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Uiiid were thrown up to the height of 

 from ten to tittcen feet, in the forms of 

 large globes, which, bursting, en>itted 

 volumes of dense white smoke. These 

 large globes or bubbles, of which there 

 tvere two, continued throwing up and 

 bursting seven or eight times in a 

 minute bj' tlie watch. At times they 

 throw up two or three tons of mud. They 

 got to leeward of the smoke, and found 

 it to smell like the washing of a gun bar- 

 rel. As the globes burst, they threw the 

 mud out from the centre with a pretty 

 loud noise, occasioned by the falling of 

 the mud upon that which surrounded it, 

 and of wliich the plain is composed. It 

 Was dillicult and dangerous to approach 

 the large globus or bubbles, as the ground 

 was all a quagmire, except where the 

 surface of the mud had become hardened 

 by the sun ; upon this they approached 

 cautiously to within fifty yards of the 

 largest bubble or mud pudding, as it 

 miiiht very properly be called, for it was 

 of the consistency of a custard pudding, 

 and of very considerable diameter. They 

 also got close to a small globe or bubble 

 (the plain was full of them of different 

 sixes) and observed it closely "^ir some 

 time. It appeared to heave and swell, 

 and, when the internal air had raised it to 

 some height, it burst, and the mud fell 

 down in concentric circles, in which 

 shape it remained quiet until a sufficient 

 quantity of air was again formed inter- 



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nally to raise and burst another bubble. 

 This continued at intervals from alxtut 

 one-half to two minutes. From vari^nis 

 other jrarts of the quagmire, round th» 

 large globes or babbles, there were occ.i- 

 sionally small quantities of mud shot up 

 tike rockets to the height of 20 or 30 

 feet, and accompanied by smoke. This 

 was in parts where the mud was of too 

 stilf a consistency to rise in globes or 

 bubbles. The mud at all the places tbey 

 came near was cold on the surface, hut 

 they were told it was warm beneath. Th« 

 water which drains from the mnd is col- 

 lected by the Javanese, and, by being ex- 

 posed in the hollow s of split bamboos to 

 the rays of the sun, deposits crystals of 

 salts. 



SWITZERLAND. 



MM. Geyser, canton of Berne, re- 

 siding at La Chaux-de-I"onds, have ex- 

 hibited to the Genevese Society for the 

 Advancement of the Arts, a wheel which 

 seems to turn of itself, and of which the 

 most skilful artists cannot discover th« 

 moving principle, which the artists keep 

 a secret. The society admire the exe- 

 cution of the maclune, and ackjiowledge 

 that the effect is very striking. Probably 

 it is on a principle already announced by 

 the editor of this Magazine, which ap- 

 plies, as a moving power, the elasticity 

 of the atmospheric air to an exhausted 

 cavity, which is made to turn out of tht 

 centre of the mass by uniforuj pressure. 



BRITISH LEGISLATION. 



ACTS VA8SED In the 56th YEAR of the REIGN of GEORGE THE THIRD, Of t/I the 

 rOURTH SESSION of the FIFTH PARLIAMENT of the UNITED KINGDOM. 



1 



CAP. Xlil. For raising the Sum of 

 Two Millivni Four Hundred and 

 Seventif Thousand Pounds Irish Cur- 

 rency, by Treasury Bills, for the Service 

 «f Ireland, for t/ie Year One Thousand 

 Eight Hundred and Sixteen. — May 21. 



Cap. XLII. For rais-hig the Sum of 

 One Million Seven Hundred Thousand 

 Paunch British Cnn-ency, by Treasury 

 Bills, for the Service of Ireland, for the 

 Year One 'Thousand Eight Hundred and 

 Sixteen. — INlay 21. 



Cap. XLllI. For making certain 

 Allowances of the Duties payable on 

 Malt and Beer. — May 31. 



Cap. XLIV. To Repeal the Duties, 

 Allowances, and Drawbacks of Excise, 

 »n Hard Soap made in Great Britain, 

 mid imported from Ireland ; and to 



grant other Duties, Allowances, atui 

 Drawbacks in lieu thereof. — May 31. 



Cap. LXV. For defraying the Charge 

 of the Pay and Cloathing of the Local 

 Militia in Great Britain, to the Twenty- 

 fifth day of March, One Thousand Eight 

 Hundred and Seventeen. — May 31. 



Cap. XLVI. For the better Itegu^ 

 lation of the Civil List^ — June 20. 



Certain sums heretofore paid to a part 

 of the Royal Family out of the Civil List, 

 to he hereafter payable out of Consoli- 

 dated Fnnd. — Allowances lo the Koyai 

 Family to be paid at the Exchequer, witli- 

 out fee or reward. — Sums to be appro, 

 priated to the payment of the respective 

 classes of the Civil List, and to be applied 

 in the first instance in payment thereof ia 

 prefrrence to all other payments. — Appli- 

 catioB of Exchequer tees to be repealed, 



and 



