a pro- 
blem, the folution of which had been 
judged impoffible.”” “This monument 
bears three mfcriptions, the copy of 
which has been drawn upon the ftone. 
itfelf, by a particular procefs, invented 
by the Citizens MarcetT and GAL- 
LARD, one the Dire&tor, and the other 
the Correétor of the National Prefs, 
eftablifhed at Cairo. General Ducua 
fent the copy to the National Inftitute 
of France, who referred it to Citizen 
AMEILHON, to enter among his firft 
labours on Greek infcriptions. The 
three infcriptions of the monument, are 
written, the firft, in hieroglyphic or fa- 
cred characters ; the fecond, in charaéters 
of the language of the country, that is 
to fay, fuch as was then  vulgarly 
fpoken in Egypt; and the third, in 
Greek charaGters. ‘This laft informs us, 
that they are all one and the fame de- 
cree, expreffed in three languages. From 
the circumftance . of the authors of the 
decree having ordered it to be engraved 
ona ftone of that kind, which 1s dif- 
tinguifhed for its hardnefs, being of gra- 
nite, according to the report of General 
Dugua, it fhould feem that they wifhed 
to fecure to this monument an unalter- 
able exiftence. Notwithftanding this 
wife precaution, however, time, which 
has gnawed the 
itone in many of its parts, fo that not 
one of the infcriptions is entire! That 
in hieroglyphic characters, which we are 
the moti interefied to know, is mutilated 
in every part, and what remains does 
not exceed half of the volume which it 
ought to have. The infcription in the 
vulgar language of the country, and 
which: likewile merits the particular at- 
tention of learned Orienialifts, is the 
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