'prevalent Disorders, tyc, with Volcanic Emanations. 1 1 



Danube suddenly and unexpectedly rose in Hungary. Czal- 

 leskos, Esieg-Nena, &c. &c, were all under water. The 

 Waag being forced back by the Danube, also overflowed. 

 The damage was incalculable. {Austrian Observer.) In Baden 

 there were also great floods in January. It has been asserted, 

 that much of the water occasioning some of these inun- 

 dations actually issued from the earth, as in the earth- 

 quake of the year 1040, in Scotland, when, according to 

 Holingshed (p. 238.), the ground poured forth torrents ; 

 in which year there were unusually high tides and inunda- 

 tions, and a frost at midsummer that destroyed the vege- 

 tation. It is a fact, that an earthquake occurred in Baden 

 during the inundations there. It is stated on indubitable 

 evidence, that such was the case in the Runn of Cutch, during 

 the destructive earthquake of 1819, when water bubbled up 

 from the wells, and from the tracts on each side of the Runn, 

 M overwhelming the country in some places with six and even 

 ten feet of water." {Burners Travels itito Bokhara, iii. 324.) 

 Such events as these certainly go far to establish the idea of 

 vast subterranean reservoirs (" the waters under the earth") ; 

 and Sir H. Davy's discovery of living creatures in the deep 

 underground lakes of Austria, and some recent experiments 

 on Artesian wells, confirm it. The fluctuations in the well 

 at Rochelle, from August, 1833, to February, 1834, led M. 

 Fleurian de Bellevue to suppose this must be the case. (See 

 M. Fleurian's notice before the Geological Society of France, 

 Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France, iv. 424.) The 

 fluctuations, as suggested by M. Lefebvre, were probably 

 connected with atmospherical influence, (p. 431.) There is 

 a good treatise on Artesian wells, by M. Marin Darbel, in 

 the Memoir es de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de 

 Moscou, 1834, iii. 313. Various atmospherical phenomena 

 have also marked the present year, in conjunction with 

 violent storms and floods. In various parts of Germany, 

 especially in Saxony, thunder storms have been unusually 

 frequent, and the number of persons killed by lightning 

 enormously great. On July 18. there was a frightful storm 

 in London, when ice in jagged morsels fell in abundance, and 

 an extraordinary agitation in the clouds, like a water-spout, 

 was seen. The same storm, accompanied by a much more furious 

 wind, was felt in Belgium, Holland, and Germany. In the north 

 of Spain there have been terrible storms, with the bursting of 

 water-spouts, and the consequent swelling of rivers, by which 

 whole villages have been carried away. Similar occurrences 

 took place in France, in June, July, and August, as at Mont- 

 didier (Somme), in the end of August. I am indebted to the 



