1822.] 
these animaleulz are the constant food of 
the scuttle-fish, and other species of the 
Mollusca kind, which are abundant in the 
Polar Seas, and which in their turn be- 
come the prey of different species of 
whales. 
A plan was sometime ago proposed of 
introducing the air-pump into the French 
West-India colonies, in the works. for tlie 
making of sugar; but the execution has 
been delayed, from obstacies of different 
kinds. This improvement, however, is 
now realised in the refining works of 
Messrs. Howarp and Honeson, in this 
country; and by its action the molasses 
may be boiled to a very low temperature 
(below 100° of Fahrenheit). In boiling, 
inclosed vessels are made use of, which 
interrupt the pressure of the atmosphere. 
This process is also applied to the drying 
of paper in the vacuum, and to the art of 
dying, when a finer colour is obtained by 
expelling the air, 
A Report on the comparative nutritive 
properties of food was lately presented to 
Commercial Report. 
363 
bread beans, or French beans (in grain), 
is equal to three ounds of potatoes, 
GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA.—A epect- 
men of a toad, which was taken alive from 
the centre of a mass of solid stone, has 
been sent to the College-Museum of Edin- 
burgh by Lord Duncan.—Sprx and Mar- 
TINS, the Batavian naturalists, during their 
residence in Brazil, found bones of the 
Megatherium in limestone cayes.—Several 
of the large bones of the mammoth haye 
been lately discovered in the province of 
Groningen, and . deposited in the public 
museum.—Another. fissure. or cave, con- 
taining bones of quadrupeds, has been dis- 
covered in the limestone of Yorkshire — 
A eave, near Sundwich in. Westphalia, 
1500 yards in extent, has been found to 
contain bones and.skeletons.of an unknown 
species of bear. 
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STATE OF THE THERMOMETER. AND 
BAROMETER IN LONDON, 
‘Thermometer. Barometer. 
the French Minister of the Interior, by Night. Day. |) Morning: 
Messrs. Percy and VAuQuELIN. The Sept, 23 ---+ | 59 65 29°60 
result was as follows:—In bread every Qh sooo | 58 64 34 
hundred. pounds weight are found to con- Qi seee | 55 63 56 | 
tain eighty pounds of nutritious matter; 26 +e+6 | 51 60 62 
butcher’s meat (averaging the various QT eces 40 60. 86 
sorts,) contains only thirty-five pounds in 28 +++. | 55 66 30+3. 
one hundred; French beans (in the grain), 29 veee | 55 65 29°82 
ninety-two in one hundred; broad beans, SO sere 52 67 76 
eighty-nine; peas, ninety-three ; lentiles, Oct. 1 «+++ 51 65 85 
(a kind of half pea, but little known in Ces 61 77 70 
England,) ninety-four pounds in one hun- Bees} 64 73 69. 
dred; greens and turnips (which are the Aiceee | 59 75 70 
most aqueous of all vegetables used for 5 see | 62 72 69 
domestic purposes,) furnish only eight 6-5 | 60 70 62 
pounds of solid nutritious substance in one T e+» | 60 67 40 
hundred; carrots, fourteen pounds; and, B vere 64 70 52 
what is yery remarkable, as being in oppo- 9 reee | 58 69 70 
sition to the hitherto acknowledged theory, 10 «ee. | 54 69 74 
one hundred pounds of potatoes only yield | 11 esse | 49 69 30. 
twenty-five pounds of substance valuable 1Q eeee 57 66 29°80 
as nutrition. One pound of good bread 13 -+0- 69 68 50. 
is equal to two pounds and a-half or three 14 +266 | 55 64 90 
pounds of the best potatoes; and seventy- 15 sees | 48 65 60 
five pounds of bread, and thirty pounds of 16. 200 61 | 67 35 
meat, are equal to three hundred pounds 17 «++. | 62 67 33 
of potatoes; or, to go more into detail, 18 sees | 56 67 55 
three quarters of a pound of bread and 19 ++++ | 58 68 50 
five ounces of meat are equal to three 20 s+++ | 64 70 45 
pounds of potatoes ; one pound of potatoes 21 61 69 53 
is equal to four pounds of cabbage and 22 vee 50 70 50 
three of turnips; but one pound of rice, 23 seve | 48 70 50 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
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PRICES or MERCHANDIZE. Sept. 20. Oct. 25. 
Cocoa, W.I. common +» £2 8 0 to '210 0 2 8 0 to 210 O perewt. 
Coffee, Jamaica, ordinary 413 0 — 418 0} 416 0 — 5 3 0 do. 
,fne >» 614 0 — 7 8 O 612 0 —.7 2 0 do. 
, Mocha «-+++**» 810 0 —1010 0}; 810 0 —1010 0. do. 
‘Cotton, W.I.common:. 0° 0 7 — 0 0 83] 00 7 — 0 0 8 perlb. 
» Demerayar++++s 0 O 8 — 0 010f] O O BE— O O 10% do. 
Curyants..-+-ssesecess § 2 0 e- 515 O 5 2 0 — 510 O perewt. 
2 Figs, 
