1809.] 
in fact a lance, the steel point of which 
is concealed by the cone of a pine. It 
was given him in memory of the stratagem 
which was employed against the Indians 
by his orders when he marched against 
them; arming, his followers with pikes 
or lances, whose points were thus con- 
cealed, and the stems covered with 
leaves atid: stalks: of 3 ivy, advancing in 
apparent disorder, assuming the appear- 
ance of ; 
Midnight shout and revelry, 
Tipsy dance and jollity. © Milton's Comus. 
rather than of 
An host angelic, clad in burning arms. 
Home’s Douglas. 
This ‘emblem (the thyrsus) is used by 
the ancients in all representations of Bac- 
chus, Ariadne, and Bacchanalian sub- 
jects. Neither must I omit: the next 
(No. 13) a beautiful personification of 
Victory offering a libation to Apollo Mu- 
sagetes, which was formerly in the col- 
lection of Sir William Hamilton. The 
Greeks in the days of Homer had not 
personified this goddess: she first arose 
from the prolific imagination of Hesiod. 
According to anancient schohiast on the 
works of Aristophanes, the father of 
Bupalus, who lived in the fifty-third 
Olympiad, was the first who added wings 
tothe figures both of Victory and Cupid ; 
and according to the other writers Agla- 
ophon of Thasus was the first who thus 
represented the former of these deities, 
whose example bas been, followed by 
every posterior artist. Among the isola- 
ted sculptures in this room most worthy of 
notice, if Imay beallowedthejudgment of 
selection, are astatue of the goddess For-. 
tune (No. 18), a singularly well carved vo- » - 
tive statue of aman (No. 21), who is car- 
rying around leathern bucket, suspended 
from his left arm. The costume is ex- 
cellently displayed, and is an invaluable 
acquisition, to the antiquary and the 
painter. The head is covered with a co- 
meal bonnet, and a dolphin is placed 
behind as a support to the figure. A 
yery beautiful statue of Venus (No. 22.) 
A superlatively fine unknown head (No. 
23) which the Synopsis of the museum 
supposes to be of a Titan. It is highly 
animated, and is looking upwards, appa- 
rently im great agitation, A Votive 
statue (No 25,) an ‘excellent companion 
THA. 
basket of fish in his left hand. An.en- 
tire terminus of the bearded Bacchus 
(No. 29) six feet high. The remains 
On the Formation of Flinis. 
It is an ciderly man holding a- 
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of a groupe, (No 31) of two boys fighting 
one of which remains entire, with part 
of the arm of the other grasped in both 
hands, whichhe is biting. They appear te 
have quarrelled at the game of the talus, 
described by Ovid, as appears by one of 
those bones called taf, remaining in the 
hand of the figure, which is destroyed. 
A singular Greek inscription upon a cir= 
cular shield (No. 56), containing the 
names of the Ephebi of Athens, under 
Alcamenes, when he held the office of 
Cosmetes. A fine bronze head of Ho- 
mer (No. 389), presented by the late 
Lord Exeter. But one of the most va- 
luable documents of ancient times, is a 
Greek sepulchral monument (No. 41), 
that was Pale to the museum by 
Sir Joseph Banks, @hd the Hon. A.C. 
Frazer. The basso-rilievo in front re- 
presents a trophy, on one side of which 
stands a warrior, and on the other a fe- 
male figure, feeding a serpent, which js 
twined round the trunk of a tree, on, 
which the trophy is erected. On the 
right of these figures is the fore part of 
a house. An inscription on the top of 
this monument contains a list, of names,: 
probably of those who fell in some. en- 
gagement. And astatue of Acton, at- 
tacked by his dogs, in the finest style of 
sculpture. 
I have now presented you with a brief 
sketch of the contents of three of the 
rooms of this magnificent collection of 
antiquities, and shall take the earliest op- 
portunity of continuing my desea nti, 
Till then, adieu. : 
M. 
| een 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magacine 
SIR, 
FEEL induced from the wide circu- 
lacigaupt your miscellany, to commu- 
nicate to the public my observations and 
sentiments with respect to the common 
flints of this country. These, though 
few, and perhaps erreneous, may serve 
the purpose of directing to this subject, 
the attentioii of men furnished with che= 
mical apparatus, and abounding in leisure 
‘for the prosecution of such inquiries. 
Durmg a residence of some few years 
in a flinty part of Buckinghamshire,. it 
was impossible not to make some. obser- 
vations on a species of stone,which every 
where presented itself to my notice, and 
which Ihave at length decided within my 
own breast, to be a modification of cal- 
careous earth, ‘To this conclusion I have 
been led by a number of remarks, for the 
Most 
