46fe Scientific Intelligence. — Anthropologi/. 



fjies, &c. of the flesh, for the entertainment of their other guests, 

 who were not so fortunate as to be so well fed. Bears' paws, 

 birds' nests, and sea-slug, are considered great delicacies. The 

 Thibetians prefer raw to roasted mutton. The Cochin Chinese 

 prefer rotten eggs to fresh ; putrid eggs cost more than the lat- 

 ter by 30 per cent. — Chinese Chronicle of' Malacca. 



27. A Woman delivered of Five Childi^en. — A female peasant 

 of the village of Loukin, district of Balakhnin, in the govern- 

 ment of Nijegorad, aged twenty-five years, of small stature, but 

 robust constitution, was married at seventeen. The second year 

 of her marriage she was brought- to-bed of a girl, which died at 

 the end of fifteen days. The fourth year she was delivered, af- 

 ter a gestation of eight months, of twins. The first, which was 

 a boy, lived only five days ; the other, a girl, died after six days 

 of the most cruel sufferings. In the month of November 1824, 

 the same woman was delivered of i\\e children, bringing succes- 

 sively into the world a girl on the 9th, 10th, 12th, and 13th, 

 and a dead boy on the 16th. Each of these infants was only 

 about eight inches long. The four girls died on the sixth day 

 after birth. The mother was restored to perfect health in a 

 month after parturition. Nothing particular had been remarked 

 either by herself or by the midwife, with the exception of an ex- 

 traordinary tumefaction of the abdomen, together with swelling 

 of the feet, violent headaches, deafness, and frequent hemor- 

 rhages by the mouth and nose, during the second month of ges- 

 tation. Neither her own nor her husband's family had ever pre- 

 sented a similar example. 



28. Popidation of England. — The United Kingdom of Bri- 

 tain and Ireland contains 74 millions of acres, of which, at least, 

 64 millions of acres may be considered capable of cultivation. 

 Half an acre, with ordinary cultivation, is sufficient to supply an 

 individual with corn, and one acre is sufficient to maintain a 

 horse ; consequently, the United Kingdom contains land enough 

 for the sustenance of 120 millions of people, and 4 millions of 

 horses. — Edmunds on Political Economy. 



29. Method of Tattooing. — The men are tattooed very close- 

 ly from the waist to below the knee, with different figures 

 of animals, charms, &cc. I saw a woman with the white of one 

 of her eyes tattooed. The process is performed with a long steel 



