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its origin, in a great measure, to these supplies. Having only a short 

 scale thermometer with me, I could not ascertain the precise heat, of 

 the spring, but it was too hot to keep the ringer in it for more than two 

 seconds, and must be near the boiling point. Rice boiled in it but 

 imperfectly. The range of springs is very extensive, but I could 

 not visit them all as the rest are in dark recesses or in snow caverns. 

 The water of them rises up with great ebullition through crevices of 

 the granite rock, and deposits a ferruginous sediment, of which I col- 

 lected some. It is tasteless, and I did not perceive any peculiar 

 smell. Hot springs are frequent in the Himalaya.'' — Asiatic Re- 

 searches, xiv. 



10. Shock of an Earthquake at Sea. — On Sunday, February 10. 

 1823, at lh. 10'. P.M. the East India Company's ship Winchelsea, 

 on her passage from Bengal to England, when in lat. 52°. N. long, 

 85°. 33'. E. experienced a shock similar to that of an earthquake. 

 Every individual was alarmed by a tremulous motion of the vessel, 

 •which gave a sensation as if it were passing over a coral rock, at the 

 same time a loud rumbling noise was heard, similar to the rolling of 

 a butt along the deck. The agitation and noise continued two or 

 three minutes. The captain, being in the round-house, looked out at 

 the stern windows, but saw no appearance of any shoal, though, had 

 there been one, it must have been visible, for the water was clear and 

 smooth, and the ship not going more than two knots an hour, it was 

 considered out of soundings at fhe time. During the continuance of 

 this phenomenon, there was no perceptible commotion in the sea, and 

 the vessel was some hundred miles from any land. This remarkable 

 phenomenon cannot be accounted for in any other manner than by 

 referring it to some volcanic irruption, probably in one of the islands 

 eastward of the bay of Bengal. 



The above account is given by Mr. Parson, surgeon, at the time, of 

 the ship in question. — Med. Rep. xx. 175. 



1 1. Aerolite? at Coddenhain, in Suffolk. — A very heavy storm passed 

 one day in July last, over the village of Coddenham, in Suffolk, about 

 half past two, P. M. from the N. E., the rain fell in torrents with some 

 little hail, accompanied with thunder and lightning. One flash was 

 particularly vivid, followed by an instantaneous loud clap of thunder. 

 When the rain abated, a lad returning home, took from out the run 

 of water, beside the road in the street, a round ball, which, to his asto- 

 nishment, he found to be a heavy stone and very hot, with a strong 

 sulphurous smell. He shewed it to two people in the village, wLo 

 not only corroborate the boy's statement, but say the surface of the 

 stone became warmer after it had been a short time out of the water, 

 and then gradually cooled. The stone is nearly globular, about seven 

 inches in circumference, and weighs eight ounces, five pennyweights, 



