edit. F. V. Reitzii, morte interruptam contin. G. H. Schaefer." (Lip. 1808.) The new editor acknowledges that he has taken advantage of the learned notes on Herodotus, by Mr. Larcher.

14. The third volume of a critical edition of Diodorus Siculus, by Prof. Eichstaedt, is just out of the press.

(To be continued.)

From the London MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

THE new East India college, at Haileybury, Hertfordshire, was a few months since completed. It is a very neat and handsome structure, composed entirely on the Grecian model, after the designs of Mr. William Wilkins, jun. It consists of four sides, forming a quadrangle, with a well proportioned square in the centre. The principal front, of free stone, faces the east, and commands a distant view of the high north road, from which it has a very beautiful appearance. In this front are the chapel, dining hall, and library; the kitchen and offices composing one wing, and the principal's apartments the other. The other three sides contain separate apartments for one hundred and twenty students, having a recess for a bed, and a closet for books, in each, so that every student has a commodious apartment to himself. The centre and wings of these three sides of the quadrangle also contain houses for the professors, and several lecture-rooms, besides the various offices necessary for the college-servants, &c. The grounds belonging to the college are now laying out agreeably to a plan of Mr. Repton, and when completed, will, together with the building, be a great improvement to that part of the county; while the institution itself will be a lasting memorial of the zeal of the East India Company in the cause of literature and science, as well as the source of benefit and advantage both at home and in India. The nomination of students to the college is vested in the directors, and is, in fact, a virtual appointment as writers. The terms of admission are one hundred guineas per annum.

The following subjects are proposed for the chancellor's prizes at Cambridge, viz.-For Latin verses: "Pyramides. Egyptiacae."-For an English essay: "What are the arts, in the cultivation of which the moderns have been less success

ful than the ancients ?"-For a Latin essay: "In Philosophiâ quae de Vita et Moribus est illustranda, quaenam praecipuè Sermonum Socraticorum fuit excellentia?" The first of the above subjects is intended for those gentlemen of the university who have not exceeded four years from the time of their matriculation; and the other two for such as have exceeded four, but not completed seven years.

One of the most remarkable facts in the history of geography, is communicated by letters conveyed in the last ships from the Cape of Good Hope. The island of Bossen, or Penguin, sometimes called Seal Island, at the western extremity of Table Bay, has entirely disappeared beneath the waters. An earthquake was felt at Cape Town, in December, only two leagues distant, by which some damage was occasioned to the houses, but we do not find that any lives were lost at that place; and it is supposed that the convulsion extended to Bossen. The island was about two miles in length and one in breadth, and was, although flat, somewhat more elevated above the surface of the sea, than the contiguous island of Elizabeth. The Dutch, when in possession of the Cape, kept a guard of twenty four men on Bossen; and it was employed as a place of banishment for criminals, to the number of from seventy to a hundred, who dug limestone to supply materials for the buildings on the adjacent continent. No women were then permitted to reside here, not even the wife of the port master. It was not allowed that strangers should visit it, since a Danish ship, which had lost great part of her crew, and was refused assistance at the Cape, sent a boat on shore, dispersed the guard, and received on board as many malefactors as were necessary to navigate her to Europe. At the southern extremity of the island, a flag was hoisted on the approach of any vessel.

M. Vauquelin, in the name of the Committee of the Chemical Arts, has lately reported on a manufacture of tallow for candles, professed to be purified from all animal substances of an injurious nature, to be free from all moisture, and not at all discoloured. "The tallow," says he, "which I carefully examined, is demi-transparent, perfectly dry, and sonorous. It is indeed so very dry, that when a blade of iron is passed over it, only lightly touching it, it gives an extremely lively phos

phorick light, occasioned, according to all appearance, by an electrick motion; for when this tallow is recently melted, and the surrounding air is extremely dry. the mere passing of the hand on it is sufficient to produce sparks. The dryness of this tallow is still farther demonstrated by its perfect transparency when melted: at the temperature of boiling water, neither bubbles nor clouds are discernible. This tallow, it is affirmed, may be kept without any discoloration or rancidity for two years. The candles made of it are extremely white, their light is very pure, they emit little or no smoke, they do not gutter or run, and require snuffing less frequently than others. They are about five per cent. higher in price than those of common manufacture."

M. Amatus Goujon Bonpland, the companion of M. Von Humboldt, in his travels, has been appointed chief inspector of the domain of Malmaison, with a considerable salary. He will probably continue the splendid work, entitled "Le Jardin de Malmaison," interrupted by the death of Ventenat, as soon as the second part of his "Plantes Equinoxiales” is finished.

Extract of a letter from a gentleman of Boston, now on a voyage in the Mediterranean, to one of his friends.

"PORT MANDRY, Coast of the Morea, Dec. 13, 1809. "With all your knowledge of geography, you may be puzzled to know where we are. If you look at the chart, and finding Athens, proceed s. E. about forty miles, you will see Port Mandry. It is a charming little harbour, with Long Island in front, which shelters it from a furious wind now raging on the ocean, which drove us here for security. We left Malta the 2d. bound to Smyrna. For four days we had an extraordinary run, and got up with the islands; during one or two days the wind was hardly perceptible; but there were certain indications of a storm, and we were rejoiced to make this port. We just saved our distance; for on the night of the 7th it blew tremendously; and in fact there has been a raging, though dry N.E. wind ever since, and we have no prospect of a change. I have amused myself by going ashore, and have been much interested by the reflection that I am in ancient Greece. There is no settlement within six miles of this shore; but, beyond the uncultivated hills which form an

amphitheatre around the harbour, we descended to an extensive and beautiful valley, where we found a few of the natives sowing barley. They were dressed in the Turkish manner, with turbans and loose trowsers; they have mustachios, which render them formidable in appearance; but my dog Carlo routed a band of them, notwithstanding their whiskers. Their ploughs are like our own, and they use small oxen. They were very civil in their deportment, and invited us to go up to their town; but we declined, as it was a long walk, and we deemed it imprudent to trust too much to their politeness. We made a bargain for some provisions, and they sold us a bullock for five dollars, goats for a dollar each, ten fowls for a dollar, and two hundred and fifty eggs for a dollar. Cheap as these articles appeared to us, our pilot assured us that we had been grossly taken in !!! The hills abound with hares, partridges, wild turkeys, &c. but they are shy. When I go hunting, I generally forget my purpose, and seek for some remains of antiquity, until a partridge bursts from my feet, and reminds me of my original intention. There is a mountain rising from the shore to the height of nearly half a mile : On the side of it are the ruins of a marble building; a semicircle remains, but the rest of it has fallen, and the stones now left are crumbling and decaying. Beyond it there is a square of stones, which appear to be the remnants of a tower. Going to the summit of the mountain, a sailor found a piece of white marble, which seems to have been part of a pillar, with an inscription upon it, in Greek, yet there are no houses within the precincts of this place. The whole mountain is covered with small pieces of marble and stone, which cannot, from their appearance, belong to it: If we knew all that has been, we should wonder at the awful changes effected by time. I went to view the marble, and conceiving it to be portable, and finding our good mate and hearty sailors obliging as ever, we took some ropes and hauled it from the height, where it probably has remained for ages, to the shore, and from thence we brought it to the ship. I have forgotten all my Greek, or else I might divine the purport of the inscription, which is KYE

ΝΕΙΔΕΣΕΤΟΕ.”

CATALOGUE,

OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.

FOR MAY, 1810.

Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura. Mart.

NEW WORKS.

* A Discourse delivered in Cambridge, in the hearing of the Univer sity, April 8th, 1810. By David Osgood, D. D. Cambridge.

The New Conspiracy, or a History of the Negro Plot, with the Journal of the proceedings against the conspirators at New York, in the years 1741-2; together with several interesting Tables, containing the names of the white and black persons arrested on account of the conspiracy; the times of their trials; their sentences; their executions, by burning and hanging; names of those transported, and those discharged; with a variety of other useful and highly interesting matter. By Daniel Horsmanden, Esq. New York; Southwick and Pelsue.

* Dr. Rees's New Cyclopedia, No. 24. Boston; West and Blake. The Statutes at large; being a collection of the Laws of Virginia, from the first session of the Legislature, in the year 1619. Vol. I. Richmond; S. Pleasants.

Memoirs of Frederick and Margaret Klopstock, translated from the German. Boston; Farrand, Mallory and Co.

The Mourner, or the Afflicted Relieved. By Benjamin Grosvenor, "As one that comforteth the mourner." "To him that is afflicted, pity shall be shewn." Boston; John West and Co.

D. D.

An Address to the independent citizens of Massachusetts, on the subject of the approaching election, exhibiting a view of the leading measures of the Jefferson and Madison administrations. Worcester; printed at the Spy office, March, 1810.

A Discourse addressed to the first parish in Hingham, on the day of Fasting, April 5th, 1810. By Joseph Richardson, A. M. Boston; W. Pelham.

* The History of South Carolina, from its first settlement in 1670, to the year 1808, in two vols. By David Ramsay, M. D. New York; David Longworth. 8vo.

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Desultory Reflections upon the ruinous consequences of a non-renewal of the Charter of the Bank of the United States. By M. Carey. Philadelphia.

The American New Dispensatory. Containing, I. General Principles of Pharmaceutick Chemistry. Chemical Analysis of the articles of Materia Medica. II. Materia Medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States. II. Preparations and Compositions. The whole compiled from the most approved modern authors, both European and American. To which is added, an Appendix, containing, A definition of the nature and properties of the Gases; by a Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Medical Electricity and Galvanism. On Medical Prescriptions. An abridgement of Dr. Currie's Reports on the use of Water. The Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, and the Method of preparing Opium. Several useful Tables. The whole compiled from the most approved authors, both European and Ameri

*Such books, pamphlets, etc, as are designated by this mark (*) may be found at the Boston Athenaeum.