about three quarters of an inch broad, and two inches and a half in
diameter. There was a small hole in it, which, when held opposite the
sun, admitted the light against the inside of the ring behind. On this
were marked the hours and the quarters, and the time was known by
observing the hour or the quarter on which the slender ray, that came
in from the hole in front, fell."

J.M.B.

_America and Tartary._--

"Un jésuite rencontra en Tartarie une femme huronne qu'il avoit connue
au Canada: il conclut de cette étrange aventure, que le continent de
l'Amérique se rapproche au nord-ouest du continent de l'Asie, et il
devina ainsi l'existence du détroit qui, longtemps après, a fait la
gloire de Bering et de Cook."--Chateaubriand, _Génie du Christianisme_,
Partie 4., Livre 4., Chap. 1.

Yet, with all deference to the edifying letters of this missionary jesuit,
it is difficult to make such distant ends meet. It almost requires a copula
like that of the fool, who, to reconcile his lord's assertion that he had
with a single bullet shot a deer in the ear and the hind foot, explained
that the deer was scratching his ear at the time with his foot.

Subjoined is one more _proof_ of the communication which once existed
between America and the Old World:

Colomb disoit même avoir vu les restes des fourneaux de Salomon dans
les mines de Cibao."--Chateaubriand, _Génie, Notes, &c_.