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On Perpetual Motion, the Squaring of the Circle, and the Extraction of the Square Root of Surds;

On the Ponderability of Light;

On the Decline of Civilisation since the Commencement of Christianity;

On the Mythology of Iceland;

On the Emile of Rousseau;

On Sirius as the Centre of the Solar System;

On Import Duties as Useless, Indelicate, Unjust, and Immoral—(of this I had never heard before);

On Verse as the Most Ancient Language—(this I do not believe);

On White Ants;

On the Unnaturalness of Schools;

On Hydraulic Matter in connexion with Rice Culture;

On the Apparent Ascendency of the Western Civilisa­tion;

On the Price of Java Coffee—(this I have put aside);

On the Secret Societies of the Chinese, etc. etc. etc.

And this was not all. I found, not to speak of the verses—which were in all languages—many small treatises hav­ing no title;—romances in Malay, war-songs in Javanese, and what not. I found also letters, many of them in lan­guages which I did not understand. Some were directed to him, others written by him, or were only copies; but evidently made for some particular purpose; for all were signed by other persons, who testified that they agreed with