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sv.'^-.-"''^---'V Scientific iNTELLiGENcfej^f^''^^r!!^^ 



METEOROLOGY J^ .q ,i'£:8I ,oW ,ai5&s:»;> 

 1. jP2ve Hundred Persons destroyed by a Water-Spout. — ^On 

 Saturday intelligence was received at Lloyd's, under date Malta, 

 Monday, the 8tli instant, of a most awful occurrence at the island 

 of Sicily, which had been swept by two enormous water-spouts, ac- 

 companied by a terrific hurricane. Those who witnessed the phe- 

 nomena describe the water-spouts as two immense bodies of water 

 reaching from the clouds, their cones nearly touching the earth, and, 

 as far as could be judged, at a quarter-of-a-mile apart, travelling 

 with immense velocity. They passed over the island near Marsala. 

 In their progress houses were unroofed, trees uprooted, men and 

 women, horses, cattle, and sheep were raised up, drawn into their 

 vortex, and borne on to destruction : during their passage rain 

 descended in cataracts, accompanied with hailstones of enormous 

 size, and masses of ice. Going over Oastelamare, near Stabia, it 

 destroyed half of the town, and washed 200 of the inhabitants into 

 the sea, who all perished. Upwards of 500 persons have been de- 

 stroyed by this terrible visitation, and an immense amount of pro- 

 perty, the country being laid waste for miles. The shipping in the 

 harbour suffered severely, many vessels being destroyed, and their 

 crews drowned. After the occurrence, numbers of dead human bodies 

 were pic|;§d up>. all ,fr^h1;fullj mutilated and swollen. 



:■.._.,. (>;,,, .,.,,„ ' GEOLOGY. -.5 JtoiT.'orinooonj 



■ 2." S^V Charles Lyell on Progressive Geological Development.— - 

 Sir Charles Lyell in a lecture read at Ipswich a short time ago, on 

 Progressive Development, concluded by explaining the theory which 

 he had advocated in his works, in opposition to that of progressive 

 development. He believed that there had been a constant going out 

 and coming in of species, and a continual change going on in the 

 position of land and sea, accompanied by great fluctuation in climate; 

 that there had been a constant adaptation of the vegetable and ani- 

 mal creations to those new geographical and climatal conditions. At 

 the present moment we found contemporaneously a marsupial fauna 

 in Australia, and mammalia of a different and higher grade in Asia 

 and Europe ; we also found birds without mammalia in New Zea- 

 land, reptiles without land quadrupeds in the Galapagos Archipelago, 

 and land quadrupeds without reptiles in Greenland. In like man- 

 ner, in successive geological eras, certain classes, such as the reptiles, 



