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tnembers, and has correfpondents in va- 
rious parts of the United States. The: 
American Government has granted it a 
charter of incorporation. 
Mr. Mituin has exhibited to the dif- 
ferent claffes of the National Infticute of 
France, a head in flint, of large dimen- 
fions, and in a gocd ftyle, the whole fur- 
face of which is covered with a brilliant 
and milky white. This head was found 
in one of the gardens near Paris, on the 
fpot formerly known by the rame of 
Fernes. A head in flint is itfif an ex- 
traordinary circumftance, becaufe the dif- 
ficulty of working that material is very 
great, and it does not poffefs fufficient 
beauty to be worth the trouble. It itill 
remains to afcertain whether the covering 
is a chalcedonie ftratum formed by nature 
in the earth, cr whether it was produced 
by art. 
has nominated perfons to examine this 
extraordinary monument, and to draw up 
a report on the fubject. 
Among the prizes propofed this year 
by the Imperial Academy of Wiina in 
- Poland, is one of 100 ducats for an ana- 
lyfs of political eccnomy, fhewing in 
what points the fundamental ideas of Adam 
Smith and Dr. Quefnay agree, and thofe 
mm which they differ or are totally oppo- 
fite. 
Since the laft fecularizations, the coun- 
try of Fulda has had for its fovereign the 
hereditary Prince of Orange, the fon of 
the Stadtholder, This change inthe go- 
veriiment has hed a powerful a:.d falutary 
influcnce on the ftate of public inffruction 
in that country. Befcre that period the 
Gymnafium, or Latin fchool, and the uni- 
verfity of Fulda, were in a deplorable fi 
tuation. The annual revenues of the fer- 
mer fcarcely amounted to 4000 florins, 
and the whole fund of the univerfity con- 
fifted of a capital of 1r2000 florins. The 
profefiors’ chairs were theretore confidered 
only as acceflary empioymenis, and thefe 
who were placed in them receiving a fa- 
lary of one, two, ards, of ‘at me & four 
hurdred florins, could rot devote to the 
duties of their fituation all the time they 
ought and wifhed to do. The new prince 
has given to the gymrafum and the uni- 
verfity an organization better {united to the 
wants of the young fludents ; and to en- 
able the profeifors to devote their whole 
attention to the duties of infiructien ‘he 
has increafed their falaries, and has-even 
invited, upon honourable conditions, fe- 
veral diftinguifhed proteffors from other 
univerfities of Germany. The apaual 
Eiterary and Philfophical Intelligence. 
The firft clafs of the Infirute - 
[May 1, 
revenues of the Gymnafium and of the 
Lyceum of Fulda now amount to 22,000 
florins. 
In 1756, Count Gaetano difcovered, | 
in the theatre of Syracufe, an infcription ef 
queen Philiftis, whofe medals, more com- 
mon in filver than in copper, had produced 
very oppolite opinions among numifmat- 
its relative to the time to which her reign 
ought to be affigned. After the Chevalier 
Landolina, known for his refearches on 
the Papyrus and for other difcoveries, had 
cleared away the earth which covered the 
precinéliones, or corridors, by which the 
feats of the theatre were divided into twa 
ranks, he found a great number of Greek 
charaéters, fx inches long, engraved ona 
band nine inches broad, and projecting’ 
nearly half an inch, which ran ali the way 
round on the {ame ie as the precincio, 
under the laft feat of the upper rank. 
From thefe chara€ters the Chevalier Lan- 
dolina corcluded that the nine cu#ez into 
which the feats are divided by fteps, or 
the vomitoria carried ina right line acrofs 
the two orders, contrary to the rules of 
Vitruvius, had each their particular m- 
fcription. Befides that of Philiftis, there 
are three othets, which may be eafily ex~’ 
plained ; as to the reff, no hope can be 
entertained of interpreting them, as moft 
of the Jeiters are too much worn. One of 
thefe three in{criptions which immediately’ 
precedes that of Philiftis, and is engraven 
on the band of the fecond cumeus, begin- 
ning to reckon from the fide next the 
fiage, to the right of that facing the feats, 
exhibits thele two words, BAZTIAIZEAE 
NHPH:AI®E, all the letters of which are 
in good prefervaticn, excepting that which 
precedes the letter A, but which muft-ne. 
ceflarily be an T; for the reft, the interval 
which feparates the two words is not 
larger than that between the letters. Ac- 
cording to M. Landolina, this queen Nereis 
was the daughter of Pyrihus, the laft of 
the Avacides, the wife of Gelo IJ., fon 
of Hiero, and mother ef Hieronymus, 
the lafi king of Syracufe. He fupports 
this opinion with the teftimony of Poly- 
bius, Paufanias, and Joftin 5 ; and his cor- 
refpondents at the univeriity ‘of Goringen 
concurred in his fentiments. On the other 
hand, M. Logot feta, canen of the cathe- 
dral of Syracule, in a pamphlet printed 
at Syracule, maintains that the title of 
Beovurous, queen, can neither be applied’ 
to Philittis nor to Nereis ; not as a god- 
defs, becaufe we know of hid Nereis in the 
mytho! ogy of the ancients, either among 
the proteciing deities of the theatre, or 
among’ 
