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country, and hopes are said to have 
been entertained that they might lead to 
the colonization of our mountain forests 
by this animal. While on a tour in 
Norway, he procured a herd of twenty, 
which were destroyed by eating a poi- 
sonous plant that grew onasmsll island 
on which they were kept. He then 
bought a second herd of twelve, and 
succeeded in bringing them alive, and 
_well, into the Thames. Here, how- 
ever, in consequence of the custom- 
house officer not feeling authorised to 
allow the deer to be landed, eight died 
on board the vessel before permission 
could be obtained from the authorities 
in London. The remnant saved con- 
sists of a male and female, a fawn, 
(since dead,) and a male which has been 
cut: the latter is about ten hands high, 
and proportionally stout; the others 
are a hand or two lower. Their fur is 
very thick and fine, and delicately 
warm and soft. The horns branch 
beautifully, and are covered with a 
short fur. The antlers of the largest 
animal are three feet in length. Their 
hoofs are very broad, and flexible be- 
tween the divisions, enabling them to 
clamber up precipices, and hang on 
rocks inaccessible to other animals. 
They are very swift. They seem re- 
conciled to hay, as food ; and like bran- 
dy, which is administered to them as 
medicine.. With the deer, Mr. Bullock 
has brought a native Laplander, his 
wife.and child. These beings are about 
four feet, eight inches in height; the 
man being of the common size, the wo- 
man rather tall. The child is about 
five years old. They are daily exhi- 
bited to multitudes in Piccadilly. 
Mrs. AGNES IBBETSON, in a letter to 
Dr. Tilloch, states that some late dissec- 
tions of wood have enabled her to no- 
tice the cnrious manner in which fluwer- 
buds pass layer, by layer, through the 
wood even to the root, and that each 
mark is peculiar to the sort of wood to 
which it belongs. Thus, in the oak, 
the bud being sessile, or without stalk, 
and in large numbers fogether, they 
generally appear grouped in acircle. In 
the beech, where the buds follow each 
other, in a sort of larus racemi, it pre- 
sents a very different picture. Here 
the buds being small, they will run up 
between the layers of the wood, and are 
not so conspicuous as in the oak. In 
the yew, they are an assemblage which 
shows buds of all ages, many just peep- 
ing through the wood, others more ad- 
vauced towards the bark; but all ge- 
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nerally surrounding an old one. The 
olive shows like one large peaked bud, 
appearing at some distance from each 
other; but J suspect that it is a collec- 
tion, since it carries that divided ap- 
pearance when it is followed into the 
interior. Itis\certain that the wood-lines 
diverge in such a manneras to prove that 
innumerable buds are hourly passing, 
for the yearly lines never move out of 
the circle, but to effect this purpose. 
A small bog, not far from Mountmel- 
lick, in rather a north-east direction 
from Kilmaleady bog, has lately been 
greatly agitated for several days. It 
rises upwards, to a great height, and 
falls again on the same spot from 
whence it rose. It is, as yet, confined 
to the place from whence it issues, but 
the inhabitants are in the greatest 
alarm, expecting every moment a sud- 
den overflow. Nearly 100 acres of land in 
Joyce County, belonging to the Provost 
of Trinity College, principally pasture 
and mountain, and rather populously 
inhabited, has lately been observed in 
motion, and carrying with it large 
quantities of earth and rocks, destroy- 
ing the whole produce of the land, and 
forcing the entire mass into the sea. 
Before its motion, a loud noise is heard 
for a short time, with a motion in the 
earth. A day or two after, a tract of 
land in the same neighbourhood suffer- 
ed in a like manner, but in a more 
violent degree, the inhabifants not be- 
ing able to save a single article, 
FRANCE. 
A large aérolite fell in June last, at a 
village in the department de /’ Ardéche, 
of which some ve1y curious details 
have been given. 1t fell about four 
o’clock, p.m. The atmosphere being 
perfectly clear, a loud rumbling noise 
was heard for a few minutes, in the 
course of which, four distinct detona- 
tions took place. The report was 
heard at Nismes, and still further off. 
Several individuals at Nismes, St. 
Thome, &c. observed a brilliant fire in 
the air ; and they all agree in saying it 
appeared like a burning star, and 
slowly descended in the N.W.; and on 
its disappearing, it left behind a long 
train of smoke. Several foolish reports 
were propagated concerning the noise 
and fire. However, in the course of a 
few days, two peasants, of the village 
of Juvinas, some distance to the N.W. 
of Viviers, (who were working within 
a few yards from the spot where the 
aérolite descended,) said they heard a 
most dreadful noise, and turning round, 
observed 
