the ancient city of Thala in Africa, taken and destroyed by Metellus in the war with Jugurtha. It was visited by Mr Bruce in his late travels through Africa, who expected to have found many magnificent ruins in the place, but was disappointed. The only remarkable objects he met with were the baths, which are excessively warm. These are without the town, and flow from a fountain named El Tarmid. Notwithstanding the excessive heat of its water, the fountain is not destitute of fishes. They are of the shape of a gudgeon, above four inches in length; and he supposed that there might have been about five or six dozen of them in the pool. On trying the water with a thermometer, he found the heat so great, that he was surprised the fish were not boiled in it. That fish should exist in this degree of heat, is very surprising; but it seems no less wonderful that Mr Bruce, while standing naked in such water, should leisurely make observations on its heat, without suspecting that he himself would be boiled by continuing there. We have to regret that the accidental wetting of the leaf on which he wrote down his remarks has deprived the public of the knowledge of the precise degree to which the thermometer is raised by this water. The fish are said to go down the stream to some distance during the day, and to return to the spring or warmest part at night.