If the ensuing Numbers are as entertaining as this, there can be no doubt, but that like most magazines of this sort, the Biographia Curiosa will be very popular.

PP. 180.

Alice Atkinson, of the city of York, aged | of Aldborough near Boroughbridge, 138: died of Leeds, 106: died 1780.—Mr. Whip, of 109: died 1749.-Jane Atkins, of the city of 1791.-Mary Halmshaw of Wakefield, 102. Bishop Wilton, 115: died 1784. Mrs. York, 100: died 1761.-Ann Armstrong, of-The celebrated Henry Jenkins, of Ellerton Wharton, of Thirsk, 103: died 1791.-MaAldbrough, 114 died 1765.-Jane Blake, upon Swale, 169; died 1670.-Ann Johnson, jor Wilkins, of York, 100: died 1756.—Saof North Leeds, 114: died 1763.-Margaret of Aldborough, 102: died 1766-Joan rah Wight, of Breary, 106: died 1760.— Bartlemer, of Leeds, 102: died 1765.-Ro-Jones, of Gisborough, 103: died 1772.-Henry Wells, of Whitby, 109: died 1794. bert Butterfield, of Halifax, 102; who Samuel Johnsone, of Bridlington, 104: died-Susannah Wood, of Newton upon the from 40 years industry as a wool stapler, 1779.-Mary Jackson, of Cropton, 104: died Ouse, 109: died 1780." acquired a fortune of 40,0007. he died 1781. 1789.-George Kirton esq. of Oxnop Hall, -S. Brigg, of Hoober Hall, near Craven, 125: died 1769.-Mary Kershaw, of Ponte100: died 1782.-William Birkhead, of Brork fract, 103: died 1788.-Robert Laurence, of House near Cleckheaton, 100: died 1797. Gisborough, 100: died 1761.-Daniel Le-Francis Cousit, † of Burythorpe near Mal-gro, esq. of Leeds, 103: died 1771.-Thoton, 150: died 1768.-Ralph Coulson, of mas Loveday, of Serooby, 101: died 1789. Grimstone, 107: died 1771-Margaret Richard Matherman, of Ripley, 102: died The Percy Anecdotes. Part III. Youth. Champney, of Carlton, 102: died 1782.-1766.-Mrs. Moore, of Rigby, 107: died Mary Cousen, of Wakefield, 103: died 1768.-Mrs. Mawhood, of Pontefract, 100: 1790.-Peter Delme, esq. of Leeds, 104: died 1792.-Mrs. Ogden of Holbeck, near died 1773.-Mrs. Dawson, of Wakefield, Leeds, 106: died 1795.-Robert Oglebie, 101: died 1798.-Mr. Frank, of Pontefract, of Rippon, 115: died 1762-Mrs. Pilking 109; died 1782.-Marry Gummersell, near ton, of Bicester, 107: died 1757.-John Wakefield, 107. She was mother of 14 Phillips+t, of Thorn near Leeds, 117: died children; grandmother to 33; great grand- 1742.-Samuel Paudames, of Yeddington, mother to 84, and great great grandmother | 105 : died 1792.—Martha Preston, of Barnsto 25: in all 156 descendants; she died ley, 125: died 1769.-Eleanor Railston, of 1763.-Thomas Garbut, of Hurworth, 101: Jurrow Quay, 102: died 1785.-Bartholodied 1773.-William Gibson, farmer, of mew Rymer§§, of Rippon, 100: died 1791. Hutton Bush, 102: died 1796.-Ann Hat-John Shepherd of Tadcaster, 109: died field of Tinsley, 105 died 1770.-Mary 1757-James Simpson, near KnaresboHall, of Bishop Hill, of which place she was rough, 112: died 1766.—Joshua Simpson, sexton, 105: died 1759.-Elizabeth Hodg- esq. of Hanslet, near Leeds, 104: died 1780. son, of Scampston, 110: died 1759.-Wil- -Margaret Scurral, of Honiton, 108: died liam Hughes, of Tadcaster, 127: died 1769. 1784.-James Sampler, of Osbaldwick, 103: --William Harwick, of Leeds, 100: died died 1791.-Mrs. Tate, of Malton, 106: 1772.-John Houseman, of Sessays near died 1772.-Joseph Thompson, of WalinThrisk, 111: died 1777.-Jonathan Hartops, gate Bar, 103: died 1781.-Mrs. Todd, of Richinond, 105: died 1789.-Mr. Wright, of Hatton, 102: died 1776.-Mr. Wheatley,

+He was very temperate in his living, and used great exercise, which together with his occasionally eating a raw new-laid egg, enabled him to obtain so extraordinary an age.

James Hatfield died the same year, at the same age. He was formerly a soldier; when on duty as a centinel at Windsor, one night, at the expiration of his guard, he heard St. Paul's clock in London, strike thirteen strokes instead of twelve, and not being relieved as he expected, he fell asleep; in which situation he was found by the succeeding guard, who soon after came to relieve him for such neglect he was tried by a court martial, but pleading that he was on duty his legal time, and asserting, as a proof, the singular circumstance of hearing St. Paul's clock strike 13 strokes, which upon inquiry proving true, he was in consequence acquitted.

excellent little work has appeared, and The third monthly Number of this is devoted to illustrate various sorts of precocity. We select from several hundred stories, half a dozen, as samples of the Editors' skill.

The last but one seems to indicate that they have a real existence; and that the names of Sholto and Reuben Percy are not merely assumption.

Prince Henry, Son of James I.-Prince Henry, the son of James I. (of England,) who perished in his eighteenth year, possessed all the elements of an heroic and military character. Had he lived to ascend the throne, the days of Agincourt and Cressy would have revived, and Henry IX. have rivalled Henry V., whom he resembled in his features. This youth has furnished the subject of an interesting volume and in the British Museum there is a MS. narrative, written by one who was an attendant on the the prince's person from the age of three to thirteen years, a time of life when but few children can furnish any thing worth relating about themselves.

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was refused. Mr. Hartop lent the great Milton 50
pounds soon after the restoration, which the bard
returned him with honour, though not without
much difficulty, as his circumstances were very
low: Mr. Hartop would have declined receiving
it, but the pride of the poet was equal to his
genius, and he sent the money with an angry
The first time he went to the town of Stir-
letter, which was found among the curious posling to meet the king, observing on the road
sessions of this venerable old man.
a stack of corn, it fancifully struck him as
similar in shape to the top he used to play with.
"That's a good top," said he. Why do
you not then play with it?" answered one
of his attendants. "Set you it up for me,
and I will play with it." This is just the
fancy we might expect in a lively child, with
a shrewdness in the retort above its years.

She had been a widow upwards of 50 years. and her faculties were unimpaired to the last. Such was her health and activity, that, when in her 77th year, she walked from Wakefield to London, a distance of 184 miles, and returned again on foot.

¶ He was a most remarkable fox hunter, following the chace on horseback till he was 80 years of age; from that period to 100 years he regularly attended the unkennelling the fox in his single chair.

** A travelling tinker, he was married 73 years, and had 12 sons and 13 daughters, had all his senses perfect, and could see to work a short time previous to his death.

§ His father and mother died of the plague in their
house in the Minories in 1766; and he perfectly
well remembered the great fire of London. He was
short in stature; had been married five times;
and left 7 children, 26 grand children, 74 great
grand children, and 140 great great grand chil-
dren. He could read to the last without specta-
cles, and play at cribbage with the most perfect ++He lived under 8 crowned heads, and was
recollection. On Christmas day 1789, he walk-able to walk till within a few days of his death.
ed nine miles, to dine with one of his great grand His teeth were good and his sight and hearing
children. He remembered Charles II. and once tolerable. At about the age of 28, being consta-
travelled from London to York with the faceti- ble of his parish, he, upon some disorders, com-
ous Killigrew. He eat but little, and his only mitted two of Oliver Cromwell's soldiers to the
beverage was milk. He enjoyed an uninter- town stocks: the Protector far from resenting
rupted flow of spirits. The third wife of this it, wished that every one of his police officers
very extraordinary man was an illegitimate had but half his courage.
daughter of Oliver Cromwell, who gave with her
a portion amounting to about 500 pounds. He
possessed a fine portrait of Cromwell by Cooper,
for which a Mr. Hollis offered 300 pounds, but

§§ He was a man of good health and activity. He was game keeper to Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart. of Norton Conyers; and shot game flying in his 99th year.

Being questioned by a nobleman whether, after his father, he had rather be king of England or Scotland, he asked which of them was best. Being answered," England;"" Then," said the Scottish-born prince, "would I have both." At another time, on reading this verse in Virgil"Tros Tyriusve mihi nullo discrimine agetur."' the boy said, he would use that verse for himself, with a slight alteration, thus: "Anglus Scotusve mihi nullo discrimine agetur."

Even in the most trivial circumstances his bold and martial character displayed itself. Eating in the king's presence a dish of milk, the king asked him why he ate so much child's meat. "Sir, it is also man's meat."

Once taking up strawberries with two spoons, when one might have sufficed, he

guily exclaimed, “The one I use as a ra-
pier, and the other as a dagger."
The bickerings between the prince and his
tutory Adam Newton, are amusing. When
Newton wishing to set an example to the
prince of herole exercises, one day practised
the pike, but with little skill, the prince
taunted him on his failure. Newton obviously
lost his temper, and observed, "That to
find fault was an evil humour."" Master,
I take the humour of you." "It becomes
not a prince," observed Newton. "Then,"
retorted the prince, "doth it worse become

a master."

The tutor once irritated at losing a game at which he was playing with the prince, said, "I am meet for whipping boys." "You vaunt then," retorted the prince, "that which a ploughman or cart driver can do better than you." "I can do more," said the tutor, for I can govern foolish

children."

On this the prince, who in respect for his tutor would not carry the jest farther, rose from the table, and in a low voice, said to those near him, “He had need be a wise man that could do that." ›

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A musician having played a voluntary in presence of the prince, was requested to play the same again. I could not for the kingdom of Spain," said the musician; "for this were harder than for a preacher to repeat word by word a sermon that he had not learned by rote." A clergyman standing by observed, that he thought a preacher might do that. "Perhaps," rejoined the young prince, "for a bishoprick."

the action with the United States vessel, ¡ undertake if; when Horatio, on seeing all
Hornet, amused himself with chasing a goat his companions staggered, came forward
between decks. Not in the least terrified by and offered to brave the danger. He was
destruction and death all around him, he accordingly lowered down from their dormi-
persisted, till a cannon ball came and took tory by some sheets tied together; and thus,
off both the hind legs of the goat; when, at a considerable risk, secured the prize;
seeing her disabled, he jumped astride her, but the boldness of the act was all that the
crying, "Now I've caught you." This sin-young adventurer regarded; for on being
gular anecdote is related in a work called, hauled up again, he shared the pears among
Visits of Mercy, being the second journal his school-fellows, without receiving any for
of the stated preacher to the hospital and himself; and added, I only took them because
almshouse, in the city of New York, by the every other boy was afraid.
Rev. E. S. Ely.”

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It is also related of him, that, at an earlier Lord Thurlow. This eminent lawyer's su- period, and when he was quite a child, he periority of abilities was very early manifest- strayed from his grandmother's house, at ed both at school and at college. They ex-Hilborough, after birds' nests, with a cowtorted submission from his cquale, and im-boy. The dinner hour arriving without bis pressed his seniors with respect. The fol- appearance, the alarm of the family became lowing anecdote is told of him. Having been very great, for they apprehended that he absent from chapel, or committed some had been carried off by the gipsies. Search other offence which came under the cogni- was instantly made in various directions; zance of the dean of the college, who, though and at length he was discovered, without his a man of wit, was not remarkable for his companion, sitting with the utmost compolearning; the dean set Thurlow, as a task, sure by the side of a stream which he had à paper in the Spectator to translate into been unable to pass." I wonder, child," Greck. This he performed extremely well, exclaimed the old lady, on seeing him, and in very little time; but instead of carry- that hunger and fear did not drive you home." ing it up to the dean, as he ought to have Fear never came near me, grandmamına !” done, he took it to the tutor, who was a replied the infant hero. good scholar, and a very respectable charac- Scientific Sugacity. In the winter of ter. At this the dean was exceedingly wroth, 1790, as a number of boys were skating and had Mr. Thurlow convened before the on a lake in a remote part of YorkMasters and Fellows to answer for his cou- shire, the ice happened to break at a duct. Thurlow was asked what he had to considerable distance from the shore, and one say for himself. He coolly, perhaps impro- of them unfortunately fell in. No house was perly, replied," that what he had done pro- near, where ropes or the assistance of more ceeded not from disrespect, but from a feel-aged hands could be procured, and the boys ing of tenderness for the dean; he did not were afraid to venture forward to save their wish to puzzle him!" The dean, greatly struggling companion, from a natural dread, irritated, ordered him out of the room; and that where the ice had given way, it might then insisted that the Masters and Fellows give way again, and involve more of them in ought immediately to expel or rusticate him. jeopardy. In this alarming emergency, one This request was nearly complied with, when of them, of more sagacity than the rest, sugtwo of the Fellows, wiser than the rest, ob-gested an expedient, which for its scientific In one of the prince's excursions into the served, that expelling or rusticating a young conception, would have done honour to the country, having stopped at a nobleman's man for such an offence would perhaps do boyhood of a Watt or an Archimedes. He house, the prince's servants complained much injury to the college, and expose it might probably remember having seen, that that they had been obliged to go to bed sup. to ridicule; and that as he would soon quit while a plank placed perpendicularly on thin perless, through the parsimony of the house, the college of his own accord to attend the ice will burst through, the same plank, if which the little prince at the time of hearing Temple, it would be better to let the matter | laid horizontally along the ice, will be firmly seemed not to notice. The next inorning rest, than irritate him by so severe a pro-borne, and afford even a safe footing; and the lady of the house coming to pay her re-ceeding. This advice was at length adopted.applying with great ingenuity and presence spects to him, found him turning a volume that had many pictures in it; one of which was a painting of a company sitting at a banquet: this he shewed her. "I invite you, madam, to a feast." "To what feast?" she asked. "To this feast," said the boy. "What, would your highness give me but a painted feast?" Fixing his eye on her, he said, No better, madam, is found in this house." There was a point in this ingenious reprimand, far excelling the wit of a child.

were of patrician descent; and on foumber of which is very considerable; but God of Gods ; Dharmmasouámi, the ho. oue occasion was very smartly reminded of which, being all taken from the books cou-nourable King of the Doctrine; Mahátmá, it by a boy of mean parentage, whom he sidered as sacred, and alluding either to traits the Great Saint ; Narcottamah, the most was reprehending rather severely for his ig. in the life of this mythological personage, or Exalted of Men; Gouanaságarah, the Sea norance-much more so than the boy thought to the attributes which serve to characterise of Virtues, &c. These denominations, therehe would have done, bad he been the son of him, cannot have been changed since they fore, do not furnish as with any data adapted a right honourable, or even of a plain Baillie were invented, and serve to designate him in to the subject before us. Jarvic. " You dunce !” exclaimed the rec- litanies, invocations, and legends, in a fixed But the Bouddhaists have not confined tor, I don't think you can even translate the and invariable manner. In the 4th volume themselves to the enumeration of the moral motto of your own native place, of the gude of the Mines of the East, I gave a very.com- qualities, in which this principal divinity is town of Edinburgh. What, sir, does * Nisi plete list of these epithets, from the most superior to all others; they have also made Dominus frustra' mean?” “ It means, sir,” authentic sources : I now return to the sub- a description of the corporeal qualities which rejoined the boy smartly, “that unless we ject, to seek the solution of a question, clistinguished him in his buman form, and are lords' sons, we need not come here." which has engaged some systematic writers have composed a series of phrases, from

in Europe, and which, hy a singular chance, which it is possible to draw a complete

is connected with the great question of the portrait of Bouddha, considered as a mateANALYSIS OF THE JOURNAL DES SAVANS, origin of the arts, civilization, and religions rial and terrestrial being. In this point of FOR OCTOBER, 1819. (Concluded.) of the East,

view, they have assigned him 32 visible quaArt. V. Voyage en Perse, fait dans les An- The celebrated Sir William Jones, whose lities, and 80 sorts of beauties. Here it is

-nées, 1807, 1808, 1809. 2 vols. 8vo. authority must be allowed great weight in natural to look for the features, which it

This work, though published anonymous subjects relative to the literature of Persia would be necessary to know, in order to dely, is known to be the production of Mr. and Hindoostau, but whose discourses at the termine to which of the varieties of the Adrien Dupré, who was attached to the lega- should, in my opinion, be read with great longed,

who has been worshipped since his annual meetings of the Society of Calcutta, human species the personage may have betion of General Gardane.).

In the space of 18 inonths, i. e. from 8th distrust, in what relates to the antiquities of death by the name of Bouddha. Now far of September 1807 to the lst of May 1809, Asia, is, I believe, one of the authors who from finding in this collection of 112 phrases, the author, proceeding from Constanti- have spoken in the most express manner of destined to the description of his human nople through Asia Minor, &c. to Bagdad, statues of Bouddha with frizzled hair, evi- body, any thing resembling the figure of the thence to Hamadan, Ispahan, and Schiraz, dently made, says he, “with the design of negro, which it is so easy to characterise, from which latter city he made several ex- representing him in his natural state." This and so difficult to mistake, we observe in cursions, traversed the most remarkable

is one of the particulars adduced by the in- this number several features which evi

province of the Persian empire in different di- genious author in the ounder of incontesti- dently belong to the Indian race, and which rections, visited & great many cities, and ble facts., it is indeed, we inay say, the only it is impossible to apply to that of the neresided in the most celebrated. He had one, which he points out among these facts, groes of Africa. abundant opportunities of making good and which, according to him, authorise us tó Mr. Remusat quotes . sereral of those useful observations, and we inust do him think, that Ethiopia and Hiudoostan were phrases ; Bouddha is called "rich the the justice to say that he has neglected none peopled by the sanie race. "It may be added, golden complexion," which must doubtless of those which, being relative to the details in support of this idea, (continues he) that it be understood of the olive colour of the of the route, the productions of the country, Bahar and of Bengal, in some of their fear his body roas without spot, and brilliant; his

is dificult to distinguish the mountaineers of Hindoos, and not the black of the negro : or objects of trade, may be of some advantage to commerce and geography.

tures, especially the lips and the nose, from nails red like copper ; his lips rosy like the Among the most interesting parts of the the modern. Abyssinians; and that according fruit called bimba. His hair icas in rounded work, are the detailed account of the Ca to Strabo, the ancient Hindoos difered from curls, which, in figures of Bouddha, executed chemire shawls

; the statement of the military the Africans only in having their hair strait by unskilful artists, may have been taken tribes established in Persia; a highly import and sunooth, while that of the Africans was for frizzled hair ; but as if it had been icant table of the weights, measures, and woolly or curled; a difference which pro- tended to provide against this interpretation coins, in use in the different provinces of that ceeded chietly, if not entirely, from the res of the word curls, we find another epithet Empire ; and a chapter, containing not only pective, humidity or dryness of their atmo which fixes the sense of it. The hair of the itineraries of the route of the author, sphere." I shall not dwell on the material Bouddha was not mixed or frizzled. Lastbut also thirty-seven others, which give the error contained in these last words, which, ly, which is decisive, be is stated to have distances of a great number of towns and after the labours of modern naturalists; had a prominent nose, which might probably villages in Persia, and even of the neigh. I shall only take the assertion relative

to cannot be applied in any manner to the

needs no refutation. In what precedes, too, be equivalent to aquiline, but most certainly bouring countries.

Mr. Dupré is now engaged in a second Bouddha, which would tend to make us broad flat nose of the African negroes. work; viz. his “Voyage a la côte des Ab- consider him as having been, in the opinion Mr. R. appeals to persons acquainted with khas," which will doubtless contain interest of his worshippers, an Ethiopian, foreign to the language for the exactness of his explaing information respecting a country of which the Indian race a real African pegro, with nation of the Sanscrit phrases which he has we know very little.

thick lips, a broad Alat nose, and frizzled translated, not directly, but through the medi.

hair. Art. VI. Note on some Epithets descriptive

um of the Chinese, the Mongol,and the Mandof Bouddha, by Mr. Abel Remusat.

I shall draw my proofs exclusively from chou. He has chosen only such as appear.

the writings of the Bouddhaists themselves ; ed the most characteristic; but on looking Though an enquiry into the denominations and I need not remark, how greatly

superior over the others in his translation of that part by which the Hindoos designate their divi- their authority is to that of the literati of of the book which contains them, (s. Mines nities be in general futile, because there is Europe, and even to the authors attached to of the East, vol. 4.) there are many which often reason to believe them arbitrarily in the worship of Brahma, the only ones who it would be equally difficult to reconcile with vented by the poets, there are however have been consulted by the English au- the idea of Sir W. Jones, and certainly not some, so consecrated by custom, that they thors.

one that favors it. must be considered, not as mere rhetorical In these books we find the different names Declining to make use of any of the nuornaments, or means to fill up a hemistich, given to Bouddha, arranged and distributed but as the expression of a well established in sectians"; the first contains 58 : but these Chinese, Mongul, and Mandchou translations of

* Mr. Remusnt states that he has made use of opinion on the attributes of the being to 'names express, almost all of them, the the books of the Bouddhaists, and quotes in whom they are applied. Of this nature are moral perfections and powers of Bouddha, those languages the phrases which he selects to the epitheta descriptive of Bouddha, the considered as a divinity: Deratidera, the illustrate his opinions. Ed.

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THE LITERARY GAZETTE, AND

merous legends in which Bouddha is made has lately made soure inquiries into the sub-
to act a part which is wholly fabulous, Mr.ject of the Turquoise, which seem to us to
R. observes, however, that it is worthy of possess considerable novelty: we are indebt-
remark, that no feature in any of those ed for the knowledge of them to the Asiatic
slightest relation to the Journal.

lege physiognomy which some would]

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ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY.

January 24th, 1820. Papers Read. deacon of Clogher, and Andrews Professor John Brinkley, D. D. and M. R. S. A. ArchA method of computing Astronomical of Astronomy in the University of Dublin. Refractions for small Altitudes, by the Rev. means of a modification of the result of the by a very simple investigation, the refracThe object of this paper is to deduce, by tion, at any low altitude, corresponding to any heights of the barometer and thermodistances between 800 and the horizon; meter. Hence tables are deduced for zenith which scarcely yield in simplicity to the French tables, and enable us to obtain the quantity of refraction as changed by the weight and temperature of the atmosphere, in which, near the horizon, the French tables appear entirely to fail. takes occasion, in a note, to correct a slight mistake, into which Doctor Young seeins used by Archdeacon Brinkley, in his paper The author fraction," published in Vol. XXII. Trans. to have fallen, with respect to an expression R. S. Academy. On, the Analytical Investigation of Re

neously given to two different substances; Turquoise, is a name which has been errothe oriental turquoise being a true stone, a clay coloured by oxide of copper, or even by arseniate of iron; and the common turquoise, being a fossil, a petrefaction, a tooth, or a egro features attri- occidental turquoise, or turquoise odoptolite, hypothesis, of a density decreasing uniformly, bone, coloured by a metallic phosphate, and not belonging to the mineral kingdom at all. aware of this distinction. The former is the We imagine that very few persons are Calaite or borca of Pliny, in his chapter on opaque blue gems, lib. 37, c. 8; and no doubt the zaλas and as of the Greeks. Dr. F. restores the appellation Calaite, and claims a place for this substance among the minerals or stony bodies to which it pertains, and from which it has only been excluded by the more generally known turquoise of Europe, properly described by Reaumur as a tooth coloured by copper. Indeed every part of a skeleton may be converted into turquoise, when placed in contact with coppery bodies, and especially with phosphate of copper. The Calaite, or Oriental Turquoise, is found in several mines in Persia, where it is highly va Iued. Pure stones of the size of a pea are difficult to be procured; those of the size of a nut are extremely rare. ghans, and other Asiatic nations, use them as amulets, for ornamenting their creases, and The Persians, Affor the usual purposes of jewellery. There

foreign attribute to Bouddha, and that he is always represented with a degree of beauty equal to his power. If Mr. R. had not contented himself with repeating the opinion of Sir W. Jones respecting the buted to Bouddha, he might easily have accumulated proofs of another kind, that he was not an Ethiopian come from Africa to Hindoostan, but, that his birth being once admitted as an historical fact, all the traditions, without exception, agree in placing it in one of the kingdoms of central India. This is a fact established by too many testimonies, all concurring, though independent of each other, to render it necessary to dwell upon it. Even should some statues of Bouddha have frizzled hair, there are many ways of explaining this fact, and an English gentleman furnishes us with one, which is perhaps not the worst. In a notice upon the Djainas drawn up and translated at Madjori, by the Bramin Cavelly-Boria, from documents furnished by a priest of that sect it is asserted that the Mahavatas, or ascetics, of the second class, must not use razors, but employ their disciples to pull up their hair by the roots. On which Major C. Mackenzie, remarks, that these sectaries attribute to the effects of this operation the appearance of the heads of their Gourous, which the Europeans have supposed to represent curled or frizzled hair. This is an explanation which would dispense with our making Bouddha a negro with woolly hair. Were it certain that this god had received from ancient times the name of Mali, which is given in the Vyacurna, not to the legislator Bouddha, but to the genius of the planet Mercury, and which does not mean black, as P. Paulin de S. Barthelemi thought, but spotted, and which at all events, might very well have been given to inhabitants of Dukschin by the Indians of the north, a fact of this nature would surely not deserve to be reckoned among the particulars which may make known the history of Indian civilization, and authorise us to think that it may stan, and had its origin among the negroes, have been brought from Ethiopia to HindooSuch trifling circumstances are not calculated to throw light on such extensive and complicated questions. The affinity which seems to exist between several points of the religions and the institutions of India and Egypt, gives rise to important and difficult problems; but it is not by alledging some specious arguments, or by indulging in reflections in which there is always something superficial, that these problems can be

solved.

are some varieties.

in a Circle. By Samuel James, Esq. com-
municated by the Rev. F. Sadlier, D. D. M.
R. S. A. Secretary to the Academy.
On the Inscription of Regular Polygons

ing geometrically a polygon of 17 sides
in a circle. The author introduces his con-
struction by remarks on this branch of geo-
This paper contains the mode of inscrib-
till, in the year 1801, M. Gauss, in his "Dis-
tention from the time of the Greek geometers,
quisitiones Arithmetica," called the attention
metry, which had remained almost without at-
of the scientific world to the subject, and prov
ed the possibility of inscribing in a circle all
such regular polygons as have the number of
their sines expressed by 2+1, being also a
prime number. The construction, however,
for these polygons, has not as yet been made
public,

familiar,, it is now proposed to designate as The turquoise with which we are all more the odontolite; as, though the whole animal may be rendered turquoise by being penetrated and coloured by metallic oxides, particularly by copper, the teeth alone, owing to their hardness, are capable of becoming turquoises in the full acceptation of the word. Many teeth of unknown animals have been found so converted in copper mines, &c. but the principal depôts for the formation of these precious bodies are in France. Fur- Sine or Cosine of Multiple Arcs. By Humnaces, and a process (kept secret) are em-phrey Lloyd, Esq. Undergraduate in Dublin ployed to produce this artificial turquoise, On the development of the series for the which is, however, distinguished from the real College. Communicated by the Rev. J. H. lour in distilled vinegar, and by dissolving elementary algebra, the expressions for the stone by being less hard, by losing its co- Singer, Secretary to the Academy. completely in nitric acid. The true Calaite sine and cosine of multiple arcs, in terms withstands these tests, and bears a finer of the sine or cosine simply, which had hiThe object of this paper is to deduce, from polish. therto not been effected without fluxions. They are derived from the expansion of De Moivre's formula, and the author has annexed some other analytical expressions calculated to show the utility of that theorem.

Burrow, B.D. of Trinity College, was ad-
On Saturday last the Rev. Edward John
mitted Doctor in Divinity, grand com-
pounder.

On Thursday last the Rev. Samuel Hall,
M. A. Fellow of Brasennose College, was
admitted Bachelor in Divinity
Nobleman of Christ Church, was admitted
Right Hon. Dudley Ryder, Visc. Sandon,
and the
Bachelor of Arts.

By the Rev. W. H. Drummond, LL. D.
An Analysis of the Cynegetics of Oppian.
M. R. S. A.

one read to the Academy during the
This paper is properly a continuation of
year, on the life and writings of this neglect
last
passages abounding with high poetic beauties.
in his analysis, which is very full, many
ed Greek poet. Doctor Drummond has given,
and very interesting to the naturalist, as

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taining a fair specimen of the knowledge of Natural History, which had been acquired at the time of Oppian.

FINE ARTS.

doing, we shall further endeavour to check | found in Athens and Rhodes, of Grecian an-
what appears to us to be an excess which tique wormanship; the Jason tying his San-
has grown out of public notice, and which dal; the colossal Heros from the Barbe-
can only end in disappointment and mortifi-rini Palace; excellent Hermes of Xeno-
cation to thousands who engage in the pro- crates, Xenophon, Miltiades, Socrates, and
fession from mistaken impressions, either the remarkable statue of Alexander, from the
arising from the facilities afforded to the Palace Rondanini. This collection now
study of art, or the encouragement obtained consists of more than two hundred articles.
by a few; to these it may be proper to ob-
and in the warning voice of Mr. Fuseli, ex-
serve, that mediocrity must sink in neglect;
claim, "It is better to deter than to deceive."