1811.) 
pravate of Brandenburg. A Silesian 
count is also mentioned as having cel- 
lected in the mountains of Silesia a body 
of deserters, against whom it has been 
found necessary to send troops. 
EAST INDIES. 
The number of persons vaccinated in 
the different districts of Ceylon, in 1809, 
amounted to 25,697, making a total of 
128,782 since its first introduction into 
the island in 1802, besides a few others 
inoculated by individuals not belonging 
to the vaccine establishment. |The 
small-pox has not existed in any part of 
the island since February 1808, tll Oc- 
tober 1809, when the disease was brought 
to Jaffnapaam by a country boat from the 
Malabar coast. 
a few persons who had not been vacci- 
nated in that district, and by means of a 
civil prisoner, was introduced into the 
jail at that place, but its progress there 
was immediately arrested by the removal 
of the infected persons ana the indiscri- 
minate vaccination of all the other pri- 
soners. 
- The Indian government has offered a 
remuneration of 6000I.:for the importa- 
tion of the cochineal insect into their ter= 
ritory, from the coast of South America. 
From some recent discoveries, fresh 
hopes are entertained that the insect may 
be brought to perfection in India, an 
abject which has long been looked for- 
ward to without success. 
- The sunn-hemp of India, after a va- 
riety of experiments, appears not to have 
answered the public expectations, A dis- 
covery has, however, been made in Suma- 
tra and Prince of Wales’ Island, of an ar- 
ticle called poolas or calooee, which is spun 
by the natives, by a process till lately un- 
known to Europeans, into a strong and: 
durable cordage. A quantity of this 
article is expected to be received in En- 
gland by the ships of the ensuing season, 
for the purpose of making experiments, 
avhich will be superintended by-an intel- 
ligent native. 
Accounts from Bengal state, that a 
dreadful fire broke out at Unmerapoora 
(kingdom of Ava) on the 10th of March 
1810, which entirely destroyed the town 
and fort, including the palace, temples, 
and 20,000 houses. ‘The governor, in 
order to compel the inhabitants to assist 
in preserving the place, ordered the 
pates to be shut; and thus reduced them 
to the dreadful alternative of leaping 
Litera’y and Philosophical Intelligence. 
The contagion spread to 
563 
from the walls, or being burnt to death 
in the streets. About 1200 preferred the 
latter, and 200 were dashed to pieces in 
attempting the former. 
WEST INDIES. 
A strange phenomenon has lately been 
observed in the island of Jamaica. This 
is the gradual formation of an immense 
lake, where, a few years ago, stood a Very 
valuable sugar work, and other planta. 
‘tions. 
A letter from Kingston, gives the 
following account of it: —“* Having plenty 
of leisure, [ made an excursion about a 
fortnight ago to the lake of St.’ Anns, 
which certainly is a great curiosity, said 
now to cover $,000 acres of land, and 
stll rising. It’ is thus ‘accounted for : 
There used always to be a large piece of 
water, say seventy acres, a little from the 
orteague, into which a rivulet called 
the Rio Mo ran, and on one side sunk 
into the ground with a kind of hissing 
noise. This subterranean passage ap- 
pears to have been stopped from some 
unknown cause; the stream still continues 
to run, and the water, of course, to in- 
crease. One sugar work has lost 700 
acres of good land, its works, overseer’s 
and negro houses; the tops of some are’ 
still visible.’ Several proprietors have 
lost great part of their grass pastures, and 
been obliged to dispose of part of their 
stock. The surface being now so-exten- 
sive, its perpendicular rising.is not so 
visible, perhaps an inch a week may be 
about the mark. Some canoes and boats 
have already been carried thither, and 
afford a pleasant amusement. I took a 
swim over a fine guinea-grass piece, and. 
got hold of the branch of a treé.to rest; 
but it immediately snapped off, and coms 
pelled me to make for shore, almost 
tired; I could not swim one-third part so 
far in this water, as in the seacor a river; 
I never found any so soft... All the trees 
within its surface are dead, and many 
very high ones covered over. . How high 
it must rise before it finds a vent, is yot 
yet ascertained, but it must be many 
yards, as hills surround the snot... I 
fancy’ it is twelve miles from the sea, 
Several ponds now appear at the distance 
of half a mile or-more from it, where 
never water was before; these also cons 
unue to rise; I suppose the water must 
ooze through the ground. Jn. another 
part of the island, St. Elizabeth, some 
hundred acres of land are covered with 
water, where, in some years, the negroes 
and 
