[4: These birds build in the crevices of precipitous rocks, and tho female lines the nest with the down plucked from her breast. From these nests natives rob the down and sell it.] [5: Vestiges of Creation.] [6: "Oxides are neutral compounds, containing oxygen in equivalent proportions."--_Dr. Ure_.] [7: Sesquicarbonate of soda that is found in the west of the Delta. In Mexico there are several natron lakes.] [8: The cuneiform character, which was used in every part of Asia Minor, up to the time of Alexander the Great, consists of a series of wedges or accents variously combined, as, [Cuneiform: *** **]]. [9: A Metope may be described as the intermediate space in a Doric frieze, between two triglyphs, or separating grooves.]