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 360 EFFIGIES OF THE DE SULNEYS, these empirical remedies were less esteemed in Italy than in the more remote provinces. It AYonld be essential to ascer- tain whether the schist, of which these relics appear mostly, if not invariably, to have been formed, can be traced to any particular locality : and a careful comparison of the personal names of the Empirics might tend to throw a curious light upon the origin of these remedies, and the countries in which they were in vogue. ALBERT WAY. Those who may desire further information on this subject, may consult the foreign works cited by Gough (ArchreoL, vol. ix. p. 227) ; the Disser- tations by Professor Walch, Jena, 1763 ; and by Saxius, at Utrecht, 1773, in which last eighteen examples are given. Count Caylus enumerates eleven. In Gent. Mag., vol. xlviii. p. 472, is cited a notice of one at Lyons, by the Pere Beraud, a Jesuit. M. d'Anneci published a Dissertation at Paris, in 1816, giving all the examples then known. See also, — Cinq Cachets inedits de medecins oeulistes; par le Dr. Sichel, Paris, 1845; — Observations sur les Cachets de medecins oeulistes, par Adolphe Duchalais, Paris, 1846; and the curious paper above mentioned, by Charles Dufour, in the Memoires de la Soc. des Antiqu. de Picardie, tome 8. The Memoirs by Professor Simpson, above mentioned, will be given in the Monthly Medical Journal. EFFIGIES OF THE DE SULNEYS, AT NEWTON SOLNEY, DERBYSHIRE. On a richly-wooded bank, overhanging the river Trent, stands the little village church of Newton Solney. At a short distance higher up the stream, is the old abbey of Burton ; a little lower down, is the Priory of Repton — Repton, the ancient home of the Mercian monarchs. At the edge of the landscape, in front, is the noble fortress of John of Gaunt, Tutbury Castle, perched on its rock of alabaster ; from whose foot the river Dove comes winding and sparkling through the most luxuriant meadows, to mingle its waters with those of the Trent, close under the walls of the pleasant little church of Newton Solney. North of Trent or South of Trent, you will scarcely find a spot more rich in present abundance or in middle-age memories. The church itself, though picturesque in its ivied tower, its grey walls, its windows of every style, and its bowery back- ground, has no striking architectural feature, and is as little promising to the archaeological adventurer as can well be