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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Shortly will appear, in 2 vols. small 8vo., The Reliques of Father Prout, late P. P. of Watergrasshill, in the county of Cork, Ireland. Collected and arranged by Oliver Yorke. Illustrated by Alfred Croquis.

In 1 vol. small 8vo., The Greek Pastoral Poets: Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus. Done into English by M. J. Chapman, M. A., of Trinity College, Cambridge.

NEW ENGRAVING.-Shortly will be published, by subscription, (by Edward Everitt, Gallery of the Fine Arts, Birmingham), a highly-finished print of Wm. Sands Cox, Esq., to be engraved in mezzotinto by one of the first London artists, from a picture presented to the Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, Birmingham, by the Rev. Chancellor Law, painted by Mr. Pardon.

ABRIDGED LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS,

From December 8, 1835, to March 8, 1836.

Audubon's Ornithological Biography, vol 3, roy. 8vo., 25s

American in England, by the author of " A Year in Spain," 2 vols. 8vo., 21s. Andrews' Lessons in Flower Painting, imp. 8vo., 16s.

Arcana of Science and the Useful Arts, 1836, 12mo, 5s.

Bankier's Essay on the Origin, &c., of Cholera, 8vo., 12s.

Bray's (Mrs.) Description of Devonshire, 3 vols. sm. 8vo, 24s.

Brigham on the Influence of Mental Cultivation upon Health, 18mo, 2s. Bulwer's (E. L.) Monarchy of the Middle Classes, 2 vol. post 8vo., 21s. Chalmers' (Dr. T.) Works, vol 1, roy. 18mo., 6s.

Cooke's Memoir of the late Sir W. Blizard, post 8vo., 3s. 6d.

Cooper's Botanical Rambles within thirty Miles of London, 12mo, 4s. 6d.

Cruise of the Midge, by the author of "Tom Cringle's Log," 2 vols. fcap., 12s. Dennis's Landscape Gardener, 8vo., 6s. plain, 9s. coloured.

Dick on Mental Illumination and Moral Improvement, 12mo., 8s.

Davis's Manual of Preserving Health, post 8vo., 10s.

Eyton's History of Rarer British Birds, parts 1-2, 8vo., 3s. 6d., roy. 8vo., 7s. Fletcher's Rudiments of Physiology, part 1, 8vo., 5s., part 2, 10s.

Fox's (W. J.) Lectures on Morality, 8vo., 4s.

Glascock's Naval Service, 2 vols. post 8vo., 21s.

Hale's Book of Flowers, 18mo, 10s. 6d.

Hamilton's (Dr. Jas.) Observations on Midwifery, Part 1, 8vo, 7s. 6d.

Hazlitt's Essays on the Principles of Human Action, 12mo., 4s. 6d.

Hooker's British Flora, vol. 2, part 2, 8vo., 12s.

Intellectual Guide; or, How to Live in France, &c., 12mo, 2s. 6d.
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Jardine and Selby's Ornithology, part 10, 4to., 25s., 1. p., 42s.

Jardine's Naturalist's Library, vol. 12, (Goats, Sheep, &c.) 12mo., 6s.
Keightley's (Thos.) History of Rome, 12mo., 6s. 6d.

Land and Sea Tales, by the " Old Sailor," 2 vols. fcap., 16s.

Lardner's Cyclopædia, vol. 74, (Greece, vol. 2), fcap., 6s.

vol. 75, (Henslow's Botany), 12mo., 6s.

vol. 76, (Foreign Statesmen, Vol. 2,) fcap, 6s. Lecount's Examination of Barlow's Reports on Iron Rails, &c,, 8vo, 7s. 6d. Life and Times of Rienzi, fcap., 7s. 6d.

Literary Souvenir, or Cabinet of Modern Art, 1836, 8vo., 21s., 1. p. 42s.
Macgillivray's Rapacious Birds of Great Britain, 12mo., 9s.

Mackintosh's Dissertation on Ethical Philosophy, 8vo., 9s.

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Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes, 3 vols. post 8vo., 31s. 6d.

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Savory's Companion to the Medicine Chest, 12mo., 4s.

Shuckard's Manual of Entomology, 8vo., 20s.

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Sportsman's (The) Annual, imp. 4to., 21s.

Stoker's History of Epidemic Fevers in Ireland, 8vo., 5s.

Tables of the Revenue, Population, &c., part 4, 1834, fol., 30s.

Talleyrand's (Prince) Life, vols. 3 and 4, 8vo., 24s.

Taylor's (W. C.) History of the Overthrow of the Roman Empire, 12mo., 6s. 6d.

Twiss's Epitome of Niebuhr's History of Rome, 8vo., 12s.

Transactions of the Zoological Society, part 4, plain, 24s., coloured, 34s.
Watson's Botanist's Guide, vol. 1, (England and Wales), 12mo., 10s. 6d.
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Willats' Florist's Cultivator, 12mo., 7s. 6d.

METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.

THE cold foggy weather, the latter end of December, furnished me with an extraordinary and curious fact-not altogether new, as it is noticed particularly in White's Natural History of Selbourne, still extraordinary, as shewing in how short a distance great differences of temperature may be found. I shall here merely transcribe the remarks entered in my Journal: "Dec. 24. The fog very dense below, the top of it just reaching up to the village, sometimes enveloping us, and then again receding. The trees here have but very little hoar frost upon them-those just above have none at all-whilst all below is white as snow. Last evening, the air here clear and transparent, and the thermometer 31.; down below the fog was thick, and I find the thermometer at the same hour stood at 20. When the fog reaches this place, the thermometer falls, and it is now, (5 p. m.), just in the fog, 20°; whereas a thermometer which I took with me about 100 yards up the hill, out of the fog, ROSE to 30."

"27, 10 a. m.-Fine, sun, and light southerly breeze, and really feels mild thermometer 32: not 50 yards below, it is foggy, and every thing beautifully crusted with hoar, and the same thermometer falls to 18o!" I carried the thermometer myself, and ascertained the fact by two or three trials. "The distance traversed to obtain these temperatures is certainly not more than 50 or 60 yards. The higher locality, out of the fog, being 14° warmer than the lower in it."

This fog, then, had a really specific temperature, and that a very low one. In those elevated spots, out of it, the temperature was by no means lowon the contrary, 14° warmer.

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ON THE BRITISH ANTIQUITIES OF WARWICKSHIRE,*

BY M. H. BLOXAM, ESQ.

WHEN Sir William Dugdale wrote his History and Antiquities of Warwickshire, he appears to have paid but little attention to its most ancient remains, for his work-almost exclusively devoted to matters relating to family antiquity, of historical detail, to the transmission of manorial rights, to heraldic notices, and to matters relating to the monks and monastic and ecclesiastical establishments, and containing on these and other subjects an immense mass of valuable information—is extremely defective in many branches of archæological research, the study of which was then little understood, and the notices which he gives of British, Roman, and Saxon remains, are few and unsatisfactory.

Nor has any one since his time,-if we except Dr. Thomas, who, upwards of a century ago, republished the work of Sir William Dugdale, with some additions on the same plan,-attempted to give any general history of this county, or even to treat of it in those points in which Dugdale's History is most deficient.

In the wide and discursive field, then, of antiquarian research which the county of Warwick every where presents, its earliest antiquities have hitherto been scarcely noticed, or else they have been so confounded with remains of a later date as to mislead the general inquirer, who may not have had the advantage of an actual and local investigation. For on close examination it will, I think, appear that many of the ancient camps and earthworks in this county, which hitherto have had the reputation of being either Roman, Saxon, or Danish, or have even been ascribed to a much later era, are, in reality, ancient British remains, constructed at a period anterior to the invasion of this island by the Romans.

In like manner, also, those isolated tumuli which lie scattered over the county, most of which are, perhaps, only known to the local investigator, were formerly considered as Roman; and this conjecture was strengthened by the fact that many of them were situated near to those celebrated Roman roads, the Wattling-street and the Foss, both of which intersect this county; but it is now generally admitted that these Roman roads were formed on pre-ex

The following is the substance of a Lecture delivered at the Birmingham Philosophical Institution.

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isting British trackways, and in considering the tumuli with referrence to them in this light, as also from an examination of their internal contents, whenever such has taken place, we are led to the conclusion that these isolated tumuli or barrows (for we have them not in this county in groups) are not Roman, but British.

The antiquities, then, of this county, which may be considered as of British origin, consist chiefly of fortified camps, vestiges of the settlements of the ancient occupants, which were not fortified, and the tumuli or barrows I have alluded to.

No druidical or stone circle, that I am aware of, is to be found in this county; there is, however, close bordering upon it, on the confines of Oxfordshire, a celebrated druidical temple, the Rollright Stones, near Barton-on-the-Heath, in which parish, a few years ago, a polished sacrificial instrument, or celt of flint,* was accidentally picked up in a ploughed field; and this was probably used in the augural rites pertaining to druidical worship.

With respect to British settlements or towns which retain no marks of ancient fortification, but few vestiges have hitherto been discovered within this county, although we have no reason to think otherwise than that it was anciently as thickly populated as any other district in this island.

That the sites of these settlements should lie undiscovered is not at all surprising, when we consider how much more likely all traces of such remains are to have been obliterated, in the course of ages, in a rich and fertile county such as this, well wooded and culti vated, and divided into small inclosures, than when situated on barren downs and in mountainous districts, where the ploughshare is unknown, and where, indeed, its operation would be useless. It is in such wild and desolate spots that we are apt to meet, with a much greater probability of success, with vestiges of the ancient inhabitants of this island, than in the well-cultivated lowlands. It is in the otherwise most unproductive parts and uninclosed districts that we find evident marks and indications of early settlement, of ancient towns now covered with greensward, distinguished by the irregularities of the surface, and the sites of which, when dug into, become apparent, by the rich black mould and factitious soil immediately beneath it. The features of British fortresses are, of course, more prominently developed, for the Britons were accustomed to choose for the sites of their fastnesses the summits of hills, places naturally strong, but which they contributed to render still more

* Now in the possession of F. L. Colvile, Esq., Barton-on-the-Heath.

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