old _Greek Testament_, printed in Spain, with the Latin in the margin; but exactly referring in every word by cautious notes from the known to the unknown language, lest the monks of that time should have taken γενέσεως to signify _liber_, and βίβλος _generationis_. In another old Spanish book, concerning the antiquities of that country, he shewed me a copy of the old Gothic character; in which it is observable, that the vowels are generally incorporated with the consonants, which they follow. In the two libraries of this place, the one belonging to the university, the other to the senate, I took notice of the following curiosities. In the former I observed two celebrated pictures of _Luther_ and _Melancthon_, both taken after their death. Several specimens of what they called _moneta bracteata_, lately found in Saxony; but which I take to have been only leaves of silver covering a mass of inferior metal. An old manuscript of _Homer_, with large _Scholia_, which they here think have never been published. The draught of an old _idol_ worshiped in Germany; the original of which was a short brass image of an human figure, hollow within, and contrived to make an artificial wind issue out of his mouth, like the globes of that sort now become so common. In the library of the senate I observed an Egyptian _mummy_. Several Roman _urns_ and _funeral lamps_. Saxon _urns_, like others which I observed at _Dresden_ and elsewhere, full of thin fragments of bones; in one of which were found several small iron and brass instruments, and upon a thin plate of brass the two following letters, ⲱ. ⲉ. A fine collection of coins. A good manuscript of _Theocritus_. A noble specimen of the rich silver mines in Saxony, in a mass about three feet long and two broad, the whole of which almost is pure metal. Adjoining to the _Collegium Paulinum_ is the university church, where they have prayers on festival days. It is full of antient and modern monuments, all of good work. This university took its rise from the dispersion of the _Hussites_, and the banishment of _John Huss_ himself from _Prague_. And by its first constitution it is appropriated to four nations; the _Misnians_ (of whom _Leipsick_ is the metropolis) the other hereditary countries of the Elector of _Saxony_, the _Bavarians_, and the _Poles_. The chief magistrate annually elected here is called _rector magnificus_, as in other German universities; and in him, with his subordinate officers, rests the sole government and jurisdiction of this learned body. The present _rector_ is Dr. _Cyprianus_, professor of divinity.