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lefs, clearly enough, fo as to leave no fort 
of doubt}that the decree is to this effect, 
«That thetemples which had beenconftruc- 
ted before, in honour of Ptolemy Epi- 
phanes, and of the four other Ptolemies, 
his, predeceffors, fhould be confiderably 
auginented and embellifhed ; that in each 
of the temples a ftatue fhall be erected 
to Ptolemy Epiphanes, which fhall be 
called the ftatue of Ptolemy, the Defender 
of Egypt; that before it fhall be placed the 
principal divinity of the temple, prefenting 
him with the attributes or trophies of vic- 
tory ;, that the priefts fhall perform their 
fervice before thefe images, three times 
a day ; that there fhall be’ likewife placed 
in the fanftuary of the temple a {mall fta- 
tue of the new gad, inclofed ina little tem- 
ple or fhrine ; that the little temple and 
the ftatue fhall be carried, like thofe of the 
other gods, in thofe great folemnities where 
it was ufual to convey them from the ta- 
bernacle, and march them pompeuily in 
public, from which thefe folemnities ob- 
tained the name of the Exodus or Depar- 
ture from the Temples. In {pite of the ru- 
ins of this part of the infcription, and the 
diforganization of the text, it is pretty 
evident that it refers to certain details re- 
ative to the worfhip of the new divinity ; 
and aifo particularly to a grand feftival 
which was to. commence at the zeomenia 
or new moon of the month Thouth, and to 
laft five days, during which the priefts were 
ts carry crowns on their heads. Asto the 
date of this curious monument we may fix 
it, without fearing to be much miftaken, 
at the year 168 before the Chriftian era. 
In effeét, Ptolemy Epiphanes dying, ac- 
cording to the beft chronologifts, in. the 
year 177. before the vulgar era, it follows 
that the inauguration of his fon, which 
took place nine years after, muft be re- 
ferred to the year 168. But the infcription 
‘ 
and inauguration of Ptolemy Philometer,, 
ion of Ptolemy Epiphanes, are of the fame 
epoch, as the infcription attefts. ‘This 
is the refult of the firft labour on the 
Greek infcription of Ptolomy Epiphanes, 
in which the learned interpreters did not 
pufa their feruples fo far, as not to finifha 
word commenced, er not to terminatea 
claufe, the fenfe of which couid not be 
ob{cure, as the words preferved necefiarily, 
re-call thof which have dilappeared; the 
fecond and third, it feems, prefent greater 
difficulties to overcome, and will require 
great efforts to arrive at the end propofed. 
German Univerfities.—The number of 
ftudents in the univerfities of Germany has 
for the laft fix years confiderably decreated. 
At Jena where hx years age about 999 at- 
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the celebrated Pallas. 
[ May- Iy” | 
tended the leftures, there are at prefent 
only 550; and at. Halle, the moft. fre- 
quented univerfity in the Pruffian domi- 
-nions, and where fix years ago there were 
rioo ftudents, the number has dwindled 
to 700. At Kiel in Holftein the number 
of ftudents ufed to be about 200: but in 
the fummer of 1800 and laft winter there 
were only 165. ‘The decreafe is thought 
to be owing to the high price of every né- 
ceflary of life, and the multiplied wants of 
perfons in genteel ftations ; while the fala= 
ries of the fervants of the fate have not 
been increafed in proportion. Agricul- 
ture, commerce, and even handicrafts, pro-= 
mife to thofe who apply thereto with dili+ 
gence a more abundant return, and more. 
independence than the purfuit of the {cien- 
ces. Accordingly there are now many in- 
ftances of the fons of noble families of dif- 
tinction being bound apprentices to mer- 
chants in Hamburg, initead of being fent 
to the univerfity to qualify themfelves for _ 
offices under government. 
GOETHE is juft recovered from a danger= 
ous illnefs—he is labouring now to make 
the German ftage regular, which he tried 
to make Shakefperian, by his Goetz of 
Berlichingen—he is now preparing for the 
ftage Voltaire’s Semiramise» 
In HuFELAND’s Journal, the following 
fact is mentioned, which may deferve the 
attention of our medical readers. An ana- 
tomical preparation of indurated glands 
from a very fcrophulous fubject, yaks 
been put into fpirit of wine, it was found 
fome time after to be incrufted with faline 
cryttals. ‘To prove that they really came. 
from the preparation, and not from the 
fpirit, other {pirit was added, of known | 
purity, but with the fame effect. By che- 
mical analyfis, the cryftals were found to 
be the oxalic acid. This circumftance 
may fupport the opinion of an acid change 
of the humours in this difeafe, and may 
fuggeft an explanation. of the benefit de- 
rived from abforbent earths and alkalies. 
Awork has appeared in Peterfburg, en- 
titled, a ‘* Journal of Travels into the 
Interior of the Region of Caucafus, and 
the Fortrefs of Modofk, in the year 1781.” 
‘The object of this journey was to examine 
the middle region ofCaucafus,and the roads 
from thence toGeorgia andImeretta,to take 
an accurate geographical and military. plan ~ 
of the country, to engage the mountaineers 
to eflablith themfcives in the adjacent 
plains, and to make fome mineralogical re- 
fearches. ‘The author of the work‘does 
not give his name, but it is afcribed to 
Tt may be confi- 
dered asa valuable addition to wre 
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