minister, until, in February 1822, Mr. Bourne, then at Buanania in Otaheite, listened to their pressing invitation, and settled among them. Mr. B. and family were received with every demonstration of joy and firing of guns. Seventy of the women fired a salute of musketry on the landing of Mrs. Bourne. A very excellent plastered house, 60 feet by 30, containing seven good rooms, well floored, with a wide veranda, has been built for him, with a large garden, enclosed with a bamboo fence. We spent nearly two months with him, and were delighted by the attention of the people to their minister; most of them making a point of bring-, ing for him, when they returned from their lands, large quantities of bread-fruit, cocoanuts, &c. Like the other congregations, they make a decent and neat appearance; the bonnets of many of the women would do credit to any milliner's shop in London. (The manner of conducting the worship, and the seasons of it, are the same as in the other islands.) The number of adults who have been baptized is 178; children, 266; candidates for baptism, 84; 140 of the adults read the New Testament, and 160 of them elementary books. We received the most kind attention from our worthy and pious brother and sister Bourne, and are happy in bearing testimony to their worth as missionaries of Jesus Christ. [This account comes down to Feb. 13, 1823; on which day the Deputation proceeded to Borabora.] TEMPLE OF JUGGERNAUTH. The following Account of the Temple of Juggernauth is extracted from a Paper respecting Orissa Proper, or Cuttack, laid before the Asiatic Society at Calcutta, March 8, 1823. Cuttack owes much of its celebrity to the temple of Juggernauth. The town of that name is calculated to contain 5741 houses. Every span of it is holy ground, and the whole of the land is held free of rent, on the tenure of performing certain services in and about the temple. The prin. cipal street is composed almost entirely of Mutes, or religious establishments, built of masonry, with low pillared verandas, interspersed with trees. Ta climate of Juggernauth is said to be the most agreeable and salubrious in India during the hot months, the south-west monsoon blow.. ing from the sea at that season in a steady and refreshing breeze, which seldom fails till the approach of the rains. The edifices which composed the great temple of Bhobunsir stand within a square area inclosed by a stout wall of stone, measuring 600 feet on each side, which has its principal gateway guarded by two monstrous griffins, or winged lions, in a sitting posture, on the eastern face. About the centre of the great middle tower, Burra Dewal, or sanctuary in which the images are always kept, rises majestically to a height of 180 feet. Standing near the great pagoda, forty or fifty temples, or towers, may be seen in every direction. All the sacred buildings are constructed either of reddish granite, resembling sandstone, or of the freestone yielded plentifully by the neighbouring hills. The elevation of the loftiest is from 150 to 180 feet. The stones are held together by iron clamps, and the architects have trusted for the support of their roofs to the method of placing horizontal layers of stone projecting one beyond the other, until the sides approach sufficiently near at the top to admit of the block being laid across. The famous temple of Juggernauth, in its form and distribution, resembles closely the great pagoda of Bhobunsir, and is nearly of similar dimensions. It is said to have cost from 40 to 50 lacks of rupees. The dreadful fanaticism which for merly prompted pilgrims to sacrifice themselves under the wheels of the Juggernauth rut'h, has happily ceased. During four years that Mr. Stirling witnessed the ceremony, three cases of self-immolation only occurred, one of which was doubtful, and might have been accidental, and the other two victims had long been suffering from excruciating complaints, and chose that method of ridding themselves of the burden of life, in preference to the other modes of suicide so prevalent among the lower orders. The self-immolation of widows is said to be less frequent in the vicinity of Juggernauth than might have been expected, the average of Suttees not exceeding ten per annum There is this peculiarity, as performed there, instead of ascending a pile, the infatuated widow lets herself down into a pit, at the bottom of which the dead body of the husband has been previously placed, with lighted fagots above and beneath. In 1819, a most heart-rending spectacle was exhibited. The wood collected for the fire being quite green, could not be made to burn briskly, and only scorched the poor sufferer, who must have endured the greatest agony, but without uttering a shrick or complaint. The attendants then threw into the pit a quantity of rosin, covering the living body with a coating of this inflammable substance, which attracting the fire, the skin was thus gradually peeled off, and the miserable victim at length expired, still without a groan. The Black Pagoda on the sea-shore, though in a ruinous state, is still about 120 feet high, and well known to mariner". There is a fabulous tradition among the natives of the neigbouring villages, which is said to account for its desertion and dilapidation. They relate, that a koomba puthur, or loadstone of immense size, was formerly lodged on the summit of the great tower, which had the effect of drawing ashore all the vessels passing near the coast; the inconvenience of this was so much felt, that about two centuries since, in the Moghul time, the crew of a ship landed at a distance, and stealing down the coast, at. tacked the temple, scaled the tower, and carried off the loadstone! The priests, alarmed at this violation of the sanctity of the place, removed the image of the god Surya to Pooree, and from that time the temple became deserted, and went rapidly to ruin.-Cal. Gov. Gaz, LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. Mr. J. Burton, who had been employed by the Pacha of Egypt in a geological examination of his dominions, has made some interesting discoveries in the Eastern Desert of the Nile, and along the coast of the Red Sea. In the Eastern Desert, and in the parallel of Essiout, is Gebel Dokkam, a mountain, the name of which in Arabic signifies smoke-mountain. At Belet Kebye, a ruinous village, situated in a valley on the south side of the mountain, he found a circular shaft, twenty feet in diameter, and its present depth is sixty feet. The same village contains a beautiful little Ionic temple, on the pediment of which is the following inscription: -Gebel Dokkan is zig-zagged to the top by roads and pathways, which branch off to large quarries of antique red porphyry, immense blocks of which are lying about roughly chisseled, squared, and on supports marked and numbered. There are also unfinished sarcophagi and vases, coJumns of large diameter, a vast number of ruinous buts, and remains of forges. Mr. Burton collected a great number of inscriptions at Fitiery, among which was the following fragment: ANN. XII. IMP. NERVAE TRAIANO F. I. R. SOLPICIUM SIMIUM The quarries of verd antique, between Ghene and Cosseir, have also supplied him with a vast number of inscriptions, which are rendered interesting, and may probably become very useful, from the intermixture of Greek with hieroglyphics. The preserving of eggs, fresh and good, through many months, may be effected by merely altering their position daily to a fresh side downwards, in order to prevent the yolk settling, and coming in contact with the shell. It is the practice of farmer's wives, in several of the midland and northern counties of England, to closely pack, with interposed straw, their increasing stock of eggs, daily, into a bee-hive, or a similarly-shaped basket; laying straw upon them, and strutting three or four point. ed sticks across, tight upon the straw, so as to enable the bee-hive to be tilted on its side, or even turned upside down into a new position, each day, in their dairy or beer-cellar; and this daily turning is continued until, on the approach of Lent, the eggs are removed from the hives, and carefully packed in the flats or boxes which convey them to market. Lime-water, suet, and other external applications to the shells, have been recommended for preserving of eggs; but all these must assuredly fail, when long rest in one position is allowed to them; and with frequent moving, and avoiding extremes of temperature, none others are necessary. It is often pleasing to a weary and hungry tra veller, on entering a small inn or pothouse, in Derbyshire and its vicinity, (see the Agricultural Report on Derbyshire, vol. iii. p. 180,) to see strong cabbage nets full of eggs, suspended by hooks from the ceiling, in a fresh and good state; and this the landlady effects, through very consi derable periods, by her precaution of every day hooking up the net on a fresh mesh, so as to turn the eggs, tightly tied up there. in. When eggs are left to accumulate in a hen's nest, or during her sitting, instinct directs her to turn daily each egg. Professor Ormstead, of the university of North Carolina, has made a discovery, that the petals of the garden Iris, or blue lily, will produce a dye superior to all the known blues. It is coloured red, like the tournesol, by circulating about it a current of carbonic acid gas. It is better suited to the purposes of dyeing than the violet, from the quantity of colouring juice that each of its flowers yields, and the colour produced is finer. The professor is about publishing the particulars of his pro cess. A Roman household corn-mill, of great antiquity, is preserved in the museum at Parma, and is of the most simple construction, such as were wrought by women slaves, prior to the invention of watermills and flat round mill-stones, like ours. This ancient mill, of which a figure is given in the "Mechanics' Weekly Journal," principally consists of two masses of grey limestone. The greater of these masses forms the immoveable support of the other, and has the shape below of a short cylinder, surmounted by the frustum of a cone, the top of which is neatly rounded off. The smaller mass is perforated vertically by a conic hole, fitting so as to slope on to the sides of the cone already mentioned from which perforation a cy. lindrical hole proceeds up through this stone to its top. On the opposite sides of this perforated mass, forming the upper mill-stone, are the holes into which wooden handles or levers were inserted for turning round the upper stone. The corn was put into the cylindrical hole, or rather, we believe, into a wooden hopper, which fitted into it; and on turning round the upper stone with a horizontal motion, the grains insinuated themselves between the conic surfaces, aided, probably, at first by a slight lifting-up of the upper stone, and were crushed and sufficiently ground for the meal used in those days. The latter fell out beneath around the lower stone, and within a wooden case, which appears to have surrounded it. The height of the two stones, when combined for action, is about twenty-nine inches: it seems probable, from the engraving on an ancient gem, that this was the kind of mill dedicated to Eunostus, the god of mills. Crucibles made from the Clay of Anthills-It is related, by Dr. Davy, of the Cingalese jewellers of the east, that they melt their metals in small crucibles which they make from the dome of clay which the common ant ejects and attempers, for throwing off the rains, which otherwise would penetrate and drown their nest, situ ated in the centre of the hillock which these industrious insects throw up. That ants peculiarly infest and disfigure the surface of such pastures only as have a substratum of clay, was one of the many results, interesting to rural economy, of the elaborate " Geological Survey of England," which our meritorious, yet shamefully-neglected countryman, Mr. William Smith, made, soon after 1792; and the fact was, by one of his pupils, published more than twelve years ago, that certain strips of ant-hilly pastures stretch across England, from south-west to north-east, almost uninterruptedly, which conspicuously point out the range of the crop or basset of particular strata of clay. Yet we have not heard, that any one has since examined the clays of these ant-hill tops, in order to discover whether, in the nature of the subficial clay of these pastures, or through the elaboration by the ants, which the ejected clay has undergone, there resides any valuable property, like the infusibility above mentioned. The English farmers of these soils know, to their cost, that a peculiar dwarf thistle, wild thyme, and a few other small and worthless plants, are all the herbage which will grow on the tops of their ant-hills, except after long periods since the ants perished. Two meteorolites lately fell near Futtepore, in the East Indies. Mr. R. Tytler, who gave an account thereof in a late Calcutta Journal, describes one of these stones as approaching in external shape to" an irregular hexagon ;" thereby clearly, as we think, indicating it to be a fragment, contrary to the opinion which he mentions concerning it. The same writer is not less incorrect, in referring these and other me teoric stones to volcanic ejections, founded on the mistaken idea, that stones of the true meteoric character are ejected from Vesuvius, and are found scattered in great numbers on its sides. The theory which considered meteorolites as ejections from lunar volcanoes is in all its parts fanciful and untrue. 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