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Masonic Chit Chat.
interest , and together with the annual subscriptions , made an income at present of 43 / . 7 s ., although established only eight months . Sir John Milbank , Bart ., Chairman ; Charles Deacon , Esq ., Deputy-Chairman ; and Mr . J . It . Stebbing , Treasurer , were re-elected for the ensuing year —Hants Independent .
ANCIENT MAP . —M . Tastu , who visited the Balearic Isles for literary purposes , during his stay in Majorca , found a curious map in the library of the Count Montenegro . It is on vellum , of large dimensions and admirable execution , aud was made in 1439 , by Gabriele de A ^ alsequa , and a note declares that it belonged to Americus A'espuccio , who bought it for 130 golden ducats . The map was taken to Florence , where it was purchased by the Cardinal d'Espuig . the uncle of the Count de
Montenegro . It is not onl y interesting , because it furnishes evidence of the extent and degree of precision whicli belonged to the geographical knowledge of this period , but it throws light on some disputed points in the history of navigation . It agrees with the valuable Catalonian atlas of 1375 , in proving that the invention of flat nautical charts is not due to Prince Henry of Portugal , as many writers have said , but it is of a much earlier date . There is an Arabic inscription on one of the bands by which the map is framed .
THE public curiosity through Bath ancl its neighbourhood has been much excited by the vestiges of a Roman villa , laid bare , by the railroad excavations , near Newton St . Loe . They indicate the former residence there of an officer belonging to the Roman legion , stationed at Bath , or Aqua ; Soils , seventeen or eighteen centuries ago ; ancl display the luxurious fittings-up of such a mansion , with hypocausts , tessellated pavementcrypto-porticos & c . But remains of much deeper antiquity
, , , coeval with the deluge , have been recently 'discovered near the same spot—a tooth of an antediluvian elephant , deposited in the bed gravel ( brought from afar ) , which spreads itself over part of the flat near Newton , and covers a portion of the declivity of Sion Hill . AA ' e understand that a tusk of another enormous primseval elephant was found in the same extensive deposition of gravel in Newton park some years ago .
A GENUINE IRISHISM . —A few days since an Irish applicant to a very deserving charity , ivas called in before the distributors of its bounty , and very closely examined as to the truth of his story ; after undergoing a very severe ordeal from several of the party ( he had early in the inquiry stated the loss of some document which was burned , as accounting for its non-production ) , he was asked by one of the committee , " How was it burned ? " His replvery naiveldelivered" Bthe firesure "
y , y , y , , completely disturbed the gravity of the inquisitors . — Feb . 28 . ( Fact ED . ) M . Berlinghiri , who for eleven years had been the representative at Paris of the Grand Duke of Tuscany , died at Paris of an attack of apoplexy , at the age of 76 . He was one of the last members of the Order of St . John of Jerusalem .
Feb . 14 . —At Woodlands , near Taunton , the lady of Captain Mahcr , ( Prov . G . Reg . ) of a son . March 1 . —Mrs . Driver , wife of Edward Driver , Esq ., Richmondterrace ( No . 1 . G . M . L . ) of a daughter . Mrs . Driver unfortunately died the next ilav .
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Masonic Chit Chat.
interest , and together with the annual subscriptions , made an income at present of 43 / . 7 s ., although established only eight months . Sir John Milbank , Bart ., Chairman ; Charles Deacon , Esq ., Deputy-Chairman ; and Mr . J . It . Stebbing , Treasurer , were re-elected for the ensuing year —Hants Independent .
ANCIENT MAP . —M . Tastu , who visited the Balearic Isles for literary purposes , during his stay in Majorca , found a curious map in the library of the Count Montenegro . It is on vellum , of large dimensions and admirable execution , aud was made in 1439 , by Gabriele de A ^ alsequa , and a note declares that it belonged to Americus A'espuccio , who bought it for 130 golden ducats . The map was taken to Florence , where it was purchased by the Cardinal d'Espuig . the uncle of the Count de
Montenegro . It is not onl y interesting , because it furnishes evidence of the extent and degree of precision whicli belonged to the geographical knowledge of this period , but it throws light on some disputed points in the history of navigation . It agrees with the valuable Catalonian atlas of 1375 , in proving that the invention of flat nautical charts is not due to Prince Henry of Portugal , as many writers have said , but it is of a much earlier date . There is an Arabic inscription on one of the bands by which the map is framed .
THE public curiosity through Bath ancl its neighbourhood has been much excited by the vestiges of a Roman villa , laid bare , by the railroad excavations , near Newton St . Loe . They indicate the former residence there of an officer belonging to the Roman legion , stationed at Bath , or Aqua ; Soils , seventeen or eighteen centuries ago ; ancl display the luxurious fittings-up of such a mansion , with hypocausts , tessellated pavementcrypto-porticos & c . But remains of much deeper antiquity
, , , coeval with the deluge , have been recently 'discovered near the same spot—a tooth of an antediluvian elephant , deposited in the bed gravel ( brought from afar ) , which spreads itself over part of the flat near Newton , and covers a portion of the declivity of Sion Hill . AA ' e understand that a tusk of another enormous primseval elephant was found in the same extensive deposition of gravel in Newton park some years ago .
A GENUINE IRISHISM . —A few days since an Irish applicant to a very deserving charity , ivas called in before the distributors of its bounty , and very closely examined as to the truth of his story ; after undergoing a very severe ordeal from several of the party ( he had early in the inquiry stated the loss of some document which was burned , as accounting for its non-production ) , he was asked by one of the committee , " How was it burned ? " His replvery naiveldelivered" Bthe firesure "
y , y , y , , completely disturbed the gravity of the inquisitors . — Feb . 28 . ( Fact ED . ) M . Berlinghiri , who for eleven years had been the representative at Paris of the Grand Duke of Tuscany , died at Paris of an attack of apoplexy , at the age of 76 . He was one of the last members of the Order of St . John of Jerusalem .
Feb . 14 . —At Woodlands , near Taunton , the lady of Captain Mahcr , ( Prov . G . Reg . ) of a son . March 1 . —Mrs . Driver , wife of Edward Driver , Esq ., Richmondterrace ( No . 1 . G . M . L . ) of a daughter . Mrs . Driver unfortunately died the next ilav .