had some cloth of cocoa bark wrapped round the waist. The heads of some were adorned with feathers. Their conduct appeared very fierce and wild, and they contrived to steal every thing within their reach. The boat-hooks soon disappeared, and they even attempted to tear the oars from the hands of the boat's crew. An old man with a white beard, and of respectable appearance, carrying a green bough in his hand, was at their head. He continually kept singing some monotonous song in a melancholy tune. They bartered some cocoa-nuts, and some of their tools against some old handkerchiefs and empty bottles. When the ship's boat put to sea, a few musket shots were fired in the air, but the natives showed no symptoms of fear, and appeared unconscious of the effects of European arms. No canoes were seen in their possession, nor did they attempt to approach the ship, although the weather was excellent, and the sea very calm.

Canal of the Pyrenees. The royal canal of the Pyrenees, a plan of which has been presented to the French government, is to continue that of Languedoc from Toulouse to Bayonne. The surveys are all finished; and extend over more than seventy leagues, in the whole of which there is not a single obstacle of importance. The canal will pass through five fertile departments. A free navigation from the Mediterranean to the Western Ocean will be the immediate consequence.

Ancient Greek Inscription. In the neighbourhood of Rome, an ancient tomb has been lately discovered, with a Greek inscription, in such tolerable preservation as to allow of the following fragments of translation; "My country is the immortal Rome; my father is its emperor and king. My name is Alicilla, the beloved name of my mother. Destined for my husband from infancy, I leave him, in dying, four sons approaching to manhood. It is by their pious hands, that I have been placed, still young, in this tomb."

Russian Canals. The government of Russia has given orders for the immediate construction of canals to unite the following rivers; namely, the Moskwa and Volga; the Scheksna and the Northern Dwina (which will make a direct communication between the ports of Archangel and St Petersburg, and open a conveyance for indigenous productions towards the Baltic); and lastly, the Niemen and the Weichsel, across the kingdom of Poland.

Conveyance of Dust by Wind. We mentioned, in a former number, an instance of the transportation of minutely divided matter to a great distance seaward, from the coast of Africa. M. Schabelski, an eminent Russian traveller, gives the following account of a similar event. "On the morning of January the twenty-second, 1822, at two hundred and seventy-five nautical miles from the Western coast of Africa, in latitude twenty-three degrees, north, all the cordage of the vessel was observed to be covered, on the windward side, with a dusty substance, resembling ochre in its reddish colour. The powder was very soft, and coloured the skin red. When the cords were examined by the miscroscope, it appeared like long rows of globules, touching one another. It was a northeast wind which caused the phenomenon, and only the parts exposed to the wind were covered, there being no trace of the powder on the opposite side."

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