Yes-all are broken cisterns, Lord! LOCKS, YE GROW GREY. Ah! locks ye grow grey, In righteousness found, And to Him will I Locks inclining to grey. T. R. J. P. ✓ STANZAS WRITTEN BY A YOUNG AMERICAN LADY, IN THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF HER AGE. From "The Writings of Nancy Maria Hyde, of Norwich, Connecticut ;” printed in America. I love the moon, whose pensive light Illumes the solemn brow of night; I dearly love the gentle ray, Which lights the friends who are far away. I love the howling winds that fly Along the sullen wintry sky; For well I know, the sweeping blast, And much I prize the magic power, PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY Herculaneum MSS.-We have the pleasure to announce the unrolling of eighty-eight more Manuscripts, found in the ruins of this interesting city. Most of them consist of the works of the Greek philosophers; nine of them being by Epicurus, three by Demetrius, one by Calotes, one by Polystratus, one by Carniades, and one by Crysippus: whilst thirty-two bear the name of Philomedus. They treat of natural or moral philosophy, of medicine, and of the arts, manners, and customs of the ancient nations. Pompeii. At Pompeii several fresh buildings have been recently discovered in the beautiful street that leads to the temples of Hercules and Isis, and to the theatres. Chirurgical instruments of a highly finished workmanship have likewise been found, together with a number of excellent paintings, representing fruits and animals. The excavators have also just discovered, near the Forum, a public edifice, which is supposed to be the Chalcidicum, and an inscription importing that the edifice was built at the expense of the priestess Eumachia. A few days after the above discovery, a statue of the same priestess was found in perfect preservation. This statue far surpasses in grace, elegance, and grandeur, all the works of art that had previously been dug from the ruins. Egyptian Antiquities-M. Caillaud's account of his discoveries in Egypt will shortly be published in Paris. Some time ago, he discovered near Mount Zabarah the famous emerald mines, which were previously known only by the writings of the ancient authors and the stories of the Arabs. They had been almost forgotten for a lapse of time, and were totally unproductive to the government of the country. So long, indeed, had this been the case, that they were found by M. Caillaud nearly in the same state in which they had been left by the engineers of the Ptolemies. He penetrated into a vast number of excavations and subterraneous canals; some of which are so deep that 400 men may work in them at once. In the mines were found cords, levers, tools of various kinds, vases, and lamps; and the arrangement of the works afforded every facility for studying the ancient process of mining. M. Caillaud himself set about working the mines, and he has presented six pounds of emeralds to Mahomed Ali Pacha. In the vicinity of the mines the ruins of a little town have been discovered, which, in ancient times, was probably inhabited by the miners. Among the ruins are the remains of several In Græco-Egyptian temples, with inscriptions. M. Caillaud has twice visited Zabarah; during his second journey he was accompanied by a considerable number of armed men, miners, and workmen, whom the Pacha had placed under his directions. On his way to the emerald mines, the French traveller crossed one of the ancient routes for the trade of India, by the way of Egypt. He observed stations, enclosures for the union and protection of caravans, cisterns, &c. He learned also, from the Arabs of the tribes of Ababdeh and Bycharyn, that this road led to the ruins of a very extensive town on the banks of the Red Sea, situated about the twenty-fourth degree of latitude, near the Mountain of Elbe. This town has since been visited by Messrs. Belzoni and Bretchie, (Beechy,) and will probably be better described by them than by M. Caillaud. On the banks of the Red Sea the traveller discovered a mountain of sulphur, in which some diggings had been made. the neighbourhood of this mountain traces of volcanic eruptions were observable, and a quantity of puzzolane and other igneous substances was found. M. Caillaud carefully observed the mountains which separate the Nile from the Arabian Gulf, as well as the calcareous tracts of ground and chains of mountains between the Nile and the Oasis, which all belong to the primitive soil. Here also he examined several ancient Egyptian structures, and others of more modern date; and discovered some very ancient vaults, thermal springs, &c. Among the Greek and Latin inscriptions which he met with in his excursions, was one containing seventy lines, and about nine thousand letters, being more copious by at least one-fifth than the Greek inscription on the Rosetta stone. By dint of vast patience and labour, he succeeded in copying this inscription in three days. Though it is of recent date compared with the Rosetta monument, since it belongs to the age of the emperor Galba, it presents some new and curious facts relative to the internal adminis tration of Egypt. M. Caillaud returned last year to Paris, bringing along with him a vast number of drawings, notes, and antiques, found principally in the hypogeum of Thebes, &c. These treasures have been purchased by the French Government. The antiques are deposited in the Cabinet of Medals and antiques of the King's Library. M. Caillaud ́ has again set out for Egypt. In November last he was at Bouy-Souey, 25 leagues from Cairo. He was about to depart for the Faijoum, and to proceed towards the Oasis of Sivah, and if alive and well, must ere this have made many new and interesting observations. At a quarter of a league from one of the pyramids of Sakkarah, he descended into a hypogeum, sacred to the deity Apis, where he found, in a kind of labyrinth, several bulls embalmed and preserved like mummies. It should be remarked, that M. Belzoni had performed the same journey not long before, and perhaps had discovered this same sepulchre of Apis, in company with Mr. Beechy, son of Sir William the painter; truth requiring this slight alteration in the above French account of this enterprising French traveller's progress, that M. Belzoni did not follow, but precede M. Caillaud in his route. We are happy to add, that the travels of this learned Frenchman in Egypt are advancing towards publication, under the direction of M. Jourard; and possibly may appear during the course of the month of July. This work will contain researches on the Oasis, on the emerald mines, and on the ancient course of commerce from the Nile to the Red Sea; with a collection of inscriptions, copied by the traveller in various parts. The whole will form two volumes in large folio, one of text, and another of plates. The plates will comprise maps, views, and antiquities. The dissertations will include a list of the principal discoveries made in Egypt, and in the surrounding countries, during the présent century; an essay on the actual condition of the Egyptian antiquities; remarks on the wheat found at Thebes, in a large close vessel, of a remote age, &c. A volume will be divided into two parts, each containing 25 plates, price about 31. 3s. each part. The discoveries of Messrs. Burchhardt, Belzoni, Bankes, Salt, &c. have brought our countrymen acquainted with many or most of these particulars; nevertheless, the friends of science will hail the appearance of M. Caillaud's volumes with satisfaction. Ancient Navigation.—A discovery was recently made in the environs of the Cape of Good Hope, which is highly interesting to history. While digging a cave, the workmen found the hull of an ancient vessel, constructed of cedar, which is believed to be the remains of a Phoenician galley. If this appropriation be just, there is no longer room to doubt that the bold navigators of Tyre had reached the South point of Africa; and if they actually gained that point, we may infer, that they also navigated the Eastern ocean. Curious Ancient Inscription.—The French Journal des Voyages reports, that in February last, several distant voyagers had met in Rome; among these was M. de Forbin, who intended to visit the coast of Barbary, and Messrs. Banks and Barry, returned from Abyssinia, Upper Egypt, and Syria. Mr. Banks brought away a curious inscription found on the municipal or town house of a city in Asia, of the time of the latter Roman emperors. It contains a tarif or maximum of commodities and personal services in the Roman empire, from the price of oil and grains to the hire of a horse for the day; from the salary of a barber to the perquisites of the conservator of curiosities of the palaces. Temple of Jupiter Ammon. By letters from Egypt it would appear, that M. Frediani, an Italian, has succeeded in arriving at the Island of Oasis, in the desert, whereon stands the temple of Jupiter Ammon, visited 2150 years ago by the Macedonian madman. He was attended by a considerable armed force. M. Belzoni throws, however, considerable doubts on the statement of his countryman. Voyage to Lapland.-The French Government has sent out persons on a voyage to Lapland. The expedition is to proceed beyond the North Cape into the Frozen Ocean, and it is expected to terminate about the end of this month. New Voyage of Discovery.-Advices from St. Petersburgh, dated March 22, state that a new voyage of discovery will be undertaken this summer in the North. The expedition will sail from the mouth of the Lena for the Frozen Ocean, in order to examine the coast of Siberia and the islands which were discovered to the north of it some years ago. It is not yet ascertained whether these supposed islands may in reality be one main land or not, and hitherto they have only been visited in winter. Expedition to discover the Aborigines of Newfoundland. We learn by letters just received from Newfoundland, dated June the 5th, that the expedition which left St. John's in the autumn of last year, under the direction of Captain Buchan, of his Majesty's ship Grasshopper, having for it object to open a communication with the Aborigines of the island, by way of the Bay of Exploits, had failed; and that that skilful and intelligent officer, with his persevering companions, had returned. It appears that the Grasshopper, having reached the river, from St. John's, in December last, was housed over, and made secure, to enable the persons left on board to encounter the inclemency of a Newfoundland winter. Mary March, the female Indian prisoner, who was to have been the medium of communication with her native friends, died on board the Grasshopper before the expedition could set out from the Bay of Exploits. About the middle of January, Captain Buchan, Mr. C. C. Waller, Midshipman, the Boatswain, and about sixty men, proceeded with sleighs on the ice, containing their provisions, &c. as also the body of the female Indian; and the spot having been pointed out by Mr. Peyton, (a merchant who accompanied the expedition), where the rencontre took place between his party and the Indians, when the husband of Mary March was killed, her body, ornamented with trinkets, &c. was deposited alongside that of her husband. Captain Buchan continued a search of 40 days, but was not able to discover the slightest trace of the native Indians. Whether they had fled to some other part of the island, or had been exterminated by the Esquimaux Indians, who, to obtain the furs with which they are covered, are known invariably to murder them at every opportunity, could not be ascertained; but it appeared useless to proceed any further in the search. Discovery of a Southern, or Antarctic Continent.-This important discovery, which will be attended with incalculable advantages to our trade in the South Seas, was made last year by a Mr. Smith, Master of the William, of Blythe, in Northumberland; who, trading between the Rio Plata and Chili, in endeavouring to facilitate his passage round Cape Horn, ran to a higher latitude than is usual in such voyages, and in lat. 62°. 30. and 60°. west long. discovered land. He ran in a westward direction along the coasts, either of a continent, or numerous islands, for two or three hundred miles, forming large bays, and abounding with the spermaceti whale, seals, &c. He took numerous soundings and bearings, draughts, and charts of the coast; and in short, did every thing that the most experienced navigator, despatched purposely for the object of making a survey, could do. He even landed, and in the usual manner took possession of the country for his Sovereign, and named his acquisition New South Shetland.' The climate was temperate, the coast mountainous, apparently uninhabited, but not destitute of vegetation, as firs and pines were observable in many places; in short, the country had upon the whole the appearance of the coast of Norway. After having satisfied himself of every particular that time and circumstances permitted him to examine, he bore away to the north, and pursued his voyage. On his arrival at Valparaiso, he communicated his discovery to Captain Sheriff, of H. M. S. Andromache, who happened to be there. Captain S. immediately felt the importance of the communication, and lost not a moment in making every arrangement for following it up. He immediately despatched the William, with officers from the Andromache: and in this stage the last letter from Chili left the expedition, with the most sanguine expectation of success, and ultimate advantages resulting from it: and, if we are correctly informed, a fully detailed narrative has been forwarded to Government, who have been put in possession of the draughts and soundings taken by Mr. Smith. Subsequent accounts state, that the brig William had returned to Valparaiso, from a survey of the land said to have been discovered to the south of Cape Horn; but Captain Searle, of the Hyperion, had prevented all intercourse with the shore, which led to the opinion that some discovery of great importance had been made. French Expedition to the Coasts of Brazil.-The corvette le Bayardore, and the brig le Favore, sailed from a port of France on the 14th of February, 1819, under the orders of M. Roussin, Captain, on a voyage |