214 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



We likewise procured from one of the workmen, teeth of a fox, of 

 a tiger, and molar tooth of the right lower jaw of a rhinoceros — all 

 of which he said he picked up in Kuhloch." 



In the cave of Rabenstein, they found very few bones, but a 

 great many old coins and iron instruments. — Phil. Mag. New 

 Series, vi. 92. 



24. On the Progress of Storms in the Department of the Loiret. 

 By the Count de Tristan. (Abridged from the Annates de la So- 

 ciete Roy ale des Sciences, fyc. oV Orleans.) — The data on which the 

 Count de Tristan has depended are, i. Notes collected by him on 

 the progress of storms, for the most part unaccompanied with hail, 

 which he has been able to observe, ii. In a chronological recapi- 

 tulation of all the places ravaged by hail in the department, during 

 the last sixteen years, without any other information relative to the 

 progress of the clouds, which occasioned these devastations. From 

 these notes, it appears there have been fifty-one days in which 

 serious mischief has been done by the hail in sixteen years, from 

 January 1, 1811, to the first of January, 1827 ; but on several of 

 these days there have been two and sometimes even three destruc- 

 tive storms, which have appeared at opposite points of the depart- 

 ment. M. de Tristan, therefore, thinks he has determined sixty-four 

 distinct storms ; among these are twenty-six, the directions of 

 which are considered known with sufficient exactness, others with 

 much probability. A map shews the places which these storms 

 have ravaged. There remain thirty-eight, which, having devastated 

 only one or two isolated communes, have left no traces of their 

 direction. The direct result of these observations is, that the mean 

 direction of the storms in the department of the Loiret appears to be 

 from the south-west, one quarter west : to this deduction, however, 

 the Count has not confined himself; he has deduced other more 

 general results, which, not being founded on a sufficient number of 

 facts, we do not consider as altogether established, but which it is 

 useful to know. The results are given in the form of aphorisms. 



Aphorisms respecting the Progress and Intensity of Storms in Level 

 Countries, or Countries intersected by Vallies of inconsiderable 

 depth. 



i. Storms are attracted by forests, ii. When a storm reaches a 

 forest, {a) If it be very obliquely, it glides along it ; (6) If it come 

 almost directly against it, (b 1) It is either narrow, in which case 

 it turns it, (6 2) or it is broad, in which case the storm may be 

 totally stopped, iii. Whenever a forest, being rather in the way of 

 a storm, has the effect of turning it aside, the velocity of the storm 

 appears retarded for a moment, and its intensity is increased, iv. 

 A storm which cannot deviate sufficiently, nor get round a forest, 

 and which is in the case (b 2) of aphorism ii. (a) exhausts itself 

 along it ; (6) or if at length it pass over it, is much weakened. 



