New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-20

found refuge the Celtiberian remnants Oh sne'rn'
Hi.pania and GsIHa. Here are spoken the three
dialects Of the Basque language; and in these val
leys Of Bearn TO the east and Gasccny TO TIE west
there sti lived, up 70 the great revolution oil
11s9, a hundred separate communes or lndePeh-
dent local governments Of a feudal character ana
primitive manners. studies for the Antiquarian the
ethnologist and the social politician. In the >'i'e
Of the Balkan, Lejean finds all this better pre-
served and in full vigor Ass.
How little il even known Of this curous land!
Known almost as We'll to Ses0strls the Great o!
Egypt. better known to Aristotle and Ptolemy and
Strabo than TO ourselyes-a mighty empire III The
times Of Constantine. and 10 be an empire again
when Turkey IL regenerated-it i. land mol only
full of fables and my .teres but fall Of lessons oi
wisdom for tie naturalist, on the one hand, and for
the socialist on the other. Bordering on Macedo'
MIA and the land Of heroes. Thessaly and Epiru-,
ThesprOtia and the Isles Of Greece. the home oi
Centaurs and Lapitha men of the horse and hen
of the cliff, Cabirisn priests and Homeric bards,
freenasonries Of Delphi and Dodona, Eleusis and
Delos and first and last and greatest Of oil, Mount
converts chapels and crosses. and casting it,
shadow-sO runs the sphinx tale--as far as lene-
dos and Troy-it is surprising that the scholarship
of the West has lately penetrated to IT. secrets
Carson did somethng-did much in that way.
And now. within six months, Sevastisnoh has sent
home photograph copies, nearly as large as the
originals of eight pages of the old Greek text and
complete collection Of accompanying charts,
copy OF Ptolemy's Geography, the manuscript
lately discovered to exist in the library Ut one Of
the five great converts of Mount Atlos Natopeie.
The manuscript contains, besides, seventeen chap
tiers Of Strabo, and the Perplus of Arrisn; in all.
2s5 leaves, or 800 pages This is one of the first
fruits Of photography for geographical science; but
much finer achievement may be recounted
The OrdnaDc. Survey Of Great Britain has been
obliged 10 reduce the scale Of It's chart maps for
publication. TO do this in the ordinary way would
cost three days to each sheet. Twenty sheet. per
day, however, are Photographed to the required
scale. This is long stride 10 advance for eeogrs-
pliers, civil engineers ard biologists. But the lat
ter, and naturasts, "a class. may congratulate
themselves upon much larger one just made. A
new err IN the pOrtraiture, and therefore in the
study of fossils and all the works Of nature. in fact,
has been opened by Philadelphia photographer,
Mr.. REIN. who has succeeded in Lhographing his
fossil objects and printing directly at tie rate Of
thousand copies Il day. We have seen his shells.
and feel that the days Of Button, Msntell and Pie
tet are bygone. A Maroon cannot again impose
Gryphea on the world to prove that the Jurassle
formation covers half the center of this continent.
The gcoogist viii no have to tTayela thousand
miles Ia some cabinet simply 10 verify specimen
TO authenticate some specific or generic name.
The plate he studies will not be- the falsely en-
graved copy of falsely penciled drawing of the
fossil but the fossil Itself, painted 10y itself aud
printed by itself in any number Of positions requi.
site Mr.. REIN has already large order from
Of the Southern States.
The phlologst and the arabcsque artist, the
bookseller and the biblonsuiac, may Gil share the
profits of this invention. The celebrated Codex
Argenteus, or Silver Bible Of Sweden. one Of the
most precious ecclesiastical relics Of the earlier
Middle Ages, has been magnicently reproduced
in suites of Photographic copies. Probably, in
little while, every theological freshman may study
for himself that verse in the Codex Vaticanus
1--WE believe il i-) wherein the original presence or
absence of dot III the center of circle confirms
or confounds the doctrine of the Trinity. Scholiasts
will no longer eros, the Alps to prick with PIN
points or delicately try with fnger-tips whether
the copyist of the Apostle Paul wrote OE or OF
in Romans IL 5. The ncophyte at Andcyer or
Antioch can decide for himself in his own ROOM
microscope in hand, over the photo-ithogrsph copy
in his future textbook, with orthodox
tainty as the most learned critic upon the orig
Nal parchment in dispute.