THE 



EDINBURGH NEW 



PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, 



EXHIBITING A VIEW OF THE 



PROGRESSIVE DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS 



IN THE 



SCIENCES AND THE ARTS. 





CONDUCTED BY 



^ : . ,;;*j1ROBERT JAMESON, 



Kfmp^^ftMiVXJ^R^V NATURAL HISTORY, LECTURER ON MINERALOGY, AND KBBPBR Of 



^^*^^'l!V-*^" " THE MUSEUM IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH; 



Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh ; of the Antiquarian, Wemerian and Horti- 

 cultural Societies of Edinburgh ; Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and of the Royal 

 Dublin Society ; Fellow of the Royal Linnean and Royal Geological Societies of London ; Ho- 

 norary Member of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta ; of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, 

 and of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ; of the York, Bristol, Cambrian, Whitby, Northern,, 

 and Cork Institutions; of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and New- 

 castle ; of the Royal Society of Sciences of Denmark ; of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin ; 

 of the Royal Academy of Naples ; of the Imi)erial Natural History Society of Moscow ; of the 

 Imperial Pharmaceutical Society of St Petersburgh ; of the Natural History Society of Wetterau ; 

 of the Mineralogical Society of Jena; of the Royal Mineralogical Society of Dresden; of the 

 Natural History Society of Paris; of the Philomathic Society of Paris; of the Natural History 

 Society of Calvados; of the Senkenberg Society of Natural History ; of the Society of Natural 

 Sciences and Medicine of Heidelberg; Honorary Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society 

 of New York ; of the New York Historical Society ; of the American Antiquarian Society ; of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; of the Lyceum of Natural History of New 

 York; of the Natural History Society of Montreal; of the Geolc^ical Society of France; of the 

 South African Institution of the Cape of Good Hope ; of the Franklin Institution of the SUte of 

 Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, S^c. S^c. 



APRIL... OCTOBER 1833. 



VOL. XV. 



TO BE. CONTINUED QUARTERLY, 



EDINBURGH : 



ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, EDINHURGH ; 

 AND r.ONGMAN, REES, ORME, CROWN, (;REEN, & LONGMAN, 



LONDON. 



1833. 



