236 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
2. Remarkable Glacier —M. Otto de Kotzebue, lieutenant in 
the Russian navy, has discovered, in the western part of the 
gulf, to the north of Behring’s Strait, a mountain covered with 
verdure (with moss and grass), composed interiorly of solid 
ice. On arriving at a place where the shore rises almost per- 
pendicularly from the sea to the height of 100 feet, and continues 
afterwards to extend with a gradual inclination, they observed 
masses of the purest ice, 100 feet high, preserved under the 
above vegetable carpet. The portion exposed to the sun was 
melting, and sending much water into the sea. An undoubted 
proof of the ice they were contemplating being primitive, was 
afforded by the great number of bones and teeth of mammoths, 
which make their appearance when it is melted. They could 
not account for a very strong smell, similar to that of burning 
horn, which was exhaled in that country. The soil of these 
mountains, which to a certain height are covered with an abun- 
dant herbage, is only half a foot thick. It is composed of a 
mixture of clay-earth, sand, and mould; the ice melts gradually 
beneath it ; the carpet falls downwards and continues to thrive. 
The latitude is 66° 15’ 36” N.—Gilbert’s Annalen, 1821, Stuck.10. 
3. Eruption of Mount Vesuvius.—On the 17th February last, 
at one o’clock, P. M., a variety of detonations announced the 
approaching eruption, which took place next day, consisting of 
immense volumes of smoke, of cinders, and lava. The 19th 
and 20th, the eruption became more violent. On the 2\st 
the volcanic matters opened up a new passage on the northern 
side; and an immense quantity of lava flowed slowly on 
the side of the extremity of San Salvadore. The same phe- 
nomena continued the 22d and 23d, but on the 24th the 
volcano appeared in greatest activity. Vesuvius exhibited in 
- the evening the superb spectacle of a river of fire, rolling its 
stream through clouds and smoke, and forming a blazing cata- 
ract. The eruption ceased on that day.—Journ. de Phys., 
April, 1822. 
4. Fossil Remains.—For the present we must content our- 
sélves with merely informing our readers, that Mr. Parkinson 
has published a very useful Introduction to the study of organic 
remains. We hope in our next to enter into further details. 
5. New Locality of Arragonite—A cavity, lined with arra- 
gonite, was lately observed by Mr. Mawe in the gypsum of 
Derbyshire; it resembled that variety usually called flos-ferr?. 
New editions of Mr. Mawe’s Elements of Conchology, and of 
his Treatise on Diamonds and Precious Stones, are lately published. 
6. Intestinal Coneretions—A woman, aged 35, a patient of 
Dr. Champion, of Bar-le-Duc, was subject to frequent vomitings 
