tiguities: 
590 
the direftion of Lanpotrnt, have already 
procured a ftatue of Venus, and other an- 
A variety of valuable antiquities have 
been difcovered in’ Theflaly, under fome 
runs. Among them are the bufts of 
Ariftotle and Anacreon, a large ftatae of 
Ceres, with a coin of Lyfimachus and 
fome remarkable pillars. A Greek MS, 
containing a commentary of Nicephorus on 
the ancients, and the ancient Greek church 
was difcovered at the fame time. 
The Affeflor ScHoLz, of Haynauy in 
Silefia, has in his poffeffion a water. ani- 
mal, half toad, and half fith, which was 
taken out of a weil et Muchelsdorf. It 
has a grifly head, a flat, broad; finooth 
belly, projecting fides, and hind legs like 
a toad; the back, in colour and fhape, 
refembles a gudgeon, and its tail and fize 
exactly correfpond with that fifhh! The 
lower part js much fhortened, and has no 
fins: the mouth refembles that of a fifth 
more than of atoad. It is preferved in 
{pirits at Haynau. 
The learned Mr. GresecKe, “member 
ef the Pruffian board of mines, intends, by 
defire of the Danifh government to under- 
take a voyage to Greenland, where he will 
remain a year for the purpofe of examining 
the country in a geognoftical and minera- 
logical point of view. 5 . 
Anotber building has been dug out from 
the lava which buried the city of Pompeii 
in the year of Chrift 79. In it fome ar- 
ticles in a good ftate of prefervation, fuch 
as vafes, coins, mufical imfruments, a 
beautiful bronze flatue, reprefenting Her- 
cules killing the hind, which he kad over- 
taken on Mcunt Meenalus, and feveral 
paintings in frefco, have been found. 
At the town of Fiefole, near Florence, 
a beautiful amphitheatre has been difcover- 
ed, and the greateft part of it cleared 
from the rubbith. It is fuppofed that it 
would contain at leaft thirty thoufand per- 
fons, 
Review of New Mufical Publications. 
uly. 
The- following extra& of a letter from 
Peterfburg, relative to the Ruffian embafly 
to China, bas been publithed in a foreion 
journal: “ Count Potocki, known by his 
hiftorical labours, is at the head of the em- 
bafly ; and is accompanied, as zoologift, or 
naturalitt, by Adams, who had before 
travelled with Count Muffin-Pufchkin to 
Mount Caucafus; as botanift, phyfician and 
entomologift, by Redowfky, formerly bo- 
tanift to Count Alexis Razumoféky ; by 
Pan{ner as mineralogitt and geologift ; by 
Schubert, as aftronomer, and by Klaproth 
Junior, as philologit. The literati with 
their affiltants, painters, artifts, artificets, 
and a detachment of fifty men as a guard; 
fet out this day, the 14th of May; but 
the ambaflador himfelf will not fer ont 
tii fome time after. Their reute lies 
through Mofcow, Nifchney-Nowegorod,’ 
Kafan, Ekatarinenburg, to the fouth of’ 
Tobolfk, to Omfk, Kolywan, Irkutzk, 
as far as Kyachta, the Ruffian Staple on 
the border of Chinefe Fartary. Here they 
are to wait for the ambaffador and the’ 
Chinefe Ta-dfchins, wha are to efcert.. 
the Reflian embafly, now confiftine of’ 
more than one hundred men, through the 
defert of Yobi and Kellow Mongolia. It 
is to be be withed that the refearches of 
thefe naturalifts, from whofe zeal and 
Knowledge much may be expected, fhou!d 
be the lefs limited during their progrefS 
through the country of the Mongols and 
the defert, as on the other fide. of the 
wall the jealoufy of the Chinefe -will 
throw but too many obftacles im their 
way. May the fciences derive as much_ 
advantage from this expedition, as ‘they 
have from other Miffions of the Ruf- 
fian government! I write this on the day 
when the worthy literati depart, and every 
one of your readers, will join ‘me in my 
hearty with, thatthey may return fafe, and’ 
loaded with the mof precious lierary - 
fpoilt? | OT a 
REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS, - 
ee ne RI crs 
| Tetrodution to the Art of Sol-fa-ing and Sing- 
ing 3 wherein the chief Requifites for a good 
Singer are clearly illuftrated by concife Tnfirve- 
tions and eafy Exau:ples, according to the o- 
dern Italian Style. Compofed, and dedicated 
to Mrs. Billington, by F. Fouffz. 108. 6d. 
} SHE firf part. of this Treatife (for a 
dL treatife it may certainly be denomi- 
matcd) regards tetcwatwz, and contains. 
: 
twelve exercifes on the fcale, afcending and 
defcending. The fecond part explains the — 
nature of mufical ize, which is exempli- ” 
fied by various and uleful exampks. OF | 
the third part execution is the fubje&, 
with its attendant graces, divifions, and 
cadenzas : all which is prefaced, and 
greatly recommended, by a curfory re~ 
view of the elements of mufic, as jar ag ~ 
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