day after the bite; and at this time, they say, the first symptons of true hydrophobia make their appearance. Their method of cure consists in opening these pustules with a suitable instrument, and making the patient spit out the ichor and fluid which run from them, often washing the mouth with salt water. This operation should be performed the ninth day after the bite. The remedy is so effectual, that with these people this hitherto incurable disease has lost its terrors." Bibl. Ital. xiv. 428.

Recent Observations respecting the height of Mount Etna, by M. the Baron de Zach, of Genoa." Admitting the height of this mountain, as ascertained by Captain Smyth, the visual ray from its most elevated point will extend one hundred and thirty miles, which is in exact accordance with the testimony of the Knights. With respect to refraction, it may be shewn from calculation, that it produces the effect of elevating the mountain near seven thousand feet; that is to say, that if there was no refraction to see Mount Etna from Malta, it would require in addition twice the height of Mount Vesuvius to be seen.

The travellers who have scaled Mount Etna vary much in their reckoning as to its height above the level of the sea. The Canon Recupero, an indefatigable traverser of Mount Gibello, assigns to it 15,000 French feet, but this is too much. The Canon has been in the habit of making observations on the Volcano, near forty years successively, making his ascent once every year. M. le Comte de Borch, in his letters on Sicily, assigns only 9,660 feet, but this again is too little. M. de Saussure approaches nearer the truth, and finds the height by a barometrical observation 10,032 feet. Captain Smyth makes it out 10,203 feet. All travellers who have ascended Etna agree, that you may see from it the rock of Malta, the Eolian isles, the Ionian sea, the entrance of the Adriatic, and the coasts of Albania.

A remarkable Cataract in Norway.NORWAY may boast of a cataract or waterfall, much superior to that of Schaffhausen on the Rhine, or even to the famous fall of Niagara in North America. It was discovered or noticed for the first time, about eight years ago, by Professor Esmark; a circumstance which is attributed to its very remote situation in the most lonely part of the interior, and to the very scanty number of curious travellers that resort to the Hyperborean regions, for the purpose of mak ing observations.

It is situated in the district named Tellemarken, and named Riakan-Fossen, which in the Norwegian idiom, denotes the smoke of water falling. An immense cloud, formed by the drops of water in evaporation, to a spectator has the appearance of torrents of smoke.

Doctor Schow, of Copenhagen, visited this cataract in the summer of 1812. This

gentleman is one of the fifteen voyagers that have been despatched by the King of Denmark into different parts of the world, for the purpose of illustrating the sciences. He was in Italy, in 1818. From his observations this account has been transcribed.

M. Schow could not fail to be struck with astonishment at the view of this magnificent spectacle of nature, so imposing and tremendous to the sense, though the fall is by far the most considerable in the spring, when the snow melts from the mountains. This immense descent consists, properly speaking, of three falls, two upon inclined planes, each of which, separately, would form such a cataract as is no where to be seen, and the last is an abrupt and precipitate perpendicular. Professor Esmark made a measurement of this last leap, and rates it at 800 feet in height !

In general, such cascades as are most elevated have the least water, and such as discharge large masses of water have little elevation; but in the Riakan-Fossen, the rule is reversed. The volume of its waters is supplied from a very considerable river, called the Maamelven, into which the lake Mioswatten, which is eight or ten German leagues in extent, empties itself, not far from the cascade.-Monthly Magazine.

Gauze Veils.-Mr Bartlett, in Thomson's Annals, has lately proposed gauze veils as preservatives from contagion. The idea is certainly deserving of serious consideration, more especially as Dr. Uwins, and some other medical gentlemen, consider that they may be adopted with a considerable prospect of success. The gauze employed for this purpose is similar in its properties to that so ingeniously applied by Sir Humphrey Davy in the safety lamp.

Salubrity of the London Air.-It was a saying of Mr Cline, many years ago, that "London is the healthiest place in the world." In no place are there so many human beings congregated together enjoying so high a degree of general good health. It has been stated, and we believe correctly, that the happy exemption which the inhabitants of London for the most part enjoy from the diseases common to other capitals, is owing to the sulphureous naptha emitted from the coal, serving the salutary purpose of checking the progress of febrile infection. To prove that the air is saturated with this naptha, we shall not be able to recognize the presence of a wasp, an insect to which sulphur is obnoxious, within the sphere of

its action.

Architectural uniformity in rustic dwellings.-There is something rather pleasingly allied to good management in a practice now adopted by the Russian government, of sending to every city, town, and village under its influence that is to say, not the exclusive property of any nobleman, a collection of engraved designs for dwellings, and buildings; among which any

person about to build himself a house may choose one to his mind, but he must choose one of the number submitted to his inspection. This duty is confided to the mayor or superior of the place (gorod-nisckew), and will by degrees introduce a general resem. blance or conformity into the country towns. At the same time, orders are given for the regular arrangement of the streets; for their being formed into lines of proper breadths, and the houses being of equal heights, two stories only being allowed.

However rustic the construction of these abodes may be, and many are formed of nothing better than vast trunks of trees scarcely squared into timber, yet the effect will become equally striking and picturesque, especially with proper accompaniments of gardens, plantations, and other rustic embellishments.

Iron Rail or Carriage-ways.In the neighbourhood of Newcastle, this ingenious mode of reducing friction, and facilitating the conveyance of loaded waggons, has been adopted to a very great extent. According to M. Gallois, an extent of 28 square miles on the surface of the earth, presents a series of 75 miles for this species of conveyance; while the interior of the adjacent coal mines contains them to as large an amount. Five or six waggons, made entirely of iron, fastened to each other in regular succession, descend these roads without any other mover than their own gravitating force. By means of a pulley, or wheel, a certain number of carriages in descending occasion a certain number of others to mount, in order to take in a load at the summit of the inclined plane they traverse. We are, how ever, naturally led to believe that, except

ing in very peculiar circumstances, there will always be a great saving of power in conveyances by water, for this simple reason, that the whole weight of the burden so transported is transported by the stream with a comparatively small loss of power by friction, while the inclined plane on which the carriage runs supports only a part of its weight. On the other hand, however, it cannot be denied that many situations in which it would be quite impossible to open a canal, might admit of the establishment of metallic and other railways.

Varnish for Wood. The Italian cabinet work in this respect excels that of any other country. To produce this effect, the workmen first saturate the surface with olive oil, and then apply a solution of gum arabic in boiling alcohol. This mode of varnishing is equally brilliant, if not superior, to that employed by the French in their most elaborate works.

Crocodiles' Flesh an Article of Food.-At Sennaar crocodiles are often brought to market, and their flesh is publicly sold there. I once tasted some of the meat at Esne, in Upper Egypt; it is of a dirty white colour not unlike young veal, with a slight fishy smell; the animal had been caught by some fishermen in a strong net, and was above twelve feet in length. The Gover nor of Esne ordered it to be brought into his court-yard, where more than a hundred balls were fired against it without any effect, till it was thrown upon its back, and the contents of a small swivel discharged in its belly, the skin of which is much softer than that of the back.Burkhardt's Travels.

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